Free links?

chris3471 said: "I was just checking my stats and noticed someone had found my site from a referer I don't recognize [URL=http://www.ice-hockey-equipment-ratings.info/nes-roms-ice-hockey.php]here's[/URL] the site, I guess they just gave me a free link. Has this happened to anyone else before? BTW I'm not complaining I am very grateful. :D"

brick said: "I guess they like your site and linked to hit, has happened to me a few times, I consider it a complement"

chris3471 said: "I'm glad someone likes what I'm doing. :D"

Heather said: "That looks like a classic "scraper" site, but it still counts! Nice job :)"

chris3471 said: "As long as it gets me free traffic it's ok with me. :D"

edwin said: "being scraped is a sign you're coming up in the world :)"

Heather said: ""It's all good" :)"

AngelaCea said: "Problem is that they do this simply to high jack keywords automatically to get hits for themselves using your stuff! That happens to all my sites all the time!"

chris3471 said: "What's that mean "hijack keywords"? :confused:"

AngelaCea said: "[quote=chris3471]What's that mean "hijack keywords"? :confused:[/quote] See this page, this is a content scraper page as Edwin said, they take content right off of the search engines (high jack your keywords) and post the results and Adsense keys off of this content! :eek: :eek: :eek:"

chris3471 said: "So what they do is take top search results and put them on their site. What do they gain from this? :confused: And is this a good or bad thing? :confused:"

AngelaCea said: "Anything that has positive cash flow is good in business Chris! You have to study the millions of pages out there and figure out what webmasters are doing, not all of it is nice guy tactics!"

chris3471 said: "What I meant is does this have a negative affect on my site or where the search engines place me?"

AngelaCea said: "Sure, they drop sites all the time that use duplicate content, but these sites get traffic in a lot of ways, not just from search engines!"

Neutron2k said: "i thought they flagged pages with duplicate content as supplemental results?"

chris3471 said: "Thats what I thought too. :eek:"

Neutron2k said: "me three. oh no wait i started this."

AngelaCea said: "You never know what the SE's are going to do next week, but I think N2K is right, those sites that steal content don't rank well :o"

Neutron2k said: "i dunno i see quite a few supplmentals in the first few pages somtimes ."

AngelaCea said: "You have to put up thousands of pages to make money in this business, you never know the real reasons sites get dropped in the indexes! The more SEO guys talk about tactics on forums the less success they have, I was thinking about that this morning since the search engines read the forums and webmasters always talk about the stunts they pull and the search engines respond :o"

chris3471 said: "So basically they are telling on themselves. :eek:"

AngelaCea said: "Exactly right, you get guys talking about link exchanges, buying and selling links, reciprocal link scams and spamming the search engines all the time on forums with their signatures right under their posts! :D :eek: Edwin is a secret webmaster, why do you think he hides everything? :confused: PS: Edwin has the Google toolbar following him! :eek:"