HUH?! What did I miss?

[SharkyX]

Huh...

Lots of Riot some of Tyr, didn't find any Princess (possibly because I didn't bother to look through every thread with a dog named Princess

 

[smkie]

VIctor and Mary are both there. VIc for learning not to tear up his toys and mary for her hornet stings.

 

[Juicy]

Is anyone from my gang mentioned in that site?

 

[M&M's Mommy]

Is anyone from my gang mentioned in that site?

How's bout my 3Ms? This is so weird. Hope everything is straighten out.

 

[Danegirl2208]

ok...so after talking to the other forum..someone asked around to try and figure out whats up....she talked to a friend and figured out what the website was..heres her reply:

"OK, I had a chat with a buddy of mine whos up with what Online Marketing and such is up to these days, and he gave me the low down on what this is -

What is it? Its a site designed to generate Google Adsense revenue. And yes, it happens all the time. Its basically that they steal a lot of information that people would generally search for, in hopes that they will click through the ads. Instead of actually making their own content, they steal it.

How to try to stop it? 2 ways:
- Threatening to bring in lawyers often works.
- As does threatening to report it as an MFA site (MFA = Made for Adsense).
And complaining to Google is the only way to report an MFA site since it's their problem.

This might help them to lose the 'adsense' revenue if nothing else -- http://www.google.com/tm_complaint_afd.html"

 

[SharkyX]

I'd think you can also complain to Bluehost, the host company that has rented webspace to these people.
Some companies will simply delete a site of this kind of nature so they don't tarnish there own reputation.

 

[ToscasMom]

Sharky with a name like Bluehost, this is probably mild stuff for them. lol

I have faith that Chazhound will take care of it. He is an awesome god.

 

[Danegirl2208]

I'd think you can also complain to Bluehost, the host company that has rented webspace to these people.
Some companies will simply delete a site of this kind of nature so they don't tarnish there own reputation.

a member of the other forum sent a complaint to bluehost and here was their reply:

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[Danegirl2208]

heres what the mod on the other forum had to say...

This site is designed to generate advertising revenue. I imagine that even a small amount of money could be very valuable to someone in China. Google's advertising program, Adsense, may remove them. However, there are other advertising programs carelittle could join.

Carelittle could leave BlueHost.com and find another web host. However, Carelittle is depending upon the search engines to bring in people to click on their ads. Carelittle's content should not be listed in the big three search engines, Google, Yahoo, and MSN (at least for US English).

There is one thing we could do right now. We should not post any links to Carelittle.com. They should only be mentioned in plain text. Every ("good") link increases a website's value in the eyes of a search engine. So we should convert the Pet Talk links into plain text.

Picking a phrase at random from carelittle's website, I searched for "his summer job cuz he's leaving in two days" (with quotes) on Google. Google only lists one result at carelittle.com! There is no result for Glacier's thread, "Another big day for Tehya...lots of pics" on Pet Talk!

In may cases Google devalues duplicated content. However, without viewing Pet Talk as the original source for this thread, carelittle could be considered the original.

carelittle needs to be removed from the search engines. Perhaps, Google's link, "Dissatisfied? Help us improve" at the bottom of the page will work. I just filled it out for this link. Hopefully if a lot of Pet Talkers complain to Google they will do something about it. I should look for other ways to contact Google.

Pet Talk needs to be promoted. Please link to your threads on Pet Talk from other places whenever it is appropriate.

MSN did not list this thread but I did not try other threads. Yahoo did list Pet Talk.