How do They Steal Your Meta Tags
 

I notice a lot of sites steal from my meta description or directly from the content on the page as would show up on Google, It is made to look like a genuine search result but all links then point to one of thier sites (not mine).
How do they do this?

Understand?

right click. view source.......... welcome to the interweb

I have scripts that can present your content as my own to SE's but redirect users to my page instead.

Wanna buy it?
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there are no stupid questions... there are no stupid questions... there are no stupid questions...

Fucking N00b. Everyone knows it's the interwebS. Jeez, don't you watch Gee Dub on TV man?

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The only stupid question is the one that goes unasked...

This isn't what I meant. You don't manually build a search engine by cheacking page source.

Is it illegal?

I have softwareas that makes pictures on my computor box. I click them fast like bang.

No shit..

Nope.

What if it was? Are they going to come spank you? LOL.
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No but Google could ban you from their index.

you're WRONG!

it's teh interwebs

Yep. If you're dumb enough to not install it on a freehost. :1orglaugh

I have clients that I run 100 scripts for on various freehosts.

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LOL :) .

Google won't necessarily ban you for jacking someone's tags. Neither will they necessarily ban you for jacking someone's content. Both are classless and non-productive ways of getting ranked. Some companies that do SEO for clients copyright their meta tag work. You make your own call on infringing on rights.

Duplicate content will get picked up eventually, however, most people who rip off sites rip off portions of content and these often go unnoticed by spiders.

There are formulas and parameters that some design by. I can tell you that if nothing else the least you need to do for good SEO is write, clean, legible and coherent text that offers value to the reader. Babble and blabber rank well when you consider other factors such as traffic and linking.

It is vitally important to maintain a keen eye on your link strategy, keyword density, keyword relevance and links from sites of similar content in a simiilar context.

That's the most emprical view of SEO that I can offer.

At last an informed answer although not the answer to my question..
Thanks and I couldnt agree more. I just want to know how these people do it.

I've heard somewhere on this board that it's ALL about the META TAGS.

Is this true?































haha oh man, this thread is a h00t!

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:pimp

what is metatags?

ah shit. sorry :winkwink:

Your all fucking idiots, guy asks a question and all he gets is shit.

Nah, Google usually bumps them to the top and penalizes the real page :upsidedow

nexcom28 - its called site scraping or content scraping - do a search on Google for those terms and you will find loads of stories and posts about it - recently some SEs have tried to start fighting back but there are still scripts that will do it for you - and people that make money off doing it for their clients as posted above.
Nothing is really "illegal" in the game of the SEs - they are just another site - if you can figure out how to manipulate them at the expense of others - and think that you are doing something you dont have any moral qualms about - it can be very profitable.
As mentioned a few times it can also get you kicked from SEs but a good operator expects those types of things and always has more to go around.
There are other cleaner ways to get the same placements in the SEs - but Ill be damned if Ill share those :)

Usually I wouldn't point out something like this.. but it's:
You're

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Cool, thanks very much :upsidedow

Sorry for linking to another board but I thought it might be of interest to people. This is what I was after.
http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum44/1268.htm