Rick, that was my assumption also, but I thought maybe one of the Shri TB's would explain the nexus if it was legit. I'd be interested in knowing how Google's software can spot the ruse. In this case there's nothing in the content about scooters or Shri, so that would be easy enough to "look for and filter out," but they must be much more sophisticated by now.
Edg --- In [email protected], "Rick Archer" <rick@...> wrote: > > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] > On Behalf Of Duveyoung > Sent: Monday, June 13, 2011 2:34 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [FairfieldLife] Why is Shri Shri's image used on this page? > > > > > > http://www.eelectricscooter.info/ > > It's a "scraped" site. They scrape content and pics off other sites to build > a lot of content in the hopes of ranking well for various terms, in this > case "electric scooter" and related terms, then they hope people are going > to click on the Google ads on the pages, so they can get Adsense revenue. > Google has figured out pretty well how to suppress this kind of site in the > search results, especially with their latest "Farmer" update. >
