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[patti]

He cloned each page on a different website

G then disappeared my pages from the SERPS as duplicates.

They then became PR0

Have closed the site in disgust.

Here's his complete list of sites

http://www.greathomesusa.com/link_information.htm

Have checked quite a few other links, using their search term, and he has done exactly the same.

[SanDiego]

Patti & JimJ,
Did either of you get confirmation from G that your sites was dropped and DUE to duplicate content? Obviously, this guy is wrong in doing what he is doing, but I would imagine that the G folks would have something in the algo to ban the Second version of it - Kinda like the sites that are cloaked and redirect... they ban those not the site that it goes too..... I am just curious how they would allow person/site 1 to negatively effect person/site 2..

[rogerdan]

I am doing a lynx "http://www.greathomesusa. com/cgi-bi...s/out.cgi?id=3 -useragent=Googlebot" but it does not do anything but redirect you to the actual page ? I don't see any cloaking. Strange. Has that person done anything?

Remember to stick the dot . com

[SanDiego]

If he (his CGI SCRIPT) caches your page, gets serps on it, and then redirects to his - that's cloaking.. if his page caches yours and it shows yours (but on his domain and changed slightly) thats not cloaking, that copyright infringment. Either way, he's bad for the G community and very unethical if he's a REALTOR.

[VegasMack]

I don’t believe he is a REALTOR. It looks like he builds sites for major metros, collects leads and after the site starts to show up in the SERPs, he partners up with a local REALTOR for a 25% referral fee on all leads generated.

The REALTORS appear to be unsuspecting participants in his wrong doing and do not own the websites.

-Mack

[ResaleBroker]

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NOTE: Don't forget to modify this last line.

[VegasMack]

I am doing a lynx "http://www.greathomesusa. com/cgi-bi...s/out.cgi?id=3 -useragent=Googlebot" but it does not do anything but redirect you to the actual page ? I don't see any cloaking. Strange. Has that person done anything?

Remember to stick the dot . com

UPDATE:

Well I may have found the problem.

While checking backlinks of one of my link partners, I found a link from Brent’s main site that generated a redirect via cgi script to one of my Vegas sites. The redirect goes to my site, and not a clone of my site.

Here is what G is displaying:
Las Vegas Real Estate and homes - Summerlin Real Estate - Liberty ...
Las Vegas Real Estate. Henderson. Boulder City. Summerlin Real Estate. Green Valley. ...
www.greathomesusa.com/cgi-bin/hotlinks/ out.cgi?id=10 - 41k - Cached - Similar pages

Prior to discovering this Brent had already emailed me and told be how badly he felt about it all and suspected that it was his linking software that created the problem.

It would appear as though this is not a case of an out of control site owner, but flawed 3rd party software.

Brent has assured me that the issue has been corrected. I have left all links in place to see if the problem is resolved after the next Google B/L update.

-Mack