Odd website with pet talk threads

[Jessika]

No, I clicked on the "contact us" button and that's the email address it gave. Strange. I'm going to send them a letter right now. Technically, you could probably sue Bluehost and the other people involved, as well.

Naw, I doubt you could sue the host, they probably have a TOS stating they have nothing to do with the sites they host, or that the parties are responsible for their own content, or something.

It's almost like that website gets an RSS feed of PetTalk and it posts on there... which I know isn't what's happening. Or maybe it is... lol.

[Randi]

Yes, it definately seems that someone is stealing threads right off of PT. Quite a few Ptalkers names appear. Here's another example: http://www.carelittle.com/cat-care/t-0525.html

Not sure if it's one person or what, but did you all notice about a month ago, we had a period with about 1400 guests every day!!

Karen and Paul, I hope you get this sorted out.

[Maya & Inka's mommy]

Yes, it definately seems that someone is stealing threads right off of PT. Quite a few Ptalkers names appear. Here's another example: http://www.carelittle.com/cat-care/t-0525.html

Not sure if it's one person or what, but did you all notice about a month ago, we had a period with about 1400 guests every day!!

Karen and Paul, I hope you get this sorted out.

WHAT ???? My name appears at least 10 times, and all my posts about ringworm are copied.....

I hope it isn't "a" person who was a member in the past, and who hates PT....

[kittycats_delight]

Definately going to be sending out a complaint.This is my thread about Artica.

carelittle.com/talk-about-dog2/t-0149.html

[Freedom]

I sent in a complaint! Although, I have to admit, I wasn't sure how to word it. It is just so weird. I just said that I had never even heard of ths ite which they are hosting, that I never posted to it, and my posts are "stolen." Then I 'demanded' that they remove it.

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[cassiesmom]

I clicked on "Contact Us" and this is what I got ...
Contact Us
Contact Us Email to carelittle at 21cn.com,Please!

[dukedogsmom]

I clicked on "Contact Us" and this is what I got ...
Contact Us
Contact Us Email to carelittle at 21cn.com,Please!

From the first page:

Here's something even more odd! I clicked on the contact link and it gave their website name @21cn.com I clicked on that and it's all in Chinese. Had the page translated. It appears to be like Yahoo. So, someone overseas is ripping off PT? This is totally bizzare! I wonder if they've been getting income from the web pages?

Looks like Karen is going to have to get an attorney to take down the site. I don't see how that company can get away with this.

[Logan]

I guess I don't post things that I would be worried about, but one of the first things I saw was "Lovely Lilly", starting with the beautiful poem that Karen wrote when my Lilly died. What in the world are these people doing??

[Hellow]

Hey, you know, lets go join argue to the people that posts our stuff. Seriousely. I might go and cuss out thoes people.

[Miss Z]

WEIRD!!!

[Flatcoatluver]

I didn't see any threads I wrote. Maybe my computer isn't working but they have picture threads of for example of Tango, but I don't see any pictures.

[Blue_Frog]

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

[Paul]

   Karen and I will pursue this with BlueHost.com.

   Blue Frog is right. 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.

      Paul

[Danegirl2208]

It looks like we're not the only ones ...

http://www.chazhound.com/forums/show...t=58471&page=4

yes this is the other forum i was talking about above...theres are a ton of their threads aswell.

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

Thank you for finding that out! Do you mind if I share this info with the other forum?

[wombat2u2004]

Hey....I just looked, there is a bunch of my posts on that site to.
Who is doing this ??????
Wom