Competitor Attempts to Steal Product Descriptions.. Gets RickRoll'd
So today I noticed an interesting referer while tailing my ecommerce website's production.log file
http://www.mturk.com/mturk/preview?groupId=ZXN2S645SXNTG6SRHV5Z (Notice the link at the top of the page links to revzilla.com (my site), sometimes it swaps to an amazon.com product so just refresh that page if it does)
Apparently someone had created a mechanical turk which is paying people to reword / paraphrase our product descriptions (I assume) for use on their competing website. We can't be having that so I added a simple rule to redirect any Mechanical Turk referrers to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBGIQ7ZuuiU :D
We used to redirect competitors (based on their ip addresses) to their own sites when they tried to log into our software.
Why not use some free library to thesaurasize your product DB and then collect on those mechanical turk payouts yourself?
Bankrupt them. :)
you should've forced them to redirect always to the same product, if they were directly linking to products from the turk. that way, the person paying would be getting hundreds of one product description.
For $0.76 they're also overpaying for the HIT.
Those who live by the gun, die by the gun.
What is the affect of this on your Google ranking? Just curious as to how much of your content they are altering. If not much then could it cause your site to be ranked lower due to duplicated content? Just curious on this. I think there are tools that will look for plagarised content online
Next time they will not link directly to you but redirect through something. Or simply copy-and-paste your content into the job description. It's a waste of time trying to fight this...
I'd make sure it's not one of your affiliates.
I love this.
Ha! Served.
They need to get vunk'd or if you're extra mean throw some 2G,1C their way.
In before proxy.