888 / Casino On Net Condoning Site Scraping & Copyright Theft?

[rowmare]

At the end of the day this thread is once again steering off on a doom because of IGAMI promos. Let's focus on 888 and nothing else at this stage.

iGAMI was mentioned and then a question was asked, I answered. I did not intend for it to be a promo. As for the rest of your erroneous assumptions, in the interest of keeping the thread on the topic, I'll refrain from responding. If you have some good ideas, and are willing to donate your time to a non-profit organization, you are certainly welcome to do so. We want what is best for the industry.

[Casinomeister]

iGAMI was mentioned and then a question was asked, I answered. I did not intend for it to be a promo. As for the rest of your erroneous assumptions, in the interest of keeping the thread on the topic, I'll refrain from responding.

It's cool - don't worry about it. I think that what we want to see as a collective whole - webmaster/player/operator/observer - is to see the casino take the bull by the horns and correct the major malfunction on their own without being told to do otherwise by any organised force or entity.

[Chatmaster]

Hi Janet

As I said , this is my personal opinion. I often come out louder and harsher than intended.

If we do create an organization for the control of the affiliate programs, it must be a body that has tooth to byte where it matters. In other words can actually close down their affiliate programs or pull their approval or license.

What comes to mind first of all is to approach the governments where they are licensed for their support, in requiring membership to this body. The body should have rules and regulations that has been stipulated and enforced into the finest details etc. I don't think I need to carry on much further about this issue. There was no attack towards IGAMI just an opinion and a 888 thread where I saw IGAMI once to many.

BTW Just got your PM, Thanks!

[rowmare]

Thanks guys. We're interested in the same things, so lets get back to it!

[dominique]

The affiliate world is physically divided, even though all decent affiliates from all the different organizations are facing the same problems. This is not a thread to advertise and woo members. That is exactly the kind of thing that keeps it divided.

It would be refreshing to see all segments of the community act in unison, each adding their bit to solve a problem. Let's do that now without anymore ado.

We have a really serious problem here, affecting the entire industry.

We are here to talk about 888. We have a problem and it lives in our middle. We have rogue affiliates who are being paid by 888 to spam the search engine with content stolen from us. They are using our hard work to create tens of thousands of sites. They are listing these sites under keywords that have nothing to do with Gambling. You can have granny looking for a better recipee for strawberry jam and the 888 front page pops in her face. These scraper sites are produced by the tens of thousands because they only expect one click through per site, the rest of the people will click it away in disgust.

This hurts the entire industry. We are facing enough legal problems. Do we really want to hand the government ammunition? Do we really need to antagonize the public? Do we really need to antagonize the search engines? Have you ever thought that the search engines could just filter all gaming related keywords in order to eliminate this type of spam?

I think that is a heck of a lot more likely than a filter imposed by governments.

If I were google, I would seriously consider that. Nothing but head aches from the gambling industry.

THAT is one of the main reasons 888 and anyone else paying affiliates to spam search engines HAS TO STOP NOW!!!!!!

I am offering a link back to any site, regardless of PR or even indexing, that adds a seperate page rogueing 888 and telling what the problem is and links to me.

If we all link to each other we will top the search engines. This will put some pressure on 888 to cease and desist from paying people to steal and spam (not to mention that it will help sites getting better SERPS).

Lets look forward and stop this destructive and illegal practice!

[Simmo!]

Google could seriously knock this big time. Trouble is they are hard to get through to...bigger fish to fry. Shame cos one flick of the switch, and it would all be over.

[Webzcas]

Google could seriously knock this big time. Trouble is they are hard to get through to...bigger fish to fry. Shame cos one flick of the switch, and it would all be over.

Maybe pointing out a few hundred spammy sites all promoting the same brand on Matt Cutt's Blog might get their attention.

[Simmo!]

Maybe pointing out a few hundred spammy sites all promoting the same brand on Matt Cutt's Blog might get their attention.

Knowing now the way 888 marketing works, they probably beat us to it

[Webzcas]

Knowing now the way 888 marketing works, they probably beat us to it

[Webzcas]

Hey Simmo. I had to rep you. You now have 888 rep points as a result.