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Um, what? forums.mychildrenhealth.com

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rmwebs

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http://forums.mychildrenhealth.com

Why is a (styleless), active copy of the MacRumors forums on another domain?

I'm getting links into one of my sites from it because it found my signature in a bunch of posts.

This site must be running off a copy of your database or something - it's not a simple DNS cockup as it would show the forum name as 'MacRumors' instead of 'MyChildrensHealth'. Also given that its updating instantly, there is no way in hell it's using a scraper.

Edit: Case in point: http://forums.mychildrenhealth.com/showthread.php?t=1675970
 
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smithrh

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rmwebs said:
Why is a (styleless), active copy of the MacRumors forums on another domain?
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Unfortunate side-effect of how Google rates websites - people want to generate (or steal) attractive content.

Think of it this way - Google really has no idea what any particular web site is for. They do know, however, if there's rich (and popular) search term traffic associated with a site.

What these people are hoping for is the real traffic that they want will be boosted because of the stolen content.

Not a very cogent explanation, sorry. If I get time I'll try to post something better.
 
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