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This is a pretty good question on dealing with content scrapers that hasn't had much attention.

It would be interesting to see what the higher level stack admins think about dealing with these people as there are so many sites that scrape stack sites.

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    (Not really an answer but:) Have a look at Jeff's "Trouble in the House of Google" post from last January for one data point.
    – Su'
    Apr 4, 2012 at 9:32
  • @Su'good link, and an interesting read, wish for a bit more technical information though.
    – toomanyairmiles
    Apr 4, 2012 at 9:43
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    I think the answer in the article is this: 1. They aren't necessarily doing anything wrong as the content is licensed cc-by-sa. 2. Google will penalise them anyway, and google is the main source of traffic. That's why the article doesn't say how to stop them.
    – paulmorriss
    Apr 4, 2012 at 10:35
  • @paulmorriss indeed, but Jeff Atwood does refer to work they did on webmasters to counteract the problems they were facing while waiting for Google to spike the content farms - I can guess what they did but would like a little more.
    – toomanyairmiles
    Apr 4, 2012 at 12:00
  • Is this meta really the right place for this question? It feels to me like it should be either on the main webmasters.SE site (as an SEO question that just happens to reference SE) or on MSO (as a question about the whole SE network, not just this site).
    – Ilmari Karonen
    May 9, 2012 at 16:52

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