Amazon scraping website - traffic is gone, still indexed , dmca request ? (graphs inside)

olimix · Aug 31, 2012

I have launch a wordpress site filled with amazon product that i get by scrapping them on amazon website .
I have 25k product and about 40k indexed pages

Today traffic is gone and i don't understand why .

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I don't think this it's because of agressive linking strategy , because anchor text are various , i didn't tried to make my homepage rank for a specific keyword

the point is i use a nice javascript cloacking script to hide my affiliate links for google , basically here is what google see for each link :

PHP:

<span class='chingchong' data-title='item title' data-blank='1'  data-value='520a580a580a560a290a235a235a595a595a595a230a485a545a485a610a555a550a230a510a570a235a505a600a505a495a235a555a490a525a500a555a575a235a325a415a365a390a235a250a250a245a280a275a260a265a255a255a440a235a585a550a540a525a590a570a505a240a240a490a225a250a245'>3,80  euros sur amazon !</span>

but i don't think this is the problem

any idea ?

olimix

moonlighsunligh · Aug 31, 2012

It is dupe content.

Where did you found the javascript cloaking script. I would like to have one copy.

monk13 · Aug 31, 2012

amazon affiliate link cloaking is unnecessary
i've got a few sites with 1,000+ amazon scraped pages with non cloaked links
they rank well
it's your content, you gotta have unique content man

olimix · Aug 31, 2012

I don't uniderstand why i get traffic stopping so fastly

moonlighsunligh it's a self made script, i'll send you the script tomorrow till i'm drunk now

should i add some amazon opinion ? to make unique content ? or maybe add some youtube embed ? any other idea ?

olimix · Sep 1, 2012

Since everybody on this forum only click on "How to make 50k a day" topics i'll share my script directly here to let people who actually help other members gaining acces to it , thanks guys .

PHP:

<?php
function cryptLink($crypt){
    $l = strlen($crypt);
    $newTab = Array();
    for($i=0; $i<$l;$i++){
        $ord = ord($crypt[$i]);
        $newTab[$i] = $ord*5;
    }
    return implode('a' ,$newTab);
}
$var = cryptLink('http://www.linktocloack.com/affiliateid');

?>

<html>
    <head>
        <script type="text/javascript" src="http://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.7.2.min.js"></script>
    </head>
    <body>
        <span class="unlien" data-title="mon titre" data-blank="1" data-value="<?=$var ?>">test</span>
        
    </body>
    
    <script type="text/javascript">
        
        var uncryptLinks = function(){
            $('.unlien').each(function(){
                var v = $(this).data('value');
                var b = $(this).data('blank');
                var blank = '';
                if(b==1){
                    blank = ' target="_blank" ';
                }
                title = '';
                if($(this).data('title')!=''){
                    title = 'title="'+$(this).data('title')+'"';
                }
                exp = v.split('a');
                chaine = '';
                $.each(exp, function(k, v){
                    var chr = v/5;
                    chaine = chaine+String.fromCharCode(chr);
                });
                var c = String.fromCharCode(300/5);
                var c1 = String.fromCharCode(485/5);
                var c2 = String.fromCharCode(520/5);
                var c3 = String.fromCharCode(570/5);
                var c4 = String.fromCharCode(505/5);
                var c5 = String.fromCharCode(510/5);

                $(this).replaceWith(c+c1+' '+blank+' '+c2+c3+c4+c5+'="'+chaine+'" '+title+' >'+$(this).text()+'</a>');
            });    
        }
        
        $(document).ready( function(){
            uncryptLinks();
        });
        
    </script>
</html>

link is crypted in php and uncrypted in javascript post loading , it use jquery so google can't follow the uncrypting process.
I've tested it using googlebot explorer , working great !

soundsdelicious · Sep 1, 2012

You need the content to be spun if you're ripping it all from another site.

The poster above said that cloaking isn't necessary, and for some people it isn't, but it's good security to have. thanks for the share.

monk13 · Sep 17, 2012

to be clear, i don't cloak links because it looks suspicious, and it can cause you to not get paid (breach of TOS)
i do n0f0ll0w all outbound links to sites outside my own network and the one authority link i place, and spin all autoposts
i think that with amazon's authority and lack of shadyness cloaking is not necessary for it
with clickbank you may want to do that though, clickbank links have a bad rep with google

moonlighsunligh · Oct 25, 2012

Did you get your traffic back?

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