Originally Posted by signupdamnit

Why don't you think so, rogueteens? The ones I see all over the first page for different terms have domains 3+ years old and lots of bac klinks. Many of which are paid or spam but Google isn't doing anything about them. It seems if you have good backlinks + domain age you can use scraped content and descriptions, templates, ads all over. Especially if you have a branded site. It almost looks like Google gives those sites credit as being the originals when they are not. But if you don't have those things solid the magnifying glass is on you.