This Little Piggy(backer) Went to Google…

Hope the holiday weekend treated everyone well, and while many of you were out celebrating some time away from work, another “company” has popped upon revisiting the coverage we brought you of people piggybacking off other sites.

This time the company is called a SalesGoodBuy a SalesDeal who is not only ripping off the great Zappos brand, but many others as well.

Edit: They were up yesterday under the psdeudonym a SalesGoodBuy, today they’re “a SalesDeal”

Edit #2: They’re gone again.

In total they’re listing over 240,000 270,000 products at last count, and essentially morph into many other sites, including online shoe retailers Designer Shoes, 6pm, and other sites such as the House of Nutrition, and Jewelry Impressions.

Thanks to Tom Wilson’s great Google Base tool, we’re able to see that all these products just popped up today (click on more details under one of the listings).

As we stated in our previous post, the fact that Google Product Search allows both free listings and clicks can be both its best asset merchants, as well as its worst enemy when it comes to these types fraudulent listings.

These types of clicks ultimately and unfortunately cost the retailers a lot of money, since they have to pay their affiliates a percentage of the sales made, which end up going straight to the fraudsters.

We’ll forward these over to our good friends at Google and keep you updated on what steps are taken.

And with that we’ll see you on the engines, hopefully through direct, nonfraudulent clicks