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I’ve gotten a few emails recently asking me about scraper sites and how to beat them. I’m not sure anything is 100% effective, but y

According to USFDA, a combination product is one composed of any combination of a drug and device; biological product and device; drug and biological product

ou can probably use them to your advantage (somewhat). If you’re unsure about what scraper sites are:

A scraper site is a website t

; or drug, device, and biological product and fixed dose combination would include two or more combinations of drug.

Examples of combination products may in

hat pulls all of its information from other websites using web scraping. In essence, no part of a scraper site is original. A search

lude drug-coated devices, drugs packaged with delivery devices in medical kits, and drugs and devices packaged separately but intended to be used together.

engine is not an example of a scraper site. Sites such as Yahoo and Google gather content from other websites and index it so you c

here is enormous increase in the number of combination products entering the market in the recent years. Combination products have proven advantages but fixe

an search the index for keywords. Search engines then display snippets of the original site content which they have scraped in respo

d dose combinations are still in the process of convincing regulatory authority on their advantages over the single ingredient formulations.

Combination pro

nse to your search.

In the last few years, and due to the advent of the Google Adsense web advertising program, scraper sites have

ucts have become life saving products for the pharmaceutical companies who doesn’t have many innovative molecules in their product pipeline and have been inc

proliferated at an amazing rate for spamming search engines. Open content, Wikipedia, are a common source of material for scraper si

easingly used in the product life cycle management. Even the companies having product patents are trying to extend their product life cycle through the combi

tes.

from the main article at Wikipedia.org

Now it should be noted, that having a vast array of scraper sites that host your conte

nation products and maximize the revenues. But the companies involved in this practice are overlooking that they are burdening the patients both economically

nt may lower your rankings in Google, as you are sometimes perceived as spam. So I recommend doing everything you can to prevent tha

and physically. They need to rightly judge the benefits of the combination products and they have to even look at the risks involved when combining the produ

t from happening. You won’t be able to stop every one, but you’ll be able to benefit from the ones you don’t.

Things you can do:

I

ts. Some of the combination products were well accepted by physicians while others suffered. Companies involved in development of combination products are fi

clude links to other posts on your site in your posts.

Include your blog name and a link to your blog on your site.

Manually white

ding difficulty in defining their combination products and facing various challenges from selecting a combination to marketing it.

Following aspects would a

list the good spiders (google,msn,yahoo etc).

Manually blacklist the bad ones (scrapers).

Automatically blog all at once page requ

dd to the challenges in developing combination products:

Which markets to tap where the combination products can do fairly well?
Which combination prod

ests.

Automatically block visitors that disobey robots.txt.

Use a spider trap: you have to be able to block access to your site by

cts are meaningful and rational?
Which therapeutic categories to select?
Which Combinations can address unmet needs of the patients?
Do combin

an IP address…this is done through .htaccess (I do hope you’re using a linux server..) Create a new page, that will log the ip addr

tions increase the patient compliance?
What would be the developing cost?
How to tackle the risks encountered during combination product developmen

ess of anyone who visits it. (don’t setup banning yet, if you see where this is going..). Then setup your robots.txt with a “nofollo

t?

As combination products don't fit into the traditional categories of drugs, medical devices, or biological products, the USFDA is in the process of devel

w” to that link. Next you much place the link in one of your pages, but hidden, where a normal user will not click it. Use a table s

ping new procedures for reviewing their safety, efficacy and quality.

Professional from academic institutions, pharmaceutical industries, health care indust

et to display:none or something. Now, wait a few days, as the good spiders (google etc.) have a cache of your old robots.txt and cou

y and representatives from various regulatory agencies are working out to design the regulatory requirements for manufacture and sale of combination products

ld accidentally ban themselves. Wait until they have the new one to do the autobanning. Track this progress on the page that collect

.

As there is an increasing trend of the combination products companies manufacturing such products should be able to tackle the problems involved in the de

s IP addresses. When you feel good, (and have added all the major search spiders to your whitelist for extra protection), change tha

elopment. They need to be wiser in analyzing the market trends and the regulatory requirements.

Companies that provide selfless information through particip

t page to log, and autoban each ip that views it, and redirect them to a dead end page. That should take care of quite a few of them

tion in industry events and feedback to regulatory authorities would be able to face the challenges and will be successful in developing combination products

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