Handmadearea.com - anyone know what this is? Bizarre backlinks!

[Gavin.Atkinson]

I have noticed just this week a lot of new backlinks from a site called handmadearea.com - for example http://handmadearea.com/url/hp-printer-software-zpe-center/. It looks like the site is somehow stripping my content structure and inserting spam where my content goes.

Has anyone seen anything like this before? Should I be worried about it? The backlinks are not showing in Google Webmaster Tools so I can't easily disavow them at this point. Are they likely to be doing me harm? What can I do about them?

[FedeEinhorn]

Site looks like a scraping engine full of crap, you probably don't want them to link to you (links are dofollow).

You can still disavow the entire domain even if not showing in WMT. Just add the full domain in the domain format: Domain:handmadearea.com to your disavow file and you are done.

https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/disavow-links-main

[Gavin.Atkinson]

Yes, it's a strange one. I don't understand what advantage they get from scraping my logo and headings. I have disavowed their entire domain as there appears no reasonable way to contact them. I doubt they'd reply if I did. I did a full backlinks report this morning and found four more similar sites (similar URL structures) linking back to me, although none of them appear to be working.

If they end up getting better SERPs than me, I'll be wanting to know why!