Wow, I was Fooled!
By Desty on Nov 12, 2007 in SEO and Link Building
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As I’ve said before, I like using BlogRush to find new blogs. I was running around the BlogRush network and came across whizkidsecrets.com blog [nofollow added, you’ll see]. It was a good title for an article about how Shylockblogging had been sold overnight. You’ll notice that the article I’m talking about is actually on 45n5.com’s site.
You guessed it, whizkidsecrets blog is a scraper site! I got fooled because the site itself looks like a normal blog, with ads beyond the normal adsense you see on most scraper sites. Heck, even the ‘about me’ page had something on it, not the normal default wordpress content. Plus being in BlogRush kinda threw me off guard.
Someone actually took some time and set this scraper site up. Maybe a sign of things to come. On a Blackhat SEO blog, the author bragged on how he makes roughly $2.45 per day from his scraper site network / empire; all he has to do is setup the initial blog and scraper scripts, and then forget about them. On average, those sites last roughly 2 months before Google catches on and cuts them off from traffic. By that time, he’s already got his next network setup and ready to be turned on.
I delete, on average, 3-5 trackbacks from scraper sites on Desty Online. Sad to say, I actually wouldn’t mind scrapers if they actually kept my links intact.
Blackhat SEO, Blackhat, Scrapers, Content Scrapers
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Scraper sites are getter better with each passing day. The true blackhats scraper sites will actually never get thrown out of Google, and half the time you wouldn’t even realize you were ever on one.
I know, when I see sites like that, and hear about them actually getting results, kinda makes you want to wander over to the darkside…
Hey - it’s not a scraper site bub. I installed a couple things and tried them out - the auto RSS updaters, and then I haven’t deleted all the posts yet. But thanks for the link.
-Todd Doyle
Whizkidsecrets.com
I’m sorry, I must have been confused. Maybe it was the articles from other blogs. Maybe it was the excerpts of those articles and links to the original blogs to read more. I operate under the theory that if it looks like a duck, walks like a duck and sounds like a duck…