Monday, July 25, 2005

Scraper Sites are Good for You - Surrender Your Content

Search engines can't whack them fast enough. The scraper technology gets better and better. Some scrapers look like real websites, too. I have seen some scrapers that were so well done, they were actually useful.

Scrapers: There is Nothing You Can do About it
The scraper thing has gotten so far out of hand, that individual scraper sites are now sending targetted traffic that exceeds minor search engines like Ask Jeeves.

One webmaster reported to me that without doing any link development, his backlinks grew to around 40,000 links, with great anchor text, too. All this with no negative effect on traffic. I'll repeat: No negative effect on traffic.

Surrender to the Scrapers... It is Better for You
You remember the remake of Invasion of the Body Snatchers? The pod people admonish the humans to fall asleep and let them snatch your body, because life is so much better that way. I'm telling you the same thing. Scraper sites are good for you. Surrender your content.

Hold a wet finger to the wind. At most, scrapers do more good to you than harm. At worst, your quality of life suffers when you are constantly pulling your hair out worrying about scraper sites. Accept the scrapers, it is better for you this way. You will find extra time for improving and building bigger and better things.