Blogs Scraping Content - What to Do

[KevinG]

Originally Posted by DannyCox

ah, okay. I understand now.

BTW, I am putting together some questions for any of the "Blog Gurus" here on Oprano. I'm totally rebuilding Carol's site and will be adding a Blog (she writes them all over the place already). I'll have some questions on how to best use and utilize the Blogs for a traffic and marketing standpoint. I'm such a "set in my ways" old-timer, I have fallen behind all this newfangled stuff

LOL Danny. I get a little set in my ways too. I am also an "anti-fad" type of guy.

Whatever the latest thing is that everybody is doing is usually the last thing that I want to be doing. I hate the general "sheep mentality" that society has.

When blogs first came out and every retard with a computer started blogging I thought it was annoying.

However, blogs have graduated into being very professional with some real monster money making machines. Not that I'm a fan, but just look at Perez Hilton. He sells ads on his blog for $16,000.

[Toby]

Originally Posted by KevinG

...just look at Perez Hilton. He sells ads on his blog for $16,000.

A bit off topic, but aren't most of these blog sites making mad $$$ doing so almost by accident? The site became hugely popular first, and THEN they started monetizing that traffic. Monetizing wasn't the initial intent.

[KevinG]

Originally Posted by Toby

A bit off topic, but aren't most of these blog sites making mad $$$ doing so almost by accident? The site became hugely popular first, and THEN they started monetizing that traffic. Monetizing wasn't the initial intent.

It could be. That certainly happened in adult 10 years ago.

However, there are also some blogs that appear to have meaningful corporate backing, that are very well done and appear to have lots of traffic and revenue. They are professional and smart and not examples of someone just "stepping in shit".

http://fleshbot.com/ sends a lot of love to us over at Burning Angel and Joanna Angel.

http://fleshbot.com/342962/avn-award...down-t+minus-3

[Hammer]

I've actually used scrapers to create blogs for some of my sites that don't have RSS feeds like most blogs, but since anyone can use a scraper to create a blog from the content of any website, they are obviously abused. The point of scraping is supposed to be to allow people to create feeds for sites they frequent but don't have a feed available. Unfortunately, just like with most things, some people find ways to use things for purposes they were not created for.

[RawAlex]

One thing you can do is if you identify a scraper, you can filter them by IP with htaccess and send them to a nice bullshit feed. Make one up of nothing but CP erotic stories or something. Let them feed on that for a little while. They will certainly leave you alone after a bit.

[Hammer]

To clarify, what I meant to say was that I've used scraping to create feeds from some sites I have that don't already have feeds.