Comments on: Introducing Scrape Rate – A New Link Metric

By: Ted

Ted — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 01:15:53 +0000

Hey Jon,

Here is how I look at it. I suppose that anytime you are given the opportunity to publish somewhere that you know your post is going to earn a couple dozen backlinks instantaneously (whether from scraped content or not) then you should definitely take advantage of it. I just question how many opportunities (on different domains) you are going to get to do that.

Your idea of inventing a tool to measure the metric is a creative idea……I tip my hat to you. I just think that if someone is actually going to take the time to analyze whether or not they are going to submit a guest blog based on that particular metric then that person is guilty of analysis paralysis.

Why bother measuring it at all? If you have the opportunity to publish a guest blog post at a decent site that shares your same target audience, why in the hell would you pass it up? You would be crazy to pass it up even if the scrape rate was zero.

And, if you are guest blogging primarily for links, there are easy ways you can juice up a less juicy post on someone else’s website without crossing any black hat lines.

By: Jon Cooper

Jon Cooper — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 18:47:26 +0000

Thanks for the comment Lovett! I’m saying that they pass minimum value, but when found in great numbers, they have the ability to pass some value. Why? Because if your content is being scraped by 80 different sites just days after it was published, it’s telling Google that it’s content worth scraping.

By: Lovett

Lovett — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 09:17:23 +0000

Hi Jon,

Are you suggesting that links from duplicate content pass value and help rankings? That sounds like SEO back in 2008 when article marketing was thriving. The 1-2 week delay in the rankings may not relate to the links you got from the scrapers at all. This is just speculation but if that really works, Google sucks!

By: Ana Hoffman

Ana Hoffman — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 20:38:55 +0000

Check this out, Jon, and let me know what you think:

http://myseocommunity.com/blog/myseocommunity/scraped-content-link-building/

PS Your help to promote the post will be greatly appreciated!

By: Jon Cooper

Jon Cooper — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 16:03:49 +0000

That’s awesome Ana! It’s such a raw idea, so I can’t wait to see how some of the great bloggers in our industry like you utilize this.

Thanks for stopping by! Really pumped you left a comment

By: Ana Hoffman

Ana Hoffman — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 15:25:26 +0000

Definitely brilliant, Jon.

Now my brain is churning trying to figure out how to improve the scrape rate for my blog! lol

By: kevin gallagher

kevin gallagher — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 09:02:18 +0000

HI Jon,

Yeah that would make sense to me. I wasn’t dissing your theory ( although it does warrant more research) I was just trying to understand the relationship between that and article marketing. As you don’t need to be aaron wall to work out that Article marketing is as dead as disco.

Thanks for sharing your thoughts on this topic.

By: Jon Cooper

Jon Cooper — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 01:26:20 +0000

I think we can agree to disagree, but I’ve personally seen results from this. What makes this different from article marketing is that the sites scraping it are usually both relevant and contain less duplicate content. For example, an article directory is usually marked as total crap by Google, because all of its content is usually duplicate or spun. But a stand alone site that publishes its own unique content and an-every-once-in-a-while scraped piece of content usually holds more value (sorry for the unforgivable amount of dashes).

By: kevin gallagher

kevin gallagher — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 22:23:48 +0000

article marketing and spun article isn’t the best way to do seo though is it? So you can keep that tactic thanks.

By: Ian

Ian — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 13:35:43 +0000

This works. Period.

Though – it’s not really any different then just loading up something like article marketing robot and blasting out 200 article copies with your links in it. (Save the authority from the original post) The value of those sites and the value of scraper sites are essentially the same.

Also – the people saying links from scraped sites and spun content links are now dead and “we aren’t in 2007″ – you’re hilarious. Please keep telling people this doesn’t work anymore.