September 2007
The Archives
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09.03.07Parasite ScrapingOK....to start, let me state the obvious: The Intertube is overrun with scraper sites. They are everywhere, and many people are profiting from them. While they may be questionable in practice, they can still be very successful. As you already know, volume is one of keys to success in seo. And scraper sites give you the ability to quickly and easily automate the production of a huge amount of copy for use in your niches. Some implementations of the scraper-site are better then others, for example.....this one isn't bad: http://www.red78.net/loafers/ And here's a pretty bad one: http://opensource.votio.com/php/forum/Loafers Whats sets them apart is simply ...
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09.02.07Always Watch Your Logs – Part IIWhat is a referer? God, I hope I really don't have to answer this for you all, but I will anyways. In your logs, you have entries like this: /searches/Progress%20Indicator%20Helper Referer: http://www.google.com/search?q=PHP%2Bprogress%2Bindicator&hl=en&start=10&sa=N Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 1.0.3705; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; Media Center PC 4.0; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.0.04506.30; InfoPath.2) The Referer information is what tells me where the user has come from. From the above entry, I deduce that the visitor came from a Google search for the term: PHP progress indicator. Pretty much 99% of internet users openly show their referer in this way. In ...
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