Comments on: Black Hole SEO: Desert Scraping

by: iLkerjan

Sat, 19 Jul 2008 20:02:23 +0000

Thanks! Brilliant!

by: Forumistan

Sat, 07 Jun 2008 15:17:48 +0000

Great article Eli … I’ll give this a try this week !

by: Sheela

Tue, 04 Mar 2008 21:12:26 +0000

Urgh, so much to learn!!

by: Marvin

Thu, 10 Jan 2008 00:57:53 +0000

Does anyone have a tool for content revising.. I need badly…

by: Spammy Mc Spam Spam

Sun, 06 Jan 2008 15:53:09 +0000

I agree, i don’t think there is anything on the blog that is spelled out, just the solid theory, minus all the “this is how you do it step by step” rubbish that fills other blogs and most ebooks……. eli is like a real teacher, never speaking down and challenging us to fill in the gaps.

by: Spammy Mc Spam Spam

Sun, 06 Jan 2008 15:50:31 +0000

I don’t think most people ask “Man, Why didn’t I think of General Relativity?”

by: Spammy Mc Spam Spam

Sun, 06 Jan 2008 15:33:25 +0000

I hate saying this… but google can figure this out, just have an index like archive.org and check any new content against the old content. 2 seperate indexes.

by: swifty

Mon, 12 Nov 2007 15:53:53 +0000

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by: Houdas

Sat, 03 Nov 2007 22:18:14 +0000

Maybe I am late for the party, but based on comment by “Flow Chart Dude” frmo 2007-06-21 I made this little simple tool for scraping dropped DMOZ sites:

live demo at http://dev.mediaworks.cz/dmoz_dropped.php
source at http://dev.mediaworks.cz/dmoz_dropped.phps

by: Marvin

Tue, 28 Aug 2007 16:20:03 +0000

I have a second thought on wiki,in my experienced all my posts in blog from wiki contents was banned by the big G…

by: Eli

Thu, 21 Jun 2007 13:06:48 +0000

Very good idea. I never thought about that. Perhaps a script that can easily do this for us?

by: Marc

Thu, 21 Jun 2007 13:02:57 +0000

What about comparing the content with what can be found in Copyscape.com? As an additional simpel first check.

Just upload the retrieved content in one big (or more) HTML page(s), upload and enter the URL in Copyscape (or another content checker). If duplicate results are found then you know for sure the content is not unique.

by: Eli

Thu, 21 Jun 2007 09:53:29 +0000

Brilliant!

by: Flow Chart Dude

Thu, 21 Jun 2007 04:38:21 +0000

Here’s another play on this idea:

1. Search DMOZ for the topic you want.
2. If a new tab, look at Archive.org for an old copy of the DMOZ category page.
3. Compare the current listing versus the archived and find links that were dropped.
4. Use Archive.org again to look at the content of the dropped DMOZ listings.

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P.S. Eli - I just came across this site the other day. This isn’t my business model, but it’s fantastic reading material - gets my brain humming. I’d love to see a “Blue Hat SEO Guide to Web Programming” recommended book list.

by: Alan

Wed, 20 Jun 2007 16:13:23 +0000

From experience, I can tell you that a good search engine ranking doesn’t depend on content but on inbound links! You could scrape almost anything, as long you have lots of links, you’ll rank well.

This is more to have easily unique content!