Conversely, laws are not issues of ethics. You break them and you pay one way or the other.

The government can make anyone’s life miserable, so follow copyrights & attribute sources. If it’s wikipedia you’re scraping or some other GNU or CC work, it’s easy. For article sites, put a little more work into it and reference the source (author). Then scrape away!

Also, google has duplicant content filters so your scrape content probably won’t rank too well.

About scraping, indeed the idea is to generate thousands of pages that you can re-use into a website. Every page should have some advertisers in it (affiliates and/or adsense). The idea is to get A LOT of content (like 10000 pages), build a website, get it known by the Search engines (you can use Eli’s QUIT tool ), and wait until search engines discover that you just stole the content, and then they’ll ban your site. It usually takes something between 1-3 months, and meanwhile you’ll have earned money from your advertisers.
Then you repeat the whole procedure.

I’m quite new to the game of scraping but I did one site that make me earn something between $5-$10 a day with 10000 pages, so if you manage to automate things well enough, you may be able to generate enough sites to multiply your income!

And by the way, I’m working on a tool that may let you have a scraped site not being banned so quickly (maybe not at all!) I’m currently testing and refining it, more news about it later !

About Joe cracker, he’s the kind of people who would like to be admired for what he does, so he will just boast and will not understand why people don’t get impressed. On the other hand, someone like Eli just give you real keys to progress, and he deserves to get some admiration !
The myspace technique Joe’s talking about is just the following: Use a myspace bot to add hundreds of friends. Then when you have friends, you can post a “bulletin” which is an announce that will be seen by all your friends. This bulletin will make them go to some affiliate (like a dating service). Again the game numbers is what is important, over thousands of friends, most will ignore your bulletin, but some will not, and you will get money from affiliate commissions.
“clicking on one button” is what Joe meant : let your bot add friends, and then when you have enough friends, post a bulletin going to somewhere that will make you some money.
Then repeat as much as you can.

Well buddy, I guess the best advice I can give you is to stick with what you know.

To answer your rivitingly brilliant economic question I’ll attempt to explain it visually:
content-> traffic-> advertisers-> money

BTW I don’t censor the comments. So if your comment doesn’t show up immediately, it usually means it got caught in the spam filter. I will eventually retrieve it. There is no need to panic or continue attempting to post it.

Yea this is too much work. And you kinda brushed through the steps. If I were a newbie I wouldn’t have a clue what to do and nor would I make much money. Like your last article regarding the screensavers and the spyware installation your idea kinda sucks.

So after you scrape and steal other people’s content where does the money come in? Huh? Does it magically appear in your bank? Or at your door? Or in your computer? If I’m gonna be a content thief I hope to get paid so maybe when my ass gets sued I’ll have enough to settle..lol

Why not use myspace? I make so much money with that. I run my program a few times and p00f 100’s of dollars in my account. I be raking in dough.

it is so easy, too. I wish everythign in life were that easy. Just last month, I made a ton of cash.

-Cracker

http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Agb&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a

Do you realize the power of this?
You could have your site end up in a site:edu or site:gov search, although this could just be a frontend glitch.
I’m not sure if it would rank better either, since most edu and gov sites have been well established.