Another favorite of mine : Wikipedia…
Just copy their content, store them for 2/3 months, you can be sure they will have changed by then on wikipedia

My current “magic” recipe is the following : I take wikipedia articles I scraped a few months ago, and I mix them with a few sentences from the current search engine results… I never produce supplemental pages that way!!!!

Very nice!
Capitalizing on ever changing content. Thats brilliant!

Eli, I thought you were partying today?

hi eli, are you producing a tool for squirt members or should we code something like this ourself?

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You have incredible ideas Eli. That will keep me busy for weeks! Thx

Looks like you are checking that the URL is no longer live, but the content could be relocated to another part of the site with a different permalink.

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Then if your worried the content is used…

Simple.

“blah blah this is the content from the page your worried about still being in the index blah blah”

Plop that into google and bam… This will ensure if its still there or not.

Brilliant idea and premise Eli.

thats a great idea, really simple and make alot of sense.

Dude. Awesome idea. I have some nice sites that I’m going to scrape for content..you have just filled up my calender for the next week or so.. Thanks!

Eli, you rock.

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And what is so secret about it?

nothing,

he just want to collect backlinks via comments which has nothing to do with the topic and he put some keywords in the entry sentences cause he want to monetize this “brand new tipps” *hrhr* via adbride.

One thing to keep in my mind though is that the abandoned content could be scraped itself.

I quickly found the site you used in your post Eli and ran a sentence through google with “” around it and sure enough it was taken from another site word by word.

a genius idea is when you ask yourself why it wasn’t yours, because it’s so simple and easy.

Thanks Brian. I kinda knew that. I was just pointing out that unless you are grabbing content from a defunct site/company, it’s important to be more cautious with how you check the content’s availability.

The usefulness of this idea is based upon being the only person with the forgotten content. Otherwise, we can just scrape current authoritative sources.

Very good idea Eli.

perhaps it was elis site? just an idea

Hey Eli

Great idea. Question:

You said “Just remember to focus on articles on sites that performed very well in the past, that ensures a much higher possibility of it performing well now.”

What criteria are you using to judge for the content’s performance?

It can’t be ranking in the SE, since it’s not there, so are you talking about views on the site or something?

@Dropout: you could always rewrite it, or “spin” it in your preferred content rewriter or pay someone $5 to rewrite it.

Obviously it would depend on whether you’re intending to build massive/smaller content sites as to the feasibility of the last method.

Hi Eli,

Well you only showed the search site command to check if that page is still on the old site’s domain. But that in itself doesn’t mean it’s not on their page (unless it’s a totally defunct site). For example, they could have moved the content to a different page, or even “sold” their content to be used on other sites. As such that information is not so much scraping but stealing since it may be actively used on a valid site at the moment to full rights. As someone mentioned in comments above, at least I’d recommend running a search on a phrase or two to make sure it’s really gone from places (at least for people who care). Sites can easily do their own searches too, and if one is too greedy they’ll find you stole their content in a heartbeat.

Enjoying your posts, recent reader Eli. Is that pronounced “El-ee” or “e-Lie” in your case?

Eli told me that his name is pronounced like a Jihadist Warcry: E-li-li-li-li-li-li…

…..but I digress….

There probably should have been a “dummies beware” kind of disclaimer for this post. Why? Because you are correct in saying that the content you’ve selected could be content that has been resold or shuffled to another site. But that alone does not invalidate this technique. It just means that you are responsible for doing your own due-diligence.

Another great article Eli!

Eli, as long as the article is not in the SERPs, even if it is still live on the originating site, that’s ok for our purposes, correct?

great article. what’s the take on the wikipedia comment? is it legit to grab a wiki article and rewrite it as your own?

do a lot of sites currently do this with wikipedia content? the only big site i am aware of doing this practice is answers.com

Technically you need to have a disclaimer that says this: “all information is licensed under the terms of GNU Free Documentation License.”
and just have that link to this:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Text_of_the_GNU_Free_Documentation_License
I’m not a lawyer though so look into it yourself, thats just what I do, and how I interpreted it.

Hi Eli, that’s a wonderful idea. I had this in the back of my mind too. Taking and reproducing data from the invisible web. But never thought it would be this easy.

There are so many websites hosting on free domains out there that form part of the invisible web. If only there was a method to find them out. You think that is possible?

Darn..all the content I find on different sites is already being used. I tried about.com but none of the content is deserted..anyone have any other sites they would like to share?

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

ooo, about.com
thats a toughy.
They NEVER loose content. They have every static page they’ve ever created still there and kickin’. So I definitely wouldn’t waste too much time on them.

How about sites that list detailed product information and are always changing inventory. E-com sites?

Hmm thanks for that one, I’ll look around for some of those.

The stuff I’m trying to scrape is in the dating niche… so hahaha.

Question for you guys…
I though that one of the main reasons that pages on sites like wikipedia rank so well is because they are on the wikipedia domain(authority site), not because their content is the greatest(SEO-wise).
Am I incorrect in my thinking?

On a side note, I created a wiki article last week for one of my sites’ search terms. Anyone know how long it takes to get a wiki article indexed?

Thanks,
MarkJ

Alan, how’s that strategy working for you, as far as search engine rankings?

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!

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.

Brilliant!

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.

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

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

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 [3] http://dev.mediaworks.cz/dmoz_dropped.php
source at [4] http://dev.mediaworks.cz/dmoz_dropped.phps

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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.

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

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.

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

Urgh, so much to learn!!

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

Thanks! Brilliant!

Exploiting HTTP 404 error seems to be the best approach while looking for deserted content. It just seems to be a natural way of getting the required results.

How would it be more effective than a ‘traditional’ link exchange though?

hey guys…..what r u talking about. reproducing data from the invisible web might not be that easy as it sounds….it involves a lot of work….producing authoritative and unique content is time staking….but has its benefits

Very interesting story, thanks for posting.

Do these techniques still work in your SEO efforts?

I went ahead and did this. Has anyone had success with this technique lately?

Great info on getting new content. But I have one question.

I didn’t see a response to this previously asked question. How do you know that the content you choose was ranked well and was authoritative?

thanks

Marc

Thanks for posting, very intresting story……..

Thanks a lot for posting, very nice and intresting story. I never thought about that……..

Several thanks for posting nice story …… Thanks

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thanks . really nice idea .

Wow, I just found one of my old Costra Rica site from 2006. I thought it was long lost.

Anyone know of a tool to scrape an entire site from the archive? I just bought an expired domain which has nearly 200 indexed pages. It was a wordpress blog. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Wow, I just found one of my old Costra Rica site from 2006. I thought it was long lost.

We should avoid black hat technique to promote websites. Nice info

Yes, I agree with you, We shouldn’t cheat by using black hat tools. We must SEO for our blog to develop . Great post, thanks

Black Hat techniques are not so useful so we should avoid Black Hat SEO techniques to promote website. Thanks for sharing this helpful information with us

Brilliant. I usually think of scraping as less than desirable … especially since I am an SEO copy writer, but I think dropped copy is an excellent idea. Thanks!

Technically you need to have a disclaimer that says this: “all information is licensed under the terms of GNU Free Documentation License.”
and just have that link to this:http://en.wikipedia.org

Another great article !

Thanks for posting

Great info on getting new content.

thenk you admin

thanks admin

thanks admin

Would love to know if this still works, can google’s algo detect that the content was in the index once before and devalue it??

Darn..all the content I find on different sites is already being used. I tried about.com but none of the content is deserted..anyone have any other sites they would like to share?

Great post, nice infrormation…………keep it up

Very nice scrap. Thanks a lot

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

Gotta love Eli! Keep up the great work!

Disagree. Get some *real* unique content with unique keywords and you hardly need any links, as you will rank very well for those keywords without any kind of promotion….

Another idea: Just search for dropped sites, then look at the waybackmachine. I’ve grabbed dropped domains with a PR4, re-created the articles and gone on from there…

really good idea. i dont know this tool so far i have checked with my website i got the result it fine but what i have to do with this result

congrat then who is luck then you man

Brilliant. I usually think of scraping as less than desirable … especially since I am an SEO copy writer, but I think dropped copy is an excellent idea. Thanks!

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Agree with you, simple idea.

This is a really stupid question but what language does the script need to be in?
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Interesting idea. The fact that the information is dropped does not mean that it’s not useful.

It’s a very interesting article. I will bookmark this page.

the way back machine can be fun to look at popular sites wayyy back when lol

I don’t think this method is good.

I just added this weblog to my feed reader, great stuff. Can’t get enough!

Thanks nice blog.

I don’t think this method is good.

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-Great article Eli … I’ll give this a try this week !
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Agree with you, very good idea

First, let’s learn about how nofollow inadvertently creates “SEO blackholes” which end up favoring less accurate mega-sites like About.com, Answers.com, and WikiPedia instead of more accurate, more detailed niche sites. From SEO Blackhat: Black Hole SEO employs a technique that causes the normal laws of Google Physics to break down.

I do agree with all of the ideas you have presented in your post. They’re really convincing and will definitely work. Still, the posts are too short for newbies. Could you please extend them a bit from next time? Thanks for the post.

I do think we can easily come up with a few fairly exciting images to do this out.

very useful article
regards

Black Hat techniques are not so useful so we should avoid Black Hat SEO techniques to promote website. Thanks for sharing this helpful information with us!

BlackHat may helps SEO just for a while but not as much as white hat SEO. If people use blackhat techniques there´ll definitely be consequences.

Interesting idea. The fact that the information is dropped does not mean that it’s not useful.

desert scraping is good post

you should add more posts like this

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this is indeed an awesome post and I like it every way

what about new seo ways

I am liking this post

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awesome approach

lets fight it together

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love it when a plan comes together

Thats cool,trying
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Don’t create subdomains to save on domain costs. - It’s less than ten dollars a year for fuck sake. Don’t risk trashing a $20/day site and its authority that it took you a year or two to establish to save $10/year.

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Some serious stuff but its definitely worth a read… Thanks Eli keep updating

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Thanks for this article, very interesting.

Interesting idea. The fact that the information is dropped does not mean that it’s not useful.

Truth is beautiful. Without doubt, and so are lies
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The thing is these guys are playing hide and seek with each other - trying to outwit each other. It’s not surprising they bumped into each other. Big kids playing with nuclear toys.

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Great post, very interesting article. I liked very much. Thanks for this.

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This could really be useful on your pay per click. I don’t know how to use this one. Good thing I saw your post. Good job on this.

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Looks like you are checking that the URL is no longer live, but the content could be relocated to another part of the site with a different permalink.

Truth is beautiful. Without doubt, and so are lies

Alan, how’s that strategy working for you, as far as search engine rankings?

this information is great for newbies to know