Comments on: Ezine Articles Scraper http://www.blackhat-seo.com/2005/ezine-articles-scraper/ rants from the dark side of marketing Sun, 30 May 2010 07:17:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Stephen http://www.blackhat-seo.com/2005/ezine-articles-scraper/#comment-292 Stephen Thu, 15 Dec 2005 11:43:47 +0000 http://www.blackhat-seo.com/2005/ezine-articles-scraper/#comment-292 They now have an Alexa cheat script as well... Description: This will increase your Alexa ranking by emulating the Alexa toolbar through a proxy list. Dependencies: PHP, cURL support Comments: For some odd reason, some webhosts do not compile php with cURL enabled so I may consider changing it to use phps built in fopen function. Download: http://www.onlinehoster.com/downloads/Alexa-rank-cheater.zip They now have an Alexa cheat script as well…

Description: This will increase your Alexa ranking by emulating the Alexa toolbar through a proxy list.
Dependencies: PHP, cURL support
Comments: For some odd reason, some webhosts do not compile php with cURL enabled so I may consider changing it to use phps built in fopen function.
Download: http://www.onlinehoster.com/downloads/Alexa-rank-cheater.zip

]]> By: Macro King http://www.blackhat-seo.com/2005/ezine-articles-scraper/#comment-254 Macro King Sun, 11 Dec 2005 06:59:46 +0000 http://www.blackhat-seo.com/2005/ezine-articles-scraper/#comment-254 Oh crap... this thing actually strips all the author info out of the articles. I know this is Black Hat SEO and all, but that's a bit too black hat for me. Purposefully stripping out the only return the people who wrote those articles actually get... Yikes. Though I suppose if you were going to implement this behind a cloaked site so you could have craploads of "real" content to spider... Hmmmmmmm... no humans see that, spiders don't care about author bios... then again you're still robbing the authors of the ability to get their OWN sites spidered by the spiders at your site. OK so for a second there I'd found a way to rationalize this. I think I just lost it. Oh crap… this thing actually strips all the author info out of the articles. I know this is Black Hat SEO and all, but that’s a bit too black hat for me. Purposefully stripping out the only return the people who wrote those articles actually get…

Yikes.

Though I suppose if you were going to implement this behind a cloaked site so you could have craploads of “real” content to spider…

Hmmmmmmm… no humans see that, spiders don’t care about author bios… then again you’re still robbing the authors of the ability to get their OWN sites spidered by the spiders at your site.

OK so for a second there I’d found a way to rationalize this. I think I just lost it.

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