Keyword Scraping - Get a Life

Well, I've done some research and I've found that the black hat method used to scrape my content is called keyword scraping. What I haven't figured out is how publishing it in the way it has been done is helpful - unless again, it is about pulling traffic from legitimate websites in an effort to rank higher for those words on their "real" website - which may or may not be populated through autoblogging - *sigh*

Keyword scraping is the process of using a php script to grab keyword phrases from blogs and other content that ranks well for those particular keywords. Some use a keyword scraper to find out which keywords their competition is using and then try to optimize with those phrases - one can do some liberal Google searching to get an idea of which keyword phrases to use, but some people feel this is a waste of time. Why bother when your competition has done the work for you?

This incident has me puzzled - my name is not THAT popular - it just happens to be on every page of my site via the author tags and domain, as well as on other content across the web.  As far as a keyword phrase goes, my name won't do much for them, but they picked up other phrasing as well.

Oh well. No matter.  All will out.

If you got here because you were trying to found out how to do keyword scraping, check out my previous blog post and have a look at this asinine person's results, then do yourself a favor and rethink it.

Keyword scraping is for losers!