David Peralty emailed me the other day to inform me that this website is scraping my content. The website is scraping content from BloggingTips and a few others (including Daily Blog Tips). Blog scraping is a topic I have touched upon before at BloggingTips however it’s something which still plagues bloggers today and unfortunately, the more successful your blog becomes, the more likely it is going to be scraped.
Before I talk about why you shouldn’t get too stressed about blog scrapers stealing your content, it’s best to explain what blog scraping is…
If you’re constantly surfing the web looking for solid blog SEO content like me, you’ll notice a plethora of information and “top lists” on virtually every related source. Most of these lists are highly recommended, but in my opinion there are a few vital changes you can make that are not usually not listed.
1. H1 Tags for Titles
I cannot express enough how well this has worked on several of the projects I am intimately involved in. One of the major projects I work on is a wiki site with…
Online information sellers are changing the home business landscape, allowing many more to attain the dream of working from home than ever before. I’ve seen it first-hand, in the following ways.
Instant Feedback: The beauty of online information products is the gratification you receive from instant feedback. If you want to know about a particular business opportunity, you can almost always find feedback on it on the web.
For example, one of the most popular make money online opportunities promoted are paid surveys. I typed “take surveys from home” and…
Today sees the launch of Magnify, a new website which lets create your own video community which pulls videos from a range of sources including YouTube, MetaCafe and Revver. Users get their own subdomain on the site and receive 50% of the ad revenue from their community (for example, I quickly created bloggingtips.magnify.net). At the moment the service integrates with the Moveable Type and Wordpress blog platforms.
Here is a quote from todays press release (click here for full press release)
A new era of multimedia blogging begins today with the release of…
David Peralty, owner of the popular blog ‘Extra For Every Publisher‘, announced last week that he is the new Community Manager for PicApp. He dropped me an email the other day and asked if I could have a look at this new picture resource site.
So what is PicApp?
PicApp is a photo resource site which has thousands of very high quality images which are available for bloggers to add to their blog posts for free (or to use their term, high-end stock photography images). Most high quality image galleries (eg. Getty) charge for…
