Political Humor and Conservative Satire Scraper Edition
I’m pleased to announce that the Planet’s Best Political Humor has a new and faithful scraper site that is publishing all of our posts in their entirety with all links intact. Obviously, I’m not going to sit idly by and allow this opportunity to go to waste. We are in a financial crisis after all, and when I grow up I would like to make money writing political humor.
While Problogger is busy milking noobs scratching at their clueless, empty heads about how to beat scraper sites by wasting endless hours sending DMCA cease and desist letters to shut down the sites that are giving them a free distribution network and hordes of free keyword targeted backlinks, I would rather take it as evidence that there is a conspiracy to launch RadioactiveLiberty.com to the top of Google for all conservative political humor related keyword searches. Thus, I will abuse the scraper to my advantage by cramming my own posts full of links to myself.
Perhaps there is some sort of Obama government jobs program where you can work at home scraping conservative satire blogs, but just how much recession humor is too much? Speaking of tea parties, did you know that the original tea party protest was a rejection of a big government bailout?
Global warming is dead, and if you knew your facts on global warming, and asked a few intelligent questions about global warming, then you would know that the climate change fairy is not real, so it won’t be on any global warming top 10 lists.
If Billy Mays were still alive today he would be hawking the RL Gear line of political gifts, or maybe he would be making a special offer to double your order of DemTools christmas gift ideas if you order in the next 12 minutes.
Hey Joe, where you going with those hair plugs in your hand? What you really need are some hot Sarah Palin pictures that may or may not be photoshopped by our own Les James.
Well, 20 internal links ought to be enough to count as abusive.
By the way, Obama is Stupid. Where’s my Nobel Peace Prize?
Category: Political Humor Tags: Conservative Satire, conspiracy, Global Warming, Humor, Political Humor, Scrapers
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Lol – I’m not sure but I think you missed a few links. What no room for Monster Energy Drinks?
Not sure how G will treat this but if the scrappers post it and it works we may have a new tactic in the arsenal. Do let me know Fiar.
Btw – thanks and hope all is well.
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Griz, it’s actually a good tactic (used more moderately). I just over did it for humor’s sake. No telling just HOW overboard I may have gone.
I don’t think the post is indexed, so they might not have liked it. If I search the first sentence in quotes, no results, so I don’t think Big G liked my strategy. The post title gives me 2 results, and that’s because the 5 newest posts are in the sidebar on every page.
Monster Camel Piss is another post.
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The feed for this post hasn’t gone out yet. I think it waits until tomorrow. So, it waits to be seen if the scraper picks this up.
I’m not sure but I think you missed a few links.
Well, the post wasn’t long enough to link to all 1,185 posts.
UPDATE: Just minutes after declaring that this has not hit the feed yet, it did. Every single post in the last week has been on this scraper site, so let’s see about taking the bait.
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I already put a copyright notice in my feeds but today I added the plugin RSS Footer which provided a backlink to the original content. Google is trying to phase out Page Rank but backlinks will always have some kind of a use I think.
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Blah, blah, blah, blah, and blah. So where’s the money? And don’t tell me Obama’s taking 90% of your pay too.
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20 internal links are not abusive.. but you have 23 links and not including Obama is stupid and Nobel peace price!
LOL….
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Totally lost me on this post. Does “scraper” mean scraping the bottom of the barrel, or does it mean laying down “scraps” of things written previously? When one is a “scraper” I see destitution, when one is a “scrapper” I see a rising star. Wouldn’t new scrapping to advance things be better than scraping up memories to remind everyone of incomplete efforts?
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Stephen, 0nly 20 were internal. 3 were external, but yes, the extra 2 weren’t counted in the “20.”
Eric, a scraper is a site that republishes the content of other sites, usually by automation. Most of the ones out there now use the rss feed of a site and then use a script to publish it to the site. There is one collecting our content, so I just did this experiment to see if their laziness can be to my benefit.
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BTW, Eric, I got your post and love it, but have been short on time this week.