What To Do With All Them Scrapings

Wednesday, 21 January 2009

There comes a point where you must stop scraping for the sake of scraping and actually do something creative/profitable/useful!

Some ideas for your scrapings, both good and bad, and in no particular order:

  • Create a search box and backend for one of your sites. Scraping as you go if it has not yet been scraped. Depending on your sources and how you process the scrapings, you might just be able to answer everyones searchs, and sty (kinda)under the radar!
  • Create an online database of resources and stuff to do with a cetain keyword. For example scrape videos to build a niche library and encourage rating and commenting to give it some value. Myabe even have users suggest sources!
  • Create an ebook and become a hope peddling guru with the latest known secret to making millions of dollars per second with out having to do anything. They just buy the ebook and instantly become rich, famous and successful. (then after 12 months, sell it again as version 2.0!!!
  • Create tools to monitor shit like your current position in the serps, analyze certain keywords in the serps and whatever else your fancy coding arse can be bothered churning out. Sell access to it as SEO tools. Charge for access to more tools. Have cunstomers send in their hottest and old enough daughter. (has potential for a 2.0 version too!)
  • Churn out page after page of keyword rich scrapings along side plenty of linkbuilding and cloaking to cash in on affiliate promotions. Its easy to rank for long tailed keywords, and search traffic usualy converts better, find some profitable keywords in any niche, and own em with junk sites!
  • Wrap it up in any old template, register a 99c .info domain and sell it on ebay as a live and established website, with 3 months free hosting, then only $50 per month after. They can move the site any time, but they must pay $95 to cover our good bye email.
  • Warp it up in brown paper, give them to your friends and family for christmas, birthdays, weddings etc then wonder why they think you are stoned or something!

Dah, I'm just weird today!