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by mkr-hn
4489 days ago
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The difference isn't subtle. There's this site called "News360" that sends a lot of traffic to my site every time I post something. It copies the post in full. Apparently it's a popular app for iPhone and Google Play. This is an aggregator. Google copies my site so it can send people to my writing. This is a search engine. Then there's the legion of sites that copy my stuff and send no traffic even though they link back. Most of these are scrapers, meaning they're adswill garbage dumps that get no traffic after recent algorithm updates by Google, but some are attempts to build new aggregators like Huffington Post or that News360 thing. The scrapers are a nuisance, but don't harm me in any way. Google is free, relevant traffic. Aggregators find an audience and provide useful content to them with credit, probably using the RSS feed I publish for that purpose. |
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