SEO Tycoon

**ForrestCroce** · 10-04-2007, 02:44 AM

I noticed that it takes about half a week after I click publish before a new post to my blog shows up in the serps. This isn't a problem, since I don't update the site very often ... once a week is about average. Still, I've been looking into how much competition there is around a few obscure keywords, and found this in the process: workfriendly.net/browse/Office2003Blue/http/blog.forrestcroce.com//

Is this a good thing? Bad? Should I be concerned at all, block them with .htaccess? My site is perfectly work friendly, and without the images it's not going to create the impression I'm looking for. My site is about photography, and I don't want to waste thousands of words when I have a camera.

I've read horror stories about competing against your own content and such, but Google throws the copy into their supplemental index. Still, my feed is my most accessed page, and I'm sure this isn't the only scraper site. I've been breaking my posts into a teaser on the home page and the full thing, and I've been linking back to my site in the intro section to at least get something back from scrapers. These guys convert the outgoing links to point back to their site. Again, they're probably not alone.

How do other people with rss feeds deal with this?

**Learning Newbie** · 10-04-2007, 01:20 PM

That's not a scraper, dude. It's a reader. Big difference. That's why you publish a RSS feed, so people can read your content in other forums when it suits them.

I would leave it, and really I would be happy if stuff like this was showing up for my blog. It means you've got exposure and people are looking at you - but it also helps spread your message. Even without the pics you're a smart cookie, and if your text impresses anyone they'll be able to find you.

**gringo** · 10-04-2007, 01:32 PM

Isn't it just some weird front end/proxy that gives the impression you're working in a Word doc whilst surfing? My site is viewable also, and I haven't published any rss.

**Learning Newbie** · 10-04-2007, 01:55 PM

If you found this in a search someone linked to it. Take that as a complement. Gringo is right though, it's a bizarre kinda RSS reader.

They ain't bitin' yo' style.

Just a thought, but your site kind of isn't work safe. There are no naked people getting it on, but I'm supposed to be writing code, not looking at pretty pictures. They're not calling you porno or racist or whatever, it's just the name of a service. And it's a pretty good name. I mean we all need to slack off now and then, and that's what this thing lets you do. Well, I never saw anyone run Word in a browser before, but maybe when Microsoft turns it into a service this will be more plausible.

People talking about you is a good thing. And it's got your name at the bottom of the page and in the URL. This looks like a good thing to me.

**Johan007** · 10:39 AM

As long as the site honers the RSS by publishing the URL's.... I have seen nasty ones who don't.