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Re: How We Increased Our Twitter Following By Over 5000% In 30 Days and Why It Actually Matters

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Re: Is web scraping illegal? Depends on what the meaning of the word is is.

neatville — Thu, 18 Jul 2013 15:14:02 -0000

I think scraping web content is fascinating and fun. I'd hate it if it truly became illegal - I think websites should use services to protect themselves from scrapers. If Google thinks something is duplicate content, then it definitely sounds unfair if that will impact the site that was scraped. So, I guess it depends on *how much* is being scraped. Automatically gathering data isn't just helpful for the site owners, but the visitors too because data can be presented in different, meaningful ways. I do understand that depending on how its done it can hurt the site in different ways (scraping is a form of website traffic! can obviously slow things down).

Re: Business Rx: How can Distil build a market for a service people don’t realize they need?

Lorri O'Brien — Thu, 16 May 2013 11:26:21 -0000

Intriguing company!!

Re: Amazon Cracks Down on Price Scraping

bob — Sat, 20 Apr 2013 19:00:03 -0000

not my bot ;)

Re: How We Increased Our Twitter Following By Over 5000% In 30 Days and Why It Actually Matters

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Re: How We Increased Our Twitter Following By Over 5000% In 30 Days and Why It Actually Matters

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Re: The Dirty Secret About Robots.txt

DataViz — Tue, 19 Feb 2013 16:06:24 -0000

I can't imagine a legitimate interpretation of this chart other than: "We re-classified all scaper requests as legitimate."

Re: The Dirty Secret About Robots.txt

page1my.com — Fri, 15 Feb 2013 13:14:55 -0000

Thank you so much for this info. with panda and penguin and all the robots we really have to think of many things. Thanks for sharing.

Re: The Dirty Secret About Robots.txt

SeoArcher — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 15:08:28 -0000

It's so hard to keep up with everything technology brings to the table. Mostly good but some stuff gives you a major headache.

Re: The Dirty Secret About Robots.txt

Tom little — Fri, 25 Jan 2013 22:56:31 -0000

I am having the same issue. Does anyone know how to stop this with php on a windows server? My website is getting too much traffic. :(

Re: How We Increased Our Twitter Following By Over 5000% In 30 Days and Why It Actually Matters

Douglas Crets — Thu, 13 Dec 2012 10:21:25 -0000

This is really interesting.

Re: How We Increased Our Twitter Following By Over 5000% In 30 Days and Why It Actually Matters

Jake Burgess — Mon, 26 Nov 2012 13:26:14 -0000

@asdf: Their twitter URL is: https://twitter.com/distil

Re: How We Increased Our Twitter Following By Over 5000% In 30 Days and Why It Actually Matters

Bradley — Fri, 02 Nov 2012 00:33:03 -0000

I found twiends to be the best so far for growing although I find it can simply be people following for seeds then un following. Which seems costly for a subscriber

Re: How We Increased Our Twitter Following By Over 5000% In 30 Days and Why It Actually Matters

Moo — Thu, 01 Nov 2012 16:31:39 -0000

Where is +1 button? :)

Re: How We Increased Our Twitter Following By Over 5000% In 30 Days and Why It Actually Matters

Naysawn Naderi — Thu, 01 Nov 2012 15:19:32 -0000

Thanks for the post. Like you I thought that auto-followers were mostly BS and would get you people who were basically worthless. If people are auto-following back, how useful can they be?

Do you have any data discussing on the amount of users who clicked through to your site from the twitter follow email?

Re: How We Increased Our Twitter Following By Over 5000% In 30 Days and Why It Actually Matters

Asdf — Thu, 01 Nov 2012 15:09:29 -0000

So what is your tweetaccount?
Because I want to know if you post usefull stuff.

Re: How We Increased Our Twitter Following By Over 5000% In 30 Days and Why It Actually Matters

Anonymous — Thu, 01 Nov 2012 14:38:54 -0000

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Re: The Dirty Secret About Robots.txt

Marc — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 17:52:52 -0000

I think you guys have a fantastic service.

I'd just like to point out though that around Jan, Feb, March 2012, there were large spikes in traffic for sites (unusually more) as Google were doing algorithm changes right before Penguin hit on April 24th.

I'd be interested to see the traffic trends post april.

Re: Content Theft Could Be Killing Your Site: How to Stop Scrapers

Distil — Fri, 21 Sep 2012 17:23:35 -0000

Here's a post worth checking out from Mike & Troy at Top Marketing Strategies. Disclosure: They did quote our CEO, Rami Essaid, but more importantly, their article is indicative of the growing challenges business face from web scraping, content theft, and data harvesting.

Re: The Dirty Secret About Robots.txt

Distil — Tue, 18 Sep 2012 11:50:04 -0000

Hi MJ - Thanks for the note. We should definitely talk. Our network has the ability to identify what content is being accessed and identify and block any type of automated and/or malicious threats that try to duplicate that content. We'll send you an email to connect.

Re: The Dirty Secret About Robots.txt

M J Horn — Mon, 03 Sep 2012 06:05:41 -0000

Sounds really interesting Andrew. Does the system include (or could be engineered to) identification of 'image' download and by who and / or where downloaded images have then been uploaded to? Likewise PDF's, articles etc. If so - we would be very interested to talk to you.

Re: Top 10 Scraping Tools Hackers Use to Steal Your Content

Distil — Fri, 31 Aug 2012 09:46:24 -0000

Fremble - Thanks for the comment. While I agree that publicly available data can be free, web scraping is also used against many data sources that are not free or have restrictions, include those behind logins/paywalls. It's not all free. Nor is the bandwidth and server cycles companies have to pay for to support the demands of aggressive web scraping.

Re: Top 10 Scraping Tools Hackers Use to Steal Your Content

fremble — Mon, 25 Jun 2012 22:44:56 -0000

data is free