At some point or another as a blogger you will almost certainly have to deal with scraper sites. For those that don’t know, these are sites that take your content and republish it as their own, often (in fact mostly) without properly attributing the source.
As a scraper, the easiest way of getting content is from an RSS feed, and there are plenty of plugins for popular content management systems that allow you to pick up an RSS feed and convert it into a post which you then pass off as your own. The plan then is to rank higher for key search terms than those sites you are taking the content from. This type of content theft is copyright infringement, and in an ideal world where everyone plays fair it shouldn’t be happening, but it does, so use it to your advantage and you can even make money from it.
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