Did a lot of cleanup all over the place...

...Including Websites Knotwork's little Niche of Niches experiment.

Yes, it is a "scraper site". It is just a small one, and it gives me a timeslice of what was going on in various keywords at the time of the scraping. I prefer that because I can take as long as I like to thoroughly appreciate the timeslice.

The links were scraped from Yahoo Search, and so far I am surprised at the quality of them really. Yes I see some repeats that might be caused by the use of heavy-handed "SEO" practices but really not too bad. Not like the bad old days, when they were spewing off-topic stuff everywhere. This 'targetted spam' kind of stuff at least looks from the anchor-text and descriptions as if it might be OK stuff. Maybe it is just the SEO-spammed stuff that clawed its way to the top though. It is going to be interesting to see as I delve further into it to find out what is out there. While re-writing the blurbs too I expect, although supposedly part of why scraping was so popular was that it actually concentrates the keywords or something. When I checked out Traffic Hurricane I was amazed at how MSN and Yahoo used to love that stuff. I guess Google must've loved it for a while too as fortunes were made with it.

I have also defined a NON_CONTENT_PAGE macro and have been putting it into my "menu" or "stub" pages as I go along. All it does it turn off AdSense, but as a result the default Pagan banners are now on all the NON_CONTENT_PAGE pages. Oops, I think maybe some Internet Marketing folk might prefer seeing AdSense ads to seeing weirdo Potteresque stuff. ;) :)

Been up for days, ought to try to sleep I suppose... but wait, what the heck is sleep? :)

-MarkM-