: SEO -- what's the deal with the enthusiasm for data scraping? So far, I can figure out only 2 major reasons for why SEO specialists would want to data-scrape a website: 1) Scrape competitors'

@Nimeshi995

I won't go into every reason why they do but rather what they target. Scrappers may scrap everything while some will target certain criteria.

Business Data


Telephone numbers
Email addresses
Address details


Link Spam


Comment Spam


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Do follow or no follow
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TLD Type
Domain PR

Forum Spam


Profiles with URL link enabled
Signatures links enabled
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TLD Type
Domain PR

Social Bookmarks Spam


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Domain PR



Content Harvest


Data


Niche content
Social data
Keyword data
Whois data

Backlink Data (not link spam)


Domain PR data
No follow / do follow data
Age of link data



Just from the information I've provided you should be able to establish hundreds of reasons why. Data = Money, it is estimated that Google makes over 0 each year from just one user who regular uses Google, so in otherwords, the answer is MONEY.

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