{"id":12880,"date":"2015-03-18T19:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-03-18T19:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/3312960"},"modified":"2015-03-18T19:00:00","modified_gmt":"2015-03-18T19:00:00","slug":"screen-scraping-bots-by-distil-cloudexpo-cloud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/screen-scraping-bots-by-distil-cloudexpo-cloud\/","title":{"rendered":"Screen Scraping Bots By @DISTIL | @CloudExpo [#Cloud]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Like DDoS attacks, aggressive screen scraping can create huge spikes in traffic, cause brownouts, and even take you down for extended periods of time. Web scraping doesn\u2019t make the headlines and most people aren\u2019t aware of the damage it can cause to your website\u2019s success.<br \/>\nThieves and unauthorized content aggregators use screen scraping bots and cheap labor to steal your content, repackage it for sale, or place it on unauthorized sites \u2013 all of which hurt your SEO, negatively impact your brand, and reduce your ability to monetize your intellectual property. Below I\u2019ve outlined just a few of the many ways that screen scraping can impact a company and its website.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/3312960\" >read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like DDoS attacks, aggressive screen scraping can create huge spikes in traffic, cause brownouts, and even take you down for extended periods of time. Web scraping doesn&rsquo;t make the headlines and most people aren&rsquo;t aware of the damage it can cause to your website&rsquo;s success.<br \/>\nThieves and unauthorized content aggregators use screen scraping bots and cheap labor to steal your content, repackage it for sale, or place it on unauthorized sites &ndash; all of which hurt your SEO, negatively impact your brand, and reduce your ability to monetize your intellectual property. Below I&rsquo;ve outlined just a few of the many ways that screen scraping can impact a company and its website.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/3312960\" target=\"_blank\">read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12880"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12880\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12881,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12880\/revisions\/12881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}