Can the speed of a site help against scrapers?

[Travis]

The speed of a site (pages) is now one, among hundred of other factors that Google is taking in consideration.

This might not change drastically the ranking of a site, but, I am wondering if site speed can help against sites which are scraping our content?

Usually, scraper sites are ran on cheap hosts, in Asia. So, I "guess", that "our" sites are running faster. May be this can help...

[edited by: Robert_Charlton at 7:49 pm (utc) on Apr 26, 2018]
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[keyplyr]

Can the speed of a site help against scrapers?

Not IMO

[robzilla]

Mostly they'll be able to scrape your site faster ;-)

Generally speaking, anything you do to improve your site will be ammunition against scraper sites and other SERP threats.

[Travis]

Mostly they'll be able to scrape your site faster ;-)

May be if we deliver too much data too fast ,we can make them explode, like The Hulk in the first film.

[keyplyr]

Scrapers can effectively be stopped but it takes diligent effort.

Security headers can stop cross-domain scripting, remote iframing and reverse tracking making your content very difficult to hijack.

IPs and UAs can be blocked. Abnormal headers and behavior can be evaluated. Hotlinking can be stopped.

Manual scraping is difficult to identify in real time, but using tracer gifs can quickly locate stolen content after the fact.

Helpful links:

Search Engine Spider & User Agent ID Forum [webmasterworld.com]

Server Farm IP Ranges [webmasterworld.com]

Blocking Methods [webmasterworld.com]

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