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2 Coding-free Ways to Extract Content From Websites to Boost Web Traffic
Content is most basic way to attract traffic — w ithout a certain amount of quality content, neither Google nor visitors would be interested in your website because there is little value they can get browsing it.
There are 2 main coding-free solutions for extracting content from websites to build your content base: choose one or a combination of them and have a try!
Extract content from websites using web scraping tools
Web scraping is the process of extracting information from a website without using an API to obtain the content, but you do need to follow the website’s robots.txt requirements for avoiding unauthorized activities.
These are some of the major pros and cons of web scraping.
Pros:
- You can scrape trending and well-rated content from various platforms with one web scraping tool. This can help you save your time and money to deal with multiple content aggregators.
- You can scrape content along with audiences’ reactions such as likes, views, and shares if there are any. The content and reaction data are valuable for making your content matrix.
- You can scrape content from competitors’ sites for…
