I wouldn't suggest AUTOMATED scraping
Here's what I do
I find the TOP blogs in my target niche
I 'scrape' their content urls using sitemap.xml
I run each url through SEO tools
I find KEYWORDS that have LOW difficulty but DECENT traffic
I find low difficulty MONEY PAGES (ie., these pages convert traffic to cash - the rest are info pages)
I use software to find BEST Keyword combinations for all the pages I'm going to reverse engineer
I pull the TOP ranking sites for each target keyword I'll be building pages for
I REWRITE REVERSE ENGINEERED CONTENT (you should use this checklist for stuff you rewrite)
- More engaging the the original
- More complete since I pull info from other sources
- Higher value since I include pictures, infographics, youtube videos
- I interlink using target keywords to my money pages
- Each post is at least 500 to 1000 words longer than the top result
- REMEMBER: The point is to come up with a BETTER EXPERIENCE for your visitors compared to your sources
The secret? For every target niche site, use this GOLDEN FORMULA
4 to 10 (depending on how heavy the competition is) INFO pages to MONEY pages
Minimum of 25 to 50 pages per niche site - the more competitive, the more pages you'll need to rank
Another secret?
Once you finish one niche site, move on to another. By the time your first site starts getting lots of organic traffic, you'll have many sites on their way to getting traffic
The name of the game? WORK ONCE but EARN MANY TIMES OVER from that same work. Passive income.