I read that article earlier but never checked to see if they nofollowed the links. I guess I should have. That's head-smackingly dumb. I make it my policy to nofollow any link that has or may have infringing material on it specifically to discourage content theft while being free to talk about it and link to it.
I hope it was just an honest mistake and not one out of ignorance. It seems likely enough, everyone forgets...
Thank you for pointing this out!
Jonathan Bailey
· 2 years ago
I read that article earlier but never checked to see if they nofollowed the links. I guess I should have. That's head-smackingly dumb. I make it my policy to nofollow any link that has or may have infringing material on it specifically to discourage content theft while being free to talk about it and link to it.
I hope it was just an honest mistake and not one out of ignorance. It seems likely enough, everyone forgets...
Thank you for pointing this out!
Bryan@OneMan'sGoal.Com
· 2 years ago
Thanks Andy!
Great article. I'm going to have to check into using Nofollow tags more often (like the post you linked to says).
Bryan@OneMan'sGoal.Com
· 2 years ago
Thanks Andy!
Great article. I'm going to have to check into using Nofollow tags more often (like the post you linked to says).
rob
· 2 years ago
Great write-up Andy. DownloadSquad is certainly a well known and well respected site, but it just goes to show that not everyone's up on the basics (I'm sure I'm guilty of it too, but hell I'm still learnning).
Once again, one of the best posts I've read in a while.
rob
· 2 years ago
Great write-up Andy. DownloadSquad is certainly a well known and well respected site, but it just goes to show that not everyone's up on the basics (I'm sure I'm guilty of it too, but hell I'm still learnning).
Once again, one of the best posts I've read in a while.
Lord Matt
· 2 years ago
nofollow as a minimum when linking to theft. I'd go so far as to say redirector page and javascript too if possible. But at least nofollow.
Actually I'm to lazy and just give the URL unlinked.
Lord Matt
· 2 years ago
nofollow as a minimum when linking to theft. I'd go so far as to say redirector page and javascript too if possible. But at least nofollow.
Actually I'm to lazy and just give the URL unlinked.
Lord Matt
· 2 years ago
I wrote about this topic some time back. There is quite a bit you can do and almost all of it requires waiting.
Everytime I come on your blog, I find great information. I really wanted to say that today 'cause I never have the time to comment. So I stopped by and left you a praise comment fast. Keep up the good work. All you do here always serve me in a way or another in my blogging activity. If you want to know, I currently make $1,500 to $3,000 every month since september 2006, and I operate a blog called blogadollar dot com wich is about "make a lot of real money online" and aims to be a REAL-LIFE case study, where I reveal all day after day. If you want to see it, go to blogadollar dot com.
BlogaDollar.com
· 2 years ago
Everytime I come on your blog, I find great information. I really wanted to say that today 'cause I never have the time to comment. So I stopped by and left you a praise comment fast. Keep up the good work. All you do here always serve me in a way or another in my blogging activity. If you want to know, I currently make $1,500 to $3,000 every month since september 2006, and I operate a blog called blogadollar dot com wich is about "make a lot of real money online" and aims to be a REAL-LIFE case study, where I reveal all day after day. If you want to see it, go to blogadollar dot com.
Universos Virtuais
· 2 years ago
DownloadSquad are giving credit to those content stolers. I´ve seen my content stolen twice ande is not a nice thing!
Have a great weekend!
Universos Virtuais
· 2 years ago
DownloadSquad are giving credit to those content stolers. I´ve seen my content stolen twice ande is not a nice thing!
Have a great weekend!
Victor Agreda Jr
· 2 years ago
Hey Andy, thanks for the tip. In fact, Download Squad was launched a couple of years ago, and at the time splogs weren't much of an issue for us. Please understand that our bloggers don't code our backend. In fact, Weblogs is now a completely different division of AOL from Blogsmith, and even before the acquisition our developers rarely blogged. In any event, you make a great point that I will follow up on immediately.
I think you'd be surprised at the credentials our bloggers bring to the table, and the rigor we employ before bringing them aboard. It's pretty easy to slam people you've never met, but please be aware they don't create nor can they modify the CMS directly.
Thanks!
AndyBeard
· 2 years ago
Victor you can really tell Jason Calacanis isn't running the show any more.
If I mention Jason on my blog or Mahalo, either Jason or one of his employees will be checking me out within 24 hours.
I linked through to Download Squad 6 weeks ago, and no reaction, and no correction.
You can't honestly tell me that the Blogsmith platform doesn't allow you to edit the HTML of a post. That is all that is required to add rel="nofollow"
Your claim that this is a limitation of the blogging platform doesn't really make your statement about credentials... credible.
Victor Agreda, Jr.
· 2 years ago
Hey Andy, I see what you mean. You're right, we should have added nofollow to those links. Instead, we're using lawyers to shut the sploggers down.
As far as stroking your ego in a timely manner, we've got better things to do.
Blaring Pay-per-post ads on your page do little for your own credibility.
(huh, 3rd time I've tried to respond to you comment)
Victor Agreda Jr
· 2 years ago
Hey Andy, thanks for the tip. In fact, Download Squad was launched a couple of years ago, and at the time splogs weren't much of an issue for us. Please understand that our bloggers don't code our backend. In fact, Weblogs is now a completely different division of AOL from Blogsmith, and even before the acquisition our developers rarely blogged. In any event, you make a great point that I will follow up on immediately.
I think you'd be surprised at the credentials our bloggers bring to the table, and the rigor we employ before bringing them aboard. It's pretty easy to slam people you've never met, but please be aware they don't create nor can they modify the CMS directly.
Thanks!
AndyBeard
· 2 years ago
Victor you can really tell Jason Calacanis isn't running the show any more.
If I mention Jason on my blog or Mahalo, either Jason or one of his employees will be checking me out within 24 hours.
I linked through to Download Squad 6 weeks ago, and no reaction, and no correction.
You can't honestly tell me that the Blogsmith platform doesn't allow you to edit the HTML of a post. That is all that is required to add rel="nofollow"
Your claim that this is a limitation of the blogging platform doesn't really make your statement about credentials... credible.
Victor Agreda, Jr.
· 2 years ago
Hey Andy, I see what you mean. You're right, we should have added nofollow to those links. Instead, we're using lawyers to shut the sploggers down.
As far as stroking your ego in a timely manner, we've got better things to do.
Blaring Pay-per-post ads on your page do little for your own credibility.
(huh, 3rd time I've tried to respond to you comment)
Victor Agreda, Jr.
· 2 years ago
Ah, I see what you mean. We should have added nofollow to the links that went to the splogs. Yeah, good point. However, you may know that we have a few lawyers at AOL, and they do a pretty good job of shutting these guys down (note to self: shut those guys down tomorrow). As for the comment side, the CMS doesn't allow us to add the tag to each comment, so when we get a spammy link in a comment, we just delete. But you're right, we can indeed edit the HTML in a post. Sorry about the confusion there. That's not to say we won't use the tag in the future, but I can count the number of splogs we link to in our posts on one hand.
And believe it or not, but most of our bloggers have better things to do than stroke your ego. Sorry we didn't catch you giving us advice sooner, but, y'know, we might have seen all the Pay-Per-Post crap on your pages and just filed you under "SPAM BLOG" and moved on.
Victor Agreda, Jr.
· 2 years ago
Ah, I see what you mean. We should have added nofollow to the links that went to the splogs. Yeah, good point. However, you may know that we have a few lawyers at AOL, and they do a pretty good job of shutting these guys down (note to self: shut those guys down tomorrow). As for the comment side, the CMS doesn't allow us to add the tag to each comment, so when we get a spammy link in a comment, we just delete. But you're right, we can indeed edit the HTML in a post. Sorry about the confusion there. That's not to say we won't use the tag in the future, but I can count the number of splogs we link to in our posts on one hand.
And believe it or not, but most of our bloggers have better things to do than stroke your ego. Sorry we didn't catch you giving us advice sooner, but, y'know, we might have seen all the Pay-Per-Post crap on your pages and just filed you under "SPAM BLOG" and moved on.
Victor Agreda, Jr.
· 2 years ago
Hey Andy, I see what you mean. You're right, we should have added nofollow to those links. Instead, we're using lawyers to shut the sploggers down.
As far as stroking your ego in a timely manner, we've got better things to do.
Blaring Pay-per-post ads on your page do little for your own credibility.
Victor Agreda, Jr.
· 2 years ago
Hey Andy, I see what you mean. You're right, we should have added nofollow to those links. Instead, we're using lawyers to shut the sploggers down.
As far as stroking your ego in a timely manner, we've got better things to do.
Blaring Pay-per-post ads on your page do little for your own credibility.
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I hope it was just an honest mistake and not one out of ignorance. It seems likely enough, everyone forgets...
Thank you for pointing this out!
I hope it was just an honest mistake and not one out of ignorance. It seems likely enough, everyone forgets...
Thank you for pointing this out!
Great article. I'm going to have to check into using Nofollow tags more often (like the post you linked to says).
Great article. I'm going to have to check into using Nofollow tags more often (like the post you linked to says).
Once again, one of the best posts I've read in a while.
Once again, one of the best posts I've read in a while.
Actually I'm to lazy and just give the URL unlinked.
Actually I'm to lazy and just give the URL unlinked.
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http://isp.globallylocal.com/item/2007/06/when-...
great information. I really wanted to say that today 'cause I never have
the time to comment. So I stopped by and left you a praise comment fast.
Keep up the good work.
All you do here always serve me in a way or another in my blogging
activity. If you want to know, I currently make $1,500 to $3,000 every
month since september 2006, and I operate a blog called blogadollar dot
com wich is about "make a lot of
real money online" and aims to be a REAL-LIFE case study, where I
reveal all day after day. If you want to see it, go to blogadollar dot com.
great information. I really wanted to say that today 'cause I never have
the time to comment. So I stopped by and left you a praise comment fast.
Keep up the good work.
All you do here always serve me in a way or another in my blogging
activity. If you want to know, I currently make $1,500 to $3,000 every
month since september 2006, and I operate a blog called blogadollar dot
com wich is about "make a lot of
real money online" and aims to be a REAL-LIFE case study, where I
reveal all day after day. If you want to see it, go to blogadollar dot com.
Have a great weekend!
Have a great weekend!
I think you'd be surprised at the credentials our bloggers bring to the table, and the rigor we employ before bringing them aboard. It's pretty easy to slam people you've never met, but please be aware they don't create nor can they modify the CMS directly.
Thanks!
If I mention Jason on my blog or Mahalo, either Jason or one of his employees will be checking me out within 24 hours.
I linked through to Download Squad 6 weeks ago, and no reaction, and no correction.
You can't honestly tell me that the Blogsmith platform doesn't allow you to edit the HTML of a post. That is all that is required to add rel="nofollow"
Your claim that this is a limitation of the blogging platform doesn't really make your statement about credentials... credible.
As far as stroking your ego in a timely manner, we've got better things to do.
Blaring Pay-per-post ads on your page do little for your own credibility.
(huh, 3rd time I've tried to respond to you comment)
I think you'd be surprised at the credentials our bloggers bring to the table, and the rigor we employ before bringing them aboard. It's pretty easy to slam people you've never met, but please be aware they don't create nor can they modify the CMS directly.
Thanks!
If I mention Jason on my blog or Mahalo, either Jason or one of his employees will be checking me out within 24 hours.
I linked through to Download Squad 6 weeks ago, and no reaction, and no correction.
You can't honestly tell me that the Blogsmith platform doesn't allow you to edit the HTML of a post. That is all that is required to add rel="nofollow"
Your claim that this is a limitation of the blogging platform doesn't really make your statement about credentials... credible.
As far as stroking your ego in a timely manner, we've got better things to do.
Blaring Pay-per-post ads on your page do little for your own credibility.
(huh, 3rd time I've tried to respond to you comment)
And believe it or not, but most of our bloggers have better things to do than stroke your ego. Sorry we didn't catch you giving us advice sooner, but, y'know, we might have seen all the Pay-Per-Post crap on your pages and just filed you under "SPAM BLOG" and moved on.
And believe it or not, but most of our bloggers have better things to do than stroke your ego. Sorry we didn't catch you giving us advice sooner, but, y'know, we might have seen all the Pay-Per-Post crap on your pages and just filed you under "SPAM BLOG" and moved on.
As far as stroking your ego in a timely manner, we've got better things to do.
Blaring Pay-per-post ads on your page do little for your own credibility.
As far as stroking your ego in a timely manner, we've got better things to do.
Blaring Pay-per-post ads on your page do little for your own credibility.