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Re: Steal Content From Download Squad to get links!

Victor Agreda, Jr. — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 01:02:10 -0000

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)

Re: Steal Content From Download Squad to get links!

Victor Agreda, Jr. — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 01:02:10 -0000

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)

Re: Steal Content From Download Squad to get links!

Victor Agreda, Jr. — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 01:01:03 -0000

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.

Re: Steal Content From Download Squad to get links!

Victor Agreda, Jr. — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 01:01:03 -0000

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.

Re: Steal Content From Download Squad to get links!

Victor Agreda, Jr. — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 00:53:13 -0000

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.

Re: Steal Content From Download Squad to get links!

Victor Agreda, Jr. — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 00:53:13 -0000

Re: Steal Content From Download Squad to get links!

AndyBeard — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 00:14:01 -0000

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.

Re: Steal Content From Download Squad to get links!

AndyBeard — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 00:14:01 -0000

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.

Re: Steal Content From Download Squad to get links!

Victor Agreda Jr — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 23:23:15 -0000

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!

Re: Steal Content From Download Squad to get links!

Victor Agreda Jr — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 23:23:15 -0000

Thanks!

Re: Steal Content From Download Squad to get links!

Universos Virtuais — Sat, 04 Aug 2007 16:00:58 -0000

DownloadSquad are giving credit to those content stolers. IÂ´ve seen my content stolen twice ande is not a nice thing!

Have a great weekend!

Re: Steal Content From Download Squad to get links!

Universos Virtuais — Sat, 04 Aug 2007 16:00:58 -0000

DownloadSquad are giving credit to those content stolers. IÂ´ve seen my content stolen twice ande is not a nice thing!

Have a great weekend!

Re: Steal Content From Download Squad to get links!

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Re: Steal Content From Download Squad to get links!

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Re: Steal Content From Download Squad to get links!

Debo Hobo — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 17:18:19 -0000

Ya, ditto what they said

Re: Steal Content From Download Squad to get links!

Debo Hobo — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 17:18:19 -0000

Ya, ditto what they said

Re: Steal Content From Download Squad to get links!

Lord Matt — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 11:07:47 -0000

I wrote about this topic some time back. There is quite a bit you can do and almost all of it requires waiting.

http://isp.globallylocal.co...

Re: Steal Content From Download Squad to get links!

Lord Matt — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 11:07:47 -0000

I wrote about this topic some time back. There is quite a bit you can do and almost all of it requires waiting.

http://isp.globallylocal.co...

Re: Steal Content From Download Squad to get links!

Lord Matt — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 08:15:27 -0000

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.

Re: Steal Content From Download Squad to get links!

Lord Matt — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 08:15:27 -0000

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.

Re: Steal Content From Download Squad to get links!

rob — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 23:45:12 -0000

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.

Re: Steal Content From Download Squad to get links!

rob — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 23:45:12 -0000

Once again, one of the best posts I've read in a while.

Re: Steal Content From Download Squad to get links!

Bryan@OneMan'sGoal.Com — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 19:05:10 -0000

Thanks Andy!

Great article. I'm going to have to check into using Nofollow tags more often (like the post you linked to says).

Re: Steal Content From Download Squad to get links!

Bryan@OneMan'sGoal.Com — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 19:05:10 -0000

Thanks Andy!

Great article. I'm going to have to check into using Nofollow tags more often (like the post you linked to says).

Re: Steal Content From Download Squad to get links!

Jonathan Bailey — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 14:28:35 -0000

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!