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Went Hot: July 28, 2007 - 7:22 pm
Posted By: Jill 494 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.highrankings.com)
Category: Blogging
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Went Hot: July 28, 2007 - 7:22 pm
Posted By: Jill 494 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.highrankings.com)
Category: Blogging
7 Comments
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This was great. Just tell me we were in the good category, hopefully!
I know what you mean, Jill. I've had my whole site copied on occasion, plus blog posts. It's the reason why I limit the size of posts in my RSS feeds.
Love it! Made me laugh but also made me take a step back and ensure I am in the "good" category.
Danny, I think your sites have been good. But unfortunately (for me!) some of the references from your sites become the authority that others link to instead of mine. That's not your fault, and really a testament to the popularity of SEL, etc.!
An update to the article while I'm here:
When I checked yesterday, Google had finally re-indexed it with my slight modifications and it did pop up to #3 for unavailable_after. (Even beating out the SEL reference ;) With only WMW and SearchEngineJournal ahead of it.
What a great article. I really enjoyed this and Sphunn it. I'm a little fuzzy, however, on the thinking behind your #6:
"6. Bad: People who blog on the topic and then Digg their OWN post instead of the original.
I almost put this in the “sleazy” category, but I guess it’s sort of borderline. It seems to me if the topic is Digg-worthy, it should be the original article or post that gets Digged. Unfortunately, that’s often not the case."
If your original article was covering a number of topics, and only one of them was the unavailable_after feature, would it really be bad for someone to write a linkbait piece focused solely on that feature? Perhaps their piece would offer more in-depth coverage of the issue than an article that was covering diverse subjects? I'm not sure how you could enforce linkbaiters linking to the first place they read news, rather than writing their own spin on it.
For example, if CNN, MSN and NBC all published breaking news on a story, wouldn't it be rather hard to determine which one of them was the originator of the piece?
Am I just not getting what you mean?
Miriam
Good point, Miriam. I was thinking more along the lines of those that really didn't add much value beyond the original article's thoughts.
I just read the article and I'm sorry to hear about your experience. That really sucks, and I only say that from the knowledge. People say "get over it" but it's just not cool getting ripped off. #7 has happened to me so many times - especially on digg - that I've lost count. And yet, you're not supposed to submit your own links, which, even if they rarely rose higher would at least provide Some protection.