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Great dialog Lisa. We've been following this case since the beginning, as has our law firm. This is not the end of anything, nor the beginning. To the We BuildPages readers, we invite you to read up on what Lee Odden was tweeting.
What aimClear practices is quite a far throw from encouraging a precious young person to take her own life. We're closer to Anne Landers, Ask Beth, Betty Crocker and the Maytag Man. We're not comparing apples to apples here.
I'll also say that I'm the father of 2 incredible teenage daughters who are quite active in social media. @ aimClear and in our home, we follow the law, morals and our well documented track record of advocating for social media marketing responsibilities. :) Here are additional jumping off points for this dialog: Thanks in advance to Lisa for hosting this discussion.
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@WTF Sphinn: I'm afriad to say that fancy pants elitist snob-SEOs who know everything are (fortunatly) not the only audience here.
Believe it or not, Webmaster Central is news to MANY who don't live in our fishbowl world. Take whatever shots you want at the post or Andrew. Sometimes very simple content with a single idea, means the most to someone.
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@RustyBrick: It was an incredible honor to live blog for SEORT. We've had so many folks come up to us to say thanks for the effort. Your contribution to this industry does not go unnoticed by those that matter. Remember, no good deed goes unpunished friend.
My comment from the original thread:
How sad is this. Call this post what it is: second tier Sphinn bait, which accomplished its goal. Rusty Brick has done more for the SEM industry that multiple publications of this blog’s insight and quality. John Coronella lost me as a feed subscriber today, which is the true “power of one.”
@John: This post is closer to “selfish disregard for reporting integrity.” than nearly all of the live blogging I read from PubCon.
Finally, please point out the “lack of integrity” in this post, one of the 7 posts I live blogged for Barry: http://www.seroundtable.com/archives/018725.html
@ JohnHGohde: I am far from your sisterhood. I suggest you consider charm school to temper your sexist rhetoric sir.
@Barry: I appreciate your perspective and support. This Trademark Productions certainly has an interesting little publication going, with all 8 subscribers.
@Jim: Yup, well said friend. I see splogging every day and it never bothers me. Google seems to know the original source and it seems rare to see a splog post rank above the original. However in this case, they took pains to make it JUST unique enough to fool Google. That's insideous as hell.
I'll take you up on the PubCon Rant, and it's good to see you in this thread.
@deanTM: Step 2: Now go to Google/Webmasters, veriify your privatly registered (yup, a blind) domain and request that Google remove the former URL from the index.
Dude, in this business there's very little room for such poor managment..or the type of company you keep. That would SURE make me comfortable if I were a Trademark Productions Michigen SEO client...
@ toddmintz: Actually in this case, the flies were chased away...the sh*t still stinks though. Wait...it was a picnic analogy, sorry :)
For those interested in this particularly offensive human-modified splog crap:
Heres theremoved URL scrape and bake from Google's Cache' http://www.aimclear.com/scraped-post.txt
Link to original post above. While we're talking, who the hell is SEARCHMARKETINGVOX, biggest SearchEngineLand thief on earth ???
@JohnHGohde, well thanks for sharing that with the group :).
@Rhea: "If I'm not getting any backlinks then there's a bigger problem than scrapers..." That's exactly right, and perhaps the most important point made here. I was bothered, in this case, because even though our post had some cool links and the scraper did not, Google saw the scrape as as unique.
@streko: Right, We've been making sure that scrapers pass link love in all their scrape-ness (hat tip to graywolf as well) What annoyed me most about his instance was the combination of human edited scraping.
Thanks you guyz...see ya' in Vegas...
@Rhea: I agree. I try not to spend time on stuff like the but for some reason, this bugged me worse than usual. See ya' in Vegas. :).
@iBrian: Looks like Trademark Productions SEO Michicigan might have a bit of a problem...you're right, this is not he kind of attention a blog would want.
Here's a little ditty to add the the fracus: Splogs, Copyright Infringement, Sphinn Power and the Trademark Productions Smackdown
@Kalena, yes, I remembered the incident and was my inspiration to bring it to SPhinn :).
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