Comments on: Steal Content From Download Squad to get links! http://andybeard.eu/922/steal-content-from-download-squad-to-get-links.html Internet Marketing, Lead Acquisition, Online Business Strategy and Social Media with Original Opinion and Loads of Attitude Mon, 15 Mar 2010 04:39:33 +0000 hourly 1 By: Victor Agreda, Jr. http://andybeard.eu/922/steal-content-from-download-squad-to-get-links.html#comment-74352 Victor Agreda, Jr. Thu, 13 Sep 2007 05:02:10 +0000 http://andybeard.eu/2007/08/steal-content-from-download-squad-to-get-links.html#comment-74352 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) 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)

]]> By: Victor Agreda, Jr. http://andybeard.eu/922/steal-content-from-download-squad-to-get-links.html#comment-74348 Victor Agreda, Jr. Thu, 13 Sep 2007 05:01:03 +0000 http://andybeard.eu/2007/08/steal-content-from-download-squad-to-get-links.html#comment-74348 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. 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.

]]> By: Victor Agreda, Jr. http://andybeard.eu/922/steal-content-from-download-squad-to-get-links.html#comment-74344 Victor Agreda, Jr. Thu, 13 Sep 2007 04:53:13 +0000 http://andybeard.eu/2007/08/steal-content-from-download-squad-to-get-links.html#comment-74344 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. 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.

]]> By: Andy Beard http://andybeard.eu/922/steal-content-from-download-squad-to-get-links.html#comment-74315 Andy Beard Thu, 13 Sep 2007 04:14:01 +0000 http://andybeard.eu/2007/08/steal-content-from-download-squad-to-get-links.html#comment-74315 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 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.

]]> By: Victor Agreda Jr http://andybeard.eu/922/steal-content-from-download-squad-to-get-links.html#comment-74281 Victor Agreda Jr Thu, 13 Sep 2007 03:23:15 +0000 http://andybeard.eu/2007/08/steal-content-from-download-squad-to-get-links.html#comment-74281 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! 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!

]]> By: Desty’s Gold Starred Articles August 19th 2007 | Desty Online -- Online and Offline Businesses http://andybeard.eu/922/steal-content-from-download-squad-to-get-links.html#comment-61502 Desty’s Gold Starred Articles August 19th 2007 | Desty Online -- Online and Offline Businesses Sun, 19 Aug 2007 23:59:11 +0000 http://andybeard.eu/2007/08/steal-content-from-download-squad-to-get-links.html#comment-61502 [...] Beard wrote a great article titled Steal Content From Download Squad to Get Links!  Andy doesn’t really mean to steal content from anyone, but he does go over what you really [...] [...] Beard wrote a great article titled Steal Content From Download Squad to Get Links!  Andy doesn’t really mean to steal content from anyone, but he does go over what you really [...]

]]> By: Universos Virtuais http://andybeard.eu/922/steal-content-from-download-squad-to-get-links.html#comment-56427 Universos Virtuais Sat, 04 Aug 2007 20:00:58 +0000 http://andybeard.eu/2007/08/steal-content-from-download-squad-to-get-links.html#comment-56427 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! 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!

]]> By: Zen of the Fanatical Business Blogger | aimClearBlog http://andybeard.eu/922/steal-content-from-download-squad-to-get-links.html#comment-56069 Zen of the Fanatical Business Blogger | aimClearBlog Fri, 03 Aug 2007 16:12:26 +0000 http://andybeard.eu/2007/08/steal-content-from-download-squad-to-get-links.html#comment-56069 [...] Blogger’s ZEN is spending as little time as possible writing while maximizing the possibility of inciting a viral response. Stream-of-consciousness external linking and bread crumbing tactics exploit inherent human [...] [...] Blogger’s ZEN is spending as little time as possible writing while maximizing the possibility of inciting a viral response. Stream-of-consciousness external linking and bread crumbing tactics exploit inherent human [...]

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com wich is about "make a lot of
real money online" and aims to be a REAL-LIFE case study, where I
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]]> By: Debo Hobo http://andybeard.eu/922/steal-content-from-download-squad-to-get-links.html#comment-55764 Debo Hobo Thu, 02 Aug 2007 21:18:19 +0000 http://andybeard.eu/2007/08/steal-content-from-download-squad-to-get-links.html#comment-55764 Ya, ditto what they said Ya, ditto what they said

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