May 27, 2008 on 12:11 pm
Filed Under:Around the Web
Not much for this day. These were mixed in with the other junk, of course, but I’m always pleased when I find something worth reading.
Newcastle: Illegal Use of Trademarked Keywords In META Tags
Short and sweet, he writes about how you better not use anybody else’s trademarked words in your meta tags. They’ll still find you and, apparently, sue you.
Introduction to SEO Strategies and Techniques
Found this one and realised that it sounded startlingly familiar. Then I checked around and saw that it’s from Kanga Internet, whom I know from the Port 80 forums. Small world, eh?
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Okay, there were more, but I finally traced a few of them back to a place that distributes articles for free. Fair enough, you can’t write your own content because you are really, really, ridiculously stupid, so you get someone else’s. Thing is, one of the stipulations of using that content is to link back to the site and include the author’s info, which most of these do not do.
I’d be all for writing articles for others to use as long as I got a backlink and credit, but these buggers are just getting the article and posting it as their own. Oh, they don’t say "By ME" but by NOT saying "By so-and-so" they’re still just as wrong.
I’m off my soapbox now, and going to make a sandwich.
Adios, and have a good site.