I found something that really resonated with me and so I thought I’d post it today. Enjoy your weekend!
A good deed is never lost: he who sows courtesy reaps friendship; and he who plants kindness gathers love.
Basil
When you own a domain, it’s your own personal property, your virtual real estate. It’s yours and no one should be allowed to place their trash on your property. What trash you ask? If you have a blog and you get comment spam, that’s trash. If you run a forum and someone creates a profile just for a backlink, that’s trash.
I belong to an internet marketing forum, the Warrior forum. I joined because I needed to learn some marketing strategies and I wanted to network and contribute. For the most part, I’ve gained a lot of valuable knowledge, made some friends, and it’s been a great experience.
However, recently there was a heated debate about the selling of backlink packages. Backlink packages contain lists of mostly high PR site links so that the buyer can go and create profiles at the sites’ forums and get a good backlinks from authority sites which in turn gets them ranked better in the search engines. This practice may sound harmless to some. But the reality is this: the forum owner is now left with an inflated membership where the majority of “members” are actually only profile spammers who have zero intention of ever contributing to the forum!
So imagine if the forum owner ever wanted to sell advertising space on his or her forum? How do they accurately disclose their membership totals? How to they retain their advertisers when there is no activity in the forums because most of the members are profile spammers?
And the backlink package sellers are saying it’s perfectly fine because it’s not breaking any TOS. It’s not breaking any TOS because many forum owners never edit their forum’s TOS and leave a generic one up which is useless.
So my suggestion to webmasters is this: secure your websites, protect your assets. Create a very clear TOS expressly stating that spam of any kind will not be tolerated and if you run a forum include profile spamming as a practice that won’t be tolerated, and state in your TOS that members who haven’t contributed in a set period of time will be deleted. That coveted backlink that they got is now gone once you, the webmaster, deletes their profile, and rightfully so. Poof! Serves them right!
In a future post I’ll discuss the different ways to get backlinks legitimately, legally, and for free.
I decided to go back to this WordPress theme which I have just spent the last hour tweaking. It is always tricky to get a site design to work in all resolutions and browsers. I missed this WordPress theme because it really is more like the real me: softer, more feminine and artistic. I still would like to get around to creating a better theme one day but I’ve been busy developing other sites and working on various other projects.
Speaking of WordPress, I’m still so impressed with WordPress 3. It’s no wonder it’s been downloaded over 300 million times! Wow!
It’s never been easier to get a web presence using the power of WordPress. You don’t have to have any technical skills to get up and running. You can basicly learn the ropes in an hour or two. But, if you really don’t want to learn and you need some help installing and managing your WordPress blog, I’m happy to offer my WordPress Blog Management Services. I look forward to helping you with the successful launch of your blog.
Instead of a re-launch I’ve decided to sell ManyGraphics.com. I have other projects on the go and won’t have time to develop it to its full potential. I think it is a great memorable 2 word domain name and has very good possibilities for the right webmaster.
Please contact me for more info or to make an offer.
After yesterday’s earthquake and the tornados that touched down on various parts of Ontario, especially Midland, I have an even bigger appreciation and respect for life. I sent out many positive and loving thoughts yesterday in the hopes that everyone would be safe and no one would be injured or killed. I am very grateful because as far as I know, no one was seriously hurt. But some people in Midland have lost their homes and Smith’s Trailer Park was destroyed. So now residents and officials of the town are rallying together to clean up and rebuild. It will take some time.
So I looked for a video of a song that would express what I’m feeling today. Here’s one by Jon Anderson of the band Yes called “Hurry Home” which struck a chord with me. I hope you enjoy it.
Take care out there and stay safe.
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