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Re: Google Reader Steals the Conversation with New Commenting Feature

richiepear — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 22:58:14 -0000

Any estimates on how long until ads start appearing in Google Reader?

Re: FairShare.cc - Track Your Creative Commons | Visit fairshare

richiepear — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 10:45:19 -0000

Thanks for the review. To answer your question, FairShare supports Austrian, Czech, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian and Spanish.

Re: Study: Stolen Web Content Sees More Traffic Than The Original

richiepear — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 16:02:21 -0000

Hi John,

Actually it's not excerpts - the study excluded any reuse that was below 125 words or below 50% of the original article. All quotes are automatically excluded as well.

We actually determine if links are present as well, and I agree with you about the numerous benefits - this wasn't the focus of this study but you can read a post on it here: http://www.attributor.com/blog/the-link-is-migh...

Re: Study: Stolen Web Content Sees More Traffic Than The Original

richiepear — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 13:23:16 -0000

Great point on blogs (disclaimer that I work for Attributor) - one of the new solutions we're proposing is for publishers to work directly with the ad networks and share in revenue made by others. The concept is that publishers should set their content free and be able to share in the revenue that others make from it.

Re: Is the link economy really broken?

richiepear — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 11:20:18 -0000

I agree - ignorance is definitely not a valid excuse anymore - link juice is a mainstream mainstream concept now. Links equates higher search rank which leads to more traffic and more ad revenue.

I'm curious if you (or anyone else reading this) would be interested in a feed that shows you all the sites where your work is re-used without links.

If so, shoot me a note or respond in the comments.

Re: louisgray.com: The Importance Of Blog Linking Seems to Be Declining

richiepear — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 09:52:04 -0000

I agree with Danny - links are the backbone of your organic search ranking which, as your stats suggest, are your dominant traffic driver.

It would be interesting to find out if you were actually receiving less links, meaning that fewer bloggers are linking out . . .

Re: Blogs and the attribution dilemma

richiepear — Mon, 12 May 2008 22:17:13 -0000

This is spot on, particularly about links being the life-blood of the web. Links count for much more than traffic from click-throughs - they are one of the best indications of page rank and your resulting search engine rank.

Re: Sploggers Steal Content, It’s What They Do

richiepear — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 00:22:08 -0000

Steve - I just sent you a mail. Hopefully, we can talk soon.

Re: Sploggers Steal Content, It’s What They Do

richiepear — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 19:39:43 -0000

Steve - wrt minimizing the damage from unattributed copying by other bloggers, I'd propose two tactics

- Request a link and/or revenue share if they are placing ads across your content (low likelihood of success against splogers but should work ok for legit bloggers/sites)

- Send notice to search engines, ad networks and host to remove from index. (certainly more drastic but when sploggers are appearing higher in search rankings than your original post, this seems appropriate). While .ru site host may not respond, removal from search engine indexes will make these sites hard to find and ad network removal notices will hit sploggers where it hurts most.

Disclosure that I work for Attributor and we are enabling the above actions. Interested in your response and how we could make this more useful.