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monty_cantsing

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Registered: 2010-02-03

Posts: 44

content syndicators stealing page ranking from crunchbang

i just did a google search to try and find some more info on a subject i posted about here on the crunchbang forum. It brought up my very same post, re-broadcast through a content syndicator. i'm used to syndicating leeches re-skinning other's content in order to chase after ad-dollars, but i'm not used to it happening to my content, and don't like it happening to crunchbang's forum posts; the worst part though is that the syndicated version had a higher page rank on google than the original article did here on the forum. 

how are the good people going to follow the shiny black minimalist crunchbang beacon into the best linux community there is if they get redirected by google to some ad-skimming content skinner instead of here?

my original post
http://crunchbanglinux.org/forums/topic … for-gedit/

the content syndicator/ad-dollar-leech's post:
http://www.linuxine.com/story/recommended-plugins-gedit

funny thing, but i just read an article over at coding horror about just this kind of thing only 2 days ago
http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2011/0 … oogle.html

what do people think? is this just the way things are? am i making a mountain out of a molehill? does this make anyone else mad? are the days of google search as the number one choice coming to an end?

pitje

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From: me to you

Registered: 2009-02-10

Posts: 438

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Re: content syndicators stealing page ranking from crunchbang

I absolutely hate syndicating. It's really just trying to make as much money as possible from other people's "work".
Besides that, it's also screwing up google results (page after page of the same results) and, not in the least, I just find it morally reprehensible.
For me, it goes on the same heap as pingbacks, social bookmarking, marketing-in-general and all those other "ME! ME! LISTEN TO ME!! ME! ME!" efforts.[/rant]

on the other hand, I'm not really sure what I can do 'against' it (except by not participating myself), so I guess it's "just the way things are"

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