Cocoonworks.com Part II
June 7th, 2006 by Michael Gray in Grayhat SEO, Ideas, SEOIf you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Read my top posts or learn more about Michael Gray. Want more frequent updates follow me on Twitter. Thanks for visiting!
North over at Cocoonworks.com accomodated my request to remove all of the content taken from my RSS feed over on his news aggregation blog, you can see his comments here. While I’m not going to enter into a debate about copyright you will notice I’ve changed the footer in my feed to clear up any confusion it may have created. I’m also going to try something, giving away free content for anyone to syndicate …
This is an experiment, if it works I’ll look like a genius and keep it running, if it fails then at least I tried. I’m going to syndicate my feed and allow anyone to reuse it anywhere they want. YEP that’s right anywhere you want. Of course there are a few rules like you have to leave the content intact and not change it, you have to attribute it to me, and you have to provide a link back. There’s a few other things, and you can check it out on my free SEO content page if you’re interested. Either way use links below for the feed you are allowed to syndicate. Cool idea, have I lost my mind, or am I crazy like a fox, whats your opinion?
FEEDS
Sphere It
June 7th, 2006 at 11:03 am
Crazy? Maybe a ruthless GrAyHat marketer but not crazy!
Let’s review:
1.) You remove comment nofollows, your blog vistors and natural backlinks increase.
2.) You syndicate your feed, your blog vistors and natural backlinks increase.
The question:
Will your blog become a bad neighborhood in Google because you are linking out to spammers?
Alexa certainly likes you, kind of funny eh?
Let’s look at Shoemoney and all his contests, will this come back and bite him in the arse? Or is this type of hype smart marketing?
*Me watches closely*
=P
June 8th, 2006 at 10:32 am
I’ll be implementing this with my feed as well, good idea. My blog is about local real estate and I have several bad sites that scrape my content (amongst several others) and aggregate it all onto one site.
June 12th, 2006 at 2:44 am
>>You agree to only publish the partial
>>feeds with no more than 400 words.
This is clearly the best tweak you have added Gray, as it will naturally send new traffic to your blog for the FULL story.
It seems to me this makes for a balanced trade between aggregator and writer. For the record, I fully support both sides.
(a) The writer gets new traffic for sharing samples of their work.
(b) The aggregator gets to use the meat of the writers articles (the first 400 words) to attract readers to shallow, yet focused niche aggregation of work.
I don’t believe I agree with the following two points in your licensing agreement, however:
>>You may not use this work for commercial >>purposes, including reprinting in a physical >>book, electronic or ebook, aggregating and >>redistributing by any electronic or mechanical >>means, this includes contextually based, >>impression based, or time based advertising or >>sponsorship.
This won’t fly, if it prevents the aggregator from making money via adsense, subscription, or otherwise… as they need food to grow as well.
>>You may not archive or cache the information on >>this website as is specified in the meta tags
Blogs are archival in nature, and it seems caching the first 400 words is smart and will provide more means to drive traffic to the writers site, no?!
Cheers,
NORTH
http://www.cocoonworks.com
June 12th, 2006 at 7:15 am
The non commercial exclusion, and no archive only applies to the full feed for the partial you may use the text with Adsense, YPN, any other kind of contextual or other advertising, and you may archive the partial feed.