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By: Ten Unethical Blog Visitor Behaviors

Ten Unethical Blog Visitor Behaviors — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 18:29:08 +0000

[...] | December 16, 2008 | Blogging Tips, Miscellaneous Sometime back I had written a post about Unethical Blogging Practices and it dealt with bloggers’ unacceptable behaviors. Today’s topic is a little more [...]

By: Bloggers are Selfish people!

Bloggers are Selfish people! — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 15:43:38 +0000

By: Ajith Prasad

Ajith Prasad — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 18:04:39 +0000

@Amitabh,
Thanks for your visit and comment. I have added my blog to your squidoo page.

By: Amitabh

Amitabh — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 05:06:40 +0000

Very cool! Good counter point to ethical blogging. They need to go hand in hand: do’s and dont’s. I will subscribe to this post as soon as I finish commenting.
By the way, I wish you would submit your blog to http://www.squidoo.com/Blogroll-India

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Mon, 15 Dec 2008 19:28:09 +0000

[...] back I had written a post about Unethical Blogging Practices and it dealt with bloggers’ unacceptable behaviors. Today’s topic is a little more [...]

By: Mitch

Mitch — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 07:10:18 +0000

Yes, exactly, and I always wonder how those sites exist on the platforms they're on.Mitch's last blog post... The Computer Is Working Again; For Now

By: Ajith Prasad

Ajith Prasad — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 07:05:22 +0000

@Mitch, I guess I know what you are talking about. There are these ‘local pages’, ‘seo blog’, ‘hosting blog’ kind of generic wordpress sites (most of them running on stock themes) that keep sending the pingbacks as soon you post something right? Man, I have been suffering from those for a while… Initially I even approved one or two such pingbacks by mistake.

They sure are pain in the ‘wherever’

By: Mitch

Mitch — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 02:40:29 +0000

There seem to be programs out there that will create multiple sites for people whereby they capture so many words, then link back to your site. To me, that’s still scraping, although those folks say it’s not because it’s giving people attribution for what they’ve written. I disagree because it happens almost immediately after I’ve posted, so it has the potential to take away from me. At least that’s how I feel.

By: Ajith Prasad

Ajith Prasad — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 02:33:18 +0000

@Kim, well sometimes we have to show the frustration somehow right? In your case, though, I did not think that you bashed that badly.

Content stealing is very common especially with bloggers that are not very serious about blogging but put something together somehow, to get approved by AdSense. Usually, such a blog does not last longer. But it’s not rare that even pro bloggers write ‘inspired’ contents.

Thanks for your detailed views…

By: Kim Woodbridge

Kim Woodbridge — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 19:52:56 +0000

Well, I sort of did #1 in the article about whether a direct message should be personal. Although I did not name the individual (Wesley found him) and he certainly isn’t famous. Though I don’t think it brought me any fame either.

#2 I can’t stand it when my content is stolen. When you go to the site there is never any contact information. I usually do a whois search on the domain name and get a contact email that way. So far, each time I’ve emailed that way the scraping has stopped.

#6 is hard. I get a number of questionable comments that Askimet thinks are spam but I’m not sure. I tend to err on the side of allowing the comment.

Another great article, Ajith.

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By: Ajith Prasad

Ajith Prasad — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 11:35:36 +0000

@Rajiv, yes but god alone knows how far one can push doing all these…

@Wesley thanks for clarifying the issue over the email… I took a detailed look at my scripts and fixed them… I apologize for the redirects and inconvenience caused, hence.

@Mitch, thanks. You are right – it’s very irritating to see people copy paste without consent from the author. As for #10, there was a time when John Chow wanted to provide no ‘nofollow’ comments at a price

@ Onder, Definitely what we should we do depends on what wrong things we are not supposed to do.

Cheers to all and your views!

By: Önder

Önder — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 01:04:10 +0000

We always have to think about what we are writing. In this list we can see what should we do before posting an article.Önder's last blog post...Dünya Alt? Derece Is?n?rsa Ne Olur?

By: Mitch

Mitch — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 21:28:59 +0000

Great post Ajith. The one that irks me the most is #2, as it seems that my stuff is being scraped all the time. I don't have much problem with #10, at least the first part of it, because only a few people could get away with that, and if someone really wants to read it badly enough to pay for it, then that's okay with me. The second part, definitely unethical.Mitch's last blog post...Reserve Index

By: Wesley

Wesley — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 19:55:07 +0000

#11 Automatically redirecting visitors to “Ripe TV” (or other advertisers) in the middle of the article.

By: moserw

moserw — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 18:38:38 +0000

Good points as always Ajith. Lots of thought put into it. Unfortunately these things happen in this dog eat dog world.