Well I can offer you some fame, but unfortunately not much fortune. I'm looking for contributing editors to my InfoPool. This modest collection of articles started out as articles about Internet Phenomenon. Lately it has tended to gravitate towards search engine optimization articles. I'd like to get back to the original editorial policy, and here are a couple of topics that I would welcome articles on; Internet Forums and Blogs. If anyone has an article on either of these subjects or would like to write one I'll give you full credit with both an email address and a web site link. If you are interested, check out the InfoPool to see the general size and format for our articles.
Well fortune can follow. As some of you know I just published an article in my InfoPool about how PR is calculated. This was picked up and published Monday by the SitePRo News newsletter. As a result of that I've already signed one new SEO client, and have requests for quotation from another 4 or 5. I have also had probably 20 emails of thanks or congratulation and people asking for copies of the Excel spreadsheet that was used to create the chart. So an article in my InfoPool will get you a very relevant backlink for sure, and possibly more than that. I have a very simple template that I would like anyone to use if they are submitting an article. PM me if you would like a copy.
Are you looking for contrary viewpoints? What about those consipracy writers that think "Page Rank is Dead"? Bob, you may not want writers like that in your INFOPOOL, but they bring in those readers and page views. Just kidding Bob, I think you have a great idea, so I will just leave it in your hands, good luck with the INFOPOOL, I think it will be a great service for the internet community.
I don't want you to be branded as a "Bad Guy" Bob, I really think you are one of integrity and your knowledge is SEO, maybe you should just focus on that since it is what you are known for. To venture off into the world of so called "CT's" may not be beneficial to the INFOPOOL at this point. I think that we really do need education in the SEO area, maybe a article on SEO Tools would be better. I think you have that covered though.
Anthony, I think that would make for an interesting read...Google...invasion of privacy. I look forward to seeing the release.
Anthony, You seem to enjoy my humour. Have a look at http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showpost.php?p=13159&postcount=9.
Like I have said many times, Bob you missed your true calling COMEDY, but you are too old like me to change jobs now. I guess we are stuck with you. But getting back to the subject of the thread, you looking for contributing writers, like you said about DS and the Group at Jupiter, they market with a common theme. Those are the types of writers you need, SEO writers, but to be taken seriously by the readers they must also be objective, if everyone or every article is on "how great Google is", you will look like Webworkshop, that is how he makes a living, preaching "Page Rank" secrets. Page Rank is only one part of SEM, so I think to avoid looking like an extension of the "G" public relations department you will need to bring some different flavors to your INFOPOOL. But if the focus is "SEO" then to get into "CT" types of articles will only hurt you, it would work against the entire theme of the site.
Anthony, That is very nice of you to be so considerate, but the InfoPool isn't restricted to SEO topics. In fact I think there are too many of these there now. The original editorial policy was to publish articles about Internet Phenomenon. We are ready have a couple of articles about Google, so an article with a negative slant would not worry me. I guess what I would like to see you do is write the factual detailed explanation of your concerns that so many people on the Forum have asked you for. Don't just allude to things and say "Joe Blow wrote an article, there that proves it". Quote Joe Blow if you want but show us what worries you about what he says and how we stand to be harmed from this. Show us why we shouldn't trust Google. Is there currently any evidence of them actually using the information they have in their database for illegal or malicious pursuits? Shawn and other seem to think the more Goiogle knows about us the better, because they will be able to customize search and other services to meet our individual needs. What do you see as the traps in that. What exact should we be on guard for. If you could set this out in an unimpassioned, logical 1,000 word or so I'd publish the article.
Well Bob, anyone could simply look at the privacy policies and the terms and conditions of the programs and write a scathing article on the invasion of privacy issues. Just look at those policies at www.orkut.com If you look at them they are unreal, giving most of the rights to Google and none to the users of their products when it comes to use of information data mined. Users give up all rights when the EULA is accepted. For example if you closely examine the ORKUT terms you will find that even the ideas discussed on the forum are Google property to exploit as they will, even creating derivative products from your ideas, without giving you credit or paying you a royalty. So you give up your copyrights also to the text you enter on the forum. So it is not just a invasion of privacy, but the capitalization and exploitation of your data and ideas that are at stake. I just hope Shawn never picks up on any of this!
So explain this in 1,000 words or less and I'll publish it. By the way have you ever read the licensing agreement for any typical piece of software, or a commercial contract of any kind. The buyer never has any rights of any kind. The seller is indemnified against all damages or claims. With Google and Orkut they don't even charge for their services. So anybody who thinks they can have a free lunch and them retain the right to sue Google or Orkut because they preceive, or imagine, or even fabricate some situation whereby they think Google is using something they said, is nuts. Google has to protect itself against these potentially litigious onslaughts. The language necessary to do so will always look draconian.
Yes Bob, but the guy's writing those terms are lawyers with a lot more education than the users will ever have on rights, law and lawsuits. Do you think when they mention derivative products that they may infact use an idea in the future? Like Shawn said, he does not need to steal any ideas from anyone, he has his own, but fact is it happens everyday. Ebay was in court for stealing the idea of the Ebay auction from the "so called patent holder", so it does happen.
Anthony, I'm surprised at you. You know there are frivolous patent suits all the time. You can't use that as proof of anything. In fact this is exactly the kind of frivolous litigation that Google and Orkut have to protect themselves against. In the US in particular with Lawyers working on contigency fees there are people who are professional suers -- is that a word? -- it doesn't cost them anything and every now and then they can get some poor beleaguered company to pay them an out of court settlement just to get rid of them.
Anthony, With all the writing going on here, 1000 words and publish should be no problem. I look forward to reading the article.
Yeah, VAseo Just me and Compar fighting on an average day would be about 10,000 words, I guess once we put it here Shawn owns it. So we may have to licence our own stuff from him one day. I am sure he will be kind to us, I hope