Dear Commercial and Spam Bloggers

fairlane

Stop fucking linking to posts at Jonestown in attempt to build up your Google Page Rank.

Our blog is now licensed not only with Creative Commons (Non-Commercial Use), but with the RSC in Compton as well. (Google will also be notified).

Any and all violators will be hunted down like the Fucking Leeches you are.

Build up your Page Rank like real men/women, probably men, pretty sure you’re all men. You know you’re supposed to pay for that privilege, and I’m no Pimp. Meaning I don’t do business with Ho’s.

Have a Wonderful Day, and Fuck you very much!

*Okay, I decided to make this an “official” post because it really is pissing me off.

Last week I log-in to check comments, traffic, and to see whose post is coming up next, and I see we have two new incoming links.

I click one.

Immediately I’m greeted by a page filled with Fucking Ads for iPods, iPhones, Dildoes, all kinds of bullshit, and there, amidst this garbage, is an excerpt from one of my posts with a link back to Jonestown at the bottom. At first, I thought it was simply one of those delusional people who think they’re going to get rich by putting ads on their blog, but then I notice my post isn’t even attributed to me, and is instead credited to “Jack’s Web Blog.”

“Huh?”

I decide to peruse the “blog.”

The only thing that makes this “blog” legitimate,” is the fact that whoever runs it is linking to other people’s posts, but they don’t actually credit the author, and instead use made up names like “Jack’s Blog.” (There are legit Link Sharing Blogs. Opit is an example, and he’s a cool dude, but these Wankers are not interested in the posts at all).

Not knowing much about this kind of crap I returned to Jonestown, and delete the Ping Backs.

Serendipitously I was talking to my friend in San Jose this past weekend, and we were talking about Page Rank. (Page Rank is a system based on an algorithm that Google uses to determine the importance of a website or blog).

A few weeks ago my friend informed me that Jonestown had a fairly high Page Rank (5), and that some marketers are willing to pay for the right to link to a blog or website with a high Page Rank. ($25 a month or something depending on your PR).

Now, I’m not into blogging to get rich, but I’m not opposed to making a buck if I can find some cool sites who are looking for links. (Independent Music Stores, Art Related Stuff, etc) So, I told my friend I would look into it.

As fate would have it, the idea was shot down before it ever took off because last week (I think it was last week) Google started cracking down on blogs that sell their Page Rank.

Idea=dead.

So we’re talking about Google’s little blog mission, and I ask my friend why Jonestown’s Page Rank is so high in the first place.

“Incoming links, and that site’s Page Rank.”

“Is there a way to find out how many links are coming into Jonestown, and from where?”

“Yep, hold on.”

While we’re talking, he looks up Jonestown, and informs me that we have almost 700 incoming links.

“What? My Technorati Rank is 80. How in the Fuck are there 700 incoming links?”

Long story short, Links to Posts, Blog Links, and Comments count when it comes to Page Rank.
“So, when I comment on another blog it can count as an Incoming Link?”

“Yep, and if they have a high Page Rank it helps increase your Page Rank. You must comment on a lot of popular blogs.”

What does this have to do with the price of Crack?

Well, these douche bags who are linking to our posts at Jonestown, and probably some of your’s as well, are hoping we’ll “Approve” their Ping Back, which counts as a Link.

Get it?

They’re linking to people’s posts to pass themselves as a “legitimate” blog, but in reality it’s a ruse to fool Google, and people like us.

Why do I have a problem with it?

First, using someone’s Page Rank in this way is a pay per month service. You don’t try to back door someone, and essentially steal a link, which is what these assholes are doing. (People selling iPods can afford to pay for Marketing).

Second, you don’t link to someone else’s post, and then credit it to a make believe blog or person. You give the writer credit, and if you make money from that link, you compensate them.

Third, if Google goes after these people, all the blogs they are linked to could be punished as well simply by association. (Google lowers the Page Rank of “violators” as punishment, which I think is Fucking Stupid. But Google does whatever in the Fuck it wants, and until I become a Trillionaire there isn’t Shit I can do).

Let me say, I have no problem with Capitalism (Real Capitalism, not American capitalism), but I do not like shady Mother Fuckers, and after seeing yet another one of these links this morning (This time to one of Dashiell’s posts) I had enough.

This afternoon I registered with Creative Commons, and emailed Google.

That’s the story.

*Before anyone misinterprets, I (We) have no problem with our compatriots (Or other, as of yet, unknown bloggers who like something we’ve written) linking to posts, and we are more than happy to return the favor. Giving props is definitely cool. The Creative Commons License only applies to Commercial Use, as does my Ire.

Just remember…

Slavery is Over, and there are no House Negroes at Jonestown.

~ by fairlane on November 29, 2007.