Re: [xml-dev] Re: Abuse of this list

["bryan rasmussen" <rasmussen.bryan@gmail.com>]

Yes but the marginal difference is that they don't add value.

I've ended up on their site often enough because I knew exactly what I
was looking for and it came up higher in the index on their site, to
find the non-stylus site I would have had to look further down in the
index.

When I ended up on their site the layout of the meaningful content was
bad, obscured by an Ad.
Links were placed into the site. in at least a couple places I
thought, ahh a relevant link I will follow, but of course the link is
never relevant it is somewhere to a small topic in their site and that
topic has no links elsewhere but on their site, therefore there is
nothing that gets you anywhere relevant. If they produced relevant
content I would not find it irritating but they didn't.
I am somewhat of the suspicion that more relevant links have been
removed from content (although I have not tested)

Google Adds value, Stylus Studio subtracts it and tries to imply that
the value that is there is associated with them.



This has been for me a minor annoyance, I can see how other people
find it highly objectionable though.
Of course now that I think of it, I am actually getting mad about it.
I suppose I should start to look further down in the index when I see
a stylus studio link.

Cheers,
Bryan Rasmussen

On 6/22/07, Michael Kay <mike@saxonica.com> wrote:
> > I don't like this
> > strategy. It does seem to be an effective way of increasing
> > page rank with the current Google algorithms. I wouldn't do
> > it.
>
> Interestingly, though, it's only marginally different from Google's own
> business model: trawl the web for content produced by other people, add some
> value by arranging it and parsing it, establish yourself as a credible place
> to go for information, attract people to your site, show them ads, then sell
> them things.
>
> Perhaps it works better when the products you're selling come from a third
> party...
>
>
> Michael Kay
>
>
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