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Hi John Reese,
I read your you plan to kick out bloggers who place widgets in the footer because you think we are cheaters.

John, your reaction shows you aren’t reading the blogs I read. “Cheating” is not the main reason why Blogrush widgets are often found in the footer. If you understand the main reason, you’ll be able to help bloggers, and improve Blogrush.

Do you want to know why the Blogrush Widget is in my footer?

I moved the widget to the footer because it often loads s__l__o__w__l__y and causes my sidebars to hang. ( I complained about this here. You’ll find Steve Cronin also moved the widget to the footer because it often loads s__l__o__w__l__y . I’m sure if you search a bit more, you’ll find other bloggers who have done the same. )

John, if you aren’t noticing the issue, it’s because you have a consistent, high speed connection. My service from Comcast is finicky.

I’m planning to fix my sidebars to deal with slow loading widgets.

Unfornately, fixing the sidebars will involve CSS; which I’m terrible at. Also, revamping my theme to compensate for slow loading widgets is not a high priority, particularly since the Widget seems to send 0.22% of my total traffic.

I prefer to spend time writing my own pillar content which I think will attract much, much more traffic than Blogrush.

Here’s what you, John Reese, could do to help me, other bloggers, and Blogrush.

It appears you think you can best fix this by threatening us, and kicking us out for placing the code in the footer. Of course, you can do that. But that would reduce the reach of Blogrush.

So, in the spirit of cooperation, might I suggest a fair solution that would help us all?

Could you, or your company post a tutorial on how to correct our themes to prevent Blogrush from interfering with our page loads? This would help you; it would help me. It would help Blogrush.

After you post this tutorial, could you send us a nice email us so we can read that post?

Sincerely,

Sphinn abounds with rumors that Google is updating backlinks. So, naturally I visited WebmasterTools. I had a rude surprise:

Lots of links to my blog because someone is copying articles in their entirety.

And guess what? If you read my blog, they are probably copying yours: You might want to check out the “All Things Marketing group at ClipClip.org. Click “Show Clip”; the duplicate content isn’t just your feeds. They copied the front page on some day back in September, including in many cases sidebars, ads, images, footers, and pretty much everything. In most cases, you can see your content displayed using your theme!

Page one reveals they are copying 5 Star Affiliate Marketing Blogs, Niche Marketing - Andy Beard, No Nofollow | I Follow | DoFollow community @ BUMPzee!, More Than Scratch The Surface, Blog Strokes (but only a little bit) , Make Money Blog, and article from The Cayman Host. (But don’t feel left out Maurice; they copied your whole blog on a later page!)

You may also want to check your backlinks. I estimate that I have “on bajillion” backlinks from clip-clip.org, nearly all duplicating my content in ways that clearly do not fall under the fair use provisions of copyright.

My question to everyone

To whom do I send the DMAC for this sort of thing? Other than knowing that there is a process for issuing take down notices, I’m rather clueless about the process.

Any tips would be welcome.

If you are American, you probably registered your phone number on the federal “Do Not Call” list when it first came out and are now blessed with peace and quite each night when no one calls to sell you aluminum siding or new windows. Did you know this heavenly silence could be interrupted by constant phone ringing?

Well, it could: The “Do Not Call” registration works for only 5 years; the first registered will begin to lapse next year.

Luckily, it’s easy to renew. Just visit https://www.donotcall.gov, enter your phone number and a valid email address. Wait for the email, and click. If you do it today, you’ll get a nice message like this:

This registration will be effective until 9/28/2012.

I’m happy now.