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BloggingZoom Copy/Paste Rule - Please Give Us Your Thoughts

By Court 294 days ago from http://bloggingzoom.com

Alright guys the time has come to make a decision on the copy/paste rule at BloggingZoom. I made this post on the BZ blog so that we would be able to get your honest thoughts on the issue. Please help us to vote this post up so that everyone can see it.

Head over to the post to leave us your thoughts and we'll make this decision as a community.

~ Court

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written by fatmanunleashed 293 days ago

i say remove the rule. it's stupid, and not many care about the ranking benefits that you are shoving down peoples throats.

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written by Court 293 days ago

Israel thanks for your opinion and we will consider it, along with all of the rest of the opinions. You can find those on the post itself, at the blog.

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written by jclark88 293 days ago

I think you'd find a lot of people who disagree with that assessment...

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written by Desty 293 days ago

If people don't care about ranking benefits, they might as well check that little option that keeps google and other search engines from finding their blogs.

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written by harishankar 293 days ago

I think that bloggers should not have a problem writing a few extra words about their own stuff.

I personally think people should not be lazy to put in a little bit of effort if they want the benefits of a community like Blogging Zoom which actually encourages and invites self-promotion.

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written by cidory 293 days ago

The argument for doing it is well documented, I personally dont have any issue whatsoever for keeping it the way it is, but then writing doesn't bother me, like it apparently bothers others .

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written by mtr 293 days ago

Keep the rule. This will filter out lazy folks who won't make any money online anyway.

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written by Apollo 293 days ago

I think the rule should remain in place. If you can't write a few sentences about the blog than chances are that the blog itself lacks some serious content as well and is not even worth reading. If you don't like to write why do you even blog in the first place?

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written by piggybankpie 293 days ago

While I hated the rule at first, now that I understand it I think it makes sense and I would recommend you keep it. However, I would maybe reduce the 350 rule to 250. But hey, I like BZ a lot and will continue to use it efficiently (i.e., by not copy/pasting text from my original post.)

Thanks to the BZ staff for the great work.

Patrick

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written by beaufla 293 days ago [ show/hide this comment ]

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written by Vic 293 days ago

When we say Copy paste we are saying duplicate content. And every time you do what you say you do " I post a lot of friends stories and my own to 4 or 5 social media sites. I submit 10 to 20 posts a day. If had to manually do everything then it would take too long."

You are giving yourself and your friends duplicate content filter penalties. In other words instead of helping your friends you are hurting them by making sure there original post keep going down in Google.

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written by harishankar 293 days ago

Vic, I have a suggestion - reduce the minimum character requirement to possibly 250 characters as somebody else has already said. I think that would be a good compromise.

I also feel that copy/pasting the first few sentences gives the impression of spam as most scraper sites/Splogs follow that system.

Let us put a bit of personality into BloggingZoom. As bloggers, I don't see any reason why we shouldn't take a bit of extra effort, especially if we're promoting our own work.

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written by Vic 293 days ago

The 350 rules was made because mathematically this is the minimum that would get the Google algorithm triggers. The second reason is for quality control of the site. If we minimize this Blogging Zoom will become a heaven for one liners and spam links if you want to see this go visit similar sites like this one that do not have a minimum rule.

If you folks notice we had not even installed an email verifier which we will have soon because everyday it gets harder to manage the spam. But on a daily basis we see over 100 submission attempts from spammers that fail because of the 350 rule. Spammers are lazy so they just move on to the next site.

My answer to you took me a total of 2 minutes and there is a total of 650 characters. I just find it amusing that this is an issue.

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written by mikeo75 293 days ago

From what I've been reading here, this is what we should do:

1. Allow Copy and Paste for people who just want burst traffic and don't care about google. Doesn't hurt the rest of us, so what do we care?

2. Reduce the minimum characters allowed for those that don't care about getting on Google...they just want burst traffic...

3. Put a counter up for those of us who WANT to put in 350 characters so we get on Google.

This way we:

1. Open ourselves up to getting a lot more users who just want to submit stuff, thus actually creating some "burstable" traffic down the road

2. Still allows those of us who want to use this for Google juice like we should.

Thoughts?

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written by harishankar 293 days ago

Wait a minute.

I just saw that all the links have rel="nofollow" on the home page. So what's this about getting SEO benefits?

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written by Vic 293 days ago

The benefits are to use BZ as a bridge.

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written by Vic 293 days ago

Folks please make the comments on the Blog so all can follow discussion.

Thanks