Comments on: The Art of the Rewrite http://optempo.com/2008/01/17/the-art-of-the-rewrite/ Product Reviews and Buying Guides Tue, 22 May 2012 18:22:36 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.2 By: jfc http://optempo.com/2008/01/17/the-art-of-the-rewrite/#comment-6550 jfc Sun, 10 May 2009 15:23:41 +0000 http://optempo.com/2008/01/17/the-art-of-the-rewrite/#comment-6550 Hi Penny, I've changed some of my views on duplicate content since I wrote this. To see why, Google on the lyrics to any popular song. What's more important are external SEO factors like the quality and quantity of the links pointing to your pages. Hi Penny,

I’ve changed some of my views on duplicate content since I wrote this. To see why, Google on the lyrics to any popular song. What’s more important are external SEO factors like the quality and quantity of the links pointing to your pages.

]]> By: Penny @ Online Community College Courses http://optempo.com/2008/01/17/the-art-of-the-rewrite/#comment-6541 Penny @ Online Community College Courses Fri, 08 May 2009 23:48:56 +0000 http://optempo.com/2008/01/17/the-art-of-the-rewrite/#comment-6541 Timely article for me, I am at a writers block and just need to keep going! I know that some of my posts are too similar and are not being indexed, but I hadn't thought of the re-write using elements from several unranked pages to come up with one new good post! Timely article for me, I am at a writers block and just need to keep going! I know that some of my posts are too similar and are not being indexed, but I hadn’t thought of the re-write using elements from several unranked pages to come up with one new good post!

]]> By: jfc http://optempo.com/2008/01/17/the-art-of-the-rewrite/#comment-1266 jfc Fri, 08 Feb 2008 01:11:16 +0000 http://optempo.com/2008/01/17/the-art-of-the-rewrite/#comment-1266 Hi Y.S. That puts them into the local WordPress moderation queue, not the Akismet filter. If the filter snags a comment, I don't even get an email about it but if a comment goes into the moderation queue, I do get one. Maybe that link you gave had a spam flag on it. People do get pissed off and flag stuff they don't like as spam when it really isn't. Hi Y.S.

That puts them into the local WordPress moderation queue, not the Akismet filter. If the filter snags a comment, I don’t even get an email about it but if a comment goes into the moderation queue, I do get one.

Maybe that link you gave had a spam flag on it. People do get pissed off and flag stuff they don’t like as spam when it really isn’t.

]]> By: Y. S. http://optempo.com/2008/01/17/the-art-of-the-rewrite/#comment-1265 Y. S. Fri, 08 Feb 2008 00:34:12 +0000 http://optempo.com/2008/01/17/the-art-of-the-rewrite/#comment-1265 "Comments with links are automatically moderated" isn't this why? “Comments with links are automatically moderated” isn’t this why?

]]> By: jfc http://optempo.com/2008/01/17/the-art-of-the-rewrite/#comment-1261 jfc Thu, 07 Feb 2008 17:19:25 +0000 http://optempo.com/2008/01/17/the-art-of-the-rewrite/#comment-1261 Hi Y.S., Akismet doesn't like you for some reason. I found your comment in the filter. Try posting again or on another site and see if it gets filter too. If it does, contact them to get them to correct the false positive. Thanks for the link to the article. We just closed on a new house last week and we're trying to get moved to it. This has kept me rather busy at home and probably will for the rest of the month. Hi Y.S.,

Akismet doesn’t like you for some reason. I found your comment in the filter. Try posting again or on another site and see if it gets filter too. If it does, contact them to get them to correct the false positive.

Thanks for the link to the article.

We just closed on a new house last week and we’re trying to get moved to it. This has kept me rather busy at home and probably will for the rest of the month.

]]> By: Y. S. http://optempo.com/2008/01/17/the-art-of-the-rewrite/#comment-1254 Y. S. Wed, 06 Feb 2008 20:26:07 +0000 http://optempo.com/2008/01/17/the-art-of-the-rewrite/#comment-1254 I found an interesting article that may be of help to a lot of bloggers and small website owners. 12 Important U.S. Laws Every Blogger Needs to Know: http://www.avivadirectory.com/blogger-law/ You haven't posted for sometime, I hope everything is alright. I found an interesting article that may be of help to a lot of bloggers and small website owners.

12 Important U.S. Laws Every Blogger Needs to Know:

http://www.avivadirectory.com/blogger-law/

You haven’t posted for sometime, I hope everything is alright.

]]> By: jfc http://optempo.com/2008/01/17/the-art-of-the-rewrite/#comment-1109 jfc Mon, 21 Jan 2008 16:56:52 +0000 http://optempo.com/2008/01/17/the-art-of-the-rewrite/#comment-1109 Hi Y.S., I do have two comments on that article. Scrapping is different from rewriting though. Scrapping is an automated activity that takes a feed and regurgitates it in a new location with no changes at all to the original text, either partial or full. Some people occasionally cut-n-paste a full article but this isn't as common. Of course, this isn't a good activity for several reasons. A minor rewrite, <strong>which I strongly recommend you do NOT do with someone else's copyrighted articles</strong>, would involve making small wording and formatting changes to an original article as illustrated with the PLR article above. To borrow a movie industry example, Eddie Murphy did a minor rewrite of Art Buchwald's script for <em>Coming to America</em> and there was a lawsuit over it. A major rewrite or mash-up takes ideas found in the original article or articles and mixes them with the author's own ideas and style to produce a different article. For example <em>Cloverfield</em> bears a lot of resemblance to <em>Godzilla</em> but there are considerable differences beyond just the basic concept of the story. Hi Y.S.,

I do have two comments on that article.

Scrapping is different from rewriting though. Scrapping is an automated activity that takes a feed and regurgitates it in a new location with no changes at all to the original text, either partial or full. Some people occasionally cut-n-paste a full article but this isn’t as common. Of course, this isn’t a good activity for several reasons.

A minor rewrite, which I strongly recommend you do NOT do with someone else’s copyrighted articles, would involve making small wording and formatting changes to an original article as illustrated with the PLR article above. To borrow a movie industry example, Eddie Murphy did a minor rewrite of Art Buchwald’s script for Coming to America and there was a lawsuit over it.

A major rewrite or mash-up takes ideas found in the original article or articles and mixes them with the author’s own ideas and style to produce a different article. For example Cloverfield bears a lot of resemblance to Godzilla but there are considerable differences beyond just the basic concept of the story.

]]> By: Y. S. http://optempo.com/2008/01/17/the-art-of-the-rewrite/#comment-1108 Y. S. Mon, 21 Jan 2008 15:17:32 +0000 http://optempo.com/2008/01/17/the-art-of-the-rewrite/#comment-1108 You might find this interesting: http://www.problogger.net/archives/2008/01/20/fighting-scrapers-with-your-left-jab/ What are your thoughts? You might find this interesting:
http://www.problogger.net/archives/2008/01/20/fighting-scrapers-with-your-left-jab/

What are your thoughts?

]]> By: jfc http://optempo.com/2008/01/17/the-art-of-the-rewrite/#comment-1093 jfc Fri, 18 Jan 2008 22:05:40 +0000 http://optempo.com/2008/01/17/the-art-of-the-rewrite/#comment-1093 Hi RT, That's a good idea too, provided you already have the old articles sitting around collecting digital dust. I did a few retreads from other blogs and some forum posts of mine here when I was doing my 200 post blitz back in October. The redirect angle is interesting. I've always heard that deleting or redirecting WordPress posts is bad. How you did that might be a good post for your blog at some point. Hi RT,

That’s a good idea too, provided you already have the old articles sitting around collecting digital dust. I did a few retreads from other blogs and some forum posts of mine here when I was doing my 200 post blitz back in October.

The redirect angle is interesting. I’ve always heard that deleting or redirecting WordPress posts is bad. How you did that might be a good post for your blog at some point.

]]> By: RT Cunningham http://optempo.com/2008/01/17/the-art-of-the-rewrite/#comment-1090 RT Cunningham Fri, 18 Jan 2008 20:50:20 +0000 http://optempo.com/2008/01/17/the-art-of-the-rewrite/#comment-1090 Hi Frank, Don't forget that you can take some of your old stuff and rewrite it as well. I took 5 lackluster posts and created a single good post out of them. I then did a redirect from the 5 to the new one. Guess what? None of the old ones even appeared in the SERPS and the new one went to the first page. Just an idea to munch on. Hi Frank,

Don’t forget that you can take some of your old stuff and rewrite it as well. I took 5 lackluster posts and created a single good post out of them. I then did a redirect from the 5 to the new one. Guess what? None of the old ones even appeared in the SERPS and the new one went to the first page.

Just an idea to munch on.

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