Comments on: Blogging Questions & Answers 28

By: medyum

medyum — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 09:16:38 +0000

@Peter Lurie.Thanks…

Danial ????

By: Bilingual Blogger

Bilingual Blogger — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 11:33:32 +0000

Hi Daniel,
I have a question that is very timely in light of the current economic climate. It’s about professional blogger etiquette and how to handle non-payment for posts.

Another blog in my niche approached me a few months back about becoming a regular contributor to his blog. He said he was willing to pay. I agreed and filed 14 posts on time and with no problems. For the past month, I’ve been trying to get paid. He owes me over $500. I’ve heard several excuses mixed in with promises of a payment “next week.” Finally today he told me that he doesn’t have the money and that he will try to pay me within the next 30 days, but obviously I’m not counting on it.

So, my questions are the following:
Should I delete all my content from his blog or should I let it stay there? (There is another contributor to his blog who I know has been paid because she told me so. Also, he had given me a username and password to his blog so that I could write my posts directly, so that’s how I would be able to delete them.)

On one hand I think it is not right that he has had the use of tons of original content that I spent several hours writing specifically for his blog. But on the other hand, I don’t want to burn any bridges since the niche I’m blogging in is kind of a small circle of the same people.

All of my entries on his blog have links back to my blog, so at least there’s that benefit, right? Although, to tell you the truth, the traffic I’ve gotten from his blog has been minimal.

So, what do you recommend? Should I send him an email notifying him that I’m deleting my posts and he doesn’t have to worry about paying me? Say nothing for now but wait 30 days and then delete my posts if there is no payment? Or just leave everything as it currently is (meaning leave my content on his blog)?

By: Peter Lurie

Peter Lurie — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 20:50:00 +0000

Hi!

I have a question about IE6 – a client has driven me mad, by demanding IE6 compatibility. I have seen on several websites (& WP Theme sites) that designers no longer support IE6. This specific site worked on everything except IE6, which was weird, as it was the splash page, created in FireWorks and Dreamweaver CS3, that wouldn’t load.
My splash page was called index.html, and the start-page of the blog was called index.php. Why would this only have been problematic for IE6 and not for other browsers?

Thanks
Peter

By: Tom Lindstrom

Tom Lindstrom — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 15:03:03 +0000

Thanks for the informative Q&A post.The first question about Google´s search results was something I have been wondering about too.Sometimes when you write a post and don´t think too much about the SEO aspect, you notice that the post is getting loads of traffic and fast.Funny how things work.

By: Arun Basil Lal

Arun Basil Lal — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 11:16:42 +0000

Daniel,
Recently I had been getting some backlinks to my articles from sites that look like genuine sites. These backlinks comes within about 2/3 hours of posting content. My blog is not a very popular blog, so i dont think that the guys found my latest posts anywhere online (like Google or Social sites). I used to think that, these bloggers would have found my posts while random surfing. But then, these things happen very often now, that too from different sites. And the good thing is that, these sites publish only excerts from my blog and a link to the main article. But I do not get visitors from any of these sites.

My questions are:
1. How did they find my post within 3 hours of posting the content?
2. Will linking back from spam sites affect my rankings?
3. Should I ask them to remove links to my site?
4. If someone else publishes excerts from my blog, will Google consider them as copies of the same content?
5. These sites have page ranks of 0 or 1. Will link backs from such sites help me improve my PR..?