I saw in my Google Analytics a huge increase in search traffic with respect to a 7-hour-old blog entry. That is right…only 7 hours ago I made it the top of Google in a search. Well number 2 but hey I think that is fantastic.

Top of Google in 7 hours

The blog entry was the one where I discussed that there are rumors flying that StomperNet caused scribd to cease outgoing links on documents that have been posted to their site from us users.

I read a very critical article on David Leigh’s blog in which David says that StomperNet sucks and blames them for scribd.com’s policy shift removing outgoing links.

Co-founder of StomperNet, Andy Jenkins, took exception to this and posted a terse response to David’s posting:

Andy Jenkins Says:
January 18th, 2008 at 03:00

wow David, I understand that you don’t like us, but try your best to be fair and leave the conspiracy talk dead at the side of the road where it belongs…

Scribd has been getting abused by SEOs for a few months now. Especially after this post:
http://www.zanypixel.com/blog/untapped-link-building-strategies/

In November.Scribd was also mentioned at Pubcon in December as a another source for followed links, in front of hundreds of avid link spammers.

I heard that Scribd had to delete well over 1000 articles in December. We didn’t cause this change. Any place where you can plant a hyperlink will draw spammers. And we don’t suggest or condone that behavior. ALL of our educational material strongly suggests restraint and social responsibility… unlike this post.

I give Andy and StomperNet the benefit of the doubt. He refutes these unfounded accusations, and from what I have seen thus far, the folks at StomperNet are decent people doing good things.

Now back to why I wrote this post

There are two reasons. One is for you. To get to the top of Google in a hurry, you need to have an eye for a ‘story in the making‘ and jump on the bandwagon early. As the story begins to spread people will start looking for the keywords you use. With minimal blog postings on it in the beginning you are sure to get to the top in a hurry. This will have a snowball effect as the one who gets there tend to stay there, if they stay on top of things.

I mentioned a second reason. I did I did! I am out to see if I can get a double listing on this story by blogging about it again. This follow-up is using some of the same keywords, and if I am right it should not be long before this post is coupled with the first one, and driving even more traffic to my blog.

Some may say I am exploiting a situation…and your point is?

I am evil MUUUUUAHAHAHAHAHAH

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