Creeva’s World 2.0

Posted By Creeva Murkado to Jour­ney To Get Paid at 4/10/2008 06:29:00 AM

Yes­ter­day on my main blog I wrote a quip on my bat­tle for the search term “creeva” in google and how many hits it brings back.  It flu­cu­ates up and down and was more of a joke then any­thing.   How­ever I started think­ing about it a lit­tle more deeply last night.

I’m a huge cross­poster, I don’t deny it.  My friends can track me down and find me whereever.   I man­age to get new read­ers by uti­liz­ing diff­fer­ent sources to store my data.   When I wrote a blog post on my main blog, it gets copied or noti­fi­ca­tion goes to many other sites.   The path it takes is that I write an arti­cle when I click pub­lish it sends out the arti­cle to my myspace, my live spaces account, my vox account, my tum­blr account, my suprglu account, my face­book news, my old blog­ger page, my xanga account, my live­jour­nal page, my mul­ti­ply account, and a google group for back up (that one is pri­vate though).   On top of that live­jour­nal also sends it on it’s way over to my dan­delife account.  I’m also copy­ing things over to www.creeva.net which is my by beta test­ing blog.

If I lis­ten to a song that get’s scrob­bled to my last.fm account, upload a pic­ture to my flickr account, digg a story, favorite a video, share an RSS news item, write an arti­cle on a blog other then my main (like this arti­cle) or mark some­thing down in all con­sum­ing; these all get pulled into my main blog, which at that point goes through the data dis­sem­i­na­tion process all over again.

This is data porta­bil­ity at it’s finast (at least for the con­tent side of the equa­tion) and I work it well.   Some peo­ple pre­fer to go to a sin­gle loca­tion and that’s fine, that is what I have a main blog for.   Get every­thing from every­where all in one loca­tion.   Google loves the idea of every­thing in one place, it’s their whole mantra.   How­ever you will get penal­ized in Google for hav­ing dupli­cate con­tent.   So my google score will drop the­o­ret­i­cally the more places I cross post to that it indexes.

So by dis­sem­i­nat­ing my con­tent to every­where in the world Google will penal­ize me in it’s search rat­ings.   It seems my main blog still gets the most traf­fic and it’s hits don’t suf­fer.   So all and all I don’t truly mind.   How­ever I’m sure that some­times I do suf­fer when my vox account for exam­ple rises to the top instead of my main account.

How can Google truly and actively sup­port data porta­bil­ity when it’s anti eth­i­cal to it’s search rank­ings?  I can under­stand that it’s an attempt to fight spam­mers and such, but we all end up hit­ting pure spam BS blogs all the time.  The crap floats and rises to the top while the rest of things drown in the data del­uge.   I don’t think that google nec­es­sar­ily needs to adjust it’s algo­rithm but in the com­ing months or years it will need to take it into account.

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Posted By Creeva Murkado to Jour­ney To Get Paid at 4/10/2008 06:29:00 AM