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Rights To Use My Content

         

austtr

8:47 am on Feb 11, 2014 (gmt 0)

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If current trends continue, there may well come a time when I am no longer willing to jump through the hoops that Google creates in order to sustain the pittance of an income that falls from the main table.

If that day should ever come, I'll pull my websites off the servers and make everything no index to Google's bots.

BUT… what does that really accomplish?

If Google has indexed my content for years and already have the information tucked away in their databases, does a no-index directive today require that they cease and desist from using content gathered prior to to-day?

Is a no-index retrospective or can Google happily fill the Knowledge Graph with data captured prior to the no-index?

MSamu

3:41 pm on Feb 11, 2014 (gmt 0)

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I don't know about how you do business. (or what your business is)

But I treat my online business like a traditional brick and morter operation. That means I do my promotion the old fashioned way with ads in various publications, business cards and face to face sales pitches. Therefore I don't care about things like traffic or what google does.

However I have had several problems with both google and facebook. In both cases it involved using my "content" without my consent. And in both situations I contacted my lawyer and it took several weeks (and some money) to rectify.

Google and facebook are basically pirate sites. Their game is to get use of your(our) content for free. As an old timer, I tell everyone that in business they should learn to be 100% independant and not subject to some 3rd party's objectives or whims.

Therefore I'll be the first to say if you can block google... You should.

dstiles

8:35 pm on Feb 11, 2014 (gmt 0)

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I wish I could block G but my customers rely on a certain amount of trade through them.

I doubt they would drop their archive of your content. If you set a lawyer onto them they may remove it from the index but I doubt they would remove it from their database. We all belong G! :(

MSamu

9:18 pm on Feb 11, 2014 (gmt 0)

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No Google won't delete anything and they're willing to fight for that. But if you do get a lawyer to send them a nasty couple of letters... They will leave you alone in the future and de-list your site