What’s most important to me is that the site is not perceived by content authors as being in the same league as splog/link farm sites, and hopefully the changes I’m making as a result of comments like yours will help that happen.

Thanks, and good luck with your site as well!

You could have easily avoided this witha very complex, but effective web tool.

it is called an “About Page” where you let the public know just what your site is.

As far as a site that aggregates content from blogs? that’s what people use RSS readers for. But go ahead, and it is appreciated that you made the effort to expalin.

Best of luck

I’ve included an email address on the page, so that people such as yourself can contact me. I search the page’s HTML for the word “Copyright,” and if found, I don’t put ANY text from the linked page on my site. (BTW, I DO link to the source page, and always have. I can’t say why domaintools says otherwise, but a quick visit to my site clearly proves that I do link to the original sites.)

I have used Adsense up until recently, but my intention was never to hope that “some fool might click and generate some nano revenue.” If an ad generated interest in the visitor, then I hope they do click, but it wasn’t about getting “accidental clicks.” However, Google apparently saw it more like you do, so they’ve shut off my ad serving, so for the moment, the point is moot. However, you will note that I am still developing the site, and will continue to do so whether I have ads on it or not.

Why? Because I do believe the site is a useful idea, the concept is that for a given subject, you can keep up with news and opinions from blogs. Soon, I hope to build RSS feeds for each subject, and those links will be to the original content, not to the page on my site.

As for the name of the site, yeah, UniversityUpdate is a bad choice. The site did start out as being about updating news and blogs on Universities (I really started the whole thing so I could keep up with my own Alma Mater), and I admit it, as I saw traffic increasing, and hopefully legitimate ad clicks increasing, I got excited and added more and more subjects. The goal is to have a new domain and new site built shortly. The revamped site will be more community-focused, including forums, visitor submitted links and anecdotes, the afore-mentioned RSS feeds, and various media related to the subject at hand. I truly believe the idea I had to start is a good one, I just needed to have things behaving a bit better at the start.

So, I’ve added cogdogblog and darcynorman to a blacklist on my article gathering tool, so neither will be used on my site in the future. But I hope you can take a second look at my site, and see that it’s not what you protrayed it to be in the post above. Hopefully, the changes I’ve made already will help my site to distinguish itself from the true “Link Farms” out there, and eventually will prove itself to be truly useful.

Thanks, and sorry for the trouble I’ve caused you.

Those troublesome Saskatchewanonians… Saskatchewites? Saskwatches?

Am ready to fax you a 100 lbs of fresh dog poop to lob at their door…. ;-)