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29.02.2012 Uncategorized No Comments

Text Spinning with Article Mill

On our NetBuilders forum we provide a fabulous free tool called ArticleMill.  ArticleMill accepts a wide variety of spintax formats and creates large numbers of technically unique texts.

The quality of the output depends entirely upon the level of effort you put into creating your spintax-formatted input.  With my own spintax articles, it is impossible to tell that the articles were originally written in spintax.

Writing an article in spintax format takes two to three times as much time as writing an article normally, but you can then create numerous technically unique versions of the article with the press of a button.

Spintax

Here is a sample sentence in the spintax format which I use:

{Mary|Sue|Jane|Andi} {loved|adored} the {chocolate|black} {labrador retriever|labrador|lab} which her {parents|mom and dad|mother and father} {gave|bought} her for Christmas.

ArticleMill is configurable to accept different delimiter and separators. This is helpful if you have a library of spintax articles already created using a different tool.

Additional Text Processing

ArticleMill has numerous additional text processing features to help create unique articles easily. It can:

• Convert contractions to separate words
• Convert hyphenated, two part and compound words to alternatives
• Convert numbers to words
• Convert words to numbers
• Automatically convert words to common replacements, such as replacing “bake” with “cook”
• Automatically convert words to alternate spellings , such as replacing “gray” with “grey”
• Automatically convert words to British English, such as replacing “color” with “colour”
• Capitalize the start of sentences

You can choose to view the spun articles on your screen or to download them as a zip file.

We provide this tool as a free service to members (and visitors) of our NetBuilders forum.  Give it a “spin” — I think you will like it.

21.06.2011 Uncategorized No Comments

Daily News Montenegro

MemeBridge has extensive experience creating and managing reference sites.  That is our niche and our core competency.  We have dabbled in other niches, such as image sites or eCommerce, but we focus 90% of our efforts on what we know.

We recently started a project which really pushed us out of our comfort zone.  The project is Daily News Montenegro, an English-language news portal for expats, investors, tourists, and business people interested in the country of Montenegro.

Montenegro recently celebrated it’s fifth birthday as an independent nation.  The last five years have been a time of incredible growth for the nation, but the next ten years should far surpass them.  Montenegro is the fastest-growing tourist destination in the world.  The country of Montenegro possesses incredible natural beauty which is almost untouched by development.  In addition to the coastline of the Atlantic ocean, there is also the fantastic sheltered Kotor Bay and Lake Skadar — one of the largest lakes in Europe.  Right next to the water are the daunting black mountains for which Montenegro is named.  This winter I will visit Montenegro’s nascent ski resorts and report on their progress.

The site is taking of rapidly, due to significant support from my neighbors here in Montenegro.  They are promoting the site and the site is promoting Montenegro — it’s a win for everyone.

04.11.2010 Uncategorized No Comments

DMCA Complaints and Ugg Boots

Ugg Boots has been filing massive numbers of DMCA Complaints. The complaints are disturbingly vague, and yet Google has been processing and approving them.

The complaints state:

Our firm represents Deckers Outdoor Corporation, (“Deckers”) in trademark
and copyright matters. Deckers is known in the trade as UGG Australia and
owns the UGG trademark. Pursuant to 17 U.S.C. §512, we hereby request that
you expeditiously remove the websites located at the domains in the
attached spreadsheet from your search index for violations of United States
Copyright law. Google has my signature on file.

In addition, investigation suggests that the website(s) is/are being used
to sell counterfeit UGG goods from China and/or other foreign countries to
consumers in the U.S. These counterfeit sales violate multiple U.S. laws,
including Title 15 of the United States Code.

Examples of the complaints can be found here:

• 28 October, 2009
• 17 February, 2010
• 6 March, 2010
• 23 March, 2010

We have not received a complaint from Ugg Boots, also known as Deckers Outdoor Corporation, or their lawyers, Greer, Burns & Crain, Ltd.   In fact, our own Cheap Uggs page is actually benefiting from these complaints, because many of our competitors have been kicked out of the SERPs.  However, I am worried about the chilling effects of this combination of the business practices of Ugg’s and Google.  Ugg has successfully removed six entries from the first page of Google’s search results, twenty-one entries from the page two results, and thirty-two entries from the page three results.

Note the wording of the complaint, “for violations of United States Copyright law.”  That’s it.  That is the entire proof offered — and Google complies without question.  The lawyers go on to suggest “that the website(s) is/are being used to sell counterfeit UGG goods from China and/or other foreign countries”, but that appears to be immaterial to their claim or their request.

I would like to know their nature of Ugg’s claims, and I believe that Google should want to know the nature of these claims before censoring web sites from the search results.  Censorship is dangerous stuff, only slightly less so when done by corporations than by governments.