Did Stompernet Blow Up Scribd?
Recently I have been getting some great rankings with a web 2.0 site called Scribd. They allow you to upload word, pdf, powerpoint and other documents to their site. Whats also cool is that it finds related uploaded documents and puts them on the same page. Now because of this Google sees Scribd as an authority site on many niches and ranks its pages and mine included accordingly.
Stompernet as part of their Going Natural 2.0 free program talked about the success online marketers where having with Scribd and this I think caused Scribd to take the view that members could not now have html in their pages making the links to affiliate programs and their sites unclickable.
David Leigh at his blog is suggesting the same as I am and actually got a response from Andy Jenkins from Stompernet who was not happy. His argument was that many other people have been promoting Scribd and they have been deleting thousands before Stompernet mentioned them. Andy it seems has taken this personally.
You can read the post “Stompernet Sucks too: scribd demolished” here
My recommendation would be to join the immediate edge as they are much cheeper and they were the first to discover Scribd and other hot web 2.0 platforms including hub pages and squidoo.
Charles Heflin said,
January 19, 2008 @ 5:37 am
I actually discuss this at my blog as well. I even show some pretty good evidence to boot.
http://www.charlesheflin.com/gaming-social-systems-means-the-end-of-the-game/
- Charles
David Leigh said,
January 19, 2008 @ 7:15 am
Hi Dan,
Thanks for the comments, it was Andy Jenkins though, not Andy Edmunds.
Cheers,
David
The Mad Ape said,
January 19, 2008 @ 10:02 pm
The jury is still out as to whether StomperNet was the cause, but after reading Andy’s response to a very negative post on David Leigh’s blog, I give StomperNet the benefit of the doubt.
The Mad Ape