Comments on: SideWiki Blocker

By: Amelm

Amelm — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 19:41:04 +0000

Please send Your Feedback to Google about the Sidwiki.

This tool is a great idea BUT can cause irreparable damage to reputations and businesses when used by spammers.

Google should give webmasters a way to opt out their own websites OR the right to moderate comments related to our their own domains.

I really recommend to all website owners to claim the ownership of their sidewiki and to go to the following google page and leave a comment:

http://www.google.com/support/toolbar/bin/request.py?contact_type=sidewiki_feedback&hl=en

You can also read what other webmasters think of this tool and leave your own comment here:
http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Toolbar/thread?tid=65cd1ca77affd341&hl=en#all

Hope this will help!
I wish you all the best

By: Bruce

Bruce — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 03:17:35 +0000

Hi, its appears that SideWiki is tying its comment to specific URLs. So by changing the URLs, its becomes unique.

Its doesn’t really matter if you’ve got 1 or 12 charaster after the # symbol, its still makes it unique. The reason it does not go with just 1 symbol, is that there is techically a 1 in 26 chance of you coming up with the same URL as last time. But using 12 chars, the probabilty of it being the same is now almost ZERO

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By: iamronen

iamronen — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 15:27:13 +0000

Hello Bruce – and thank you for the Plugin.

I didn’t feel comfortable with the modified URL’s – maybe it’s because I do a lot of URL copying to create links…

When I was playing around with it I did try shortening the appended hash – and it worked. As far as the blocking goes I think even 1 character would do the trick – so why 12?

All Things Good
Ronen

By: ckm

ckm — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 10:08:51 +0000

nice piece – works brilliantly on both WP and straight sites

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By: Bruce

Bruce — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 05:38:18 +0000

Hi EricThor,

The effect on your sites SEO is unknow at the moment, but based on what I know about SEO, I think it will matter very little.

The default for most webservers is to ignore everything that comes after a # symbol, so if the search engines do the same thing, then its gonna have neglible impact on a sites SEO.

But we need to find out if that is the case or not.

By: EricThor

EricThor — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 01:51:34 +0000

Sorry, I now understand to move over the complete folder – works just fine.

Will this affect the way Google indexes a website? Can it harm current rankings?

Thanks and sorry for the confustion.

By: EricThor

EricThor — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 01:44:34 +0000

Module does not work in WordPress version 2.8.4

Followed the instructions, which make no sense at all, and copied a .js file into the WP/wp-content/plugins folder and it does not show up in the plug-in list.

There must be something else missing or needs to be done before a .js file shows up as a plug-in in WP.

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