Sunday, November 05, 2006
When is a crescat still a crescat?
William Baude
to me
More options 10:44 pm (5 minutes ago)
Hi,
We have moved Crescat to www.crescatsententia.net. Would you mind
updating the link in your blogroll at your earliest possible
convenience? If you'd be willing to post an announcement on your blog
itself, we'd greatly appreciate it as well, but I understand if you
aren't willing to.
Last month, without my knowledge or consent, crescatsententia.org was
purchased by a Search Engine Optimization firm, which makes money by
buying up popular sites (especially those with high Google pageranks)
and then selling links to websites looking to boost their search terms.
The new purchaser offered to sell back the blog for several thousand
dollars-- more than I can afford-- so we have moved shop. This means
that I can't post an announcement on the old blog about the move, so we
are reliant upon word of mouth to tell our readers what has become of
us. (Changing over the links on your blogroll as soon as possible also
decreases the amount that the abandoned site can be used to mislead
Google and other search engines.)
[If your blog runs on Movable Type, you can use the search and replace
feature to update any links you might have to entries on our blog. Just
search for crescatsententia.org , then use the replace function to sub
in crescatsententia.net, making all of the old links functional again
(though you'll have to rebuild to publish the changes).]
Thanks very much for your help. I'm hoping we can reach as many of our
former readers as possible.
Best,
Will
William Baude
More options 10:44 pm (5 minutes ago)
Hi,
We have moved Crescat to www.crescatsententia.net. Would you mind
updating the link in your blogroll at your earliest possible
convenience? If you'd be willing to post an announcement on your blog
itself, we'd greatly appreciate it as well, but I understand if you
aren't willing to.
Last month, without my knowledge or consent, crescatsententia.org was
purchased by a Search Engine Optimization firm, which makes money by
buying up popular sites (especially those with high Google pageranks)
and then selling links to websites looking to boost their search terms.
The new purchaser offered to sell back the blog for several thousand
dollars-- more than I can afford-- so we have moved shop. This means
that I can't post an announcement on the old blog about the move, so we
are reliant upon word of mouth to tell our readers what has become of
us. (Changing over the links on your blogroll as soon as possible also
decreases the amount that the abandoned site can be used to mislead
Google and other search engines.)
[If your blog runs on Movable Type, you can use the search and replace
feature to update any links you might have to entries on our blog. Just
search for crescatsententia.org , then use the replace function to sub
in crescatsententia.net, making all of the old links functional again
(though you'll have to rebuild to publish the changes).]
Thanks very much for your help. I'm hoping we can reach as many of our
former readers as possible.
Best,
Will
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