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	<title>Comments on: Unavailable-After the Dirty Bastards are Gone</title>
	<link>http://www.johnon.com/375/unavailable_after.html</link>
	<description>I think there's an opinion on that subject lying around here somewhere....</description>
	<pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 13:48:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>by: Ethics of SEO</title>
		<link>http://www.johnon.com/375/unavailable_after.html#comment-47185</link>
		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Sep 2007 01:46:05 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description>[...] Generally, when one hires an SEO consultant, it would be hoped that they would follow search engine guidelines, but there are many approaches that be have temporary results that eventually may get your site banned from the search engines. There is also the fact that you may pay for search engine optimization, but when you stop paying your site will experience a great drop in the rankings. Take for example one of the evil uses of the unavailable_after tag. [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[&#8230;] Generally, when one hires an SEO consultant, it would be hoped that they would follow search engine guidelines, but there are many approaches that be have temporary results that eventually may get your site banned from the search engines. There is also the fact that you may pay for search engine optimization, but when you stop paying your site will experience a great drop in the rankings. Take for example one of the evil uses of the unavailable_after tag. [&#8230;]
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		<title>by: TallTroll</title>
		<link>http://www.johnon.com/375/unavailable_after.html#comment-43826</link>
		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Aug 2007 21:50:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid>http://www.johnon.com/375/unavailable_after.html#comment-43826</guid>
					<description>The day that either

a) Google unveil the Rapid Reaction Spam Airborne Assault Division

or b) a court of law makes SE performance a legal asset;

... I'll allow that possibly their opinions carry some actual weight.

&#62;&#62; should probably reconsider as programmers that once-upon-a-time did similar tricks with time bombs in software that failed

Different entirely though. Software is a product, whose performance can be measured, and whose code can even be legally protected under copyright. How, exactly, do you propose to shoehorn SE rankings under current IP law? If you blow up software, of course there are consequences, it's tantamount to property (and Anglo-Saxon derived law is HOT on that subject)

But traffic? People floating about in the Tubes of the Interwebs? Who the hell owns them?

Besides, Google is a publically held, for-profit corporation, who supply various search related services. They can choose for any reason or for none to include you, or not, in their index. The second you try to apply any artificial notion of "fairness" to it ("Boo-hoo, that unavailable_after killed my site, it not FAIR") it breaks. You either have to nationalise Google, and make them a publically owned utility, or take the kicks - pick one

&#62;&#62; He says it was his service that put them into the SERPs, so it’s ok that a lack of his service will remove them from the SERP

That is, in my opinion, an overly cynical way to look at it, but OTOH, how many eager SEOs have had a client drop them / refuse to pay / otherwise stitch them up? There are Dirty Clients too you know, neither side is innocent.

The WWW is free... actually, really free. That means you are free to get cheated, as well as the other good stuff</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The day that either</p>
<p>a) Google unveil the Rapid Reaction Spam Airborne Assault Division</p>
<p>or b) a court of law makes SE performance a legal asset;</p>
<p>&#8230; I&#8217;ll allow that possibly their opinions carry some actual weight.</p>
<p>&gt;&gt; should probably reconsider as programmers that once-upon-a-time did similar tricks with time bombs in software that failed</p>
<p>Different entirely though. Software is a product, whose performance can be measured, and whose code can even be legally protected under copyright. How, exactly, do you propose to shoehorn SE rankings under current IP law? If you blow up software, of course there are consequences, it&#8217;s tantamount to property (and Anglo-Saxon derived law is HOT on that subject)</p>
<p>But traffic? People floating about in the Tubes of the Interwebs? Who the hell owns them?</p>
<p>Besides, Google is a publically held, for-profit corporation, who supply various search related services. They can choose for any reason or for none to include you, or not, in their index. The second you try to apply any artificial notion of &#8220;fairness&#8221; to it (&#8221;Boo-hoo, that unavailable_after killed my site, it not FAIR&#8221;) it breaks. You either have to nationalise Google, and make them a publically owned utility, or take the kicks - pick one</p>
<p>&gt;&gt; He says it was his service that put them into the SERPs, so it’s ok that a lack of his service will remove them from the SERP</p>
<p>That is, in my opinion, an overly cynical way to look at it, but OTOH, how many eager SEOs have had a client drop them / refuse to pay / otherwise stitch them up? There are Dirty Clients too you know, neither side is innocent.</p>
<p>The WWW is free&#8230; actually, really free. That means you are free to get cheated, as well as the other good stuff
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		<title>by: Darren McLaughlin</title>
		<link>http://www.johnon.com/375/unavailable_after.html#comment-42705</link>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Aug 2007 12:47:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid>http://www.johnon.com/375/unavailable_after.html#comment-42705</guid>
					<description>It's ideas like these that make people want to rush right out and hire an SEO :)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It&#8217;s ideas like these that make people want to rush right out and hire an SEO :)
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		<title>by: Jill</title>
		<link>http://www.johnon.com/375/unavailable_after.html#comment-42056</link>
		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Aug 2007 15:22:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid>http://www.johnon.com/375/unavailable_after.html#comment-42056</guid>
					<description>Amazing how sleazy the human race is :(</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Amazing how sleazy the human race is :(
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		<title>by: Tuf's</title>
		<link>http://www.johnon.com/375/unavailable_after.html#comment-41803</link>
		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Aug 2007 16:12:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid>http://www.johnon.com/375/unavailable_after.html#comment-41803</guid>
					<description>&lt;strong&gt;Référencement &#38; Extorsion...&lt;/strong&gt;

"unavailable_after" est une nouvelle meta que le Google a annoncé sur son Blog très récemment. Voici sa syntaxe :





Si vous ajoutez sur une page ce code, la......</description>
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<p>&#8220;unavailable_after&#8221; est une nouvelle meta que le Google a annoncé sur son Blog très récemment. Voici sa syntaxe :</p>
<p>Si vous ajoutez sur une page ce code, la&#8230;&#8230;
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