Hi Dan! The press release is coming out on Monday morning. I did not want it to get out over the weekend when the news sites don't publish updates.
Obviously specifying the version number worsens things. Overall my web pages have a PageRank of 5. Some had a PR of 6 but I recently lost that. I however tried a couple of other product names with version numbers and did not dig up all that many pirate sites. E.g. for "sandvox 1.6.5" I found no pirated copy in the first 10 result pages. Of course, I am kinda flattered that pirates rushed to crack HoudahSpot within hours after the release. I however would like to know if they actually succeeded. Past pirates distributions had only the nag screen removed, but the limitation still in place. LOL. On Dec 27, 2009, at 5:07 PM, Dan Wood wrote: > Pierre -- > > I can imagine that this must be frustrating! > > I think that this is just going to happen. It's inevitable. > > However, I think that perhaps something else is going on. I think that if you > can work on improving your search engine placement overall, that the > legitimate sites will overpower the pirate sites. > > I can use an example of Fraser Speir's Viewfinder. Shortly after its release, > I did a bit of googling and he had quickly gotten the "badge of honor" of > being cracked." Because his app was so new, it hadn't really made it into the > mainstream websites. The pirate sites are, unfortunately, fairly well placed > by Google, and I"m guessed that there is so much activity that they tend to > get scanned daily, if not more frequent. > > Either this will come naturally -- try the query again in a few days, and see > if more legitimate websites (that outrank the pirate sites) show up in the > first few pages of Google results. E.g. websites like your own, Twitter, > Yahoo groups, MacUpdate, Apple Downloads, Cnet, facebook, squidoo, IUseThis, > VersionTracker, MacNN, TUAW, etc. > > Actually, you should take into account that many of these websites may > require some human editorial contribution, and a lot of people are not > working much during the Winter (northern hemisphere) holidays like Festivus > and Christmas. > > If you don't start seeing the legitimate websites out-rank the pirate sites > in a few days, then this probably means that these websites are not noticing > your application, and you need to work a some Search Engine Optimization to > get more links into your own website, and also other websites talking about > your product. > > (BTW I didn't find any press releases about HoudahSpot 2.6; the only > legitimate posts about 2.6 that I could find were just the software tracker > sites and echoes of that.) > > I have posted a bunch of tips that hopefully will be useful over on the > Karelia marketing blog: http://www.karelia.com/marketing/ .... Good luck! > > Dan > > Another note: It seems to me that specifying the version number in the search > string is more likely to turn up the > > On Dec 27, 2009, at 3:31 AM, Houdah - ML Pierre Bernard wrote: > > > Hi! > > > > I have just released HoudahSpot 2.6. The press release is coming out on > > Monday. Out of curiosity, I ran a Google search for "HoudahSpot 2.6" to see > > how far the news had already spread. > > > > The bad news: most first and second page results are links to cracked > > copies. http://www.google.com/search?q=houdahspot+2.6 > > > > I can't tell if the cracked copy actually works. RapidShare won't let me > > download without a Premium membership. > > > > Yet I am quite shocked by how fast and how far this has spread. This > > happened within hours of the release. > > > > I have sent an email to RapidShare asking them to take down the file. But > > they don't seem to be in a rush to react. Anyway I don't see this do much > > good. The cracker will always be faster at uploading the file than I will > > be at getting those sites take it down. > > > > Pierre > > > > - - - > > Houdah Software s. à r. l. > > http://www.houdah.com > > > > HoudahGeo: One-stop photo geocoding > > HoudahSpot: Powerful Spotlight frontend > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------ > > > > MacSB email guidelines: http://tinyurl.com/2g55d6 > > Use MacSB-Talk for off topic messages: > > http://groups.google.com/group/macsb-talk > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > > > - - - Houdah Software s. à r. l. http://www.houdah.com HoudahGeo: One-stop photo geocoding HoudahSpot: Powerful Spotlight frontend [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ MacSB email guidelines: http://tinyurl.com/2g55d6 Use MacSB-Talk for off topic messages: http://groups.google.com/group/macsb-talk Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/macsb/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/macsb/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
