Hello Tim,
On 17/08/2010 08:52, Tim's Trees wrote:
Martin,
Thank you for your detailed reply.
I had hoped my site would be a comprehensive list of events within a
certain category.
Let us say Craft Fairs and because of the searching I would provide, a
user could select all Craft Fairs in the Cornwall area for the next 12
months.
If each event was an hCalendar, then they could right click to add all
to a Google Calendar and publish that Google Calendar. If I had hoped
to generate some sort of advertising revenue from my original site,
then this would potentially dilute that income stream.
Not necessarily, If your site was just publishing events, then that is
no bad thing you can always provide advertising along side the event
data, the hope is that you will attract *more* visitors because you have
published your data in a "take away" format i.e. hCalendar.
They could similarly data-scrape the page and reformat and publish,
but that would be more difficult.
Indeed ....
So my fear was/is, am I making it too easy to acquire my lists or
should I take it as a compliment and not worry.
Making your events/lists easy to acquire is a good thing on the whole,
by doing so you are not only making it easy for the average person to do
something with your data, you are also making it easy for search engines
to store your data and include in their listings. Other sites may also
want to do something with your data, but again don't worry too much
about that, unless they are copying your entire website of course ;) Its
the nature off the web these days to syndicate/re-publish data somewhere
else.
I was also looking at doing something similar with hListing for a
classifieds' site.
Good Idea :)
Many thanks again for your excellent reply.
No problem.
Martin McEvoy
Tim
On 16 August 2010 23:12, Martin McEvoy<mar...@weborganics.co.uk> wrote:
On 16/08/2010 19:24, Tim's Trees wrote:
Thank you all for your full and quick replies.
You are welcome ....
You were right, the
original was a complete mismatch of quotes and once I had fixed those
it displayed in Chrome and Operator:Firefox. I apologise for not
spotting that.
:)
I have noted the urls you have recommended and will investigate those
first in future.
I am wanting to create an event site and I had the idea, I should have
my entries in hCalendar format, but I am now worrying, that it may be
too easy to clone my site, with a right click. Do you have any
opinions on this ?
Im a little unsure of what you mean if you mean by cloning perhaps you mean
spoofing? ( copying a website possibly for fraud such as phishing or
email-spoofing ) it doesn't really happen *too* much in the real world
unless your site is a bank or it offers online payments in some way (e.g.
PayPal), In which case I wouldn't worry to much about that. Having said all
that Social Networking sites (Facebook/MySpace) are becoming targets for
these kind of attacks nowadays.
If you are worried about people copy and pasting from your website, unless
its copyrighted material, again don't worry too much, Id take that as a
compliment, the majority of people who *do* copy and paste tend to be just
learning. If its for anything else the stuff they are copying will never do
them any good as far as search engines are concerned because *you* published
the data *first*. Some search engines (google) will actually remove pages
that contain duplicate content from their listings, or it will bury the
duplicate content so deep in their listings that there is no way anyone will
ever see it anyway.
The rule of thumb concerning microformats is, If you use microformats on
your website you can expect your data to be shared, crawled and Indexed by
practically anything that can consume microformats, If you don't want this
to happen, say because your data is private or something sensitive, then
don't use microformats. Dont let that last part put you off though, sharing
your data, particularly events and contact details, *is* a good thing.
Hope all that helps rest your mind a little.
Best wishes
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Martin McEvoy
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Martin McEvoy
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