On Fri, 22 Aug 2008 09:43:25 +0200, Onno Ekker wrote: > Just after releasing an update for my adopted ThreadKey extension on AMO > I got this "100% CLEAN award granted by Softpedia" mail. It looks > genuine enough, but I wonder what I should do with it. Maybe the only > thing it will do, is get some more links to the extension page, so a bit > higher ranking on google when people search on the name? Not harmful, > but it doesn't strike me as very useful either.
I just ignore them. Basically they are just a link farm to drive eyeballs and sell advertising space. > And I wonder what I have done to get this listing. ThreadKey is an > adopted extension, so maybe the creator did add it to Softpedia? As far as I can tell they just pick extensions at random. I also think they look at recent updates to AMO because I got one just after updating a very obscure SeaMonkey only extension. > Do other project owners also get these "awards"? And what do you do with > them? I just file them in some obscure corner of gmail. > Also last week I stumbled upon Add-ons Mirror, or AMI. I'd seen that > site before, but never paid too much attention to it. Do other project > owners use it to publish there extension? Does it help? Yeah, The Extensions Mirror predates AMO. Recently they changed their name to The Addons Mirror International (due to a change of ownership) and isn't getting as much traffic since it dropped off most people's bookmarks. It's useful for those extensions stuck in sandbox hell and for those looking for older more obscure extensions. Some extension developers deliberately avoid AMO and host their extensions on AMI for ideological reasons (which I've never managed to understand) And yes it does help get your extensions noticed. Phil -- Philip Chee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://flashblock.mozdev.org/ http://xsidebar.mozdev.org Guard us from the she-wolf and the wolf, and guard us from the thief, oh Night, and so be good for us to pass. [ ]Thesaurus: ancient reptile with an excellent vocabulary. * TagZilla 0.066.6 _______________________________________________ Project_owners mailing list [email protected] https://www.mozdev.org/mailman/listinfo/project_owners
