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Ive beomce friends with someone who is one of the most knowledgeable people in his field, in the world. He's also ethical, blunt, and honest (I respect that). He doesn't BS around or tell you want to hear, if you ask him his opinion, he'll tell you whether or not you want to hear it.
He is highly respected in some organizations, hated in other. The top org in the US fired him for, in their words, "Questionable practices" but in his words "calling it like it is".
To give you a little background, he used to work with someone who was oging to get his books published and managed a site for him (my friend's nickname, we'll call it nickname.com). Unfortunately, he took the $12,000 my friend sent him to publish the book, let nickname.com expire, and then registered firstlast.com (his real name) and promoted it as an "official" site for my friend (without his permission). It has adsense (all going to the ex-partner), questionable links, articles used without my friend's permission, ads that my friend would NOT want to be associated with and so on).
Starting about a month ago, I started a campaign to let people know that firstname.com is NOT him and people should not go to that site and then I registered firetname.org, .net, and .info plus I also registered nickname.org, .net, and .info (.com now points to a site promoting very unethical pratices, 301 redirect). Plus, when you Google "First Last", his site is on the first page of about 3,800 results.
I looked into litigation about getting the domain back, but he (nor I) doesn't have the $1,500 needed to file a complaint (and since the ex-partner is not in the US, the US courts won'tbe able to do much.
After that, I worked with him and with his permission, I pointed all the domains I bought to firstlast.org and built up a site with his articles, the only ads are ads to his books, a Google search bar (no adsense since it would bring up ads that would be a conflict of interest), and an Amazon.com search box. He's given me a page on his books, a page about him and his history, plus several articles that he's written or translated. Right now the site is only about 10 pages.
Last night it happened. I Googled "First Last" and found out that my site came up in the #9 spot. The .com came up in the #10 spot. Very odd since the site is only a few weeks old, but I'm not complaining! I've beaten the ex-partner in SEO right now (for the time being).
One little interesting tidbit, the Google result shows the .net, not the .org (.net is 301'ed to the .org), but the .org is on the second page of results.
I hope that I can take away enough traffic that the ex-partner decides that the domain isn't worth it and lets it drop, then I can get it though drop services (doubtful, buyt wishful thinking).
He is highly respected in some organizations, hated in other. The top org in the US fired him for, in their words, "Questionable practices" but in his words "calling it like it is".
To give you a little background, he used to work with someone who was oging to get his books published and managed a site for him (my friend's nickname, we'll call it nickname.com). Unfortunately, he took the $12,000 my friend sent him to publish the book, let nickname.com expire, and then registered firstlast.com (his real name) and promoted it as an "official" site for my friend (without his permission). It has adsense (all going to the ex-partner), questionable links, articles used without my friend's permission, ads that my friend would NOT want to be associated with and so on).
Starting about a month ago, I started a campaign to let people know that firstname.com is NOT him and people should not go to that site and then I registered firetname.org, .net, and .info plus I also registered nickname.org, .net, and .info (.com now points to a site promoting very unethical pratices, 301 redirect). Plus, when you Google "First Last", his site is on the first page of about 3,800 results.
I looked into litigation about getting the domain back, but he (nor I) doesn't have the $1,500 needed to file a complaint (and since the ex-partner is not in the US, the US courts won'tbe able to do much.
After that, I worked with him and with his permission, I pointed all the domains I bought to firstlast.org and built up a site with his articles, the only ads are ads to his books, a Google search bar (no adsense since it would bring up ads that would be a conflict of interest), and an Amazon.com search box. He's given me a page on his books, a page about him and his history, plus several articles that he's written or translated. Right now the site is only about 10 pages.
Last night it happened. I Googled "First Last" and found out that my site came up in the #9 spot. The .com came up in the #10 spot. Very odd since the site is only a few weeks old, but I'm not complaining! I've beaten the ex-partner in SEO right now (for the time being).
One little interesting tidbit, the Google result shows the .net, not the .org (.net is 301'ed to the .org), but the .org is on the second page of results.
I hope that I can take away enough traffic that the ex-partner decides that the domain isn't worth it and lets it drop, then I can get it though drop services (doubtful, buyt wishful thinking).
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