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yes, it's very very bizarre and it drives me crazy. We've tried 3 or 4 different things to fix it and nothing seems to take. Note that our attribution terms do

yes, it's very very bizarre and it drives me crazy. We've tried 3 or 4 different things to fix it and nothing seems to take. Note that our attribution terms do require a link back primarily for this reason, and even the sites who attribute back to us totally legally still have this problem. It truly does feel like a Google bug, honestly. See related discussion at http://webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/5385/page-appears-indexed-in-google-but-not-findable-for-any-search-terms http://webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/5385/page-appe... . I'm all ears if anyone knows of a way to fix this.

dminor 16y ago
Do what you can to get links to your questions with the question title as anchor text. 1) Is it possible to require the question title as anchor text in the creative commons link that points to the question (and not a nofollow link obviously)? 2) Make a widget for embedding a question and chosen answer on a web page, along with a link back to the question, a la google maps. 3) Make a wordpress plugin that takes a stack overflow link and turns it into the question and chosen answer, with a link back to stack overflow.
brc 16y ago
Why not just yank the creative commons licence and replace with one that explicitly does not allow scraping? That would be the fastest way in my book. I've never worked out why SO allows it in the first place. Is it just to appear open and web 2.0-y, or is there a business reason. It's a proper business now, users are loyal, cancel the licence. I can't think of a single person who would say 'oh, but I much preferred to read those spam sites'.
- Encosia 16y ago
  Yes, absolutely. As someone who has contributed a fair amount of content to SO, I would wholeheartedly support modifying the CC license on the content I've contributed. I much prefer the idea of that to the idea of allowing my answers to help build dens 'o spam like eFreedom. Now that I think of it, my answers going straight-to-spam is a nontrivial detriment to my contributing content to SO.
  - brc 16y ago
    Glad to see I'm not the only one. But I really posted this comment in reply to say thanks for the blog posts on jquery/asp.net. They really got me going in the right direction - fantastic stuff.
    - Encosia 16y ago
      Thank you for the kind words. It's always great to hear that someone's been able to extrapolate a useful approach/direction out of my rambling.

dminor 16y ago

Do what you can to get links to your questions with the question title as anchor text. 1) Is it possible to require the question title as anchor text in the creative commons link that points to the question (and not a nofollow link obviously)? 2) Make a widget for embedding a question and chosen answer on a web page, along with a link back to the question, a la google maps. 3) Make a wordpress plugin that takes a stack overflow link and turns it into the question and chosen answer, with a link back to stack overflow.

brc 16y ago

Why not just yank the creative commons licence and replace with one that explicitly does not allow scraping? That would be the fastest way in my book. I've never worked out why SO allows it in the first place. Is it just to appear open and web 2.0-y, or is there a business reason. It's a proper business now, users are loyal, cancel the licence. I can't think of a single person who would say 'oh, but I much preferred to read those spam sites'.

Encosia 16y ago
Yes, absolutely. As someone who has contributed a fair amount of content to SO, I would wholeheartedly support modifying the CC license on the content I've contributed. I much prefer the idea of that to the idea of allowing my answers to help build dens 'o spam like eFreedom. Now that I think of it, my answers going straight-to-spam is a nontrivial detriment to my contributing content to SO.
- brc 16y ago
  Glad to see I'm not the only one. But I really posted this comment in reply to say thanks for the blog posts on jquery/asp.net. They really got me going in the right direction - fantastic stuff.
  - Encosia 16y ago
    Thank you for the kind words. It's always great to hear that someone's been able to extrapolate a useful approach/direction out of my rambling.