Brian of Pizzaspotz
I Just Want to be Listed Like Other Pizza Blogs
Submit to a Blog Directory
Here at PizzaSpotz, we’re always looking for ways to get more traffic. Any website will fail, and fail miserably without you, our precious pizza loving readers. Adding your blog or website to various directories is one way to attract more site visitors. I thought I found a very appropriate blog directory to add PizzaSpotz to when I found PizzaBlogs.org.
My first thought was, “This is awesome!” I had found a website that specialized in pizza blogs. I’m going to list mine and get a lot of website visitors. I completed all of the requirements, filled in all those blank spaces with exactly the information they wanted. Then I saw the following: By clicking “Submit” you agree to our Terms of Use.
Terms of Use
That of course led me to read their Terms of Use. I read the terms carefully, because as any pizza lover and pizza blogger will see when browsing their list of pizza blogs is a glaring absence of the best of all pizza pizza blogs from their directory. SLICE, the pizza blog was missing. Why were they missing? Did they know something that the other pizza bloggers did not know? I think they read the terms of service agreement carefully. The first seven steps were simple but then I got to the 8th step on the pizzablogs.org (powered by Blog Nation) agreement, I did a double take. If you’re a pizza blogger or any blogger for that matter, read the following carefully and tell me what you see that’s a bit problematic.
8. User Content—License to Blog Nation.
You shall retain all ownership of your User Content. You hereby grant to Blog Nation (and its contractors and service providers) a non-exclusive, worldwide, perpetual fully paid-up license (with the right to freely sublicense) to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from, distribute, perform, transmit and display such User Content (in whole or part) and/or to incorporate it in other works in any form, media, or technology now known or later developed for the full term of any rights that may exist in such User Content. Blog Nation may freely exploit the User Content without payment of any license fees to you or any third party, and may freely license this right to third parties.
What part did you find objectionable? As for me, I found it problem with
ALL OF IT!
Maybe PizzaBlogs.org Won’t Use My Content
Absolutely right. They may have that legal mumbo jumbo in their “terms of use” to cover all bases. Maybe they have no devious plans to hijack all of my content or yours and use it to populate other blogs or whatever. The problem I see is that that legal mumbo jumbo does mean they can hijack your content and give it to others. As for our site, we have the world’s largest pizzeria website directory, they can take our lists and give it to anyone or use it themselves. They probably won’t. But….
And to be fair, I searched Google and could find nothing negative about pizzablogs.org or Blog Nation.
But just to be safe, I’ll stick with Slice, the Pizza Blog and do what they’ve done, and that’s decide to not be listed on a Blog Nation related website, in this case, pizzablogs.org.
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