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Tuesday, October 6th, 2009
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Google Sidewiki Blockers

Google Sidewiki Blockers

google sidewiki screenshotThis post is not meant to be a com­men­tary about Goo­gle Side­wiki, but rather ser­ves as an upda­ted list of the most recent tools and appli­ca­tions that have been built to attempt to block Side­wiki from appea­ring next to your web­site if you don’t want it to.

Michel and I will be kee­ping a very close eye on this story, and will update this list as new tools and appli­ca­tions are built to put the con­trol back in the hands of web­site owners.

We will be pos­ting our own com­men­tary very soon on Side­wiki and how it may effect your your online busi­ness. But in the mean­time, please refer to this list of avai­la­ble tools, which will be upda­ted as they come available.

UPDATE: We've now posted our own commentary on the Google Sidewiki controversy, and wel­come your com­ments and thoughts on the subject.

We encou­rage all com­ments to take place on our own public real estate space, using our own com­men­ting func­tio­na­lity. We’ve spent a great deal of time and money on buil­ding an open com­mu­nity, and we feel that to use Side­wiki to voice your opi­nions, ins­tead of our built-​​in com­men­ting func­tio­na­lity, is like­ned to spra­ying graf­fiti all over our home. So, please, res­pect our home and speak to us in the man­ner we have set out for you to use. We're listening...

Latest Side­wiki Bloc­king Tools and Scripts

Please note, the follo­wing list of exter­nal links is for your refe­rence and con­ve­nience. We can­not take res­pon­si­bi­lity for the con­tent of these links and sug­gest you do your due dili­gence is researching these resour­ces before ins­ta­lling anything on your website.

If you know of any addi­tio­nal tools or scripts that have not yet been added here, please com­ment below and we will add them.

Latest Sug­ges­ted Stra­te­gies for Dea­ling With Goo­gle Sidewiki

Anti-​​Sidewiki Acti­vism Options (help tell Goo­gle NO)

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Sylvie Fortin is co-founder of The Licorice Group, a publishing and training company dedicated to helping entrepreneurs and online marketers grow their businesses. For more information, visit her blog at http://MarketersBoard.com.

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  • Hi, here are three other strategies/blockers that I posted last night in addition to Cata­lin Ionescu’s:

    http://www.websitesecrets101.com/sidewiki-block...
    http://www.vizioninteractive.com/how-to-claim-y...
    http://www.seroundtable.com/archives/020857.html

    Thank you for these, the list will continue to grow no doubt
    JEDsWEB
  • semmyw
    Hello Sylvie looking forward your post! I want to know more about google new tools and how to privent someone to post a negatif thing..
  • @JEDsWEB - Thanks so much for those. I've added them to the list.

    @semmyw - I'll be posting my personal commentary on this issue very soon. I think it is very important for website owners to be well aware of this and protect ourselves from those who would use it to abuse others.
  • I don't know if this counts -- but I made a 42-second video to promote Catalin's blocker -- It's on my site, if you want to see it.
  • AchieveMaster
    I wanted to add to your list. After finding out about the Sidewiki issue on the Warrior Forum, I create "The Ultimate Sidewiki Blocker" which incorporates true randomization plus the ability to add a keyword into the hash key so that you know it is your blocker doing the blocking. No other blocker has this (yet). I include both a standard script for static pages plus a wordpress plugin and it is all free!
    http://www.achievemaster.com/landing/USB/Ultima...

    David T. McKee
    The Master Achiever
  • AchieveMaster
    Here is the sidewiki blocker I wrote for both static HTML pages and wordpress as a plugin (you get both) ""The Ultimate Sidewiki Blocker". It has both true randomization of the hash code using the date, true letter and number randomization, and allows you to optionally add a identifier key to the from of your has (no other blocker does this) so you know it is your code running. The has ends up looking like this: .../#fortin_8jd754hjdif843hed93h

    Also, it is absolutely free!

    http://www.achievemaster.com/landing/USB/Ultima...

    David T. McKee
    "The Master Achiever"
  • Ewa
    I hope the Sideviki is dangerous only for the user of this Google's tool. otherwise it is a total attack for all webside owners and bloggers.
    Is it neceassy for a normal web side owner to use the blockers?
  • Not sure what a "normal website owner" is defined as (I think I'm pretty normal). :)

    But my problem with all of this is that all website owners lose the ability to manage the comments appearing that are directly related to (beside) their own websites, and that's where blockers may become a necessity. For us, we haven't yet decided to implement a blocker, as we're in a "wait and see" mode. But we won't hesitate to do it if it becomes necessary.

    Note that even the blockers won't stop Sidewiki comments from happening, and they will still be searchable (indexed by Google), but that, at least, would be located on Google's domain, not appearing next to my own while a customer is browsing my website.
  • AchieveMaster
    I am working on a rewrite of the Ultimate side-wiki Blocker that uses the htaccess to detect when a site has the side-wiki toolbar installed and only uses the url hash in that case. This will make the URL even more friendly. Also, a small little post could be popped up optionally to tell the user why SW is being blocked - which could then inform the user about side-wiki and that there are other tool bars they could be using (including the fact that Google is still offering the toolbar without side-wiki).

    Ultimately the best solution would be to detect side-wiki, and then suck in the content, filter it according to rules set up by the site user, and then display it without the "evil comments". That gets into a whole other area however - as most users would balk at their content being tampered with. This is definitely a can-of-worms scenario.

    David T. McKee

    PS: Sorry about the double post before, my browser hiccuped in the middle of posting the original and I thought it did not make it!
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