sgtmac

The whole music thing, is fuzzy at best. I have a friend, that plays free music downloads…that is, artists who let you download and play their music for free. All they want is exposure to their music.

I on the other hand want to use copyrighted music, which in itself is a dangerous area. I have no intent, to illegally download their music, or let a visitor download their music without paying for it first.

Some folks I hear, download music from a site, say an MP3, then put a player on the site to play the music. You would assume this is OK, as long as the link to the music you are linking to is not illegally gotten from an illegitimate site. (This however is a dangerous grey area)…How do you know the site you are downloading from, has the legal authority to let someone else download it.

If one looks over many of this so called FREE MP3 sites, and look over the terms, you will find they have disclaimers for using and downloading music from their sites.

The term FREE MUSIC, is dangerous in itself.

Anyway, I am still researching this, but so far, no clear answers.

I looked over the video link for Matt Cuts…Thanks so much for the info. Lots of good video here, that I need to look over. ??

I went back reinstalled the follow links for all pages. I didn’t know and wasn’t concerned abut messing up the page ranking…The thing is, that it shows the site url on top, and then lists every technical page below that. I guess as you say, it doesn’t hurt, but I don’t see the need for having these pages show up.

I haven’t got around to your suggestion on the robots.txt., but I think I iwll give it a go. I just can’t see the need for my tech pages being listed.

Thanks again for all the advice ??

Really appreciate your help in this matter. I’ll do as you suggest and check this out. In the meantime, I guess I should go back and change the No Follow on these pages back to Follow, is that correct?

As a follow-up, did some searching on the SEO, but couldn’t find anything worthwhile. Finally went into Pages, and below that the SEO section where you can modify SEO settings per page.

Found a section titled:

Meta Robots Index-which I changed from Follow to No Follow
Meta Robots Follow-Changed from Follow to No Follow.

I changed all my pages to No Follow on the two areas mentioned above, but left my About page the same. Couldn’t find anything specific on how to do this, or what methods are normal, but will keep the post alive, in case someone else has any info, or needs help.

About the only setting I could see for this problem, so will see what happens, next time they crawl the site.

Thanks for the info…I’m brand to this, so not sure, where to find this robot.txt file…I will try and see if I can find out today, and will post again…I may need some additional guidance, lol ??

Still having problems with the Focus Keywords. I went back to some of my previous posts to tweak the FKW. Sometimes I get a list of all, sometimes only a few. On my last post, the keywords showed up in all categories, but when I published the article, they all show up with NO. I tred this at least three times on the same article, but it keeps wiping out the KW’s.

A am puzzled by this section.

Thanks for the link, I will check it out. BTW, I have been looking over the music industries sites on the Copyright issue. Man, they have really put a halt to the P2P downloads and other things.

One would think, they would work with us, so we as lovers of music, could at least post songs on the blog, without, fear of visitors downloading them free of charge. A link back to an artist or producer if the visitor wanted to purchase the song or album, would be a plus.

If anyone knows of such a plug-in, that can be used without fear of copyright infringement, let me know. Surely someone out here has thought how something like this should work or can develop an application in concert with the recording industry.

Thanks for the info guys, but still confused about this problem. I see a lot of sites with mp3 music for listening, but darn if I can find any legalize to just add songs to a blog for listening.

Although I can find a lot of non-copyrighted stuff, it’s the copyrighted stuff, that I only want to put on the blog, for non-commercial listening purposes. One would think, this would be no problem, as long as you linked back to the producer or artist.

One thing I have found, is that most of the MP3 sites, download the files from internet sources, then put a disclaimer on their site, that it’s their not responsibility. A load of baloney if you ask me.

Well…OK…I understand the purpose is to shorten the URL, but how does the visitor get the shortened URL, if it does not show on the browser?

A Short-link link, shows up when posting, which I can click on and get the short link as Admin, but how does a visitor see the short URL? Just by clicking on the short-link myself, doesn’t seem to change anything, so someone else can see it.

Thanks for the tip and link, but since I am all new to this stuff it’s like reading Latin, lol! I’m not sure I understand the process, even after reading it twice.

Thanks for visiting the site. ??