Regular readers will know, only painfully well, that I consider download sites to be loathsome creatures.  The justifications for this view sprinkle articles in this blog time and time again.

So I’m not going to go into detail, again, on why I consider them to be so.  Please use the search tool above if you seek clarficiation on this – but warning, it’s not pretty.

Some time back (well over twelve months ago now) I stated on several forums and this blog that the day was coming when the search engines started banning these cretinous sites.  While that day hasn’t quite arrived, it would seem we are closer than many, if not most, ISV’s suspected.

I’m a server log reader-aholic.  I religously examine my server logs through a number of tools daily (not all at once) for each website I run.  Imagine my delight today when I see the search term from Yahoo for  “free live sound mixing software” and got the following result, page after page, for the download sites:

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After page six my enthusiasm for looking flagged.

Some notable names in there, many more are not there of course.  But it’s encouraging.  Site Advisors accuracy on such matters is a matter of some dispute, but in this instance I’m not complaining.  Though I do feel for the Adwords advertiser the scumsites download sites are featuring in the listing.

Updated: Forgot to mention, and it’s important, if you’re linking to these places on your website, indeed any download sites at all – PULL THOSE LINKS NOW.  Site Advisor works on the principle of guilt by association.  If they are flagged you’ll end up flagged like this too!  That’s been the scenario in the past.

Scott Kane

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