The Sewing Mom

There has been quite a bit of discussion around the blogosphere regarding a certain company and it’s control of everyone’s P_R. It seems to me that this particular company has become too big for its own good and needs to come down a few pegs itself. One way to achieve this is through the use of a new and improved product being touted as Goo Gone by those who are developing it. This product is planned to be released within the week.

In the mean time, there are several things we as bloggers can do to try to stop the bleeding. Kate at I Think Therefore I Blog has written an excellent post on this very topic and has given some great advice on changes we can make right now. The whole point is that we as bloggers own our blogs, not some company that is wanting to tell us how good/bad we are by ranking us. They have tried to control our content, our links, and our opportunities and it’s time for it to stop.

I myself have removed a certain company’s ads from my sidebar as well as the P_R checker and have replace the checker with the [tag]Yahoo Badge[/tag] which shows incoming links which you can see in my left sidebar. I have also asked my family to no longer use a certain search engine, rather use Yahoo or anything else when they want to do a search.

While we may feel bruised, we are not broken and remember, help is on the way in the form of [tag]Goo Gone[/tag].