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Originally Posted by AmeliaG
I think it is deeply wrong that some non-adult entity can come along and walk all over your mark and push it down in the search engines, beneath their less legit usage, just because they are non-adult.
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I have infinite respect for you and your brilliant work product but have to disagree with you here. to reiterate I really don't think they are tryna "walk all over" anything
do a search for NDN or NDN guys or NDN girls and see a dictionary definition of NDN as slang for Native. along with other refs dating way back to the mid 2000's
a broadly used term, a book club of Native women calling themselves NDNgirlsbookclub is a description as I see it. isn't trademark infringement, even if Shimmy had one. not a lawyer either obvs but just not a fight I think is worth investing money into. I can't imagine they even factored Shimmy's site in when selecting their site name
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Originally Posted by asorelli
Seriously though, even though google is a hot mess right now with results, you shouldn't have too many problems outranking them with little effort. But, you may want to consider a redesign..
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wicked post, wicked advice
never use my phone and checked it out on mobile and had to scroll out to see the regular text. very few of the pics were even visible
mobile def a ranking factor, but tbh this 'competing' site has some pretty hard core links from heavy duty academic institutions and mainstream publications. for good reason I think. it's at least on surface to me apparent that they are doing important work that's being recognized
I am so biased though. as 'tis the law that everyone in JA has to have at least one nickname, mine here is Library Gyal. sharing books (unlike everyone else when a Jamaican borrows a book they actually return it, North Americas learn something!), giving away books, talking about books...
have learned so much and made so many friends and connections just through the simple joy of reading-across multiple nations
@Shimmy ya know I love ya, was being real in what I suggested above re reaching out
you shot your site footage in Canada, which is where Pickton operated. to to initiated, that was Canada's worst serial killer. estimated to have murdered between 26 and 49 predominantly Native women
the murders he was convicted of were mostly bodies of women found on his farm AFTER a woman had escaped an encounter and went to the cops (RCMP) with his address, but because she was a street level sex worker no one believed her or bothered to investigate
in the subsequent inquest (this is what Canada does when they fuck up, hold an inquest so they can quietly shove away paperwork claiming they did something) there was testimony from multiple women -not drug addicted- stating that he tried to lure them to his pig farm to shoot porn for money
he was rebuffed by them, what saved them was apparently that he detested bathing and stank. but who knows how many were just out partying for the night, not heavily street involved as many of the victims he claimed to have killed weren't, just went cuz...'I'm lit and feeling a vibe and what could go wrong?'
bear in mind most bodies weren't found, even some of the DNA of the victims was within the excrement of his pigs. that is what he did with most of the bodies, fed them to the pigs
to this day Native women are such easy targets cuz in terms of authorities no one gives a fuck. as a Black man you have no idea what this is like [insert sarcasm upside down here, just too heavy a subject to post an emoji]
this is where I think you could collab with the book club gyals to do something important
an info sheet/pdf/blog post/link/whatever on how to work in porn safely. not just STD testing and contracts and all that, but also how to choose
who to work with and protocol for sets etc that is an unknown to those not familiar with the industry. that could do so much good, again for mutual benefit if you get a link back and perhaps some good press from it?
again, just ideas. who knows, just throwing stuff out there on a topic that based on the novel I've just written above you can tell hits me on a bunch of levels
you've worked in Native communities, you know how to approach them
again, not a lawyer either, just think a C&D or trademark for a site with a copyright that reads 2009-2019 would be an epic waste of money. def fix you site and seriously consider contacting them. if it works then you get some positive PR and do some good. call it creative marketing
much love to you