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Linden Lab's new traffic bot policy, one week on
Actually, to be fair, it's actually been nearly two weeks (12 days) since the recently-announced policy went into force in Second Life . We took a bit of a tour of all the old, familiar traffic bot installations to see what impact the new policy had on the crowded camps of faux-popularity bots. As near as we can tell from on the ground (or, more commonly in the sky, or under the ground), the answer seemed to be none at all. All the bots are still at their stations.
Linden Lab to take action against Second Life SEO bots
Looking mostly like fluffy clouds, this box of bots at a gambling site in the Joywind Korea sim in Second Life makes the site seem more popular than it otherwise might be. Jack Linden, head of Linden Lab's Land Team, handed down the news yesterday. Linden Lab will be taking action against traffic and camping bots (both of which artificially boost a Second Life site's traffic figures, and thus search rankings) starting in one week's time. It's an interesting move, and for many, one which has been too long coming. It's more interesting however, because of how it is being applied. You see, it isn't the bots themselves that are being targeted, it's the people who benefit from them, and that's not quite the same thing.
