Comments on: Marketing or Content Dumping?

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By: lwidmer

lwidmer — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 12:02:52 +0000

Devon, I hold that same opinion, but their actions are directly affecting us. When offline clients begin to lower prices and point to these Internet "jobs" as the reason, something must be done. Maybe instead of nurturing, tell them if they can't value themselves they should get out of writing? That's harsh, but in some cases it may wake a few people up.

I'm a Cancer. I nurture a bit anyway, so my approach is to educate 'em into submission. :)

By: Devon Ellington

Devon Ellington — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 13:36:44 +0000

I'm done nurturing the hacks. The reason they're writing for pennies is because they're not good enough and not motivated enough to go after legitimate clients who pair fairly.

Their excuses just don't wash. If they're not going to be responsible for themselves, that's their choice, and they get to pay the consequences.

To heck with them.

By: Wendy

Wendy — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 22:09:23 +0000

This reminds me of a project someone wanted me to do awhile back. They had a keyword phrase and needed some articles written using that phrase. The keyword phrase was of a product that didn't sound like it even existed, so I googled it and came up with some sites that were actually splogs. (I think that's what they're called)

The sites were built around that phrase, but the "content" (if that's what you want to call them) was nothing but a bunch of jumbled words made to look like an article. Of course there was adsense on that site. I turned down the gig, but I was thoroughly disgusted that anyone would go so far as to ask a writer to contribute to this kind of junk.

By: Kirk Petersen

Kirk Petersen — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 19:29:47 +0000

I hate when people post comments intended solely to drive traffic to their own blog. I never post comments with links to my blog unless my blog is directly pertinent to the article.

By: Lori

Lori — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 19:23:31 +0000

She was indeed cleaved beyond what nature intended - and I pasted the link after all, Kirk. Thanks for sending it.

If it's any consolation, I noticed the comments on this particular blog netted people promoting their own sites/products/services. There's justice! Gee, maybe we should promote these blogs. What better way to group together the riff-raff?

By: Kirk Petersen

Kirk Petersen — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 19:18:29 +0000

Glad I'm still your friend after my snarky comment on your last post...

The reason you can't reach the article right now is that the site has been hit by a hacker... as has MINE. There is a hack that affects non-current versions of WordPress, and I'm wrestling with databases and debugging. Ick. (Your Blogspot blog should be fine, but any of your readers with WordPress blogs should click post headlines and see if they bust...)

I won't post the link article here because you chose not to use it. But let the record reflect that I didn't send you an actual porn site -- Miss Thunder Jugs was not unclad, she was just deeply cleavaged.

Oh, and I agree with everything you said. There's a huge installed base of BS blogs that are intended solely to send traffic to each other and generate pay-per-click ad revenue. A fair number of Entrecard blogs participate in this, unfortunately. A clear sign of this is a brief blog post about some consumer product with no apparent relationship to the subject of the blog, linking to the same URL three times.