I have been following a lot of posts on preventing innocent bloggers from turning into blog-whores. Somehow I have the urge to be devils advocate for argument purposes. Whenever one talks of money ethics are invariably drawn into it.
It feels bad to see that the poor guy is fighting a lone battle againt the whole blogosphere and popular blogs have been taking Mr.Murphy down. What many aren't realising is that by linking to the site you are not only increasing pagerank, but also driving traffic. SEOMoz puts controversy as one of the ways to get your site noticed. All this linking and hate posting has driven a lot of traffic just to see wat is it that has bitten the bossoms of the entire blog-nation.
Don't you gyus realise that you have done more harm than good? Once people see that by writing 50 lines you get to make $5 its human nature to be tempted. It's like telling Adam 'look there's the tree and that is what an apple is, so don't go and eat it okay!' In this race to be visible on technorati, del.icio.us digg etc all of you have helped Mr.Murphy in his endeavors. This is the power of blog advertising, and I think he has won the first round. He has not only got so many people talking about it on forums and blogs, but he has 4 out of 10 visitors signing up, and unprecedented popularity(negative though, but who cares!).
The guy has begun comparing himself to google and why should he not? If he can get so many people to subconciously do something he wanted then he isn't wrong.
Now the system:
Again for argument's sake let's say that you really liked a product and wrote a review on your personal space urging visitors to try it out as well. Would you mind if I paid you as a token of appreciation? Or if you took one apart for poor quality that would give me a chance to improve if I took it as feedback.
It's not that I am taking sides here but the guy sure has a point, and it would have been better if bloggers had waited and watched before pressing the panic button.
PS: saw yor craigslist post and have been following your blog since
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I have been following a lot of posts on preventing innocent bloggers from turning into blog-whores. Somehow I have the urge to be devils advocate for argument purposes. Whenever one talks of money ethics are invariably drawn into it.
It feels bad to see that the poor guy is fighting a lone battle againt the whole blogosphere and popular blogs have been taking Mr.Murphy down. What many aren't realising is that by linking to the site you are not only increasing pagerank, but also driving traffic. SEOMoz puts controversy as one of the ways to get your site noticed. All this linking and hate posting has driven a lot of traffic just to see wat is it that has bitten the bossoms of the entire blog-nation.
Don't you gyus realise that you have done more harm than good? Once people see that by writing 50 lines you get to make $5 its human nature to be tempted. It's like telling Adam 'look there's the tree and that is what an apple is, so don't go and eat it okay!' In this race to be visible on technorati, del.icio.us digg etc all of you have helped Mr.Murphy in his endeavors. This is the power of blog advertising, and I think he has won the first round. He has not only got so many people talking about it on forums and blogs, but he has 4 out of 10 visitors signing up, and unprecedented popularity(negative though, but who cares!).
The guy has begun comparing himself to google and why should he not? If he can get so many people to subconciously do something he wanted then he isn't wrong.
Now the system:
Again for argument's sake let's say that you really liked a product and wrote a review on your personal space urging visitors to try it out as well. Would you mind if I paid you as a token of appreciation? Or if you took one apart for poor quality that would give me a chance to improve if I took it as feedback.
It's not that I am taking sides here but the guy sure has a point, and it would have been better if bloggers had waited and watched before pressing the panic button.
regards,
maxdavinci
PS: saw yor craigslist post and have been following your blog since
Reply