Beware Of Blog Blasting Tools
I receive a bunch of junk e-mail every day. In fact something like 100 or so pieces of it. I often skim through it looking for information and new scams, wondering how the daily professional qualifies junk mail and if they will fall prey to it not realizing what painful problems they are asking for.
One SPAM piece that focuses on our area of expertise is blog submitting software. Beware for things that promise too much and sound too good to be true. ~ You know they are too good.
Here are some direct quotes from a piece of SPAM that I received today:
“Brandnew software revolutionizes the power of online advertising -never seen before!- BRAND NEW FOR MARCH 2007!”
and it further claims that it only has benefits… and not huge cons:
“I have developed a software that automatically places your ad on millions of blogs. You will receive thousands of targeted hits to your website as Blog Blaster places your ad on blogs that match your ad’s category. This method has never been released to the public before. Very few, if anyone has implemented this.”
So for $50 you can SPAM your site to thousands of industry related blogs? Ouch.
Go ahead and see how quickly your site gets black-listed by the search engines and the blog directories. Find out how personal bloggers take being abused. If the automatic script protecting their sites doesn’t block you, they will be more than happy to click the “spam” button live and in-person.
I hate it when unethical marketers and technical geeks take advantage of the uneducated majority.
- There isn’t any benefit in having thousands of links from spam blogs across the world.
- There is no benefit from spamming thousands of industry peers.
- There is no return on your money. Once you click “order now”, your money is GONE.
The disadvantages are numerous:
- Get black-listed by all the search engines. You’ll love what that does for your search marketing efforts.
- Annoy every industry peer who has a blog… with one fell swoop.
- Get your site listed as a SPAM commentor… so that even your valid comments are blocked.
- Waste some of your money that could be spent elsewhere.
There isn’t any “new technology” that creates quality links. There isn’t any “magic bullet” for maximizing your marketing dollars.
Realize that effective online marketing takes effort and focused goals.
Mainstream Media Vs New Media | Blogging To Build A Community.
This week I had the joy of looking for a blogger to write a weekly column for a social media site centered around movies, filmmaking and pop culture that I’ll be launching next month. In my ad I explained my goals, gave my bio, pointed to this blog and asked to see a writing sample.
I received an enormous response, but surprisingly most of them completely missed what I was going for. So I wrote this to address how many freelance writers missed the purpose and intent of blogging to build community. Instead they resorted to sending me dry content that lacked personality and was like a clone of what you can find in the main stream media.
The requirements were very simple.
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Ineedhits And Looksmart Spam: Do Not Be Fooled Google Local Is Free, And The Changes Are Old!
Do not be fooled by the spam you get in your email box! Google local is free: all that is required is to have a Google free account and to verify your identity by snail-mail. Do not be fooled by Looksmart, Indeedhits.com, or anyone else who offers this to you for $24.95 or any other price!
Automated submission the old way does not work; a human being must be involved to do link building.
Stay tuned here for the truth, always!
Top Social Media Marketing Resources – The Sites You Should Not Overlook:
At Social Media Systems we’ve been discussing how to build out a healthy blogroll, both to aid our visitors, provide valuable content, and to enhance our social media marketing campaigns. We decided to put a post up for each of our blog authors allowing them to share the resources they use the most with the rest of the world and then put these lists in the traditional blog roll area. Each list will be complete with descriptions of why the author finds each resource worthy of attention. Here is my list of top social media marketing resources:
Top Social Media Marketing Resources: (I will update and grow this page constantly)
Activerain – social networking profiles and blog for Realtors and vendors 
Most people do not notice that you do not need to be a Realtor to join, you can be a vendor like me, and the profiles and blogs are not bad for Search Engine Placement link-building campaigns.
Alexa – Traffic and Website Statistics and Archived Information and Reviews
An Amazon.com company, we use it to get quick information about any website according to everyone who has the Alexa toolbar – which collects a wealth of information and statistics. They also archive old websites, and provide links to reviews on amazon.com.
Associated Content – Associated Content is a buyer and seller, syndicator of user-generated, user-filtered content
One of the most successful and well traveled sites on the web, this site is a must for branding and link building: your clout and pagerank build as an author – you can even get paid for content, although that is not what I use it for. (more…)
Web 4.0 And Beyond Part 3 | Science Fiction Becomes Social Media Reality
Your actual physical house will be connected to your web services. Geeks and techies will start to be connected all the time via data feeds that pip information right into your site (easy way to think about it is contact lenses that wirelessly connect to a computer and stream data from the net directly into your sight, so anywhere you go, via voice commands you can pull up information and perform sophisticated searches.
The physical world will be forever connected to the virtual one with 3d dimensional real world and fantasy world maps and interconnectivity between real and virtual devices. A 3d dimensional interfaces or 3d worlds, creating interactive video game like presentation that enable real work to be done. Say goodbye to the corporate cubicle.
The power of hive mentality and intelligence beyond any individual. Collaborative computing will trickle into mainstream driven by the ability to analyze and manipulate all that social data in almost real time. Web Services will spring up that will network thousands of people together from all of the world to work on the same project at the same time with all there tool completely online. The error of desktop software is already dead.
Distributed computing systems should give super computer processing to projects which combine the intelligence of the brightest humans the world has ever seen. Eventually, through specialization and adaptation of collaborative computing services, the program’s products and services produced by such ventures could exhibit an intelligence above what any of the individuals is capable of. A true, futuristic hive.
I’m a lover of science fiction and technology and, on occasion, I like to digress into a world of imagination. I blog for many reasons, but mainly because it’s fun, challenging and the best marketing tool I could possibly have. Welcome to the future. I suggest discarding your brochure site and start blogging now. Early adapters will reap large rewards and those that fail to keep up with technology will left in the proverbial dust.
Current forces driving web 3.0 technologies
- The need to understand or relate what all the social, viral and splintered data online means;
- The need to consolidate and manage all the various social networks, profiles, etc. across websites and platforms that individuals and companies wish to maintain (I have 400 profiles how about you?);
- The need to eliminate all the tedium and human direction required to perform that require multiple data sources (like seeing which website offers the lowest price or best deal on blank).
Things to watch for
- Introduction of many 3d worlds and interfaces for using / consuming information;
- Personalization and real time combination and analysis for multiple data sources (social web and user driven web);
- Web services which combine and analyize data and information from existing networks (bring all your friends);
- Personal aggregation of likes and preferences of yourself in comparison with all of your friends and compatriots when determining relevancy;
- Search results grouped in meaningful clusters of information with preliminary analysis already performed.
Big issues that will cause practical implementation issues and slow down it’s realization:
- Privacy “ what if people don’t want / allow their data to be used? Already a problem in web 2.0;
- Problems with human behavior causing relevancy and implementation obstacles.
- List of problems with meta data here http://www.well.com/~doctorow/metacrap.htm.
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This is the last part in a 3 part series:
- Imagining Web 3.0 and Beyond Part 1 “ The Mind Blowing Evolution of the Social Web
- Social Media’s Future Part 2 – The Beauty of Web 3.0
- Web 4.0 and Beyond Part 3 | Science Fiction becomes Social Media Reality
