Comments on: The Pied Piper Of PayPerPost?

By: Andy Walpole

Andy Walpole — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 09:35:18 +0000

PayPerPost is fine as long as that particular post is clearly identified as such…

Trying to seamlessly blend a PayPerPost in with the rest of content is not acceptable…

By: Tim L. Walker

Tim L. Walker — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 01:46:07 +0000

Thanks for the objective look at Izea/PPP. I’ve been an advertiser with them in the past (and probably again in the future). It’s good to see some good posts about them after reading only crap on TechCrunch… :|

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By: Sam Freedoms Internet Marketing Controversy Blog

Sam Freedoms Internet Marketing Controversy Blog — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 21:52:08 +0000

ps. This did, however, just light a fire under my asz on a post I had started titled, “PayPerJoke, My First PayPerPost Review” – read it and weep. ;-)

By: Sam Freedoms Internet Marketing Controversy Blog

Sam Freedoms Internet Marketing Controversy Blog — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 21:50:35 +0000

Oh Andy, you gave me such a chuckle…

My firm belief is that my readership is extremely mature and intelligent, and quite capable of making their own informed decisions.

Ahhhhhhh hahahahahahahaahahahahahahahaaaaaaa!!!!!!

You are one of the best, most sincere guys I know in this online circus parade so it’s forgivable that you’d make such a horrifying assumption.

Stick to SEO and site metrics and leave the psychology and mind metrics to guys like Freud, Jung and Maslow.

Also, while 99.99999% of what you write is dead on, and I’m really not trying to take a ratchet to you as I consider you an admirable acquaintance, I do want to address another point you made:

How much can your blog actually stimulate discussion on other blogs, and in your own comments. This is a measure of influence.

On other blogs, perhaps… but I’ve seen blogs mentioning other bloggers not due to intellectual sincerity but rather a petty desire to be associated with an A-list, in-crowd, blogger.

I just saw S-a-ge Lew-is’ video about La-ycock-s “I hated Twitter but now maybe that I stumbled upon a cool use for it, I can get a little more attention by saying I’m open about it now” post.

Ok, so there’s someone whose a blogger on a big tech site saying that she saw absolutely no use for Twitter and now that there’s some little newsclip about a creative use for it, she’s giving it a second chance… and Sa-ge’s whole blog is a video raving about Lay-cocks revelation.

And none of it holds a candle to the first 2 in my series of posts on data mining Twitter.

It’s almost always true that bloggers talk about other bloggers to maintain an “I belong” demeanor. You post so much good, original, well-written information that you don’t need to mention other bloggers for the same reason.

To me, the Lew-is Lay-cock interaction is just a perfect example of someone without a clue raving about someone else who is, quite possibly, starting to get a clue.

Same with comment sections. When I see the comments on most blogs, I want to heave. There’s like 80 comments all saying some version of “Great!” or nothing at all. I do encourage comments on my blog but you know my style, I discourage imbecility and respond to great questions with great answers.

You are a brilliant, helpful person. I just think you over-estimate “the majority” and maybe have it juxtaposed with the minority.

Happy Blogging,
Sam

By: Lincoln

Lincoln — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 20:00:54 +0000

It’s nice that PPP had the foresight to drop their current metrics system, and I hope others learn to follow suit as well. Using PageRank for metrics not only made it appear that it was meant for advertisers to game Google, but it’s absurd that a blogger should be precluded from doing a PPP post because his PR was a 5 instead of a 6.

I hope I never see that “must have a minimum PageRank of X ” crap on PPP again.

By: Lincoln

Lincoln — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 19:54:46 +0000

Dammit, and I took singing lessons too.

By: Andy Beard

Andy Beard — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 19:32:27 +0000

Lincoln, just because you are a terrible singer doesn’t make you stupid ;)

By: Robert MacEwan

Robert MacEwan — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 18:16:28 +0000

After watching my PR6 move down to a PR3 after years of being a 6 it does feel as if we are being punished for PPP and the likes. Funny thing is that now I’m stuck with shit opportunities from PPP because I’m now a 3. Go figure. Argus needs to hurry.