I am sure such an application is just around the corner, and as I speculated about it in a comment thread over on Andy Beal’s Marketing Pilgrim, I just wanted to have a record of “I called it first”
Tag Archives: splog
WOOT Creating Twitter Splogs
If an affiliate created a blog and fed a datafeed to that blog, a large proportion of the blogosphere would regard that blog as a splog, especially if it was on blogspot.
Posted in marketing, web 2.0 Also tagged blog_spam, command_line, disclosure, disclosure policy, marketing, rss, rss_spam, sms, spam, twitter, webspam, web_services Comments closed
Rojo Splogs and Attribution
Om Malik recent was taking a look at Rojo from a traffic perspective. What he didn’t touch on, although he did refer to a previous post, was that the Rojo page was actually a very poor quality splog.
Posted in web 2.0 Also tagged backlinks, bitacle, feed_reader, linking, news, rojo, rss, RSS Reader, six_apart, syndication Comments closed
Wikipedia NoFollow Plugin? WikiDigg?
The news today seems to be that Wikipedia have added nofollow to external links.
I have seen a lot of sites mention that all the search engines respect nofollow. Actually they don’t. Anlaysis has shown that Yahoo certainly follow and index pages despite the nofollow tag.
Mike Filsaime | Social Marketing | Copyright Violations
Mike Filsaime always provides real quality in his free reports, and The Death of Internet Marketing is no exception.
I have read all 59 pages of this free report. It certainly isn’t junk, and it shouldn’t be ignored.
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Posted in blogging tips, reviews, web 2.0 Also tagged affiliate marketing, alexa, blogging tips, copyright., Digg-this, email marketing, how_to, link_blogs, mailing_list, marketing, marketing_technique, out-sourcing, rss, rss-sharing, rss_syndication, sales_technique, social networking, technorati, youtube Comments closed
Google are killing the future of RSS
An RSS feed which you subscribe to is your personal subscription to a service, just like email.
A private subscription service for text, audio and video content, even involving a paid subscription fee has been possible for more than a year, based upon RSS.
Posted in Google, Uncategorized, web 2.0 Also tagged aweber, email marketing, email_delivery, exclusive_content, feedmagic, feed_magic, getresponse, Google, google reader, linkblogs, link_blogs, mailing_list, paid_subscription, podcast, podtech, robert_scoble, rss, RSS Reader, rssemail, rss_email, rss_syndication, scobleizer, spam_blog, splogger, tech, web 2.0, web2.0, windows_vista Comments closed
Google Reader, Splogs, Linkblogs, Blog Readership
But the Google reader has major flaws, which noone is really talking about. In fact I have noticed a growing tendancy for reporting thee flaws as a cool feature, without any emphasis on the negative aspects of using these "featues".
Posted in Google, niche website, web 2.0 Also tagged antileech, Google, google reader, linkblogs, link_blogs, msn, niche website, niche_websites, robert_scoble, rss, RSS Reader, rss_syndication, scobleizer, search engines, spam_blog, splogger, wordpress, wordpress plugins, yahoo Comments closed
SocialRank The Next Quechup? – Stinking Splog Or Long Tail Meme Tracker?
It is interesting how your perception of new technology can vastly depend on how you have interacted with them, and how the developers have responded. Unfortunately in the case of the recently launched niche tracking startup, "rank" has multiple definitions, including one items position related to another based upon a particular rating, or a rather offensive smell.
At its core, my first impression of SocialRank niche websites was that it was little more than a Wordpress splog scraping my content based upon keywords used and giving some kind of relevant or irrelevant ranking based upon some internal algorithm.
It is still my content