So my good friend Rich Brooks over at Flyte brings this blog (?) to my attention. Here is a classic example of how not to blog if you are going to blog. I know I've talked about this before but I will talk about it again. Automated blog spam tactics.Internet Success Strategies unkindly uses blog spam technology to grab large chunks of other peoples content to promote junk directory pages.

 

Apparently the tool this blog uses (I'm not sure which tool exactly) doesn't generate junk blog posts as I've seen a few other tools do. Instead, it grabs content other people write and then adds a link at the end of each post to a specified page to promote. In this case this blog posts links to pages generated by html page generators. This generates a more appealing post for search engine spiders since they post actually content real content.

 

The objective is to leverage blogs and get clicks on those links to the directory pages. These directory pages have random links scraped from search results and other websites and these directory page also contain plenty of Google Adsense ads. The bottom line is to generate decent Google Adsense revenue but getting...you guessed it - more clicks on Adsense ads.

 

Let's take a closer look. Internet Success Strategies has taken my post here and republished it here. You will notice a link at the end of the post that leads to a directory page here. You will also notice that the post does site the source and provides a live link back to me. Proper etiquette right? Not quite.

 

While this type of automated blogging may seem to be legitimate, I do still consider it uncool. There are some blogs that do a good job at reblogging but the Internet Success Strategies blog does not. Rebloggers actively select content for their readers so that their blogs may deliver good content to those readers. They don't reblog content solely for it's SEO benefits to get attention to useless directory pages. Rebloggers actively select and filter the best content for their readers. Automated blog spam tools do not. I've been reblogged a number of times and I think it is a great way to get your content syndicated an promoted to new readers just as if your content was being subscribed to and received in a news reader using RSS.

 

It seems my friend Priya Shah at Marketing Slave just recently posted about her continued frustration with such blog spam tactics.

 

Take a lesson from this blog on how not to blog.

 

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If you've ever had a bad Ping-O-Matic day, which is very rare, here is a alternate solution for getting your ping updates executed. Fred Giasson over at Fred On Something blog would like you know about his home grown ping solution.

Much to my surprise, I recently encountered a couple of times where Ping-O-Matic wasn't working properly but hey, that's technology. Ping-O-Matic has a very reliable history but for those who like multiple choice and alternative solutions just in case, Fred's solution might be of interest. I personally like RSS Submit with the SEO Expansion Plug-In Pack that comes with a Ping-O-Matic add-in. This solution however has a cost associated with it and therefore may not appeal to some. Fred's solution is a no-cost solution and could make for a good supplemental tool for you.

 

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