Gaming MyBlogLog for free advertising?
NOTE: This is just an opinion of mine. It is in regards to this post here. if you haven’t seen it yet you may want to so that this post makes sense to you.
The basic premise of the technique is to get your MyBlogLog avatar to always show up on a A-list blog for free advertising. You do this by have a auto-refresh plugin for your browser so that your avatar is always on top.
Sounds like a simple process right? Well, not only does MyBlogLog take steps to prevent this from happening, it is just plain evil and wrong. Let me explain.
First, who the hell are you to try and game my site and get yourself listed on it for free? Other people pay good money for a link on a blog, but you want to game the system so you don’t have to? And this is coming from a site on how to make money on-line, yet they are giving this sort of advice?
Lets not forget that if this actually worked, that is one less spot for others avatars to show up, and you are also burning up the owners bacnwidth that they pay for! Thats just fantastic. Not only am I going to get free advertising on your site, I’m going to make you pay for it.
I mean there is evil, then there is just unethical. And trying to justify it in any way by doing it to a blogger you don’t like does not make it any better. Maybe I am just not evil enough for these types of things, but I am trying to learn how to make money, not cheat others out of theirs.
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Hmm, everyone has their own opinions, im sure some will jump at an opportunity even though its evil or unethical!
Comment by Adam — June 18, 2007 @ 12:09 pm
My own avatar draws some to my site, and I do get more traffic after I’ve visited high-traffic blogs.
However, I won’t use plug-ins or anything similar. It just doesn’t seem right. So, I completely understand your point.
Call it a sort of ethic.
Regards,
Comment by Sofcore — June 18, 2007 @ 1:12 pm
I hope MyBlogLog perfects its detection of this sort of abuse of the service. It’s totally against the spirit in which MyBlogLog was imagined and set up.
Comment by Genevieve — June 18, 2007 @ 1:38 pm
Just because you see yourself in the reader roll doesn’t mean anyone else does.
Comment by Eric Marcoullier — June 18, 2007 @ 6:45 pm
Don’t worry! It would only be worth the effort on much larger sites!
Comment by Kumiko — June 18, 2007 @ 8:19 pm
I agree 100% Jason, this is just a crazy idea. I found that I’ve moved away from reading Kumiko’s site, because of the fact that she removed the do-follow from the comments. She said that she doesn’t feel that one comment is worthy of a backlink. (hello, that’s what moderation is for?!?)
I was looking to advertise on her site, but when I read nonsense like this, it made me unsubscribe from her feed. We were there to read helpful tips to make money online and we get stuff like this. Insane!
Comment by Roberta — June 19, 2007 @ 8:00 am
Umm… I’m not ready to give up on Kumiko yet. She’s got a lot of good advice, and so far has kept things pretty much down-to-Earth.
However, it’s not to say that I agree 100% with everything she says and does.
Regards,
Comment by Sofcore — June 19, 2007 @ 12:28 pm