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Living Room / Re: Companies paying people to say good things about their products on forums
« on: April 06, 2007, 06:52 AM »
I really dont post here much but I should as I feel this is one of the better forums that I visit.
I am involved in Internet Marketing you know the guys you make fun of sometimes. I run into this crap all the time and it gives many marketers a bad name. I sometimes outsource work from places like script lance and elance etc. and I constantly see jobs posted for things just like this, I have a friend who is a writer trying to write that All American Novel and basicaly was going broke in the process. Finaly his wife told him to either start making some money or get out (hehehe) He asked me for some help so I told him that many people are always looking for ghost writers and sent him to some of the freelancing sites. Anyways to make a long story short one of the jobs he had found was a Company was paying $2.00 a blog post to glorify their product. He did this for a while because he is the type of guy that needs instant gratification and found it easier than researching and writing ebooks. He asked me what I thought and I told him that I felt he was contributing to the trash that you find on the internet offering you to make 3000 - 5000.00 weekly. I am not sure what he is doing now as far as work because everytime I tried to show him something it wasnt good enough and wanted to make money today. He is basicaly lazy that way as he wants all the glory without putting in the work.
Sorry I went off track here but, this is more common than you think, and is becoming part of SEO. There are companies that are paying people to post at forums just to gain the one way link. Even if they say something crappy about the product and start a controversial discusssion, The company recieves the advantage of increased traffic from the forum post and the search engines pick up on it often resulting in a higher PR for the page that is the original posters sig file.
Dennis
I am involved in Internet Marketing you know the guys you make fun of sometimes. I run into this crap all the time and it gives many marketers a bad name. I sometimes outsource work from places like script lance and elance etc. and I constantly see jobs posted for things just like this, I have a friend who is a writer trying to write that All American Novel and basicaly was going broke in the process. Finaly his wife told him to either start making some money or get out (hehehe) He asked me for some help so I told him that many people are always looking for ghost writers and sent him to some of the freelancing sites. Anyways to make a long story short one of the jobs he had found was a Company was paying $2.00 a blog post to glorify their product. He did this for a while because he is the type of guy that needs instant gratification and found it easier than researching and writing ebooks. He asked me what I thought and I told him that I felt he was contributing to the trash that you find on the internet offering you to make 3000 - 5000.00 weekly. I am not sure what he is doing now as far as work because everytime I tried to show him something it wasnt good enough and wanted to make money today. He is basicaly lazy that way as he wants all the glory without putting in the work.
Sorry I went off track here but, this is more common than you think, and is becoming part of SEO. There are companies that are paying people to post at forums just to gain the one way link. Even if they say something crappy about the product and start a controversial discusssion, The company recieves the advantage of increased traffic from the forum post and the search engines pick up on it often resulting in a higher PR for the page that is the original posters sig file.
Dennis