Comments on: Blog Comment Spam aka How Not To Get Featured On Affilate Sites http://www.keithbond.co.uk/blog-comment-spam-aka-how-not-to-get-featured-on-affilate-sites/ UK Affiliate Marketing Wed, 25 Jan 2012 23:34:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: The Shoppers List http://www.keithbond.co.uk/blog-comment-spam-aka-how-not-to-get-featured-on-affilate-sites/comment-page-1/#comment-10165 The Shoppers List Thu, 04 Mar 2010 12:58:23 +0000 http://www.keithbond.co.uk/blog-comment-spam-aka-how-not-to-get-featured-on-affilate-sites/#comment-10165 What is ‘SPAM’ & What is ‘Marketing’ It gets me every time…because; no-one and I mean no-one, is calling the advertising posted mail-shot ‘SPAM’ and making laws against it (Albeit you can opt out)…but you can opt out of receiving emails…can’t you? I wonder would it be because big business, can afford the expensive posted mail shots, email packages and TV advertising and the small marketers cannot and then when the internet came along and big business seen that the small guy found it an affordable way to market his or her product, they invented the dirty word ‘SPAM’. We get unsolicited advertising in our home called TV advertising. They even increase the sound by 3 decibels to make us notice, but they don’t call this ‘SPAM’. (Us small fry can’t afford this either.) I only broach the subject because I am a small guy trying to get my product namely my shopping site ‘TheShoppersList.net’ up there with the big boys…I don’t promote anything that is bad or can’t be shopped for on the high street or seen or heard in all walks of life…but let me send an email advertising my site to someone who didn’t ask for it and WOW!!!!!...THEY’LL BAR ME FROM THE INTERNET AND THROW ME IN JAIL!!!!!. My mailbox is full of what they call ‘SPAM’, i.e. emails for sex, drugs & scams, the very thing they said would stop if they called it ‘SPAM’ and made it illegal; Doesn’t seem to have made a difference, except against the real small advertisers who can’t afford expensive posted mail shots, email packages and TV advertising. So once again the minnows lose out to the establishment on a platform that is supposed to be free!!!! Or am I into…. “Conspiracy Theories”. Please comment. What is ‘SPAM’ & What is ‘Marketing’

It gets me every time…because; no-one and I mean no-one, is calling the advertising posted mail-shot ‘SPAM’ and making laws against it (Albeit you can opt out)…but you can opt out of receiving emails…can’t you?
I wonder would it be because big business, can afford the expensive posted mail shots, email packages and TV advertising and the small marketers cannot and then when the internet came along and big business seen that the small guy found it an affordable way to market his or her product, they invented the dirty word ‘SPAM’.

We get unsolicited advertising in our home called TV advertising. They even increase the sound by 3 decibels to make us notice, but they don’t call this ‘SPAM’. (Us small fry can’t afford this either.)

I only broach the subject because I am a small guy trying to get my product namely my shopping site ‘TheShoppersList.net’ up there with the big boys…I don’t promote anything that is bad or can’t be shopped for on the high street or seen or heard in all walks of life…but let me send an email advertising my site to someone who didn’t ask for it and WOW!!!!!…THEY’LL BAR ME FROM THE INTERNET AND THROW ME IN JAIL!!!!!.

My mailbox is full of what they call ‘SPAM’, i.e. emails for sex, drugs & scams, the very thing they said would stop if they called it ‘SPAM’ and made it illegal; Doesn’t seem to have made a difference, except against the real small advertisers who can’t afford expensive posted mail shots, email packages and TV advertising.

So once again the minnows lose out to the establishment on a platform that is supposed to be free!!!!
Or am I into…. “Conspiracy Theories”.

Please comment.

]]> By: Steve http://www.keithbond.co.uk/blog-comment-spam-aka-how-not-to-get-featured-on-affilate-sites/comment-page-1/#comment-1166 Steve Sat, 24 May 2008 14:21:57 +0000 http://www.keithbond.co.uk/blog-comment-spam-aka-how-not-to-get-featured-on-affilate-sites/#comment-1166 It’s the way of marketing, and of the internet. Affiliate marketers go to all types of forums and blogs for research. They look for problems people need solving. Once they have the solution to the problem they drop a link to that solution. They also do a lot of research to find that solution and in doing so answer questions posted On forums and comment on blogs, I don’t see any problem with that, if it’s not blatant spam I would say a link is a good payback for taking part. It’s the way of marketing, and of the internet.
Affiliate marketers go to all types of forums and blogs for research.
They look for problems people need solving.
Once they have the solution to the problem they drop a link to that solution.

They also do a lot of research to find that solution and in doing so answer questions posted On forums and comment on blogs, I don’t see any problem with that, if it’s not blatant spam
I would say a link is a good payback for taking part.

]]> By: zowoco http://www.keithbond.co.uk/blog-comment-spam-aka-how-not-to-get-featured-on-affilate-sites/comment-page-1/#comment-1141 zowoco Wed, 21 May 2008 23:45:14 +0000 http://www.keithbond.co.uk/blog-comment-spam-aka-how-not-to-get-featured-on-affilate-sites/#comment-1141 There can be a fine line between self promotion and spam, it often depends on the blogger or forum's policy. I think it is important to enjoy reading blogs and only comment on those posts that really stir you, or where you can really add something useful to the thread. Personally I think forum discussion is way over-rated and simply uses up time I could be using for researching tips and tools or better still, commenting on interesting blogs! ;) There can be a fine line between self promotion and spam, it often depends on the blogger or forum’s policy. I think it is important to enjoy reading blogs and only comment on those posts that really stir you, or where you can really add something useful to the thread. Personally I think forum discussion is way over-rated and simply uses up time I could be using for researching tips and tools or better still, commenting on interesting blogs! ;)

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