Sphinn Home » Networking
Avatar Went Hot: October 25, 2007 - 2:46 pm
Posted By: MattMcGee 622 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.optimizeandprophesize.com)
Category: Networking
Jon Mendez shares a great guide to using Facebook Flyers Pro, and says: "...black-hat affiliates were setting up hundreds of accounts to get past the daily spend limits and that a number of them were pocketing over $15k per week in commissions the first two weeks using Flyers Pro."
9 Comments     

Comments

from toddmintz 621 days ago #
Votes: 0 | Vote:
+ -

Matt, I don't think I've seen "black hat" associated with PPC before...sure, they are breaking the rules by using multiple accounts, but that isn't traditional "black hat", is it?

from MattMcGee 621 days ago #
Votes: 0 | Vote:
+ -

Todd -- don't shoot me, I'm just the messenger. :-)

from JonathanMendez 621 days ago #
Votes: 1 | Vote:
+ -

There are lots of black hats involved in PPC. Some might say they built AdSense. ;)

Some might even say they built AdWords (through click fraud).

Lots of folks live on the dark side, not just SEO.

from MattMcGee 621 days ago #
Votes: 0 | Vote:
+ -

Regardless of the black hat debate, I'm going to see if this Facebook Flyers thing will be a good tool to marketing my wife's real estate business. I love the incredibly deep geo-targeting you described in the post, Jon.

from JonathanMendez 621 days ago #
Votes: 0 | Vote:
+ -

cool. let me know how it goes...

from bhartzer 619 days ago #
Votes: 0 | Vote:
+ -

The key word here is the WERE making $15k a week. Facebook has caught on and has shut it down.

from TheMadHat 619 days ago #
Votes: 0 | Vote:
+ -

Facebook shut that down within 2 days. Hardly new that someone would take advantage of a new traffic system.

from NickWilsdon 619 days ago #
Votes: 0 | Vote:
+ -

Mikkel wrote a very good article back in '05 on blackhat PPC - worth linking here again:

http://www.e-marketing-news.co.uk/Mar05/black-hat-ppc.html

from Rachael823 614 days ago #
Votes: 0 | Vote:
+ -

Thanks for sharing!  The screencaps made the article even more valuable.


Log in to comment or register here.

Sphinn Sponsors

Be a Sphinn Sponsor - Click Here

Top 10 Most Sphunn
In What's New

  1. Where the European SEO industry rea... (16)
  2. Mark Prints for Self on Other’s Blo... (11)
  3. Landing Pages On A SMB Budget (9)
  4. Bing says relative URLs pass less l... (8)
  5. Which Came First, the Traffic or th... (8)
  6. FriendFeed Joins The Real-Time Sear... (7)
  7. 3 Important Mistakes that could bri... (6)
  8. My Review of StumbleUpon’s New URL ... (5)
  9. Improving the Communication Lines B... (5)
  10. The 3 SEO/SEM Conference Personas (5)

Latest Comments

Search Marketing Expo

Save the date for:
• SMX Singapore - July 2-3, 2009
• SMX São Paulo - August 4-5
• SMX East - October 5-7, 2009
• SMX Stockholm - 12-13 October, 2009
• SMX Mexico - November 11, 2009

Search Marketing Now

Learn more about search marketing through free online webcasts and webinars from our sister site Search Marketing Now.

Upcoming Webcasts: