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One Wrong Way to Approach Bloggers
Social Media News Source: http://www.searchengineguide.com
Published: Oct 23, 2007 - 02:26 pm
Story Found By: DavidWallace 1572 Days ago
Category: Social Media
Jennifer Laycock writes, "It seems like the type of advice you really shouldn’t have to offer, but apparently companies still don’t get it. Each week I sort through link requests, PR pitches and requests from small companies to blog about or write about their product. Sometimes these pitches are exceptionally well thought out, sometimes they’re simple, but engaging. Other times, they leave me shaking my head."
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from DavidWallace 1572 Days ago #
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Just as it is with generic link requests, some people just don’t get it. Would rather go after "quantity" than "quality."

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from AndyBeard 1572 Days ago #
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I generally just ignore pitches that come through my contact form.One linking service I don’t want to write about first of all sent me 2 cut and paste messages via my contact form, both of which I ignored.Then they tried to buy their way in with a payed review order that I rejected in about 2 minutes.What is equally annoying is when people work their way down search results to leave comments promoting a product, service, or just their own review of one.Sometimes, though rarely I have let a few get away with it, as long as it adds a huge amount to the conversation, but most of the time it hits the spam queue.

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from toprank 1572 Days ago #
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Seems like people need blogger relations 101. Oh wait, maybe there’s something out there already:) Blogger Relations 101http://tinyurl.com/3cekckHow NOT to Pitch a Bloghttp://tinyurl.com/33584q

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from onreact 1572 Days ago #
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That’s a really good approach! Compare it to this one my Akismet caught: http://seo2.0.onreact.com/3-way-link-exchange-with-seo-spammers-is-a-dead-end;-)

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from Zonk 1572 Days ago #
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AndyBeard: "One linking service I don’t want to write about first of all sent me 2 cut and paste messages via my contact form, both of which I ignored.Then they tried to buy their way in with a payed review order that I rejected in about 2 minutes".Andy, why did you reject the offer? We ordered you a negative review and paid $165 at PayPerPost. You could write what you think. Please don’t say you don’t have time or are not interested - buying links and page rank is one of your favourite subjects. We also asked you to use "nofollow" links in case you are scared of google’s PUD.

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from Halfdeck 1572 Days ago #
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"Andy, why did you reject the offer? We ordered you a negative review and paid $165 at PayPerPost. You could write what you think. Please don’t say you don’t have time or are not interested - buying links and page rank is one of your favourite subjects. We also asked you to use "nofollow" links in case you are scared of google’s PUD."I guess the "linking service" in question is tnx.net, the link brokering site that used to rank #1 for [text link ads] with a bunch of TBPR 0 links on 10,000 domains all hosted on the same IP. I wonder what happened to your ranking.Did you not say your link building tactic was defensible? Send comment HTML is disabled  

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