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Went Hot: Jun 11, 2009 - 09:01 am
Posted By: AngieH 279 Days ago
Source: http://christinagleason.com
Category: SEM
As Christina says in her great rant ’...what is “white hat” about paying crap wages for something inane that could potentially make your business thousands of dollars?...Google doesn’t really care about quality content. They just want everyone to jump through their hoops..."
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Good Rant :)
You are right 100% and that is why I do not like Matt. Google needs to make some CUTTS!
I’m glad other people found value in my rant. :-) I’m not nearly done with this area!
Or, you could just linkbait another way, which is to take the gist of Matt’s videos and create hyperbole out of them.
MTURK is a powerful tool. If only amazon would have built their own search engine. A9 was great, but it uses Google search engine.
Feels like manufactured "controversy" aimed at promoting the author as a writer and articles as linkbait. Hardly worth promoting to the front page imho.
@Brian White: Well said!
@Christina Gleason - maybe you should consider that people working for pennies aren’t really motivated by the money?
With unemployment rates what they are, you’d better believe that people are doing this work for money. AMT touts the ability to "work from your computer" and "set your own hours." Sure, some people might do it for fun, but does that mean they should be paid less for doing the actual work? I think not. I may like what I do for a living, but I still need to get paid. How about you?
Lol right, people see a few cents an hour as the solution to being jobless. No offense, but that’s pretty far-fetched. Just cuz AMT’s copy is silly, doesn’t mean it reflects reality. If people are doing it when they know the pay is crap, then yes they should be paid less. They’ve agreed to it without being forced to, and obviously not for the money.As to you liking what you do for a living, that doesn’t mean people need to hire you to do it. That’s a pretty selfish argument. If someone has realized that linkbait is evolving beyond ’neat articles’, then the solution isn’t to complain about their success on the cheap but rather to find another market for neat articles (assuming you see yourself in the business of selling content, rather than selling linkbait).
This article twists what Matt talked about well out of proportion.
Feels like manufactured "controversy" aimed at promoting the author as a writer and articles as linkbait. Hardly worth promoting to the front page imho.