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Reputation Management Failure: The Tale of ClickBooth

Went Hot: March 18, 2008 - 9:52 am
Posted By: SlightlyShadySEO 472 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.slightlyshadyseo.com)
Category: Other Online Marketing

Clickbooth has been a bit lawyer-happy lately. In response to online criticism, and in an attempt to salvage reputation, they've been passing out cease and desist orders like candy. This details the whole drama, what they [allegedly] did, and how they could've avoided the entire situation.

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from SlightlyShadySEO 472 days ago #

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I want to give an absolutely MASSIVE thank you to everyone voting for this. I'm trying to get the word out before I get *issues* and it's a bit tricky.

from theGypsy 472 days ago #

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Well brother Shady, a decent rant will alaways get my attention :0) ....

from seowoman 472 days ago #

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I [allegedly] support your efforts.

from handsomerob 472 days ago #

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As do I. Allegedly.

from DanThies 472 days ago #

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I may or may not be opposed to thieving weasel scumbags who try to use intimidation to cover their tracks.

from Doubleohd 472 days ago #

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Making money is so much easier when you decide [allegedly] not to pay the people making you the money. When they complain, just try to shut them up, and business will boom!

These guys must have gone to a different school of business than I did. Hopefully the old saying "cheaters never prosper" will come to fruition.

from DarkMatter 472 days ago #

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guess they never heard of a company called Traffic Power...

those who are ignorant of the past are condemned to repeat it!

from IncrediBILL 472 days ago #

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What cracks me up is the suing "For emotional distress." part. I don't see how a company can sue for emotional distress so if it's someone in the company making a personal lawsuit over something business related it's very possible he might be breaking the corporate veil and making himself liable for countersuits, not very clever.

from luvbroker 472 days ago #

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I was terminated by Clickbooth. They are the worst cpa network that I have dealt with. They need to treat people better and stop the bully tactics. People like clickbooth until clickbooth terminates them. I hope other people show their hate for clickbooth here.

from SlightlyShadySEO 472 days ago #

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@luvbroker: Thanks for comign out and sharing. Hopefully their [alleged] actions will be coming to
an end soon. Currently I'm managing to rank top 10 for "clickbooth" and a series of longtails. Regrettably, several forums still allow them to advertise, and not much can be done about their [alleged] activities there unless anyone here has a big in at webmaster-talk.com or any of the others.

from Burgo 472 days ago #

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I'm seeing you at #4 here SSS, sitting behind Wikipedia, and the double-indented CB site. Pretty sure the freshness is playing a factor there, but still good to see :)

from SlightlyShadySEO 472 days ago #

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Excellent. Thanks for the update Burgo.
Freshness is probably playing into it somehow, but I've got a few links I'm saving to deploy later after the "freshness" wears off :-)

from Burgo 472 days ago #

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Heh... I have no doubt of that buddy!

from CBJay 470 days ago # - show/hide this comment

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This is an orchestrated smear campaign.

DO NOT HELP SHADY SEO.

These are ALL LIES put up on a site because Clickbooth refused to do business with Spammers.

We are one of the largest and most respected CPA companies in the world - this individual has never done business with us. They are a part of a known forum that hosts Spammers and when Clickbooth confronted them on this and refused to do business with their members they orchestrated a smear campaign based on lies.

We are out there trying to protect our advertisers and publishers from people like this.

We have facts and documentation to backup everything we say. They simply have lies linking to lies all being done by the same 2-3 individuals.

from NickWilsdon 470 days ago #

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Tip No.11 for Reputation Management - go onto the offending site and vote down everyone involved in the conversation.

- hows that working for you CBJay?

from DarkMatter 470 days ago #

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oh please....a quick search shows several mile long threads with people making the same complaints going back for years.

from theGypsy 470 days ago #

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@CBJay - then you should be making your case (with evidence) on a company Blog. Running around here or WF is not really the best reputation management. Your responses are somewhat defensive (nearly choldish) and you would be better served by maintaining a professional attitude and posting your 'evidence' to be judged.

from SlightlyShadySEO 470 days ago #

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@CBJay: Wickedfire forums are "known spammers"? Wow.
And yes, I have never done business with you. Something I disclose. And I never will. That doesn't change the facts
1)There are [allegedly] far MORE individuals than you are saying there are. It's not the same few people. I know several of those people, and am quite sure of this.
2)Publishing private information to a public forum, and suing bloggers is what a LARGE piece of this is about. I have yet to hear you defend that.
3)If all of WF is spammers, you guys sure fought extraordinarily hard to be able to business there. How is that explained?

If you guys want to protect your publishers, that's completely fine. But screwing affiliates is not the way to do it. Even Google pays out before termination.

from rishilakhani 470 days ago #

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I hate it when companies being outed for {allegedly} bad practice comes on with a holier than thou attitude. It happened to one of Gabs posts sometime back - and I see a repeat here...

If you want to defend yourself - make a legitimate argument in favour off your views. Dont rant against a rant.

from johnandrews 463 days ago #

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I can think of nothing more urgent that addressing a public claim of fraud (such as not paying an affiliate).

Affiliates work very hard and deliver results into a heartless, metrics-driven machine. The prompt, courteous, trouble-free payout is the reward. The more immediate that reward, the better.

Dogs will do amazing tricks for treats, and virtually every human being hates an abusive owner.

Sphunn for the stated purpose: discussion of reputation management issues.

from peterlh35 458 days ago # - show/hide this comment

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clickbooth is great. guys please dont use fasle info against clickbooth beacuse they are the best, and i have been using clickbooth and i got paid and dont have to go out there looking for jobs any more.

from SlightlyShadySEO 458 days ago #

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@peterhl35: This is ridiculous. All information is cited sources, left to speak for themselves. "False"? Up to the reader, but I know where my opinion stands

from peterlh35 456 days ago #

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all my words are true, i have no reason to lie. i am a online publisher and they helped me and i am no longer jobless. i really needed to thank them.