Paid Post the root of all evil

I would encourage the crew at TechCrunch to re-examine their advertising and implicit endorsement of Text Link Ads, which pollutes the blogosphere in the same way PayPerPost does, by selling links with the intention of gaming Google. Just as PayPerPost “posties” were recently penalized by Google and Pagerank was one of the criteria that advertisers looked for when choosing which bloggers to give money to, Text Link Ads has been doing the same thing for years, they’ve just been more explicit about it. (And their corporate site has been penalized in Google for a long time.)

via PhotoMatt Techcrunch's Social Responsibility

MyBlogLog experiment worked

From the referrals it seemed that almost all are from MyBlogLog. There is already 10 members of MyBlogLog who found this blog purely via MyBlogLog. Checked with the referral.

All it took was 6 hours.

Conclusion:
1. MyBlogLog is a good social networking tool that can bring in traffic.
2. Better than hyped tools such as BlogRush
3. There are many curious webmasters that will take the trouble to "dig" and find out who their visitors are and where they are from.
4. Timothy and Josh never sleeps. They scour the internet all day long looking for anything that even mentions "Nuffnang" or "Advertlets" :-)

MyBlogLog Social Experiment

This is an experiment to see how fast a blog can get noticed. I don't ping Petaling Street because that would be too obvious. I just registered myBlogLog and visit several pages. If you are visiting this page most probably you found me from MyBlogLog.

There are no links (yet) to this blog so it's unlikely to be anything else.

I don't know

I don't know and i can't prove it. There are many things i don't kno
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But not knowing something has no connection to the state of its actual existence.

Not knowing something does not mean that i can't guess based on certain facts.

via http://thenewspeculator.blogspot.com/2007/11/nuffnang-under-sinister-attack.html


so the short summary of a really long article is you don't know nothing :-)

* update** sorry the quote was not clear so I thought it was thenewspeculator blog that said that. It was in fact another blog he was quoting. So this means that blog don't know nothing :-) and not Freethinker per se. No hard feelings ya, Freethinker?

Nuffnang shot down by Techcrunch

The S$1 administration fee my seem insignificant, but local bloggers are unhappy due to the way it was imposed: with no announcement and only discovered when they went to make withdrawals from their Nuffnang accounts (unlike Adsense bloggers can withdraw money from Nuffnang on request). A number of a prominent local bloggers have said that if they knew there was going to be a fee to withdraw money they may not run Nuffnangs code, and would have used Adverlets exclusively (who don’t charge the fee). There’s even a blog dedicated to why Nuffnang will fail.

Singapore and Malaysia may not be large markets in a global blog advertising sense, but the tale is of note when considering how even small things can cause a lot of damage in the new media age. All the money Nuffnang has spent on PR has meant nothing in the face of bloggers angry over a small administrative charge.

via Techcrunch

We believe that bloggers should get the fair share of their earnings, and are happy to announce that we will definitely continue to absorb transaction and service charges. After all, it is something that we as the service provider should and would have logically have factored into operational costs.

 comment by Josh Lim

So is it justified. 1 dollar for admin cost?

Hi there!

Take note this is NOT Josh Lim of advertlets ok. I'm the fake Josh Lim. My interests is in online advertising and this blog is all about that. See even the title of the blog is "Fake Josh Lim". How much clearer can you get?