It’s truly amazing how much bad content there is out there, polluting the minds of people who simply don’t’ know better with stupid, silly strategies to make money online. When you submit a lot of articles to the directories, you get the benefit of lots of "publishers" re purposing your content on their sites…
it’s part of the deal ( and theoretically one of the advantages) of allowing your content to be syndicated freely by other site owners.
It also opens a wide window into the wild and wacky world of the many ways people regurgitate other peoples stuff to serve their own purposes. If you do a lot of this sort of stuff – i.e. – article submissions, etc – I challenge you to "follow the links" in your WordPress dashboard and check out some of the sites that are running ruining your stuff. Sadly, I’m not even talking about the blog spam. I mean – I don’t like it…but I guess I understand how my post on improving your click through rates is relevant for a Ukrainian Russian dating blog with a mad lib style content spinner alternating copywriting tips with a travel agency eque sales pitch on why repatriating to eastern Europe for the love of your life is a romantic adventure we all should try.
I have written many times about my adventures in content aggregation…and while I believe I do the content justice when I republish it on my own stuff…I do understand that all is fair in love, war and content scraping.
I’m talking about the people who are AUTHENTICALLY giving out marketing advice on buying "million man lists", network marketing strategies, copywriting advice that I’m truly not sure if was written in English or some variation thereof that is so dreadfully BAD that it’s embarrassing. People will ( and do) sell ANYTHING that it actually would be amusing if you didn’t know that other people will buy the very same dreck, lose money, hope and slide down the slippery slope of believing there really is a better way.
As Al Pacino said so eloquently in the " The Devil’s Advocate" ( possibly the worst thespian performance that Keanu Reaves has offered us in his storied career…and that ain’t an easy thing to accomplish)
" I’m a FAN of Man!"
I am too. I just wish it was easier to stay that way.
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