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Posted By: Trina L.C. Schiller
Date: Sunday, 15 May 2005, at 1:33 a.m.

It Was Just A Matter Of Time...
By Trina L.C. Schiller

Being that I have long ago resigned myself to giving up on e-mail marketing, since the spammers of the day have rendered it practically useless, I have become a champion of RSS. RSS presents us all with an awesome tool for communication, publication and presentation without having to rely on e-mail, without spam complaints, or legal compliance to ineffective statues handed down by the, Almighty US government. RSS is a powerful alternative, and is now the current rage among marketers. I am personally very happy to see the shift in the trend.

However...
now that RSS has reached the mainstream, the gurus have flocked to capitalize on it. This in itself is not a bad thing, as we all strive to make money online, but they have really done nothing more than to confuse people about what RSS is, and worse; Armand Morin has gone and created software that will render the use of RSS for marketing useless. That's right, I said useless.

His new software effectively spams the search engines with pages full of keywords, without relevant content to back them up. And once Googlebots get wise to it, blacklists will be created.

Armand's software is not a revolutionary tool, it is a cheat! A cheat that will have devastating effects on legitimate feed publishers. Just as legitimate business owners have suffered under the CAN-Spam Act.

Creating legitimate RSS feeds (blogs) is a terrific way to generate traffic to your business, but this nice little cheat of his is going to ruin that for everyone, if it is used.

And what is the benefit of injecting link after link of keyword rich pages that contain no real content anyway? Your customer will click on that link and find nothing useful. Your stats may grow, but will your sales? No. They won't. The reason being that they [potential customers] will be taken to nonsense pages of keywords, not to pages that sell your product.

As a customer, I would look at that and feel cheated. My time has just been wasted by being directed to a web page filled with everything but the solution to my problem. Furthermore, this kind of search engine spamming will decrease the value of Google in the minds of the public. That is something Google won't tolerate, and guess who ends up suffering in the end? You do. Getting your domain banned from Google is like shooting yourself in not one foot, but both feet.

Congratulations Armand! You have successfully created software that will not only frustrate customers, make webmasters look stupid, but will also get them banned from search engines too! Way to go!

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Messages In This Thread

RSS Spam
Trina L.C. Schiller -- Sunday, 15 May 2005, at 1:33 a.m.

Re: RSS Spam
Bill Hely -- Sunday, 15 May 2005, at 3:22 a.m.

Re: RSS Spam
Mark Wade -- Sunday, 15 May 2005, at 4:53 a.m.

Re: RSS Spam
Bill Hely -- Sunday, 15 May 2005, at 6:24 a.m.

What I think is hilarious . . .
Michael Ambrosio -- Sunday, 15 May 2005, at 10:56 a.m.

Re: RSS Spam
Mark Wade -- Sunday, 15 May 2005, at 3:41 p.m.

Re: RSS Spam
Bill Hely -- Sunday, 15 May 2005, at 11:49 p.m.

Bill...
Rob. S -- Sunday, 15 May 2005, at 11:54 p.m.

Re: RSS Spam
Michael Murphy -- Monday, 16 May 2005, at 7:42 a.m.

Re: RSS Spam
Bill Hely -- Monday, 16 May 2005, at 8:58 a.m.

Re: RSS Spam
Michael Murphy -- Monday, 16 May 2005, at 10:33 a.m.

I think you are mistaken...
Josh Anderson -- Sunday, 15 May 2005, at 5:10 a.m.

Re: I think you are mistaken...
Trina L.C. Schiller -- Sunday, 15 May 2005, at 2:42 p.m.

Re: I think you are mistaken...
kurt -- Sunday, 15 May 2005, at 4:25 p.m.

Re: I think you are mistaken...
Trina L.C. Schiller -- Sunday, 15 May 2005, at 7:17 p.m.

Re: I think you are mistaken...
kurt -- Sunday, 15 May 2005, at 7:41 p.m.

Mines lovely kurt. ;o)
Rob. S -- Sunday, 15 May 2005, at 9:02 p.m.

Re: I think you are mistaken...
Trina L.C. Schiller -- Sunday, 15 May 2005, at 9:44 p.m.

Re: I think you are mistaken...
Mark Wade -- Sunday, 15 May 2005, at 11:16 p.m.

You are right Mark..... :o)
Rob. S -- Sunday, 15 May 2005, at 11:27 p.m.

Re: I think you are mistaken...
Trina L.C. Schiller -- Monday, 16 May 2005, at 2:23 a.m.

The fact is your "article" says it was his.. took on his character... an is facutally inaccurate. *DNO*
Josh Anderson -- Monday, 16 May 2005, at 9:31 a.m.

Re: The fact is your "article" says it was his.. took on his character... an is facutally inaccurate
Trina L.C. Schiller -- Monday, 16 May 2005, at 3:44 p.m.

Re: The fact is your "article" says it was his.. took on his character... an is facutally inaccurate
Mark Wade -- Monday, 16 May 2005, at 5:22 p.m.

Re: The fact is your "article" says it was his.. took on his character... an is facutally inaccurate
Rob. S -- Monday, 16 May 2005, at 5:34 p.m.

Re: Point well taken...
Mark Wade -- Monday, 16 May 2005, at 6:52 p.m.

you too mate. *DNO*
Rob. S -- Monday, 16 May 2005, at 6:57 p.m.

Trina said it was Armands and ripped into him for creating it... he did not. I am referring to that. *DNO*
Josh Anderson -- Monday, 16 May 2005, at 7:00 p.m.

Hi Josh,.. good to see you. I can see how trina got it mixed up though mate.. I would have to *DNO*
Rob. S -- Monday, 16 May 2005, at 7:21 p.m.

Yep, I can see that too... but mixed up professionals offer apologies when....
Josh Anderson -- Monday, 16 May 2005, at 7:30 p.m.

Very fair point Josh. *DNO*
Rob. S -- Monday, 16 May 2005, at 7:31 p.m.

Re: Legalities???
Mark Wade -- Monday, 16 May 2005, at 8:46 p.m.

Hmm... So stand by the inaccuracies and false publishing?
Josh Anderson -- Monday, 16 May 2005, at 10:39 p.m.

Re: I'll Stand On My Own...
Mark Wade -- Tuesday, 17 May 2005, at 4:17 a.m.

Re: I think you are mistaken...
Wayne Bardell -- Tuesday, 17 May 2005, at 2:36 p.m.

You serious? *DNO*
Rob. S -- Tuesday, 17 May 2005, at 11:38 p.m.

More than just mistaken ...
Martin Avis -- Sunday, 15 May 2005, at 6:46 a.m.

Email from Brett Fogle & Marc Quarles
Michael Murphy -- Monday, 16 May 2005, at 2:37 a.m.

Re: Email from Brett Fogle & Marc Quarles
Martin Avis -- Monday, 16 May 2005, at 7:26 a.m.

Martin, I agree completely.
Michael Murphy -- Monday, 16 May 2005, at 7:32 a.m.

Re: Email from Brett Fogle & Marc Quarles
Bill Hely -- Monday, 16 May 2005, at 9:03 a.m.

Posting 100 times a day is probably spam... dont you think? Is that good content? *DNO*
Josh Anderson -- Monday, 16 May 2005, at 9:36 a.m.

New software trends going nowhere? Today's release is tomorrow's trash - The SEO spamming software
Josh Anderson -- Monday, 16 May 2005, at 10:34 a.m.

Re: New software trends going nowhere? Today's release is tomorrow's trash - The SEO spamming softwa
Trina L.C. Schiller -- Monday, 16 May 2005, at 7:08 p.m.

Trina, I don't know you but I don't think you read my entire post... I think we agree on spam issue.
Josh Anderson -- Monday, 16 May 2005, at 7:23 p.m.

Re: Trina, I don't know you but I don't think you read my entire post... I think we agree on spam is
Trina L.C. Schiller -- Monday, 16 May 2005, at 9:12 p.m.

Re: Trina, I don't know you but I don't think you read my entire post... I think we agree on spam is
Josh Anderson -- Monday, 16 May 2005, at 10:41 p.m.

Re: Trina, I don't know you but I don't think you read my entire post... I think we agree on spam is
Trina L.C. Schiller -- Tuesday, 17 May 2005, at 5:38 p.m.

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