Comments on: Paid stealth text links are blog suicide http://michaelmartine.com/2005/08/07/blog-suicide/ Remarkable Blog Consulting and Coaching Mon, 01 Dec 2008 22:26:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 By: Blog News Watch » Blog Archive » Weekly Roundup: Week Ending July 6, 2007 http://michaelmartine.com/2005/08/07/blog-suicide/#comment-56861 Blog News Watch » Blog Archive » Weekly Roundup: Week Ending July 6, 2007 Sat, 07 Jul 2007 21:31:59 +0000 http://www.michaelmartine.com/2005/08/07/blog-suicide/#comment-56861 [...] Better Blogging with Michael Martine: Paid stealth text links are blog suicide, says Martine, and I have to agree …About Web Logs: list makers will love Deb’s approach to increasing your link love …  The Blog Herald: Design tips for showing past stories that don’t show up on the home page - what an elegant little approach!  … Blog-Op: Mud Sticks, says Blog-op, and it’s a messy situation at DoshDosh that he’s talking about … Search Engine Roundtable: How to keep your Google AdSense account in good standing … DoshDosh: How to get that traffic up quickly for your new website …Chris Garrett: Why have a personal blog? … Copyblogger: Rock on - how to celeb it up in your niche …  I’d Rather Be Writing: countering the whole “must have categories” strategy … Lorelle on Wordpress: Roundup of copyright information and resources - bookmark this one … Liz Strauss on Successful Blog: Strategize your research approach … Practical Blogging: How to dig out from the social spam avalanche (seriously - one more homemade porn publisher wants to be my friend on MySpace, I’m doing something drastic) … Performancing: Showing the “related articles” list - good? Not so good? … Problogger: Son of Problogger speaks! [...] [...] Better Blogging with Michael Martine: Paid stealth text links are blog suicide, says Martine, and I have to agree …About Web Logs: list makers will love Deb’s approach to increasing your link love …  The Blog Herald: Design tips for showing past stories that don’t show up on the home page - what an elegant little approach!  … Blog-Op: Mud Sticks, says Blog-op, and it’s a messy situation at DoshDosh that he’s talking about … Search Engine Roundtable: How to keep your Google AdSense account in good standing … DoshDosh: How to get that traffic up quickly for your new website …Chris Garrett: Why have a personal blog? … Copyblogger: Rock on - how to celeb it up in your niche …  I’d Rather Be Writing: countering the whole “must have categories” strategy … Lorelle on Wordpress: Roundup of copyright information and resources - bookmark this one … Liz Strauss on Successful Blog: Strategize your research approach … Practical Blogging: How to dig out from the social spam avalanche (seriously - one more homemade porn publisher wants to be my friend on MySpace, I’m doing something drastic) … Performancing: Showing the “related articles” list - good? Not so good? … Problogger: Son of Problogger speaks! [...]

]]> By: Text Links Buzz… » Text Link Buzz! http://michaelmartine.com/2005/08/07/blog-suicide/#comment-56809 Text Links Buzz… » Text Link Buzz! Sat, 07 Jul 2007 11:41:45 +0000 http://www.michaelmartine.com/2005/08/07/blog-suicide/#comment-56809 [...] Paid stealth text links are blog suicide - Michael Martine looks at why its important to announce your paid links as exactly that. Trust is very important in the Blogosphere. [...] [...] Paid stealth text links are blog suicide - Michael Martine looks at why its important to announce your paid links as exactly that. Trust is very important in the Blogosphere. [...]

]]> By: Michael http://michaelmartine.com/2005/08/07/blog-suicide/#comment-31 Michael Mon, 08 Aug 2005 01:55:14 +0000 http://www.michaelmartine.com/2005/08/07/blog-suicide/#comment-31 Jason, that is true. But the first time I ever saw a Weblogs, Inc. page, the beginning of the content was a little lost in all the ads. People may accidentally click on them, but when they realize they've clicked an ad, they do not feel good about doing so. That doesn't put people in the mind to follow through to conversion. You get more clicks, but not they're not qualified clicks and it seems to me your conversion wouldn't be as high as it could be. In my work as a trainer, I remember one time having to explain to an inexperienced person that the error message he wanted to click on so urgently on his screen was in fact an ad disguised as an error message, and it was designed to deceive. When he understood that, his face turned red with embarrassment and he felt tricked and foolish. Any deception of any kind will end in this situation. It is not a good situation for creating customers or ending in a conversion event. In any case, I <strong>do</strong> think Weblogs Inc. blogs look better than a lot of other networks, out there. Thank you for taking the time to comment. Jason, that is true. But the first time I ever saw a Weblogs, Inc. page, the beginning of the content was a little lost in all the ads. People may accidentally click on them, but when they realize they’ve clicked an ad, they do not feel good about doing so. That doesn’t put people in the mind to follow through to conversion. You get more clicks, but not they’re not qualified clicks and it seems to me your conversion wouldn’t be as high as it could be.

In my work as a trainer, I remember one time having to explain to an inexperienced person that the error message he wanted to click on so urgently on his screen was in fact an ad disguised as an error message, and it was designed to deceive. When he understood that, his face turned red with embarrassment and he felt tricked and foolish. Any deception of any kind will end in this situation. It is not a good situation for creating customers or ending in a conversion event.

In any case, I do think Weblogs Inc. blogs look better than a lot of other networks, out there. Thank you for taking the time to comment.

]]> By: Jason http://michaelmartine.com/2005/08/07/blog-suicide/#comment-30 Jason Sun, 07 Aug 2005 19:17:37 +0000 http://www.michaelmartine.com/2005/08/07/blog-suicide/#comment-30 >> Whenever I look at a Weblogs, Inc. blog, I’m disgusted >> by the ratio of ads to content Actually if you look at the length of page we have a much smaller percentage of ads to content of traditional websites. Yes, we have a lot of ads but that's because the page is really long. However most of the ads are up top... by the time you page down once or twice you can have very few ads. best jason >> Whenever I look at a Weblogs, Inc. blog, I’m disgusted
>> by the ratio of ads to content

Actually if you look at the length of page we have a much smaller percentage of ads to content of traditional websites.

Yes, we have a lot of ads but that’s because the page is really long. However most of the ads are up top… by the time you page down once or twice you can have very few ads.

best jason

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