Thanks for the humor and the laughs, I really needed that.

Gordon Miltons last blog post..A Simple Solution To A Massive Problem

I am sticking to my statement. They’re stupid.

I’ll tell you why:

The vast majority of these people are “me-too” people who bought what some SMART black hatter was selling. They in turn try to do as much as a monkey could – pushing buttons and not understanding a thing about what they are doing.

The tiny handful of people who figure these scams out are smart – the the majority of the people who follow them around and think they can replicate results from what the black hatters choose to share with them, are being Grade A dense.

And it’s a lot of work – make no mistake about that. Ask Howie Schwartz why he went white hat (he has shades of gray left in there too). He stated on one of our calls just how much work it is to spam, despite any and all forms of software automation.

What these guys do actually makes posting and ranking look like the easy way to riches. All you have to do is think about writing content that attracts traffic in our scenario.

It might be work, but it’s nothing compared to managing a massive spam network which only a tiny handful of people can do properly and an even smaller number find “fun.”

I have black hat friends. I hear all the chatter that never makes its way to the boards. The spam world is cut throat and competitive, and, done right, way out of the average lazy person’s league.

So if you aren’t incredibly resilient and extremely bright, you don’t have a chance in hell of pushing buttons and making money fall from the web.

Blogspot is free and new sites get indexed in just a few hours as I’ve had new blogs show up in 30-120 minutes so it’s a speed ramp onto the Google highway.

The random scrambled text gets long tail hits and the ads on the page are the only thing someone landing on the site see that make any sense so they click on them to exit, which means they make money even if they only get a few clicks before the blog is removed.

Don’t know if you had javascript disabled or not when you looked at these sites, but the new breed of these sites redirect you to a different page where a central ad server shows you the most relevant ads for the query that landed you on the original gibberish page you never see.

So I wouldn’t call them stupid, but I would call them scum-sucking bottom-feeders.

Who I would call stupid, ok GREEDY, are the PPC and affiliate programs that can obviously detect that their ads are running on multiple junk domains using the same AFID yet do nothing to stop it.

These are the people directly responsible for creating the capability for these bottom-feeders to operate and earn money doing what looks stupid to the rest of us.

When you consider that those ’stupid’ scripts crank out thousands of blogs a day with hundreds or thousands of pages per blog and generate a little money per blog and add it all up, it does look like it beats working for a living.

While you and I do it the hard way these parasites profit off our backs and the only way to stop them is to cut them off from scraping your site in the first place.

It can be done, it’s just not easy.

So funny! And so true. When I read this I thought, “2004 called. They want their technique back!”

It’s not often I read a blog post and wish I were the one who had written it. Great observations, great writing and great wit.

Lauren

A good post my friend – and I do agree with you, but there’s one thing I have learned in this life and that is that “common sense aint that common!”

I continue to beat my head against a wall in response to a similar situation in my own life which I am sure we are ALL familiar with… That one of the people we know who forward emails that promise riches from Bill Gates (pick ur fav multi-billionaire business guru) if we will forward their email to everyone we know, and they can track it and will send us $234 each time it gets forwarded…

God save me from the dumb morons of the world who actually believe this rubbish. 20 secs of searching on google would show it up as a scam, but these idiots STILL think its legit because it says its legit (in the email) AND that its been on TV, etc etc etc.

Same for those dumb annoying emails warning you of impending doom from a (fake) virus that’s doing the rounds. I even got one of these once from a guy who SHOULD have known better – the MANAGER of an IT firm!!!!!!!!!!

Anyway, stupidity, gullibility, laziness, greed and so forth know no bounds for some people. I guess u just have to sigh, forgive them for demonstrating their idiocy, and move on, secure in the knowledge that they offer no competition to a genuine hard working person who prefers to THINK!

I do agree with what Michael Lodispoto said – sometimes they are smart folks who just don’t know better.

AND, James Schramko hit the nail on the head. These folks just mean there’s less genuine “competition” for us!

OK, off to work now. Love ur blog Jack – keep writing & I’ll keep reading.

Eran Malloch
Perth, Western Australia
http://EranMalloch.com

I have had Google alerts bring back my own content mish mashed on garbage sites. I don’t know, a scraper and word randomizer. I have also had numerous instances of people using my content without the resource box or even a link. So it goes.

My life has gotten a lot more serene since I found 1 or 2 things that work and stick with it rather than chasing the next new thing.

Bill U

Seriously, people have been doing this kind of stupidity since day one. Think of the Wild West when someone would strap on a six shooter and think they could take out an experienced hand like Billy the Kid… rarely work out like they thought it would.

I feel your pain!

Fred Black

I’m getting tired of ALL of the unethical marketing online these days. I’ve seen some “advice” on a forum recently on how to scape content from Digg (I think) using the “blog this” tool.

Posters on the forum thought this was a great strategy. What a bunch of morons!

Like you said, there are so many legit ways to make money online, why not use your time accordingly.

Of course, I wonder the same thing about many criminals…..