• Plug my blog?

    Posted on January 31st, 2006 by and currently 6 commenting.

    I was recently contacted by an online marketing firm in Baltimore that has been hired by a business consulting company to “get the word out about their blog.” They want us to plug it and link to it – but only if we find it interesting.

    It had to happen sometime.

    As of today, Technorati is actively tracking 26.7 million blogs. That’s a lot of clutter. So I guess it’s only natural for this progression to happen. After all, we’ve seen an entire industry of blog-related (read: web 2.0) companies popping up. Just like word of mouth marketing companies or even iPod accessory companies.

    It’s one thing for a kindred spirit to contact you and ask you to check out their blog. It’s another to be solicited by a paid third party. Shame, shame.

  • http://www.orangeyeti.com/ytmnd-o-rly-ya-rly/ Evan

    Shameful indeed. -10 net karma. Well, it’s really on -10 if you tell us who they were. I plugged your blog today by referencing your post on Trogdor and Home Star Runner (#).

  • http://brainsonfire.com/blog Spike

    Evan, But I didn’t ask you to plug my blog. You picked up the post and added to it – in true blogosphere form. Ands thank you for that. As for not disclosing the culprit(s) in question, well that would just be plain unprofessional of me.

  • http://savedbyzero.org/ Brian

    What is sad is that the “online marketing company” would use such tactics. As “experts” they should know the steps, tricks, etc to get the blogged picked up easily and get fairly good Search Engine positioning quickly.

  • http://adpulp.com/ David Burn

    Check this out…I get emails all the time from PR firms notifying me of their clients’ latest blog posts. How lame is that?

  • Gammo

    Shee-eee-eee-sus! Lame. Very lame.

  • http://www.thebasement.com/ Matt Galloway

    Hey Spike,

    I know I haven’t posted many comments latetly, but I was hoping that you could post… uh… nevermind.

    -Matt