Top 10 Signs that you are Promoting Internet Spam
Everyone hates spam but how do you know if you are a spammer or not? What criteria do you use to judge? Well I have put together a list of the top 10 signs that you are a spammer. Make sure you don’t fit into these and you should be ok.
1) Twitter bugs—if you have thousands of followers, and only two or three people you actually have a conversation with, You are spamming all the rest.
2) Social bookmarking Spammers–oh look they are your own domain. Social bookmarking is for Socializing and things you find of interest. Make some friends and stop just spamming your own site.
3) Email Promoters—I am all for a good email list. Make sure you provide something worth opening the email for. A good point of reference, If I never buy from you, It should still be worthwhile to get an email from you. Take time to form a relationship. It will pay you more over time.
4) Blog/ forum comments—read the posts that you make, is it adding to the conversation. In addition, do you ever go back and check up on the posts? I hate asking someone a question to clarify what he or she said and never get a response.
5) Buying Email lists—build your own site, do some work for a change. Stop selling emails, and stop buying email addresses. I hate getting spammed from 100 people a day I have never heard of. IF they don’t opt-in to your list, leave it alone.
6) Irrelevant content—Make sure all content on your site is relevant. Although the search engines have improved tremendously on this, you still occasionally get someone who ranks highly for totally irrelevant keywords. Make sure you target your market to the right people. You are wasting your time and mine.
7) Automated Scraping Articles—Manually getting articles from directories works, no problem . that is why they are there. However, scraping off of other websites, and not crediting the author, And filling an entire automated blog with this content is just another type of spam
8) Intentional misspelling—If your e.m.ail.. lo@ks like th.is, STOP! I hate emails that have to be translated to avoid the filters. If people want your crap mail, they can white list you. Then you won’t end up in the crap folder anyway.
9) Double Lists—Some people have gotten into the system of running 2 mail lists, and automatically putting you on both. Then you unsubscribe, but only from one list. This is blatantly a violation of the regulations against spam. If I have unsubscribed, I DONT WANT TO HEAR FROM YOU!
10) Bot programs—if you use fully automated programs for any of the above YOU ARE SPAMMING. Now there are some great programs that help automate portions so that the job can be easier. If you don’t have to do any work to make money, you are spamming to get it. Quit wasting our time.
Ok enough of a rant. If you are doing the above, just stop. Nobody wants to see it. A real business takes work. It takes building a relationship with people. If you can’t be bothered to do that, go get a “real” job.
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