Comments on: Continuation of yesterday’s show: more on linky love to advertisers http://www.onebyonemedia.com/continuation-of-yesterdays-show-more-on-linky-love-to-advertisers/ Connecting Businesses One By One Sun, 12 Oct 2008 23:50:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: shel israel http://www.onebyonemedia.com/continuation-of-yesterdays-show-more-on-linky-love-to-advertisers/#comment-58255 shel israel Thu, 31 May 2007 14:48:24 +0000 http://www.onebyonemedia.com/continuation-of-yesterdays-show-more-on-linky-love-to-advertisers/#comment-58255 Jim, Use a Blackberry and type one handed. Jim,

Use a Blackberry and type one handed.

]]> By: Jim Turner http://www.onebyonemedia.com/continuation-of-yesterdays-show-more-on-linky-love-to-advertisers/#comment-58254 Jim Turner Thu, 31 May 2007 14:37:04 +0000 http://www.onebyonemedia.com/continuation-of-yesterdays-show-more-on-linky-love-to-advertisers/#comment-58254 I can see this is going to take a blog post of my own. I'll see if i can write a post between diaper changes and around nap time. I can see this is going to take a blog post of my own. I’ll see if i can write a post between diaper changes and around nap time.

]]> By: shel israel http://www.onebyonemedia.com/continuation-of-yesterdays-show-more-on-linky-love-to-advertisers/#comment-58253 shel israel Thu, 31 May 2007 13:40:15 +0000 http://www.onebyonemedia.com/continuation-of-yesterdays-show-more-on-linky-love-to-advertisers/#comment-58253 Ah so much to say here, and such a small print box to say it in. 1. I was disappointed in Scoble's (now-reversed) decision to speak at ppp's conference because it added legitimacy and attention to an organization that does not merit it in my opinion. 2. Microsoft could not allow downloads because Vista needs to be installed on a new machine to work properly. Microsoft wanted to be reviewed by the best and most credible people it could find, and they would not have been found at PPP. It made an error of generosity which blew up in it's face. 3. Saying thanks to your sponsor is a time honored tradition. However it has very small impact on the audience that hear or see it. 4. For me not to snarl or sneer at what any of the three of you do, all you have to do is be transparent. Let your readers decide if its a good thing based on that transparency. If they like it, you will grow and prosper. if they don't then your endeavor with atrophy itself and die. I am not some vigilante sniffing and testing every tactic. I trust audience response to do that. Ah so much to say here, and such a small print box to say it in.
1. I was disappointed in Scoble’s (now-reversed) decision to speak at ppp’s conference because it added legitimacy and attention to an organization that does not merit it in my opinion.

2. Microsoft could not allow downloads because Vista needs to be installed on a new machine to work properly. Microsoft wanted to be reviewed by the best and most credible people it could find, and they would not have been found at PPP. It made an error of generosity which blew up in it’s face.

3. Saying thanks to your sponsor is a time honored tradition. However it has very small impact on the audience that hear or see it.

4. For me not to snarl or sneer at what any of the three of you do, all you have to do is be transparent. Let your readers decide if its a good thing based on that transparency. If they like it, you will grow and prosper. if they don’t then your endeavor with atrophy itself and die. I am not some vigilante sniffing and testing every tactic. I trust audience response to do that.

]]> By: Andy Beard http://www.onebyonemedia.com/continuation-of-yesterdays-show-more-on-linky-love-to-advertisers/#comment-58251 Andy Beard Thu, 31 May 2007 09:17:51 +0000 http://www.onebyonemedia.com/continuation-of-yesterdays-show-more-on-linky-love-to-advertisers/#comment-58251 You are crossing into territory that might disappoint Shel, just as Robert Scoble's plans to speak at Postiecon disappointed him.. As an example I am of the opinion that Microsoft were fairly silly giving out 100 or so free laptops to A listers. That has real cost unless they got them for free (which is possible) That is 300,000 worth of laptops. What they could have done is provided an electronic download version of Vista to 25000 PayPerPost bloggers in some way, even without any payment, or with some minimum payment just to partially cover their time in writing something, because it would never cover the time needed to actually test the product. Cost to Microsoft? Probably about the same and no negative feedback, because they probably also give out so many other free copies to every member of the press that they could never say anything negative about it. PR benefit to Microsoft? In my opinion much greater than the laptops, and it is possible they would have got as much good feedback as well, because there are actually some very technical bloggers writing for PayPerPost who have done tech support for Fortune 500 companies, work in IT with government departments worldwide etc. So who out of Yahoo and Microsoft do you think will buy PPP this year? (or the merged entity) In fact it would be good business for Google to buy all the paid post and paid link companies this year, and switch all to use nofollow, just to defend their algorithms, but possibly because they offer an advertising platform that isn't blocked by Ad blockers. The reason Yahoo or Microsoft would buy them... to put it bluntly it would p.ss Google off, and it would be very disruptive of Google's algorithms. You are crossing into territory that might disappoint Shel, just as Robert Scoble’s plans to speak at Postiecon disappointed him..

As an example I am of the opinion that Microsoft were fairly silly giving out 100 or so free laptops to A listers.

That has real cost unless they got them for free (which is possible)

That is 300,000 worth of laptops.

What they could have done is provided an electronic download version of Vista to 25000 PayPerPost bloggers in some way, even without any payment, or with some minimum payment just to partially cover their time in writing something, because it would never cover the time needed to actually test the product.

Cost to Microsoft?

Probably about the same and no negative feedback, because they probably also give out so many other free copies to every member of the press that they could never say anything negative about it.

PR benefit to Microsoft?

In my opinion much greater than the laptops, and it is possible they would have got as much good feedback as well, because there are actually some very technical bloggers writing for PayPerPost who have done tech support for Fortune 500 companies, work in IT with government departments worldwide etc.

So who out of Yahoo and Microsoft do you think will buy PPP this year? (or the merged entity)

In fact it would be good business for Google to buy all the paid post and paid link companies this year, and switch all to use nofollow, just to defend their algorithms, but possibly because they offer an advertising platform that isn’t blocked by Ad blockers.

The reason Yahoo or Microsoft would buy them… to put it bluntly it would p.ss Google off, and it would be very disruptive of Google’s algorithms.

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