I have to hand it to art2blog, for their ingenious title of their latest article "$15,000 For A Story On Digg." It amazes me the way companies want to scam the system or to get results with the least amount of work. I suppose its the American way to buy results instead of working for them. The article refers to a piece written at CNetNews.com called "The big Digg rig."
Some marketers offer "content generation services," where they sell stories to Web sites for the sole purpose of getting them submitted to Digg and other sites. This combination of spam and blogs is called "splogs." The stories often feature topics and keywords in headlines that are likely to appeal to the Digg crowd, such as "geeks" and "Apple."
Lazier but still tricky marketers merely scrape content off legitimate sites to put up on their own sites in a technique called "link jacking." In essence, they are hijacking the links that should go back to the original site, experts say.
I would like to differentiate the use of the phrase "content generation services". The phrase as used here by the author is used to describe a random article produced in reference solely for the purpose of using the content as a Digg article. At Bloggers For Hire, we have a different approach. We are a content generation service, but our content is used solely for the purpose of generating quality content for your business. $15,000 in the right hands could produce results Digg could only dream. At Bloggers For Hire, we do things the old fashion way, we earn it.
Okay, that phrase was stolen, but I think you get my drift.
Tags: art2blog, Digg, CNet, content generation, link jacking, Bloggers For Hire
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