The OnlineMBA.com Awards are Part of a Deceptive Link Baiting Scheme Aimed at Bloggers

Saturday, July 24th, 2010

Hundreds of bloggers are falling prey to a deceptive link baiting scheme that I would like to expose.

The website OnlineMBA.com has a section for ‘awarding the web’. This award system is 100% illegitimate.

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Tags: blog controversy, blog security, blog seo, link building
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When Blogging Get’s Feisty: What to do with a Blog Controversy

Wednesday, May 19th, 2010

A recently trending topic among the blog tip community is the subject of blog controversy. Because blogs are opinion-oriented and involve user interaction, most bloggers are no strangers to controversy. Whether the conflict is internal (heated debates in the comment section) or external (blogs writing dirty material about other blogs), it is always interesting to watch things escalate.

Internal Controversies: An Example and Observations

Last week on SiteSketch101, Nicholas Cardot took an unconventional stance on the value of the popular Thesis theme for WordPress.

I believe that Thesis is not a good value for most bloggers and after having done a lot of research into it, I can’t honestly recommend Thesis to my readers, to my followers, or to my friends and I would strongly encourage you to steer your business away from it as a business model.

What followed was a foray of emotionally charged comments either being critical of Cardot’s position or in favor of it. (more…)

Tags: blog controversy, blogging psychology
Posted in Blog Philosophy, Blogging Tips | 1 Comment »