The results of flooding social bookmarking, and video upload sites with a promotional product are short lived.

Nancy Andrews calls this the “Warhol Effect”
Google recognizes fresh content because of keyword stuffing, and ranks it high initially, but in days (unless it is soooo longtail no one cares) the listing disappears.

and as Dan Theis wrote “must we piss in every public fountain”

Google will soon see the abuses that SMARTS is propagating, and find a way to shut it down… probably with a lot of collateral damage

Neil.

On the advice of a PR person whose newsletter I’ve subscribed to for many years, I watched the Stompernet SMARTS teaser “video” (not really a video, but a PP presentation, but with what sounded like some very good thoughts about how to utilize social marketing sites to build SEO) and subscribed to their “free report.”

In four days, I had seven emails from these people. Yuck. When I attempted to communicate with them about my irritation over this, I discovered that they are impermeable. They have no easy mechanism to reach a live person, and so far, my comment to their blog critiquing their tactics has not made it past their moderators.

Okay, fine, so they’re just another bunch of hype merchants. The ‘net is filled with ‘em, who use 4 billion word long sales letters and too much email and automated “ticket” systems limit customer communication with a small staff as they attempt to move lots and lots of product explaining how you, too, can get rich (some with great content, most with crap) and accordingly make them money. It’s the 21st century snake oil world — patent medicines may be mostly a thing of the past, but patent get-rich-quick schemes are thriving.

However, my outrage about this particular version is over the top because they’re professing to have the inside scoop on social marketing/web 2.0 organic SEO. The WHOLE point of social marketing and web 2.0 is to build relationships between people. It’s such a powerful model and has such a glowing sense of possibility — the internet serving as a genuine tool to build relationships and voices for people around the world. There is room for sustainable commerce in this model, that exists and flourishes on its merits and the responses/respect that people honestly share with one another.

As far as I can see, Stompernet is a cynical attempt to manipulate that. And no surprise that Scribd (or other platforms) might want to protect themselves from upsurges in use based on their suggestions.

I’m trying to use the internet to build a business and make some money, like most people here. But I just can’t believe that the answer is to hijack people’s efforts to build a true lateral communication system. In my mind, their greed damages all of us.

I’ll leave this to others to promote.

You wrote, “BTW, I’m not posting an affiliate link because I haven’t reviewed the product…”

So when are you going to review the product? I mean do you have any intention to review it and let us know your opinions?
Expecting your reply