Comments on: What’s A Blog? Is That Some Pyramid Scheme? http://www.blogcontentprovider.com/blog/2008/05/09/whats-a-blog-is-that-some-pyramid-scheme/ Professional Blog Management Fri, 21 Nov 2008 18:28:39 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: Allen http://www.blogcontentprovider.com/blog/2008/05/09/whats-a-blog-is-that-some-pyramid-scheme/#comment-870 Allen Mon, 19 May 2008 14:40:45 +0000 http://www.blogcontentprovider.com/blog/?p=173#comment-870 Thoughts? Yes, Lance, I have thoughts. First, thanks for your comment and for the compliment. As for content theft, the kind that you are describing, it certainly is unethical. It's reared it's ugly head in a new form since WordPress has come onto the seen and many a would-be blogger end up doing nothing more than scraping the content from others' blogs and recycling them into their own in order to get that click-through. But the best bloggers are those who create unique and valuable content. Thoughts? Yes, Lance, I have thoughts.

First, thanks for your comment and for the compliment. As for content theft, the kind that you are describing, it certainly is unethical. It’s reared it’s ugly head in a new form since WordPress has come onto the seen and many a would-be blogger end up doing nothing more than scraping the content from others’ blogs and recycling them into their own in order to get that click-through. But the best bloggers are those who create unique and valuable content.

]]> By: Lance Winslow http://www.blogcontentprovider.com/blog/2008/05/09/whats-a-blog-is-that-some-pyramid-scheme/#comment-858 Lance Winslow Wed, 14 May 2008 02:28:59 +0000 http://www.blogcontentprovider.com/blog/?p=173#comment-858 Most blogs are not illegal or unethical, but there are many pretend-a-blogs, those sites that pass themselves off as blogs that rip off content and post it, even modify articles with key-words only to get traffic to their site. Then they make money with Click Ads or AdSense. I find this strategy unethical. In the past 3-years I became the most prolific online article write in human history and was astounded as to how many people do not have the ethics necessary to run a legitimate blog. If more folks would subscribe to your blog and learn a little about blogging, I think they might be able to do both, make money and blog without cheating, stealing content or creating unethical situations. Any thoughts on that? Most blogs are not illegal or unethical, but there are many pretend-a-blogs, those sites that pass themselves off as blogs that rip off content and post it, even modify articles with key-words only to get traffic to their site. Then they make money with Click Ads or AdSense. I find this strategy unethical. In the past 3-years I became the most prolific online article write in human history and was astounded as to how many people do not have the ethics necessary to run a legitimate blog.

If more folks would subscribe to your blog and learn a little about blogging, I think they might be able to do both, make money and blog without cheating, stealing content or creating unethical situations. Any thoughts on that?

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