| Title: | Unpurple Cows: On Paying For Posts, For Links, For Buzz |
| URL: | http://www.rimmkaufman.com/rkgblog/2006/12/29/joel-on-blogger-gifts/ |
| Printed: | March 19, 2010 |
| Source: | The Rimm-Kaufman Group Blog, info@rimmkaufman.com |
- December 29, 2006
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Yet another solid Joel Spolsky essay, this time on bloggers accepting gifts. Recommended. One word summary of Joel’s essay? “Unethical.”
Paying for posts is inappropriate, and the FTC agrees. Link-building contests — for example, John Chow’s “review my blog and possibly win a MiniTV USB” — also rubs me the wrong way. (I have no qualms with link games like hat-bait, the z-list, and blog tag.)
Call me old fashioned, but I agree with Seth Godin’s purple cow thesis: the right way to capture attention, mindshare, ink, pixels, word-of-mouth, buzz, links, and general PR love is by having a remarkable product or service. A hundred times harder than writing checks or running games or linking tricks, yes. But, at day’s end, this is really the only way.
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