{"id":300,"date":"2007-02-28T13:19:46","date_gmt":"2007-02-28T05:19:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whoisandrewwee.com\/blogging\/internet-marketing-gurus-pills-porn-poker\/"},"modified":"2007-02-28T13:30:24","modified_gmt":"2007-02-28T05:30:24","slug":"internet-marketing-gurus-pills-porn-poker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/whoisandrewwee.com\/blogging\/internet-marketing-gurus-pills-porn-poker\/","title":{"rendered":"Mainstream Internet Marketing Gurus Promoting Porn, Pills and Poker?"},"content":{"rendered":"
I was shocked<\/em>, dumbfounded<\/strong> and aghast<\/u><\/strong> when I saw this top Internet Marketer doing what seemed to be promotion of hardcore pornography, “sex enhancement” pills and gambling on their personal blog.<\/p>\n Had something happened?<\/p>\n I have been reading some of their emails, visiting their site regularly and have even bought a number of their products.<\/p>\n Had they moved to the “dark side”?<\/p>\n I looked at my screen again:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n And even when I looked up another screen:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n There was no getting away from this.<\/p>\n Frankly, his site gets more than 1,000 visits a day (It might be as high as 2,000), and I would wager that the effect it would have on one’s reputation would be immesurable.<\/p>\n If you’ve been working hard to put out content, build a reputation, credibility and rapport with your readers, it could be blown out of the water by a fatal mistake<\/strong> like this.<\/p>\n Let’s look at the reality of this.<\/p>\n Blogging is obviously hot, and almost every major Internet Marketing guru, or aspiring guru has jumped on the bandwagon.<\/p>\n Sure there’re lots of advantages:<\/p>\n But the dark side is that if you’re not properly managing your blogging, you will be opening a Pandora’s box.<\/p>\n There’s massive good, but there’s potential for major mishaps too.<\/p>\n This isn’t the problem for 90% of bloggers out there because they have the misfortune\/good luck to use blogging, just as they’d use a static HTML website. They don’t<\/strong> see and aren’t able to use the power of blogging and only see a miserable 100 visitors a day. Even if you mess up your blog, open the floodgates to porn peddlers, it doesn’t make a difference. If no one’s there to see your mess, I guess it doesn’t matter.<\/p>\n Employing the first mover advantage with traffic generation via blogging means you need to:<\/p>\n Missing some of these components will mean you likely will miss your target altogether.<\/p>\n If I sound like I’m off my rocker, you’ll have to excuse me.<\/p>\n It’s just that I’ve seen so many self-professed expert bloggers and Internet Marketers peddling their sub-standard blogging products that it made me angry enough to team up with Jo Han Mok to offer our customized workshop I mentioned in my earlier post: The Blood and Guts of Social Traffic and Generating A Torrent of Traffic<\/a>.<\/p>\n If you are in Singapore and you are serious about generating traffic, and more importantly monetizing your blog, the customized workshop is something you come for.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I was shocked, dumbfounded and aghast when I saw this top Internet Marketer doing what seemed to be promotion of hardcore pornography, “sex enhancement” pills and gambling on their personal blog. Had something happened? I have been reading some of their emails, visiting their site regularly and have even bought a number of their products. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[24],"tags":[95,1767,1766,131],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/whoisandrewwee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/whoisandrewwee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/whoisandrewwee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/whoisandrewwee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/whoisandrewwee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/whoisandrewwee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/whoisandrewwee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/whoisandrewwee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/whoisandrewwee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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