For a fee, some blogs boost firms

[fascisthunter]

Concerns raised on disclosure
By Jenn Abelson, Globe Staff | June 26, 2005


Jeff Cutler has never purchased anything from Dot Flowers, but you might think otherwise, reading the Hingham resident's blog.

''No more driving to the corner to buy flowers and hand-deliver them," he wrote on his Web page. ''Nope. Now I go online to places like Dot Flowers.com and 1-800-Flowers. I like Dot a little better just because of the personal touch."

Dot Flowers's ad agency paid Cutler $5 this spring to promote the florist and put a link to its website on his blog, or online journal, short for web log. Cutler, who does not disclose the payment on his blog, is one of more than 2,000 bloggers whom marketer USWeb enlisted to hawk products and services. That helped the nascent florist double its sales in the first three months and shoot up near the top of Google's search list, according to USWeb.

http://www.boston.com/business/articles/2005/06/26/for_a_fee_some_blogs_boost_firms/


It truly blows me away how some can claim it never happens. I'm not for accusing some here are paid, but it does happen. I know somebody who was paid to do it, not here though.

[Warpy]

1. Check out Netvocates

They're just one of many companies online who pay people to spam targeted blogs and message boards with pro product messages. They don't admit at their site that they do political messaging, but I'm pretty certain they do.

My guess is also that Kampus Konservative Klubs are also places that recruit people to spam political boards. I understand the going rate is about ten cents a post, the cheapest disruptive advertising there is.

[fascisthunter]

2. It's a Pretty Underhanded Biz

I just googled netvocates..... eeeech!

[bananas]

3. k&r nt