The Underachiever Life

OK I am going to add my two penneth in
here. There have been plenty of people talking about the issues with
Tumblr, and of course its a blow to many of us who had decent pages.

However I am going to make a statement, there were a lot of pages which
were to brutally honest, damn awful. I think Nika stated she had seen a
few postings which were purely SEO spamming with a few affiliates. This
is not good content, this is not what we are supposed to be doing. Read
the quote in my signature, this is what Ed said about spammers, and
affiliate marketers, we are not their to be like them, we are there to
be better than them!

So how do we do it? How do we ensure that only the good sites get the traffic they deserve?

Its down to us!!

We have noone to blame for this spanking but ourselves. If you got spanked by Tumblr, ask yourself this question:

"Have i promoted other peoples sites, were they good enough, were they a bit spammy, was the content sufficient?"

Did you promote team members tumblr sites? How good was their content? Did you even look?

Ed has stated that this year is all about "marketing the way the internet works",
what we have been doing is so not that at all. Ed's only mistake in
this process is that he assumed by showing people what to do, and then
telling them to publish great content, that everyone knew what that
meant.

So how do we fix it? How do we "market the way the internet works"?

If you are part of a team or facebook group, and someone asks you to
"give them some Web 2.0 love", check their site out first, if it isnt
good enough, you tell them,
you dont give them any love unless they deserve it. Is their content
good, does it look great? Is there lots of genuinely useful info? Would
a real visitor think it was any good.

Part of me actually thinks that if it isn't good enough then you should
"bury" them, but as part of a team that wouldnt be helpful.

Remember if you dont think its good enough, and you rank it, you are
only screwing yourself up, just like happened with tumblr. If the
person refuses to change or says "I am going to add more content
later", then you must tell them that when they have changed it they
will get some "web 2.0 loving".

The TDC community is possibly one of the biggest communities there is
at the moment, in that sense we wield quite a deal of power, as we have
already seen, we can shoot good sites to the top rankings.

However with that power comes responsibility. Those of us who intend to
make a living out of this do not want to encourage the lazy spammer
types. If these people wish to leave because of this stance, then all
the better. I am here to provide quality content for my
customers/visitors, I don't want some clowns cocking it up for me.

All of you who have worked hard on your content will surely agree with
me, we are a social group in our own right and we should be guarding
our community jealously, I for one don't want to be called a "spammer
scum" and be lumped with them.

Lets remember what Ed said, and behave like a proper community, rate
sites like you would if you didnt know the person, if its good rate
it...

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"You will own there sorry spammy ass and you will be doing the world a favor - beautiful outcome all round." - Ed Dale