Blogoforum - Tag and Ping for Backlinks
I use social bookmarking sites such as del.icio.us.com quite a lot. What does anyone think about the new Tag and Ping phenomenon which I have been reading about?
Sean Wu's book shows people how to make money by posting loads of tags and websites on the bookmarking sites purely on a commercial basis. Won't this dilute the sites with people's own websites, a lot of which may trashy, which they are posting purely to get backlinks rather than as good sites which they want to share with others?
I think that eventually the whole object of these great sites will be spoiled by commercialism. What do others think and what can be done about it?
Peteby pete1June 16, 2006 6:01 AM
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Spam? Folksonomy Helps
Hi Pete,Welcome to blogoforum. I haven't read the book you are talking about neither have seen complete reviews.
I found another interesting thing however. A spammer has created at least 10 del.icio.us profiles and posted the link - http://del.icio.us/url/d4d868895a7ea15fc26864383213d4f7 to his webpage.
I think he has tired after 10 submissions. So first thing which works good against spam is captcha.
Next thing that helps is folksonomy. On 10 spammers, we can find 100 people willing to mark spam as "spam". People can do this on del.icio.us, people can do this on blogoforum: http://blogoforum.com/forum/tag/feature+forum+idea+talkinghub/new-feature-tag-the-message-you-are-replying-to-231.html
That's how I see it for short.
Incidentally, spammer's webpage refers to tag and ping website.
RE: Spam? Folksonomy Helps
Yeah! This is exactly what I am talking about. Delicious should kick him off and ban him. He might have at least had the common sense to use 10 different accounts.
He deserves to be kicked off just for stupidity!
What if a few thousand people decided to do the same thing? The whole site would be useless to real users. He obviously read thwe book, and if that's what it's advocating it should be made illegal. Sean Wu should be banned off every bookmarking site on the net, along with the rest of the spammers.
Peteby pete1June 16, 2006 1:45 PM
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Update: Currently there are only 1 account from those 10 are left.
by dkrukovskyJune 18, 2006 10:45 AM
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Well here is the story continues.
Steve came to Blogoforum and posted short message about his website full of affiliate links. He tagged it alot with keywords like traveling, traffic, system and wave.
Well it took 2 people to tag his message with keyword they think are appropriate. You can't find that message under traveling category anymore.
Update: the message is there now but it is dimmed since this is how Blogoforum shows out of place messages from August 16.by dkrukovskyAugust 2, 2006 3:16 AM
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