Delaware Job Hunters Group Spams the WorkAtHomeTruth Blog!
Update: 4/6/2009 – According to Todd Bavol from Integrity Career Transitions this was the case of a volunteer who was posting to bring awareness to the event who was not aware of common posting etiquette – i.e. posting something RELEVANT to the discussion of the blog.
I'll give them the benefit of the doubt on that. You can register for the Deleware Job Hunters Group event at this site:
www.IntegrityCareerTransitions.com
As usual, I've maintained the old post for historical purposes:
I noticed The Delaware Job Hunters Education and Networking Event when I saw a random blog comment from Integrity Career Transitions in the spam section of the WorkAtHomeTruth blog.
Sure enough, The Delaware Job Hunters Education and Networking Event had posted a completely random, unrelated comment at the end of this article about Zero-Fee Home Business Trials. I decided to approve the comment because it's a great example of how NOT to post in blog discussions and how to get labeled a blog spammer instead of a value-added contributor to a blog discussion.
So let's see what's wrong with the post made by The Delaware Job Hunters Education and Networking Event:
- It is not directly related to the top of the article. Although there may be some overlap in the audience for their site and the topic of the article that's not enough to prevent it from being considered blog spam. Any comments in a blog discussion must be very tightly related to the topic of the blog post.
- It promotes the IntegrityCareerTransitions.com website within the blog post. While posting a link within a blog post isn't defacto blog spamming, because the post by The Delaware Job Hunters Education and Networking Event is so off-topic, the fact that they also posted a link to another website makes it even more of an example of off-topic spam.
- It doesn't reference the article posted on the page at all. In fact a post like that could easily be made by automated blog-spamming software.
I'll be examing The Delaware Job Hunters Education and Networking Event in more detail, but one question you should ask yourself is whether you want to work with a company that claims to be able to help you in your job search if they don't even know the basic rules of Net Etiquette.
Also, I'll show you the CORRECT means by which other business have approached WorkAtHomeTruth to request we mention their websites or events.
I feel a little bad that I removed the Delaware Job Hunters Group phone number from their blog spam comment, so to be fair I've generated all possible permutations of their 7 digit phone number that follows their 302 area code. So now you at least have a fighting chance of getting their correct phone number via the following easy to follow flash slideshow:
Note: It's not clear whether IntegrityCareerTransitions had anything to do with this blog-spamming incident or if it was merely a solo act of The Delaware Job Hunters Education and Networking Event.
Comments on Delaware Job Hunters Group Spams the WorkAtHomeTruth Blog!
7:43 pm
Paul,
I apologize that someone blasted your site with an unwelcome message. We are holding the event to help the thousands of out of work people in the state of Delaware. The event is at no cost and thus we have people helping to promote this important event. I would ask that you consider the intent of the poster and not add it into the category of spam. We are really trying to make a difference in the lives of many people. Thanks so much for bringing this to my attention. I will ask those that are donating their time to help so many, to be more careful on their methods.
Have a good day and best of luck to you and the success of your venture.
Todd
10:23 pm
Todd,
I'll give your organization the benefit of the doubt on that. I've changed the top of the page to go directly to your event, but…
I have a responsibility to my readers to stay completely on topic which over-rides the "presumed intent" of a blog poster. It looked EXACTLY like blog spam and blog spam while much easier to control these days is still a huge nuisance.
Blog posting etiquette 101 is stay on topic so when someone just comes and randomly posts something they are immediately labeled a blog spammer. It sounds like in this case it's more likely an overzealous volunteer who hasn't been trained properly OR didn't understand the training.
I have people coming to post their business opportunities, telecommuting sites, etc. many of which are good – but that does NOT give them the right to break basic blog etiquette convention.
Typically what I do if a resource looks valuable is do a special write-up of it.