This article is probably going to be my biggest rant since I’ve been online. I cannot believe some of the things that Internet marketers are being taught. Many of these are not only unethical but can actually land you in legal trouble. I’m not going to go over the whole litany in this article because we’ll be here all year, but I am going to pick on some of my biggest gripes. If rants like this bug you…don’t read this article. You’ve been warned.

At the top of my list is the outright theft of content. Yes, theft. Marketers are being told to take other marketers sales letters, articles, autoresponder series, or whatever it is they’ve created and pawning it off as their own, changing only the links used for monetization. This is outright theft and yet I am seeing marketers condoning this saying that “everybody does it.” No, everybody does NOT do this. If you are a victim of something like this, you need to send a C&D to the site that’s putting up your content and a DMCA to the hosting company. If you need to push the issue, especially if a lot of money is being lost, get a lawyer.

Another thing that marketers are being told to do that also bugs the heck out of me is to spam social networking and bookmarking sites by setting up profiles simply for the purpose of getting backlinks to your site. Folks, if you’re not actively involved in these sites then all you’re doing is clogging them up with your crap. If you are the owner of one of these sites and you find people are creating accounts for the soul purpose of getting backlinks and they’re not contributing to your community, you need to delete their accounts and ban them for life. If enough sites do this, people will get the message and stop this practice.

Finally, marketers are being told to write articles that specifically violate a site’s TOS. The thinking behind this tactic is that the site in question won’t notice. Trust me folks, they notice. They have trained staff to spot these violations. I won’t go into more detail than that because I don’t want to give anybody any ideas but you know what I’m talking about. For those who own these directories, these people need to be banned, plain and simple.

If we each do our part to clean up the mess, maybe Internet marketers won’t get the bad rap that many of them have earned.

To YOUR Success,

Steven Wagenheim

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