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Sun, 31 Aug 2008 13:41:04 +0000

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By: Pick RiteSEO Company » Blog Archive » Seth Godin Wants to Cheat Advertisers with Fake Clicks

Sun, 31 Aug 2008 13:41:04 +0000

[...] other opinions see Is Seth Godin encouraging click fraud and Seth Godin Advocates Click Fraud. This is the kind of subject I wish Techcrunch would talk about or would make its way onto [...]

By: Seth Promoting Click Fraud â€“ Really?

Seth Promoting Click Fraud â€“ Really? — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 19:12:38 +0000

[...] things were not so simple – a lot of people took that post word for word and started blaming Seth for promoting click fraud. Things turned so worst [...]

By: uri - Pay Per Keywords

uri - Pay Per Keywords — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 18:44:37 +0000

I don't get why he is still running “Adsense”..

it is totally against TOS

By: uri - Pay Per Keywords

uri - Pay Per Keywords — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 16:44:37 +0000

I don't get why he is still running “Adsense”..

it is totally against TOS

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Wed, 27 Aug 2008 13:02:15 +0000

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Seth Godin, ma che stai addÃ¬? — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 22:03:54 +0000

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By: chosig

chosig — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 12:08:49 +0000

Not really correct either, I'm not a marketer so I actually don't have a clue about this topic–but I do dare to state that the ones that spend $100,000 on an online ad campaign don't expect 100% of the clicks to be from people that is going to make a buy…

By: MikeS.

MikeS. — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 10:06:09 +0000

Yep, he did post an apology. I'm normally a fan enough of Seth's to read much of his material whether I agree with it or not (its 50/50). His blog post on this topic definitely was not a “Purple Cow” and wasn't remarkable. I truly believe he understands general “marketing”, but perhaps not all the idiosyncracies of performance marketing. Consider lines like “if everyone started clicking, clickthrough rates would go up” (as if this is a new concept, and as if that's always a good thing) and “but then, advertisers would use the landing pages to start converting” (as if advertisers doing anything but CPM advertising aren't already trying to convert traffic to begin with). What he's trying to petition, I think, is bringing a very “offline”, old-world mentality to “online” marketing and promotion – which I'm in favor of. He's in the ballpark, just still sitting in the Upper Deck in terms of the execution he's suggesting. His premise is rooted in the right ideas and aims to benefit the online marketing community; its just the wrong execution.