Comments on: Pixel Ad Site Targeting Bloggers with Deception

By: jack

jack — Thu, 20 Jul 2006 00:34:13 +0000

I think you are all being slightly petty. Pixel sites are a good form of advertising IF the site is promoted properly.
Where can you get space for the kind of money they charge….your local paper?
Some of these sites offer 4 years of advertising for a 1 off feee.
Its cheap its good for your google ranking and its a page thats filled with ads, if its a genra based site it gives search engines a run for their money.
Does anyone really care that this guy put these big names on….and i really think they would sit there and go hey why not its a link our names getting around blah blah.
Sounds like you care more than the big names somehow.

By: David

David — Sat, 10 Jun 2006 08:02:42 +0000

Yes I also agree, that is a fraud, a scam. I also have 3 pixel ad sites but did not put false ads on my sites.

Is it possible to delete the last 4 comments above? It’s a spam… I hate spams.

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By: Mark

Mark — Tue, 28 Mar 2006 16:26:04 +0000

Something like this would have never crossed my mind. I agree with you that this is ‘deception’, to say the least.

It was very smart of you to take that screen capture of their page, as currently, some of those larger well known blogs are conspicuously absent!

Thanks for the heads up. I will certainly look for these and other similar deceptive techniques when considering spending some of my hard earned money.

Mark

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Conseils en stratégies web » Creating Controversy Out of Nothing? — Mon, 27 Mar 2006 11:03:40 +0000

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By: Tony Hill

Tony Hill — Sun, 26 Mar 2006 21:56:53 +0000

It looks like they updated their news page in reference to the controversey that has arised. Too bad they are not accepting applications anymore; it seems they are getting a bit of traffic from this negative publicity and it could possibly send a descent amount of traffic. Sorry to all those who’s brand is being abused and falsely misrepresented.

By: Phillip Winn

Phillip Winn — Sun, 26 Mar 2006 04:41:14 +0000

I dropped back by to check up on this, and found Blogcritics.org still listed, though we haven’t paid a dime. While most of the sites are now marked as “pre-approved” — meaning listed without permission — ours isn’t.

Then I found a press release which is an utter fabrication. I suspect that when I email them, it will disappear, but right now it says:

Again, and for the record, we have not paid anything, and were quite surprised to find ourselves listed here, and even more surprised to find ourselves still listed here. Given the similarity in wording to the more recent Business Week press release, I’d be very surprised to learn that Business Week had paid anything, despite the claims from Amja above.

By: Grant

Grant — Sun, 26 Mar 2006 02:45:13 +0000

Thank you so much for posting this. I had an email from this group also, in fact I got it three times through three of my blogs, inviting me to participate and I was actually very close to shelling out $100 to buy space because I saw that other big blogs had taken up the offer. I thought it would be amazing to occupy a space next to slashdot and engadget!

Luckily I saw the post on boing boing which led me to your blog which made me look twice at what they were doing.

$100 might not sound like much for some but for me it is crucial as I’m a new blogger attempting to find readers.

Thanks

By: Speaker for the Devil

Speaker for the Devil — Sat, 25 Mar 2006 13:31:04 +0000

Amjad isn’t saying Boing Boing paid for space.

What’s he’s done is set up a milliondollarhomepage ripoff with the intent that blogs buy advertising there, and in order to do that he’s put a dozen famous blogs, either to show what an ad looks like, or to fool them into believing that all the big blogs advertise here.

Luckily he will not sell anything anyway, because these sites have no business model.

Advice to Amjad: Keep your day job.

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By: Mike Rundle

Mike Rundle — Sat, 25 Mar 2006 03:59:06 +0000

Haha, it looks like you guys scared Amja away…. with the truth :)

I realize that good morals and ethics are interpreted differently across cultures (so many times have I seen sites ripped off by other cultures, but they saw nothing wrong with what they did because it’s not bad form in their neck of the Earth) so does this lack of ethics fall under the same umbrella?

Great catch though Darren, and congrats on being the muckraker to whom everybody linked. I love digging up the dirt before everybody else ;)

By: aaron wall

aaron wall — Sat, 25 Mar 2006 03:56:48 +0000

>They are using the hard work of others to launch their own business off.

As opposed to search engines which build an ad system over the top of others contents? Or bloggers who heavily cut and past content, and then scatter AdSense ads around the content to where it is hard to find the content?

When speaking in absolutes and ethics it is easy to come across as being hypocritical.

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By: Darren Rowse

Darren Rowse — Fri, 24 Mar 2006 22:20:09 +0000

Doug – no, PB wasn’t a placeholder – we were approached to join it (at a cost). They were targetting us as a ’sucker’.

By: Leon

Leon — Fri, 24 Mar 2006 21:55:26 +0000

Wow, nice reply by Amjad. Almost had me fooled there. Slick guys like him are the ones that manage to con people. What he’s doing is low.

By: Doug

Doug — Fri, 24 Mar 2006 19:01:18 +0000

If those are/were in fact placeholders, did you see a placeholder for ProBlogger when he contacted you?

By: HART (1-800-HART)

HART (1-800-HART) — Fri, 24 Mar 2006 18:37:47 +0000

Interesting. Now when you go mouse over, the description says… “Pre-approved – Waiting Response” and gizmodo, engadget and boing-boing logos removed .. since I started to read this article.. Power of blogging.