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Bloggers Battle Over Sponsored Conversations

A Forrester report released yesterday kicked off once again the debate over paying bloggers to write about products and companies. Blogging purists, new media marketing experts, and Google’s Matt Cutts have all weighed in, indicating this is hardly a debate that will soon be put to rest.

Advice for Reputation & Brand Management

Recently I had a chance to post at WPW some reputation management help for Rebecca Kelly from SEOmoz.org. Here is the thread from WPW: Reputation Management Advice

SocialSpark: Changing the Social Media Landscape

I was recently invited to participate in a panel discussion titled, “What Advertisers Want” at the PostieCon conference in Las Vegas, hosted by Payperpost – which has recently changed their name to IZEA. 

PayPerPost Bloggers Unranked By Google

PageRank zero became the big number for blogs participating in Izea's PayPerPost program; Google's move to drop the rankings of those blogs drew a harsh rebuke from Izea's CEO.

More PageRank Carnage

I have been receiving emails and comments about yet another PageRank downturn for multiple sites. Andrew Ooi has compiled a short list of Malaysian sites, many were as much as a PR5 previously, and currently show a PageRank of zero (a white bar) Examples include:- Colleen's Simple Kind of Life and 5xmom The numbers seem to be stable across multiple data centers

Will Google Offer PayPerPost Bloggers Amnesty?

Since the first real information came out about Izea's (PayPerPost) new SocialSpark service, that is in testing but will formerly launch in January my excitement has been a little tempered.

Mesh 2007 On a Roll

Our second mesh conference got off to a great start this morning (if I do say so myself) with a keynote conversation I did with TechCrunch supremo Mike Arrington, followed by one that my co-organizer Rob Hyndman did with Austin Hill of Akoha and Tom Williams of GiveMeaning.com, and then the 15 Minutes of Fame with Octopz,