An alert reader (and experienced web writer) commented today,
InfoBarrel, in my personal opinion, is a scam. They have a traffic counter so that you can see how many people look at your articles. However, that doesn’t translate into the AdSense traffic they promise. If you ask about it, they tell you that hundreds of bots [...]
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EHOW UK SCAM NEWS FLASH!!!
Folks, it’s nearing the Day of Reckoning in the [alleged] eHow UK scam for Demand Media’s [alleged] chronic and devastating unethical practices toward their writers.
Because the people who don’t play that game are CATCHING ON. And please EXCUSE MY CAPITAL LETTERS, but it’s ABOUT TIME.
The news? Professor Jeff Jarvis, author of What Would Google Do? [...]
What Do You Want to Ask the Reputable Content Sites?
Enough of the eHow UK scam already. Every time I think it can’t get any worse, any scammier, any dirtier, it does.
One more scam came to light tonight, and if you don’t know enough to run as fast and far from eHow as you can by now, there’s no hope for you.
Either that, or you’ve [...]
eHow UK Scam Part Deux: Or, When is an Answer Not an Answer?
This is what feeds the eHow UK scam and allows it to continue to thrive: members continue to accept non-answers and double-speak for their legitimate and important questions.
For the latest in non-answers to the eHow UK scam questions, we go to eHow’s community rep, Rich Noguchi. An eHow member asked Rich yesterday,
The eHow UK Scam Continues to Grow
Did you think the eHow UK scam couldn’t get any worse? Well it has. And remember that train wreck analogy a few posts back where I said I couldn’t bear to watch? I peeked. And I’ll tell you what: A scam is a scam, and that’s what this train wreck is.
Now, the eHow forums, where [...]
Google Video Explains Why eHow’s Mirrored Site is Not Good for Business
Okay, this video (thanks, Howie!) doesn’t refer to eHow specifically. It was released about five weeks after eHow launched their mirrored site in the US that they called a UK site so they could try to excuse themselves from paying for content they didn’t own.
But if it isn’t clear to you yet how and [...]
eHow’s Lies, Promises, and Blaming the Victims
Warning: this is a very long post. It is intended to be used as background documentation for anyone wishing to confront Demand Media / eHow in or out of court to demand fair compensation for consideration received by eHow.
Scroll to the bottom of this post to find a support forum and [...]
The Unofficial Official eHow Dictionary
Maybe you’ve heard.
eHow announced today via a casually indifferent video blog post that it had heard the “chatter” and the “buzz,” and although they were “unable” to pay writers for the profits garnered from the “UK” site, they had decided to pony up “generously” via early-February payments to writers.
eHow is Spinning Out of Control
As Ian Lurie noted in his eHow expose today, eHow is deleting forum posts “in attempt at spin control.”
And it’s escalating.
Blogger Ian Lurie Calls eHow Out
Ian Lurie of Conversation Marketing just called eHow out. Big time.
Notable blogger and Internet marketing and content whiz, Ian Lurie, has called eHow on the carpet for their less-than-savory business practices during the past several months.
Ian called eHow’s terms of service, “bullshit,” their actions, “evil,” and summarily denounced them as bullies.
And all I can add [...]
