{"id":1783,"date":"2006-11-13T07:13:14","date_gmt":"2006-11-13T07:13:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntu.my\/wp30\/archives\/2006\/11\/13\/dear_corporate.html"},"modified":"2006-11-13T07:13:14","modified_gmt":"2006-11-13T07:13:14","slug":"dear_corporate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/archives\/2006\/11\/13\/dear_corporate.html","title":{"rendered":"dear corporate marketer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dear corporate marketer &#8211; i am not humored that you wish to use my blog to up your pagerank.  I&#8217;m not stupid.  It&#8217;s obvious you&#8217;re posting pithy comments debasing competitors on lots of highly trafficked entries with your URL and the search terms you wish to associate with your company..  I have left your pithy comments but changed the URLs to the company you debased.  Even though you&#8217;re a real company, you&#8217;ve acquired the honor of being on the list of spammers which means any posting with your URL (real or not) will be junked.  Congratulations!<\/p>\n<p>Thank you.  The Management.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>PS&#8230; To my fellow social software bloggers &#8211; keep your eye out for new social network sites that wish to up their pagerank by writing pithy commenting on blogs.  Teens get to MySpace\/Facebook through Google; thus, not surprisingly, competitors are trying to get highly ranked there.  Personally, i hate being used for SEO and i particularly hate when people try to do SEO by writing lame comments on blogs.  Major pet peeve.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear corporate marketer &#8211; i am not humored that you wish to use my blog to up your pagerank. I&#8217;m not stupid. It&#8217;s obvious you&#8217;re posting pithy comments debasing competitors on lots of highly trafficked entries with your URL and the search terms you wish to associate with your company.. I have left your pithy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reflections-rants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1783\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}