Hi All,

I have had an article site for over a year now. Since then, I now have over 500 active authors writing content for the site. Unfortunately, I'm on a budget and cannot pay for all the great content that they can provide. So I decided to let the community request content from them as well.

I'm sure that since your ON the Digital Point forums, you understand how important quality content actually is for your site. If you need articles written for your site to get more organic traffic flowing in, the link above will bring you to a page where you can order quality content at a very reasonable rate.

A lot of people are frustrated when they buy content from someone, and in return they get an article littered with spelling and grammar mistakes. Every article that comes out of the Informative Post is reviewed by an English speaking American with at least 4 year college degree! Not only that, but every article is first checked and verified to be completely 100% original, and not re-hash from some other site. We do this by running every article through CopyScape (http://www.copyscape.com) before providing it.

The service is still new, so I would love to hear some feedback of your overall experiences on it and if you would use it again. The rate is so low just because I want to start to get some business coming in so that I can collect from great testimonials and hopefully repeat customers. In the future, this rate will most likely increase.

Click the link at the top of the thread to learn more about the service, and/or start buying content for your own sites. Let me know what you all think! Thanks.

This is spam spam spam spam spam spam....

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Please tell me your kidding?! This thread was opened in the Content Corner. I'm not trying to spam anything. I just am offering a solution for people getting tired of writing. It would be spam if this thread was of no help to anyone in this forum.

Hi dlbrown,

This is self promotion as stated in the rules and guidelines.

http://www.websitebabble.com/guidelines.html

Any time you post a thread with the sole purpose of advertising your site or service it is considered spam or self promotion. When you get enough posts you are welcome to add your site to your sig file as explained in the guidelines above.

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So if I run a site that can help the people on this forum save time by outsourcing monotonous work, I can't talk about it because I own it? lol Whatever...

OK, I guess I'll go to a forum that permits members helping each other. Good luck to everyone!

Yep... you got it. There are hundreds of members here with websites that can help others. Imagine allowing anyone and everyone to create threads to announce their site if they had something to announce/promote. It would get out of control with self promotion and spam and defeat the purpose of having this forum, which is for discussion. I tried running a forum that allowed that once. It was a complete mess and people took advantage.

Good luck with your forum search.

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anyway any website is for sure useful to somebody!!! lol

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You must be new to forum posting because most respectable/popular forums do not allow posts like this and if this forum did allow them, I probably wouldn't visit here 'cause there'd be a ton of posts like this instead of helpful discussions. Lisa's right. People would take advantage and there would be more posts with advertisements than discussions. I think it's funny you are shocked.

So let's see. Based on your philosophy.... my site's helpful too so let me just create a thread under yours and advertise it. Then someone else can follow me and do the same for their site. Hey, let's all 2000+ members here create a thread and advertise our helpful sites. Lisa, just let anyone post an ad for their site anytime they want as long as they think it's helpful. Just remember to delete the posts that aren't helpful 'cause that's spam, but only leave up the "helpful" ones. Lisa, this shouldn't be too hard to manage right? Just be sure to only delete the self promotion that is not helpful. And good luck with deciding which ones are helpful and which are not. Can't you see how crazy that would get to manage dlbrown? come on.... you have to look at the trickle down effect and respect the decision not to allow this kinda stuff.

i guarantee if you go to any of the popular / reputable webmaster forums and post something like that, it would be deleted or edited. Not trying to be mean but just making a point. Good luck and hope you find what you're looking for.

Keep this forum clean, Lisa and moderators. That's why I like it here. It's the reason you have so many active, helpful members instead of a bunch of advertisements. I'm sure most of the active forum members here would agree.

Too bad you didn't stick around to participate dlbrown. I bet you could have gotten a lot of traffic over time from your sig file like a lot of the active posters here can vouch for. That's how you get people to take notice of your site on a forum like this. Oh well... it's not for everyone. Take care.

I've been a member almost since forum opened (I think it was like 2 weeks old or something when i joined) and I watched this forum grow from like one or two posts per day to a bunch of fun helpful people. And a big reason for that is the great rules that are set. So I had to step in and defend the forum when I saw this.

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you are right dana
and the thing i like about lisa is that she didn't delete the adv. post all she did was ask brown not to do that again, and that really is nicer than an administrator should be, keep it up lisa

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99% of the time I do delete immediately mirage and to be honest, I'm not quite sure why I didn't this time. DanaP, that is an excellent post and example of why I do not allow these kinds of posts. That is exactly what would happen and I appreciate both you and mirage's support and understanding.

By the way dlbrown, you forgot to change your canned copy before you posted. This is not Digital Point forums. I just noticed that.

Note to moderators: If I confused you by leaving this up, I made a mistake. This could have been deleted and I would have been fine with it. That was my mistake. Now I'm simply leaving it up as an example of what not to do.

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lol, http://forums.digitalpoint.com/

I would call that very respectable

hey brown, no offence but each and every forum has its rules that form the forums personality, so joining a forum means that you agree to those rules or else you wouldn't have joined it.
So, if the rules here say DON'T ADD LINKS TO A POST's BODY TEXT then don't do it, it's as simple as that.

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I agree 100%. The forum would be utter chaos. I've left many forums as a result of things like this being allowed. It's no help to anyone.
I honestly can't believe, though, that you are shocked that we considered self-promotion (especially on a first post) spam.

If you really wanted to partake in this forum, you would have introduced yourself in the New Member sub-section and told us a bit about yourself and mentioned your site etc.

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Interesting concept. So when you open your email account in the morning and see 50 emails from people you don't know who are advertising something (I call it spam), do you go through them all and look for the helpful ones and declare those not spam? How do you decide which are helpful? I'm sure all those people think their emails are advertising helpful things too. Otherwise they wouldn't send them to you.

So if a guy sends you an email about furniture and you need furniture, do you not consider that spam? But if someone else sends you an email about carpet cleaning and you don't need that then you write it off as spam? We all have helpful things to offer, but it's about respecting the rules.

You have a different definition of spam than most people.

Particularly as a moderator, I appreciate all the comments this has elicited. Certainly the perils of self-promotion are well documented.

For all of us, and I like to remind myself of this periodically, it may be hard to operate by rules and have to turn away potential customers to our sites at times, but if you do not you can alienate a lot of others. It calls for courage and straight thinking.

And Dana, I think that line in your signature, "I'm a newbie... be easy on me" may have to be dropped soon. With your comments you bravely jumped into the issue with some pretty mature thinking.

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