Posted on 04/28/2011 7:11:50 AM PDT by Bean Counter
ROFLOLing at the pic!
A "blog pimp" is someone who posts their own blogs on FR as articles, but excerpts them in order to drive traffic ("hits") to their site, many of which contain ads, trackers, malware, etc. Many of the worst offenders (not the particular case being discussed here, though) are those who actually don't provide any real content but merely link to other people's content, which you only realize after you "click through" to their page which has a quick blurb and an embedded YouTube video or something.
Hey!!!!! I deserve to be dissed too!!
I always wondered why Frank Beard is the only guy in ZZ Top who doesn’t have one.
Jim, I didn’t know you had such a low opinion of conservative bloggers. I don’t know about other bloggers, but I’ve had a link to FR proudly posted in the sidebar of my blog.
Conservative bloggers, most of the better ones at least, put a lot of time and effort into what they do. They get precious little in return. Blog ads clutter up a site and don’t provide much of a revenue stream. So conservative bloggers have to raise money the same way you do — by asking their readers to contribute to the site.
Conservative bloggers are also outnumbered by their counterparts on the left, although they provide a valuable service by refuting the lies that leftist bloggers and other Democrat/Media Complex outlets publish. But if you believe that begrudging them a few page hits is more important than everyone in the conservative publishing community cooperating to challenge the leftists on the web, then so be it.
I think you’re one of the good guys, but if you’re going to allow the anti-blog nazis to continue to drag FR down into the sewer where DU and Kos are, I think its a mistake. But this is your site, and again, so be it.
Thanks for letting me be part of this community over the years. I’m deeply saddened about where FR is headed, and I don’t want to go there with you. Still, I wish you well and will keep you in my prayers.
Outta here,
- JP
Woooohoooo! I got a mention! Yeeeehaaaa! {Dancing}
Forcing it on people?
Who is holding the gun to your head and “forcing” you to click on a link to a blog?
You need a gimmick to catch the blog pimp's attention and tick him/her off.
This is the one I used. It seems to have worked.
12 TIMES! Good thing we're not doing a drinking game.
Oh, dart...{hic!}...I mean drat...{giggle}...we're not? {hic!}
People can post their opinions on FR. They don’t have to pimp their blog to find out what they think.
I thought I smelled something.
He also manages the Bloggers for Sarah Palin blogroll and is a contributor to Polical Lore, Publius’ Forum, and Palin Twibe.
Would this have anything to do with your apparent opus?
"I have no complaint if a good conservative blogger posts his own material to FR, not as an excerpt to drive hits and discussion back to his blog, but rather to impart useful information to OUR readers and to promote and join in on the discussion and conservative activism HERE on FR.
If a blogger can’t or refuses do that, and if he constantly complains or fights with our participants over it, then I’d just as soon he doesn’t post here. It’s not my job to make his content or his presentation or cooperation acceptable to our readers. That’s his job. And if he cannot do it or refuses to do it and continues posting brief excerpts only and obviously attempting to draw away our participants while loudly complaining about it, then I have no sympathy for his complaints and the more apt I am to ban his account and blog.
Furthermore, I’m not big on “rules.” You won’t see me posting rules for bloggers. The rules for bloggers on FR are the same as the rules for everyone else. If you are a good conservative activist and are willing to work with US on OUR goals and causes and not against US, then you’re welcome to post to FR. But unless we say otherwise your blog material should be posted to our bloggers forum and it would be best if you do not excerpt your own material and if you would actually join in on the discussion here on FR. We’re not really that interested in driving OUR traffic to YOUR blog. But if our readers see that you post useful information then they might start reading your site and that’s fine by me."
552 posted on Tuesday, December 07, 2010 5:06:19 PM by Jim Robinson (Rebellion is brewing!! Nuke the corrupt commie bastards to HELL!!)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2636843/posts?q=1&;page=501
It’s not my responsibility to make a blogger’s material acceptable and presentable to our readers. That’s his job. And if he can’t do it, or refuses to do it... oh, well. See ya.
I agree with Humblegunner. I detest blog pimps.
Get over it.
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