TradingMarkets.com offers to drive traffic to my blog – Smart or Just plain Sneaky?

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  • on August 11th, 2006

Yesterday, I awoke to this email from Brice at TheMoneyBlogs.com:

—–Original Message—–
From: “Brice” [email protected]>
Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2006 09:46:29
To:[email protected]>
Subject: from Brice at themoneyblogs

Hello Howard-

I’d like to invite you to be a part of www.themoneyblogs.com/:
. It’s growing—we expect it to be one of the
largest money blog sites on the Web. The entire site was built around maximizing
page views. Best of all, it’s free and it would not require any additional work at
all from you—we can use your RSS feed to post. You could drive additional traffic
to your blog and get even wider exposure. I have a media campaign starting shortly,
and it would be nice to have you in there to receive the benefits from this.

What do you think?

Brice

Brice Wightman

www.tradingmarkets.com

818.449.7461 direct

BRICE – HERE IS WHAT I THINK – I THINK IT IS CRAP!

I called Brice, who picked up his own phone and asked him some questions. I immediately smelled a rat. Trading Markets will take my content and brand it in moneyblog design and keep all the advertising dollars from the aggregated data.

I love blogging and don’t mind doing it for free, but this is just plain sneaky.

Worse yet – look at all the stock bloggers that have signed up below. I don’t think 10 percent of these bloggers know that not only are they receiving no advertising revenue, but there ARE NO LINKS BACK TO THE ORIGINAL BLOG SITE.

7 Stocks You Need To Know
A Global Perspective
Alpha Trends
Canajun Finances
ClearFish Research
Crowder Investment Research
DayveJohnson on the Markets
Discovering Undervalued Growth
Finance Professor
Financial Skeptic
Financial Wisdom w/Gabriel Wisdom
Gualberto Diaz
In The Money
Invest2Success
Investing Intelligently
Jaloti
Let’s Talk Volatility
Master Limited Partnerships
Mish’s Global Economic Trend Analysis
Rally Monkey
Setups I’m Stalking
SirChartsAlot
Stockblog.com
TaylorTree
The Average Joe Investor
The Confused Capitalist
The Corner Office Blog
The Mess That Greenspan Made
The Prudent Investor
The Swing of Things
TheFlyOnTheWall.com
Ticker Sense
Trade It or Fade It
Uncle Jack’s
Value Discipline
Wishing Wealth
2d Trading
Almost Trading For A Living
Blue Collar Trading
Commodity Option Selling
Commodity Trader
Emini Technical Alerts
Forex Project
Fresh Fish Daily
Fx Technical Research
Global Gold
Investment Ideas
Live Options Trader
Market Gnome
Netto’s Numbers
O & F news and views for futures and forex
Random Roger’s Big Picture
Research Lab Trading
Roberto’s Nasdaq Trader
Swing Trading the Forex
Technically Speaking
Technicator.NET
Techno-Fundamentalist
The Amish Connection
The Bull Trader
The Essentials
The Professional Daytrader
The Weekly Woof
Trader X
TraderBlog.com
Trading Quotes
Underground Trading
What does it take to be a successful trader?

The more I think about it, the more it smells!

One thing is obvious – EVERYONE WANTS TO BE FAMOUS

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