Tagging Secrets Off the Market
On May 25th, 2006, I wrote a report called ‘Tagging Secrets’ that I sold on Clickbank. The report sold really well because it was one of the first infoproducts released to discuss tagging and social bookmarking. It made it to the top 10 for a few categories on Clickbank. So I was happy about that.
But I can’t tell you how many times I saw paragraphs and sometimes even pages of that report completely ripped off and put on someone else’s site without credit back to me. I saw some pretty well known marketers acting as though they had written it. It was shocking to me at the time.
It’s amazing to me how many people in the Internet Marketing industry have no regard for anyone else especially if there’s money involved.
Anyway, done with the rant. It’s been over two years since the book was released and there’s been a ton of new information on the social media scene. Way more than what I ever covered, or even knew about. In addition, most of what was in the report has been copied to such an extent that I don’t feel right charging for it anymore.
So I’ve decided to take the report off the market and post some of the information that is still relevant here on this blog. I’m updating it as I post it so that you will get updated information. While it’s not going to be the complete report, it will still be valuable to you especially if you’re new to tagging and social bookmarking.
I hope you find it useful!
Tags: social bookmarking, tagging
I hate those F-ers that steal content, happens to me too, and I recently found a blog that\’s content was mostly all articles I had written, but he didn\’t leave my links intact as per the CC license of the article site. I reported him. I HATE THAT!!!!!
Looking forward to the posts.
Thanks,
JR
Hi
Must be frustrating when you know people have ripped your work – did you ever approach any of them to ask why?
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You’ve got a new subscriber. Social media is an area that I’ve not done much with, so I’m looking forward to your tips.
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JBO … well I know why they did it. The one guy who was especially blatant with the copying is pretty well-known in the SEO industry and has a forum. He wanted to present the info to his forum as though he came up with the idea so he just copied and pasted.
I’ve learned a few lessons though and can definitely see why people are big on product launches in the Internet Marketing field now. As soon as you release your info, everyone’s just going to copy it, so you better promote it fast up front.
Scrappers are a pain in the but for sure. Well at least they new good stuff when they saw it, or otherwise they would not have scrapped…are you planning on publishing an updated version soon?
Adam … I might put together something for SEO, but probably not just another tagging-related ebook.
It\’s one thing to take a fact from someones article, but a whole paragraph or more thats ridiculous.
I’ve had a whole site ripped before. Didn’t take long after a DMCA to see the whole thing taken care of. Sorry you had to pull the ebook. Look forward to seeing some tips on tagging here on your blog.
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You’ve written two books that I consider to be “classics” in the IM arena. Tagging Secrets was one.
One of my sites is about to hit 100K uniques/month this month all from organic search traffic…and a decent amount of that is from ideas I learned from Tagging Secrets.
The other is “Cracking the Niche Code” which is incredibly an incredibly
systematic and low-cost approach to quickly testing niche markets. There have been a few others that rival it since it first came out, but at the time there weren’t very many.
thanks lisa
i have been doing seo for a long time but this tagging stuff wasn,t much clear to me, if i found your ideas interesting i am certanly going to buy your e book, hope u can pass me some discount code if applicable. as far as your content been put on other websites i have found it to be a regular practice. i am soory for this happening with you but it happens with almost everyone who releases a e book.
thanks for your information
I bought that book a while back and it was great. Too bad so many people riped it off
Hi Lisa
I have created many websites in the past and what is really frustrating is when someone who is ranked higher than you in the search engines is using your work and getting ALL the benefit out of it.
That’s the problem with the digitaql world we live in.
Lee
Yeah I’ve had people pull some of my stuff before. Anonymity can be a b***h sometimes. But oh well. I’m glad you’re releasing your ebook for free and look forward to getting in to it.
-Aidan.
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It’s great that you decided to share that info with your readers.
As for the ripping off part…people, especially in the affiliate market, will do just about anything for a buck. So your story didn’t really surprise me.
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I will have to read your latest post on tagging. I use it a little not as much as i should. I used to use alot of social bookmark sites but found alot no follow or redirects so i only use a couple now. Any new information i will be interested to see how well it works.
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I hate those people, once I had my entire forum ripped can you believe a whole forum?
Hi,
I’ve had a whole site ripped before. Didn’t take long after a DMCA to see the whole thing taken care of. Sorry you had to pull the ebook. Look forward to seeing some tips on tagging here on your blog.
Thanks for sharing information.
This sounds great, I have subscribed in my reader, and look forward to the information to come, also going to go through some more info on this blog, glad I came across this one! Thanks for the great resources, very nice job and great blog! Cheers – Dennis@ 4 marketing p’s blog