You probably saw the post on here a couple days ago about bad publicity and groupon.
The post was submitted to my new assistant last week. She gave the author our normal guidelines which include not posting the article anywhere else.
I have been away in Florida for the last 10 days… hence my lack of posting.. but then people noticed the same article appeared on John Chow last week.
I just want to be clear I was not paid for this article… I thought it had good value to my readers.
Bleh I got duped. My bad. No more guests posts from people I dont personally know
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Jeremy Schoemaker – who has written 2424 posts on ShoeMoney.com.
Hi I am Jeremy Schoemaker and ShoeMoney.com is my blog. 99% of the post here are done by me but you will see others occasionally make guest posts. This blog is fun to write but for my day job I run several online companies.
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As if it fooking matters. I don’t read John Chow’s blog — and thought the post was good.
It’s not as if your site is going to get dropped for dup content — i bet 90% of your visitors are direct anyway!!!
99% of the people will try to dupe you. People have to earn trust. Good call.
Don’t sweat it, I’ve got a great guest post for you. I’m just waiting for it to go live on John Chow 1st.
That sucks, I doubt it would make any difference since you have huge amount of unique content anyway. It just tells a lot about the person that submitted the post thinking they can get away with it.
Well at least he had 2 great posts in his lifetime.. too bad for him it was probably his last
I started to read that post but couldn’t get through it…the formatting kinda sucked or maybe long paragraphs or something.
i experienced the same situation a year back from that day i close every guest posting on my blog…….
“Learn from your Mistake not to repeat them again”
I think everybody will understand what has happened. It is always a little danger to let strangers write on your own blog but u shouldnt lose faith in other people
Well you are honest with us!
Seeing is believing
I had trouble getting through the post. I bet most people did too.
the post that you are talking about did not give much to me
Wow, so 2 times in the past week this new assistant has messed up.
I think it’s time for you to not only fire them, but to start a negative online rep management campaign against them, so that they will fail in life and never be able to do anything except be homeless.
They should know that you work for Shoe or you will never work again.
People do not understand that ya kno ?
were you born as a moron or is that a bad habbit you picked up later in life?
There’s always one person who has to ruin it for everyone else.
Maybe the guest author didn;t expect to get accepted on bot top IM sites
Where exactly in Florida have you been and how did you like it there?, when I was there I liked a lot Pensacola and Orange Beach
I don’t understand
Are your articles being copied ?
Hi Jeremy, quick question as I noticed you said you were in Florida. Were you driving in a Black BMW 5 series with Nebraska plates near Tampa? I passed one and could of sworn it was you in the back seat.
Sorry, please delete this just realized the date and remembered you had surgery. Hope you are feeling better.
Fantastic article.Much thanks again. Keep writing.