Marketing and online advertising are very important. I love how ActiveRain is a community designed to discuss this very fact, and I pay close attention to the companies that advertise and affiliate with AR. I keep track of my online reputation and think twice before I affiliate with a given website.
Tonight I noticed an ad for a Short Sale Search Engine, sponsored by PartnerFirst.
The link took me to what seemed to be a normal landing page, asking me to fill out a free profile.
Free! What would I have to loose here if I don't have to pay for the profile?
Then I read a little further...
In college I didn't major in Latin (my brother did). Still, something looked fishy about this landing page. It was filled with the stock gibberish filler content that iWeb and many design templates include with stock web pages. Lorem Ipsum was repeated throughout the page. Lorem Ipsumamet dolor sit . They even put "Roll Over Me" in bold in English in the middle of this gibberish... What does this all mean?
Google Translate is even stumped...
PartnerFirst made the investment in advertising to our community. But you would think that they would FINISH their web page BEFORE spending all this money on marketing. Why would I
Raincamp Atlantic City focused on Reputation Architecture. Why should I put my name & profile on an incomplete website? What does that do for my personal reputation? And should I Lorem Ipsum or just mind my own business?
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