Have you Noticed? Advertising on Today.com Google results

Well, we're not RIGHT up there yet... and most of the links that are showing up in the first couple of pages of Google search results for "Advertising on today.com" are sites we've done on our individual blogs rather than pages on this particular blog - but we are having some success in getting the word out none-the-less.

30something and searching's article about Today.com: why they suck is now on the front page of results; way to go!

For the search term blog with today.com Forum & Blog Posting Guidelines Regarding Rate Changes, Performance and Today.com's T & C and Hospitalera's Today.com Update both come up on the first page of the Google results.

There are lots of other good articles that I'm not seeing in the first few pages of Google results yet, so am going to list them here ...can never have too many backlinks, eh? If I've missed any, please do add them in the comments!

These articles all provide good reasons why people should be cautious about advertising or blogging with today.com:

• Hospitalera: Today.com closed my Golden Prague Blog down
• Flit: Locked out of today.com forums?, today.com advertising;
  Official letter from today.com
• Stephanie the rocket scientist: Why are so many torqued at today.com
• Bookishgal: Today.com exiles post here;
• The How and Why of Self Reliance: today.com Explat
• Lost for a reason: I've Been Kicked off Today.com
• 30something & searching: More reasons today.com sucks
• My Mutterances: Do not do business with Today.com; More on today.com; today.com: lying bastards
  
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If I missed your article, please be assured that it was not intentional - and I would be happy to add it to the list.

Plus a reminder - if you are a today.com exile and would like to contribute to this blog or to be added to our blogroll, or both, please either drop a comment, or send me an email - we would love to have you join us.

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I wonder....

Given the supportive and positive nature that the today.com forums USED to have... what might have happened if Dave, rather than turning into the power-tripping jerk from hell, had, when his business partners bailed and he was under pressure, explained the problem and asked us for our input?

Too bad we'll never know... but I have very little doubt that many of us would have been all over pitching in to try to make Today.com viable.

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Should I stay or should I go?

If you are visiting this blog you might be thinking about becoming a today.com blogger or you are trying to decide if you should leave the network. Maybe you are an exile as many of us are and are looking for a place to network. Regardless, I wanted to make clear my intentions for joining a group of today.com exiles in their quest to let the general blogosphere know their experiences with today.com.

As I read this blog, already it looks as if a few bloggers got upset, and are now whining because today.com didn't treat them fairly. I am trying to look at this from the outside, and what I see is a few names, a few writers who have clearly been scorned and are shouting about it. Doesn't look like a big deal to me, afterall, today.com has thousands of bloggers, right?

I've made comments that today.com is looking for less than average writers because they don't really want exceptional content but they do want people to sell affiliate link products. Maybe I've offended a few people by saying that today.com is now full of less than average writers. This is NOT to say that today.com doesn't have high quality writers, they do, and I am still one of the bloggers at today.com that is unable to let go of my one blog there.

I remain on the fence about keeping my blog at today.com. I'm not on the fence about today.com, their practices or their administration, which should be clear from the fact that I am writing for this blog. What I am on the fence about is letting go of access to a site that can provide strong backlinks, traffic, and exposure to any new sites I decide to write. I would love to tell them off, but really, where does that get any of us?

I want to reap the benefits of my year of hard work as a today.com blogger, but I certainly don't support their business practices. Yes, I am trying to have my cake and eat it too. I think any of the bloggers who have worked with and been scorned by today.com are entitled to a little cake right about now.

What we are all trying to prevent is new bloggers throwing themselves into a today.com blog and then 6 months or a year later, when they have 100's of posts, getting locked out of their account for disagreeing with any policy or topic on the today.com forum.

I have visited many great today.com sites and some are here while some remain on today.com. Several well written sites have disappeared into the blogosphere.

Last year I watched F.A.P.I.P.O. continually beat out the today.com community for the grand traffic prize month after month. She stopped cold at the end of December, never to be heard from again. No new posts, no good-bye "I'm off to school" post, no nothing. I've tried to reach FAPIPO's popularity without success, but my question is, where did she go?

The Rocket Scientist and Flit, who started this blog, were both highly respected members of the today.com network. Great writers with wonderful contributions and today.com should have worked to keep them, not shut them out when they wanted to discuss something they disagreed with.

This isn't a group of today.com rejects, but of today.com success stories that were shot down, some just by asking about entrecard and asking why we couldn't keep it. Really, is this the way you want to be treated?

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Look where they're trying to recruit now

This is the first that I've seen Today.com recruiting in such a location: The Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism.

I don't know why, but something about that just sickens me. Maybe I'm projecting.

Think this is the sort of place they expect to recruit the new "Rocket Scientist" or others like that?

I'd like to hope not many graduate students would settle for something like this, though I suppose some could consider it practice, and pocket money while they're in school. They may produce some real quality stuff too, as they put their new skills to work. I wonder how long they'd last there, under the new conditions.

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