How to Make an Ass of Yourself in a Niche You Don't Understand

by xiaophil

Posted: 15 years ago 38 replies

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I tend to look for technical niches because I'm only comfortable writing about familiar things, so there are a few popular niches which I feel I could drum up some enthusiasm for, and most recently I have been looking into the renewable energy scene.

Anyway I found this article on solar power which claims to explain how solar panels work. When I saw it I initially thought it was some kind of parody or someone taking the mickey out of EZA. But no, as far as I can see it's meant as an informative article. Here's a sample:

The electrons go through a series of filters ... to assure that the electricity produced is composed of pure electrons. Having protons mixed in the procedure would only cause power interruption. The protons are absorbed and disposed through an alternate exhaust, which excretes the molecules away from the battery connection.

I'd hate to be standing in front of the proton exhaust when those molecules are excreted.

The author appears trapped somewhere between Star Trek and Noddyland.

People, if you don't understand your niche then at least find someone who does to proof read your products.

I shudder to think where content like this is heading after it meets some newbies armed with automated article spinners...

Or does it not really matter as long as it gets the clicks.

Here in it's fullness is the solar travesty.

#make #niche #understand

tommygadget 15 years ago

OK, this is what I mean by search engine fodder. If the SEs like this because it has related keywords and the main keyword density is just right, then you get great backlinks and from that you get rankings and traffic. However, I found that a large benefit of posting well written articles is that PEOPLE, not search engines like the articles and visit your site.

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Paul Myers 15 years ago

Phil,

I shudder to think where content like this is heading after it meets some newbies armed with automated article spinners...

Hopefully it will be excreted, like that article should have been.

I tend to believe that was either a really bad gag, or a test to see if the editors at EZA would boot the article for being inaccurate. I can't imagine anyone who knew enough to use the words he did actually being that far off the mark.

Unless he's been out in the sun, soaking up those polluted molecules too long?

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- Lisa Gergets 15 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by Paul Myers
  
  Phil,Hopefully it will be excreted, like that article should have been.
  
  Paul
  
  BAH HAHAHA!
  
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- JoMo 15 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by Paul Myers
  
  Phil,Hopefully it will be excreted, like that article should have been.
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  Paul
  
  I'm pretty sure that article was excreted.
  
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valerieSONORA 15 years ago

I think most people wouldn't even realize they didn't know what they're talking about cause it's such a technical niche that many don't understand. "Uhh, what's a proton?" I'm sure many people wouldn't even think to doubt the article.
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ildarius 15 years ago

I'd hate to be standing in front of the proton exhaust when those molecules are excreted.

The author appears trapped somewhere between Star Trek and Noddyland.

LOL

And that's how they produce Sunny Delight
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Anna Johnson 15 years ago

Why so harsh? The strategy is sound - just ask Crazy Ann Sue:

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- Killer Joe 15 years ago
  
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  Nightengale 15 years ago
  
  Xiaophi,
  
  Uuuhh.... EZA DOES have live editors approving the articles posted there, right? Or at least spot-checking them? (Don't they????)
  
  Did you get the name of the author and report them? Go to their site and post on their message board or blog? It seems to me somebody should do something.
  
  What were they selling, anyway?
  
  I can't believe people would actually post stuff like that! All it takes is one Google search and everyone will know what an idiot you are, so why on earth anyone would dare to put out stuff like that is beyond me.
  
  Anna Johnson,
  
  LOVE that video! LOL Crazy Sue is great! With her accent and wig, it made me wonder if she might have been inadvertantly parodying Reba McEntire.
  
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Odhinn 15 years ago

If you outsource your articles, this might be the kinds of garbage you see. Goes to show that you need to be careful with who you hire. They might excrete some wonderful articles, but you might be left with this...
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Kirahster 15 years ago

proton=photon??

electron=should not be mentioned.
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- Palo Coyote 15 years ago
  
  Please sell me a Solar Plate that ABSORBS one sunlight molecule. I don't want to say a lot about this but my first and only WSO that will be posted, as soon as I get the molecule absorber will be titled as:
  
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  Crazy Sue Ann, as a representative of a Galaxy Far, Far Away, we are here to inform your Magenta Haired Radiance that there are many men in our Galaxy who are fans of your video. Your wonderfullness is #1 on UniverseTube Video, ww.UniTube.com This is in another Universe where Solar Plates absorb sunlight molecules. Those sunlight molecules are ouchie little buggers when they hit you. Sun bathing is much like being bombarded by golf ball sized hail on your planet. No one has much of a tan.
  
  1. There is NO such thing as a Sunlight Molecule. Light has been hypothesized by one, Al Einstein as being a WAVE. Particles do NOT travel at the speed of light, nothing does...yet, (maybe Google, I said maybe.)
  
  Electrical engineering 101, energy equals mass squared multiplied by the speed of light. Light might just be both a wave and a particle (no one on this planet really knows). Electrons and protons are particles, light (the shiny stuff from the sun) are waves that travel at...well very fast. Sunlight is a WAVE. When you convert a wave into a particle then you are...uh...God...or the author of this wonderful article. Or maybe you own a Particle Accelerator in Switzerland.)
  
  (Note to Crazy Sue Ann: That is the greatest video we've seen lately and the entire planet of Alpha-Sigma-Omicron IV signed up for your newsletter. You are VERY good!)
  
  Obviously the writer of this post has read way too much Science Fiction over the past 50 years and knows absolutely NOTHING about Science. However the writer does know about a good scam when he sees the Sunlight Molecules coming in his direction.
  
  Live long and May the Force and Klaatu barada nikto, Have Fun and Far Out,
  
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Michael Oksa 15 years ago

That's why I'm going into the horse niche...

The varieties of horses are many and each requires their own special kind of care. Pintos haunches near the mane are several hands high for ease of rein attachment through the saddle stirrup assembly. Stallions tend to bronco the pasture but require fewer oats. The equininity of a mare is majestic as the dressage implies.

Aw heck! I could go on, but it's too dang hard to make stuff up that's as good as the "author" in the OP.

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- spicer 15 years ago
  
  Unfortunately, it probable would work for back link creation. However, I hope none of their potential customers actually found the article. That would really kill their image and credibility. Being on a technical subject though many would not even know it was a made up article. Ann loved the video and at $10,000 the course sounds like a "steal". lol
  
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  Steve Diamond 15 years ago
  
  ...to assure that the electricity produced is composed of pure electrons.
  
  Best laugh I've had all day! Trying to imagine the alternative: impure electrons? Not politically correct?
  
  I would have thought the EZA editors were better than this. But I suppose they can't be technical experts on every topic.
  
  Thanks for the entertainment!
  
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GeorgR. 15 years ago

well...that man is probably on to something, we just dont UNDERSTAND!

He's probably sitting in his proton-powered house right now and laughs at everyone paying their utility bills.
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Colin Evans

15 years ago

Phil, you've highlighted one of the dangers of using articles as research for content. I'm not sure webmasters understand the possible repercussions especially in health niches...

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Kay King

15 years ago

Uuuhh.... EZA DOES have live editors approving the articles posted there, right? Or at least spot-checking them? (Don't they????)

Did you get the name of the author and report them? Go to their site and post on their message board or blog? It seems to me somebody should do something.

If you start reporting every article that gives bad advice, you better hire an army. It's fodder, nothing more - and there's loads of it on websites, on blogs, on forums, and on article directories.

If you want to know how solar panels work - are you going to go to EZA to find out? No. That misinformation makes the author look stupid - but isn't going to hurt anyone. It's what happens when you outsource articles on the cheap and don't have the sense to read them yourself.

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Michael Oksa

15 years ago

Originally Posted by Kay King

Hi Kay,

Excellent point.

I once took the time to report an EZA article that was giving out information that was VERY harmful. In good conscience, it had to come down.

Or so I thought.

Unfortunately, the article remained. That's understandable from EZA's point of view. They have their hands more than full just checking to make sure contributors follow the simple TOS. If they started reviewing content for accuracy they could be liable for any misinformation that caused harm to a reader.

Even with an army, it would be virtually impossible.

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Ken

15 years ago

Originally Posted by renault760

I did see an article in New Scientist that suggested that the US could virtually meet it's energy requirements by covering several hundred acres of desert with solar panels.

Anyone else read that?

The required area is 100 sq. miles or a 10 mile by 10 mile square.

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Vince Runza Online

15 years ago

Originally Posted by xiaophil

I'd hate to be standing in front of the proton exhaust when those molecules are excreted.

The author appears trapped somewhere between Star Trek and Noddyland.

Geez, that's simple to fix: just reverse the polarity of the neutron flow!

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Nigel Greaves 15 years ago

Well it certainly gives new meaning to the phrase "keyword density"
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- Planetpeoplefinder 15 years ago
  
  I don't know about keyword density, but there sure is a lot of 'BS density' in that article.
  
  Reminds me of the good old days when I got into the credit card processing niche without ever having used a credit card, not even knowing what it was, and never having used credit card processors at all. Good times!
  
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- Michael Oksa 15 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by Nigel Greaves
  
  Well it certainly gives new meaning to the phrase "keyword density"
  
  Oh, come on!
  
  That article ranks #1 in Google for the phrase "disposed through an alternate exhaust".
  
  How many of you can say that?
  
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rapidscc 15 years ago

Wha hehehehe! I loved the article and more the video.. ;-)

Well the author got this 15 minutes of fame..wait a minute! this is warrior forum..

he'll have fame for a lifetime! ohh no! We just added a thousand points in link juice to the "crazy" article!
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Andy 15 years ago

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The electrons go through a series of filters ... to assure that the electricity produced is composed of pure electrons. Having protons mixed in the procedure would only cause power interruption. The protons are absorbed and disposed through an alternate exhaust, which excretes the molecules away from the battery connection.

You mean... it's NOT true?!! But I just gave my last $10,000 for an electron filter plant because it works better than my old one! Now what?

God bless,

Andy

P.S. I think I got it from some guy named "Sue" too.
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Droopy Dawg

15 years ago

EZA folks may not know crap about Solar energy... and may have thought the article sounded too good to be inaccurate.

Wow 2,000+ views in under 3 months... I wonder if they're making sales...

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warfore

15 years ago

I used to teach chemistry at the university level. I got a good laugh at that explanation. You wonder,though, how many people believed it as accurate information...funny

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Michael Oksa

15 years ago

Originally Posted by warfore

I used to teach chemistry at the university level. I got a good laugh at that explanation. You wonder,though, how many people believed it as accurate information...funny

Actually, I wonder how many people even understood what the "author" was trying to say.

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Barbara Eyre 15 years ago

Can I do the Neutron Dance? Would it be appropriate? (psst! What are the steps to it???)

Seriously, can't blame EZA - there is no way they can staff the people with the knowledge of every subject known to man ... they couldn't afford the alphabets after most of those folks' names.
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herrick 15 years ago

This is what scares me about niche marketing. Anyone can type keywords into nonsense. What happened to offering quality content? This is a very good example of why you should focus on what you know. How many people will rely on this for their information to either use for more marketing efforts or for themselves?
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Aronya 15 years ago

Poke fun if you must, but this man is obviously a genius! He's listed by EZA as an Expert Author, so...

Here's another brilliant treatise: How Do Solar Panels Work and Why You Should Care

GENIUS, I tell you!
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- LynnM 15 years ago
  
  The guy is obviously an expert on all things solar - I'm off to find some cardboard and glue to make an oven: Homemade Solar Ovens - How to Make a Solar Oven in 2 to 3 Hours. Pity about the turkey though.
  
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IMChick 15 years ago

Ah, most excellent. On the basis of this little example, I have gleaned the factoid that ALL of the NICHES in the universe are now mine, mine, mine. Bwwwa Ha Ha ha.
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thegoddessofeleven 15 years ago

Here's the sad part: The article has been published on other sites.

Twice.
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CmdrStidd

15 years ago

Originally Posted by xiaophil

The author appears trapped somewhere between Star Trek and Noddyland.

I could care less about Noddyland but lets leave Star Trek out of this one. Heck, even Gene Roddenberry consulted scientists to make sure his stuff was at least somewhat plausible. This person clearly has no idea what they are talking about.

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xiaophil

15 years ago

Originally Posted by CmdrStidd

Hey relax man, I'm a fan too! Hence the imaginary realm in between.

Anyway the article in question evidently is plausible.

I've already found re-spins and fragments of this and similar gibberish all over the place, rehashed and infecting the articles of other unsuspecting 'experts'.

I think it's humorous that EZA will nit-pick syntax and grammar in the name of quality control, but the actual content can be complete twaddle.

How long before Grammatical Crap Ninja v1.0 is released?

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