Dead. Death. Died. RIP. What IS dead in IM?

Oprah

Banned 13 years ago

yo i think the weight loss thing is dead

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Frank Donovan

13 years ago

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Adam James

13 years ago

Haha you tell us you are going to murder somebody if you hear the word dead again then you ask us what we think is dead?

I am scared to mention the dead word around you my friend.

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Biggy Fat

13 years ago

Originally Posted by Adam James

Haha you tell us you are going to murder somebody if you hear the word dead again then you ask us what we think is dead?

I am scared to mention the dead word around you my friend.

Haha, it was meant to be sarcasm and somewhat of a pun. Funny I should post this thread because it's close to Halloween here in the states.

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tpw 13 years ago

You can build a man a fire and keep him warm for a day...

Or you can set him on fire and keep him warm for the rest of his life...

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Kael41

13 years ago

1. Cookie stuffing - still alive and well
2. Adsense Arbitrage - has most likely died off..
3. Keyword stuffing - for google/bing this isn't a big deal anymore..indexes have caught on and LSI plays a big role in rank configurations
4. Spamming - Context is needed here. Spamming via email? I'm still getting them in my inbox. So if they're still being sent, it's gotta be working on someone? Link spamming is still prominent -xrumer is still the choice of many.

Originally Posted by Biggy Fat

I swear if I hear that something in IM is dead again I'm going to murder somebody.

Okay, not really. But seriously, there have been too many posts here stating that "This is dead" or "That has died". But these are methods that are tried and tested and still are true.

But I wanna ask my fellow warriors - what IS actually dead in IM? I mean methods that worked in the past but WILL NOT work again under any circumstances. Here are a few things I can think of off the top of my head:

1. Cookie stuffing
2. Adsense Arbitrage
3. Keyword stuffing
4. Spamming

Now these aforementioned methods just WILL NOT WORK because something will happen if you try them. A number of bad things.

Anyone wanna chip in and disclose what IS really dead in IM?

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J Bold

13 years ago

Posting an article to ezinearticles and just letting it sit there and expect to get a ton of traffic. Very rarely going to happen...

On another note, I think the internet is dead. Let's just all get offline now.

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Mohammad Afaq

13 years ago

Originally Posted by redicelander

Posting an article to ezinearticles and just letting it sit there and expect to get a ton of traffic. Very rarely going to happen...

On another note, I think the internet is dead. Let's just all get offline now.

Yup, Internet is dead!

Had a lot of fun guys but let's now get back to the good ole 9-5

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MichaelHiles

13 years ago

SEO is dead.

Wasn't my title though, I borrowed it from the original article.

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Chris30K 13 years ago

Spamming is far from dead, people do it all the time. Spam will always exist unfortunately, just in different and smarter forms; it's getting to the point where specfic spam is looking like legit stuff.
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AFI

13 years ago

Webrings

(most of you probably haven't been on the internet long enough to remember those)

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Kael41

13 years ago

Originally Posted by AFI

Webrings

(most of you probably haven't been on the internet long enough to remember those)

pfft..let me hop on my angelfire and geocities sites and edit my webrings out, quick!

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AFI

13 years ago

Originally Posted by Kael41

pfft..let me hop on my angelfire and geocities sites and edit my webrings out, quick!

HAHAHA! Wait, I gotta log onto NetZero first!

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jointaldc 13 years ago

Originally Posted by AFI

HAHAHA! Wait, I gotta log onto NetZero first!

haha good one
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Kael41

13 years ago

Originally Posted by AFI

HAHAHA! Wait, I gotta log onto NetZero first!

What is this "netzero" you're referencing..i'm still dialing up on Prodigy

Or better yet, dialing into bbs's running Telegard!

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AFI

13 years ago

Originally Posted by Kael41

What is this "netzero" you're referencing..i'm still dialing up on Prodigy

Or better yet, dialing into bbs's running Telegard!

On your 2400 baud modem??

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Tinkerbell

13 years ago

Originally Posted by AFI

On your 2400 baud modem??

Oh my word, I actually (fondly!) remember mine! Took 7 days to download a simple text report, but hey -- at least I COULD download it. ;-)

And the sound of the modem connecting up (dial-up) to ancient AOL using Windows 3.1.

I'm still mad at them for coming out with a newer version of Windows (kidding -- I finally got past it -- I think).

Tina

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AFI

13 years ago

Originally Posted by Tinkerbell

Oh my word, I actually (fondly!) remember mine! Took 7 days to download a simple text report, but hey -- at least I COULD download it. ;-)

And the sound of the modem connecting up (dial-up) to ancient AOL using Windows 3.1.

I'm still mad at them for coming out with a newer version of Windows (kidding -- I finally got past it -- I think).

Tina

Remember when AOL used to distribute their software on floppy disks instead of CD ROMs?

I wish I still had one of those floppy disks, they go for a mint on eBay for antique collectors.

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DogScout

13 years ago

Originally Posted by AFI

Remember when AOL used to distribute their software on floppy disks instead of CD ROMs?

I wish I still had one of those floppy disks, they go for a mint on eBay for antique collectors.

I still have windows 95 discs. Best hacking platform I ever used. (At least for MIRC)

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Tinkerbell

13 years ago

Originally Posted by AFI

Remember when AOL used to distribute their software on floppy disks instead of CD ROMs?

I wish I still had one of those floppy disks, they go for a mint on eBay for antique collectors.

You're kidding me? I think I have 5 or 10 of those lying around here somewhere. Want one of mine? ;-)

Tina

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paulie888

13 years ago

Originally Posted by AFI

HAHAHA! Wait, I gotta log onto NetZero first!

Wow, that's quite a blast from the past. I remember when they used to have those free CDs displayed prominently at Wal Mart and every electronics store. I'm sure their days are numbered, as I don't think the dial-up market is going to pick up anytime soon! LOL

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LeeLee

13 years ago

Originally Posted by paulie888

Wow, that's quite a blast from the past. I remember when they used to have those free CDs displayed prominently at Wal Mart and every electronics store. I'm sure their days are numbered, as I don't think the dial-up market is going to pick up anytime soon! LOL

AOL sent me one at least several times a month. I hung them on the fir tree outside as Christmas decorations.

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USHwy129 13 years ago

Originally Posted by AFI

HAHAHA! Wait, I gotta log onto NetZero first!

LMAO ok who else here had a netzero account when it was actually free?
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- danicat 13 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by USHwy129
  
  LMAO ok who else here had a netzero account when it was actually free?
  
  Me! It sucked so hard! Loading those ads on dialup was awful!
  
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Pete Egeler

13 years ago

Well, I spotted a couple of things right off the bat here.

1) The "weight loss thing" is far from dead.

2) Guess what? "Webrings" are alive and well too! Just not as prominent as they used to be.

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Dexx

13 years ago

Any tactic that will have the FTC coming over for tea = dead

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jazbo

13 years ago

The cat is dead. Long live the new cat!

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Joseph Then

13 years ago

My 28.8bps modem is dead... Wait... Where's my BBS? It's also dead...

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sarahberra

13 years ago

Spamming dead of course. I can't believe this still goes on. I did think that autoblogging was dead, but it seems have simply transformed. I am learning this from Extreme Cash Blueprint.

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Mohammad Afaq 13 years ago

Spamming is not dead. IMO is far from being dead.

Spam still exists and many spammers make six or seven figure incomes every year. We would hope for spamming to be dead but in reality it's far from it
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lacraiger

13 years ago

spamming will never die. its the cheapest and easiest form of mass advertising.

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DavidAnthony

13 years ago

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jasonmorgan

13 years ago

1. Cookie stuffing
2. Adsense Arbitrage
3. Keyword stuffing
4. Spamming

At least two of those methods still work. This thread topic is dead.

And on a serious note, when somebody proclaims that XYZ is dead, it's not dead. They were just a complete failure trying to make it work.

Don't get your advice from failures.

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singhavn 13 years ago

I can only think of adsense arbitrage dead. Rest all are still going on
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- sanssecret 13 years ago
  
  What is the obsession people in here have with death? :confused:
  
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  vok 13 years ago
  
  Low cost adwords clicks for starters, affiliate marketing maybe dying as Google just sees tham as spammers.
  
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  paulie888 13 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by sanssecret
  
  What is the obsession people in here have with death? :confused:
  
  They are using it mainly for the shock value it has, just like the Gurus love doing on their big product launches.
  
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carlo_sim

13 years ago

Internet marketing is dead. =) let the others know this so that we'll have fewer competition =)

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tacoverhoef

13 years ago

Dependingf on how long this post will go on e few people at least will be dead, I think about 4 every minute or something like dead.

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Brad Gosse

13 years ago

Getting paid to surf is dead

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danicat

13 years ago

I'll tell you what's dead. MY COMPUTER. I'm gonna go cry now.

Thanks everyone else for making me feel old btw. I'm going to go check my compuserve email now.

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DogScout

13 years ago

2. Adsense Arbitrage - I know one guy making 4-5K a month with that. He is the only person I know that is. I wouldn't attempt it. He is just that good at Adwords. So 'mortally wounded', maybe? But seems to be still using a straw to communicate.

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Quentin

13 years ago

Are people still using FFA sites?

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jamjar919

13 years ago

Things that are DE@D
'notice not using the word de@d'

Webrings
Traffic Exchanges
Floppy Disks
Windows XP ('yes its true!)
Basic HTML webpages like Grantanet
Web 1.0 (not completely dead)

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Kay King 13 years ago

Simple truth is - the reason the word "death" is used is attempt to call attention to the person who is posting or blogging.

Which is why I usually ignore such threads - but this one had ALL the words in it - unique

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lamberw

13 years ago

REALITY: NOTHING is dead in IM.

PERCEPTION: Marketers say things are dead in Internet Marketing to give their offering a unique position in the market and increase its perceived value as a consequence.

All the strategies that used to work still work. The question is are you still working them correctly? Paradigms change, just like in any business, and you have to flow with the change.