Writing online articles and submitting them to online article submission sites has been a very popular trend and one, which appears to have no end in sight. Unfortunately this has attracted some writer/promoters who are now manipulating the system in order to gain notoriety or propel information for press releases.
Recently one online article writer and self-proclaimed marketing genius has posted many articles in to a specific category in order to announce himself an online article writer expert in a specific field by making the top ten list of most prolific in that category. Indeed after reading the press release he put out, I decided to go read all his articles and now that I have read all these articles on a top online article submission site in the Marketing Category, I now question the integrity of the whole process.
You see, although Marketing is the; Planning, pricing, promotion, packaging, advertising and sales of any product or service by MBA Textbook definitions; I have a problem with his placement of all these articles he has written in this category of marketing to get to a 1-10 position. And even thought he is way down on the list with only 30 some articles. About half these articles really belong in Telemarketing or rather "Tele-selling" category or in "Sales" categories not Marketing.
I believe they are misplaced purposely in order to get on the 1-10 list I believe number 6 or 7 there. So I find this practice a little unfortunate and less than ethical? I would like clarification of the Online Article Submission Site Category, as to if it is acceptable to purposely misplace articles in categories in order to get on the top ten list of a category and then use it in Press Releases to market your "Marketing" abilities?
The reason I ask is if I re-place all my Small Business articles or general business articles some 200 of them, well then I can fill up every Business Category tomorrow and then place "Self Aggrandizing kudos? and press releases around the internet like a shameless self-promoter? Can I do it if he is? Should everyone do this? Are the online article submission sites promoting this as acceptable behavior? How about addressing this issue? Consider all this in 2006.
