Cheating Blog Carnival

I helped a friend publish a blog carnival today and saw something really interesting.  2 internet marketers, Yaro Starak & David Bullock, submitted articles to be published using the name of a better known internet marketer.

If you don’t know the form of a blog carnival, it will look like this:

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Terry Dean presents What If Its Not Working? posted at Integrity Business Blog by Terry Dean. A list of 8 strategies you can use to turn your failing project into a winner. All of this assumes you’re using the strategies such as market research, probes, sales letter websites, email follow-up, PPC ad testing, etc.

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Instead, there were two blog carnival submissions that used the name of a well known and respected internet marketer as the presenter of a blog post of an unknown blogger, posted like this.

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WellKnow Guy presents Just another post posted at The blog of an unknown Internet Marketer 

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So cheating has come to the Carnival world.  Next, people will submit to all the carnivals, then swap a good article out for a spam landing page. Just watch, it’ll happen.