Over Reactions

It seems to me that the majority of the warrior forum live in a constant state of caffeine fueled panic.

At the smallest thing you get pages of angry/worried/perculiar messages from people thinking its the end of the world.

The last over reaction was the FTC saying they could go after people for fake testimonials. I am sure this was a move to try to give them some more power against con-men and not to persecute blog owners. Just imagine how hard it would be to prove a testimonial is fake, and how much the court case would cost them. This legislation probably will effect less than 0.1% of internet marketers yet it has let to a constant stream of crazy posts from people convinced if you alter a testimonial you are going straight to jail. So far I am yet to hear of a single case going to court.

Now the latest fury is over Google's side wiki. People are calling it "Evil" and recommending people ban all google toolbar users from their site.

WHAT NONSENSE!

It's like a paying customer walking into a shop but you refuse to serve them because their mobile phone has some software on it you don't like.

Lets get one thing straight, I am not a fan of side wiki. It is too easy to spam negative comments at people. But guess what I am doing now? Well, I am spamming positive comments at my sites. So far on every site I have been to I am the first person to leave a message.

The truth is that only a small percentage of your visitors will bother to check it out, and I doubt people will take much stock of it as it is so easily abused either way.

Another thing, this is not new. There has been software out there that does this for years, the only difference now is that it is incorporated into the google toolbar which it very widespread.

Bottom Line: If side wiki effects your bottom line then you have some weak ass marketing. Go to the library and read some REAL marketing books and stop wasting your time with step by step get rich quick ebooks.