I am almost daily getting friend requests from
"myspace marketers" where I will get as many as 4 ads in a row
with the same picture.

would anybody else agree that this going to kill any sort of
effectiveness that's left in the current era of "myspace marketing"

users are going to be conditioned to assume every friend request is fake.

First bad marketers killed the effectiveness of
Messages, then comments, then bulletins
and all that's left are adds really whilch will get ruined real fast if the
masses are also getting up to 4 requests from different profiles
with the same picture.

I dont mean for this to sound all whiney and complainey
just kind of a heads up to diversify a little more, and
make sure the "ignore duplicates" box is checked.

Spam profiles are useful since you can learn a lot about making money via myspace by picking apart the code. For example, one spam profile I saw used CSS and an invisible image to make an invisible image link that covers the entire profile. When someone clicks anywhere they are taken to your site.

Originally Posted by Worldwebuser

Spam profiles are useful since you can learn a lot about making money via myspace by picking apart the code. For example, one spam profile I saw used CSS and an invisible image to make an invisible image link that covers the entire profile. When someone clicks anywhere they are taken to your site.

LMAO -- that's Genius!

Originally Posted by Worldwebuser

Spam profiles are useful since you can learn a lot about making money via myspace by picking apart the code. For example, one spam profile I saw used CSS and an invisible image to make an invisible image link that covers the entire profile. When someone clicks anywhere they are taken to your site.

That's what I do, custom css that covers the myspace layout
to make my own over the top so it looks like a website.
each picture links back to the official website.

I wonder how cool myspace is with that??

I don't cover the advertisement or the menu bar, so I hope that
if/when they come across it they are ok about it.

do you have any links to any CSS sites that you've seen?

here is the myspace of a guy i know

http://myspace.com/diamondandy

looks pretty cool

Originally Posted by Worldwebuser

Spam profiles are useful since you can learn a lot about making money via myspace by picking apart the code. For example, one spam profile I saw used CSS and an invisible image to make an invisible image link that covers the entire profile. When someone clicks anywhere they are taken to your site.

That will get you a lot of useless traffic of people who arent even interest and just X your site out.

Originally Posted by Sidekick

That will get you a lot of useless traffic of people who arent even interest and just X your site out.

Agree 100%

Originally Posted by Sidekick

That will get you a lot of useless traffic of people who arent even interest and just X your site out.

Not if your running cpm ads, and its free traffic. Out of 5K visitors coming from myspace even if 5% of them look around and click ads its money in the bank.

Anyway that traffic can be targeted in many ways so it really wouldnt be "blind" at all.

Its worth it IMO.

my last campaign worked great!
I did a css layout that completely masked the myspace layout.

I got 20-30 inquiries for my service, and each client is worth anywhere
from $300-$15,000 and all I did was adding alone. (25,000 add requests)

So i've been a happy camper.

Originally Posted by Worldwebuser

Spam profiles are useful since you can learn a lot about making money via myspace by picking apart the code. For example, one spam profile I saw used CSS and an invisible image to make an invisible image link that covers the entire profile. When someone clicks anywhere they are taken to your site.

Thats annoying. I hate the people who market like that.

Thats just one 'hack' I found...it isn't very effective though at converting or generating traffic. But the broader point I was making is that you can learn a lot of myspace marketing strategies by disecting spammer profiles and comments.