At http://www.freelancer.com/projects/Internet-Marketing-Link-Building/Thirty-n...
"Status: Open
Selected Providers: -
Budget: $30-$250 USD
Created: 10/13/2010 at 12:36 MDT
Bid Count: 0
Average Bid: -
Ends: 10/17/2010 at 12:36 MDT (1d 19h left)
Project Creator: thekohser United States [offline] Last Login: 10/13/2010 at 14:53 MDT Employer Rating: (No Feedback Yet)
Description I maintain an Internet page to which I wish to draw more traffic. I am asking for an experienced, North American English-as-first-language, web manipulator to astroturf a link to my page within the comments field of recent news articles found on the web. I will pay per valid comment/link left on the news article, up to a total of 30 links. Your bid should be your price for successfully completing 30 different article comments.
My conditions:
* The news article must be published on a site with Alexa ranking between 1 and 20,000. * The article must accept comments from readers, and allow HTML links to other sites. * The article must be substantially about the topic of either Wikipedia, Jimmy Wales, or the Wikimedia Foundation. (A mere mention like "According to Wikipedia, bananas are the world's most-consumed fruit" would not qualify.) * The article must have been published on or after August 1, 2010.
I reserve the right to reject any comments that the supplier publishes that do not meet ALL FOUR of the above criteria. You will document your work by providing me a list of URLs where comments have been successfully published. I highly recommend an Alexa toolbar extension (such as: http://www.quirk.biz/searchstatus/ ) to aid you in determining if a news or blog site qualifies as a Top 20,000 site.
Because the frequency with which eligible news stories will appear is unknown, I don't have a problem if this project takes you several weeks or even several months to complete. I will issue a 50% milestone payment after the first ten (10) qualifying links are successfully posted. You will receive the final 50% after successful completion of as many of the remaining twenty (20) possible links you can complete, on a pro-rated basis.
To make things easier for you, I will provide you with 30 unique text comments that you will merely have to post with your own account on each news domain. These will be laid out in a simple spreadsheet or text file (your preference).
You will see the link and the comment file only after you have won the bid and agree to non-disclosure of our project."
Fred
Good thing he included a non-disclosure clause on his very public job posting :P
Ryan Kaldari
On 10/15/10 4:17 PM, Fred Bauder wrote:
At http://www.freelancer.com/projects/Internet-Marketing-Link-Building/Thirty-n...
"Status: Open
Selected Providers: -
Budget: $30-$250 USD
Created: 10/13/2010 at 12:36 MDT
Bid Count: 0
Average Bid:
Ends: 10/17/2010 at 12:36 MDT (1d 19h left)
Project Creator: thekohser United States [offline] Last Login: 10/13/2010 at 14:53 MDT Employer Rating: (No Feedback Yet)
Description I maintain an Internet page to which I wish to draw more traffic. I am asking for an experienced, North American English-as-first-language, web manipulator to astroturf a link to my page within the comments field of recent news articles found on the web. I will pay per valid comment/link left on the news article, up to a total of 30 links. Your bid should be your price for successfully completing 30 different article comments.
My conditions:
- The news article must be published on a site with Alexa ranking between
1 and 20,000.
- The article must accept comments from readers, and allow HTML links to
other sites.
- The article must be substantially about the topic of either Wikipedia,
Jimmy Wales, or the Wikimedia Foundation. (A mere mention like "According to Wikipedia, bananas are the world's most-consumed fruit" would not qualify.)
- The article must have been published on or after August 1, 2010.
I reserve the right to reject any comments that the supplier publishes that do not meet ALL FOUR of the above criteria. You will document your work by providing me a list of URLs where comments have been successfully published. I highly recommend an Alexa toolbar extension (such as: http://www.quirk.biz/searchstatus/ ) to aid you in determining if a news or blog site qualifies as a Top 20,000 site.
Because the frequency with which eligible news stories will appear is unknown, I don't have a problem if this project takes you several weeks or even several months to complete. I will issue a 50% milestone payment after the first ten (10) qualifying links are successfully posted. You will receive the final 50% after successful completion of as many of the remaining twenty (20) possible links you can complete, on a pro-rated basis.
To make things easier for you, I will provide you with 30 unique text comments that you will merely have to post with your own account on each news domain. These will be laid out in a simple spreadsheet or text file (your preference).
You will see the link and the comment file only after you have won the bid and agree to non-disclosure of our project."
Fred
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