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Payola Alive And Well In Social Media

SEO Book, Thursday, January 8, 2009 8:33 PM

Aaron Wall has posted an interview with social media guru Muhammad Saleem that provides a look into ways he stays actively involved on sites such as Twitter, along with a few insights on marketing strategies and what sometimes goes on behind closed doors such as payola. In the 1960s, payola was mostly associated with record labels and radio stations.

"There is quite a bit of payola that goes on but fortunately that's all short-term because the sites and users get banned pretty quickly," Saleem told Wall in the interview. "I routinely get some pretty spammy emails about payola and without exception I forward them to abuse@digg.com and let them deal with it."

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