Chris Pirillo more interested in the money then the Conversation
Had an interesting blog experience the other day that raised some questions for me as a blogger. The question is this, and it is in relation to Comments, Affiliates and protecting you income. If you post a blog entry and include an affiliate link to a site you affiliate with and you normally are open to comments, should you accept comments on this post if they may suggest a better/cheaper product then the one you are pushing?
The Question arose when I noticed Chris pimping Godaddy on his site the other day in a post. It wasn’t just a post about something else that included a Godaddy link, it was pointed at domain name registration and his godaddy link. In fact the title of the post is “GoDaddy Discount”.
Now don’t get me wrong, 10% of Go Daddy is great and there work is quite good, but generally speaking price is the big issue when it comes to domain name registration. So I actually recently had found a provider, iPowerweb (NB: No affiliate link here. I have only a one domain customer relationship with them) that was doing domain name registration for just $2.95. Even with the 10% discount, this is a much cheaper deal then Go Daddy. So as a good blog type person, I thought that I would add my thoughts to the post talking about how to get cheap domain related products and commented on Chris’ Blog.
To my surprise, the comment never appeared on the site. So I thought maybe I stuffed up (the comment didn’t show up in my Cocomments feed either) so I left another comment. Still nothing. Okay, maybe it had to be accepted. Nope, other comments on other posts where showing up.
This leaves two possibilities:
1) The comment has hit a spam filter. But why? I haven’t included a link to a site other then the one that is in the text. I never put an affiliate link in the comment. Not sure why this would happen
2) Chris didn’t like the comment that pointed to a competitor to his income source and so censored the comment. To me this is the most likely and is really quite sad.
Why didn’t he take the chance to sell Go Daddy’s virtues? To question does iPowerWeb have the same level of support or quality of service. Heck, they are stricked on their sign up process, he could have attacked that if he really wanted to.
So to quote a famous Aussie TV personality: SHAME, SHAME, SHAME.
I really wonder what other A-list bloggers like Darren Rowse (the Problogger) or Robert Scoble, Jason Calacanis or Mark Cuban would do in a similar situation.
What do you guys think?
Molly
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