Working with 3rd PArty Social Media partners / paid blogs

[DonaldRussell]

Hi there!

We are an ecommerce company based in the UK and are an online butcher.

We are looking to further our contribution and authority in a social sphere, in particular develop relations with bloggers and social sites who are realised to have authority in our sphere (food / meat).

At present we are active in the usual (Twitter, Facebook etc) and have over 1000 likes and followers. We also have a cool blog which can be found at <cite>www.donaldrussell.com/weblog/index.html</cite>

We are looking at our content and would like to share this with other bloggers in return for backlinks and visits from these blogs, and in turn improve our pagerank and SEO ratings.

I have been offered the chance to work with EBuzzing, who claim to get your content published and referred to but you have to pay these "bloggers" for the privelage. Is this a good way of furthering our social strategy in the short term, or is this the wrong way to go and do search engines devalue these links?

My preference is to organically grow our presence through becoming a valuable contributor and have alsways strongly advocated this, however Ebuzzing or other simillar services sound too good to be true! Are they?

Hope you can help me, and look forward to your thoughts.

Many thanks

Gary

[Andy.Drinkwater]

Hi Gary,

Usually, if it sounds too good to be true, it generally is - and this is why no-one else really recommends or uses these sorts of services. If anyone gets wind of what is going on, you are the ones who will suffer.

You are also having to entrust your brand to someone who doesn't know about you as a butcher - it can be a dangerous game... be very careul how you play it.

My advise, walk away.

Regards,

Andy

[DonaldRussell]

Thanks for the quick reply. Sounds like sensible advice! I just needed to be areassured that when too good to be true, it probably is.

Thanks again Andy!