Have you ever seen a [company's MySpace profile](http://www.pronetadvertising.com/articles/aquafinas-myspace-marketing.html)? I have noticed that more and more large, medium and small businesses are creating profiles in an effort to leverage the MySpace community. It seems like most of them think that by popping up a decently designed profile and adding thousands of friends their business will grow to a whole new level, but the problem is that this in itself is not too effective.
[Chris Hooley](http://www.chris-hooley.com/) and I were talking today and we both noticed that [Market Wire](http://www.marketwire.com/) has been spamming Digg for almost 200 days. They have [submitted](http://digg.com/users/marketwire/news/submitted) over 300 press releases to Digg from their own Digg account in an attempt to get their press releases more attention.
A few weeks ago I blogged about my trip to [Shoe Money University](http://www.pronetadvertising.com/articles/what-i-learned-at-shoemoney-university.html) where I learned how to make money through PPC arbitrage. It seems that a lot of you are interested in making money from arbitrage and trying to get into the whole online marketing space.
Sex appeal is being used so frequently in commercials that it is starting to get old. We already know that the message of this type of commercial is going to be centered on a hot chick or good looking dude, so if you want to use sex appeal and capture people’s attention do something unique and unexpected.
Muhammad Saleem had an interesting [article](http://themulife.com/?p=592) on how Netscape is starting to become abused and spammed by users. A while back Netscape added a messaging feature that allowed users to send messages to each other, but now it is being used as a method for soliciting votes.
Because of the popularity of Digg, Del.icio.us, Netscape and all the other social sites out there, social bookmarking buttons have been taken to a whole new level. Instead of bloggers placing a few buttons at the bottom of each blog post, it seems that many enjoy offering their visitors all possible options.
Although the concept of [Digg](http://www.pronetadvertising.com/articles/beginners-guide-to-digg.html) seems very simple, it is actually very complicated. Most people think stories are submitted and the ones that are at the top of the upcoming section are the ones that are going to get promoted to the homepage next.
In a competitive space sometimes you need a special touch to win over customers.
[Del.icio.us](http://del.icio.us) is the most popular bookmarking service on the web. By getting on the Del.icio.us [popular](http://del.icio.us/popular/) or [hotlist](http://del.icio.us) page you could get thousands of visitors coming to your website within minutes. Here are some ways that I have found that can help your content get on these pages.
[MyBlogLog](http://www.mybloglog.com) is on so many popular blogs that it was just a matter of time before it started to be abused by spammers. At first, people were able to sign up for [fake accounts](http://www.pronetadvertising.com/articles/hijacking-communities.html) under other people’s name and now users are able to leverage it for [free advertising](http://www.soloseo.com/blog/2007/01/10/free-advertising-on-techcrunch-with-mybloglog-flaw/).
