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**Dave White** · #1 (**permalink**) 22-12-2006, 10:55

I have seen a lot of social networking accounts being sold on different forums especially Myspace.
One can easily use these accounts with over 10k contacts to promote almost anything.
On the other hand Myspace said it will ban such sold accounts What do you guys think of such offers?

**rich** · #2 (**permalink**) 22-12-2006, 12:32

I’m sorry Dave for a question on yours but if Myspace is selling these social networking accounts then obviously someone will be buying them, so how can they ban the accounts and if Myspace really means it then the question is that who will buy these accounts? I guess no person will be interested if they are aware of this banning procedure.

**Dave White** · #3 (**permalink**) 22-12-2006, 13:31

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Originally Posted by rich

I’m sorry Dave for a question on yours but if Myspace is selling these social networking accounts then obviously someone will be buying them, so how can they ban the accounts and if Myspace really means it then the question is that who will buy these accounts? I guess no person will be interested if they are aware of this banning procedure.

Myspace is not selling accounts but the registered users are selling them to make money.To stop this Myspace is banning those sold accounts.Still people are ready to sell them in spite of the threat of getting baned.I have already quoted my price for an account and lets see what kind of response we get from the seller.

**rich** · #4 (**permalink**) 23-12-2006, 07:27

If Myspace is banning the sold accounts as you mentioned above
then why are you interested in the buying one Dave?

**Peter** · #5 (**permalink**) 23-12-2006, 09:29

Dave, any idea how would they(MySpace) make out whether an existing account is being sold or already sold to someone else? It seems quite a difficult proposition to me as there are millions of accounts on MySpace so how would they keep a track of each and every account i.e whether a particular account is for sale or already sold.

**Dave White** · #6 (**permalink**) 23-12-2006, 10:17

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Originally Posted by Peter

Dave, any idea how would they(MySpace) make out whether an existing account is being sold or already sold to someone else? It seems quite a difficult proposition to me as there are millions of accounts on MySpace so how would they keep a track of each and every account i.e whether a particular account is for sale or already sold.

It is not legal to sell Myspace accounts anymore. By doing so its TOS are violated and may lead to the account deletion if caught. If you search for Myspace accounts for sale in Google you will find all the offers on the various forums. Apart from this it is not clear to me how MySpace will tackle this issue of selling accounts.

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Originally Posted by rich

If Myspace is banning the sold accounts as you mentioned above
then why are you interested in the buying one Dave?

If you have a account of 5000 users you can get a lot of hits a day.
One can easily use this kind of account to promote website hostings or other stuff.

**sanderson** · #7 (**permalink**) 23-12-2006, 16:05

Thanks for updating us on this. For the first time I am hearing it from you.

But it is in the maelstrom, so one should think twice before getting into such things.

**rich** · #8 (**permalink**) 24-12-2006, 07:37

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Originally Posted by Dave White

If you have a account of 5000 users you can get a lot of hits a day.
One can easily use this kind of account to promote website hostings or other stuff.

Yea Dave that is absolutely true but eventually the account is
going to get banned in the future, so what's the point in
investing in such a risky thing after knowing about it well in
advance.

**harry** · #9 (**permalink**) 24-12-2006, 10:23

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Originally Posted by Dave White

One can easily use this kind of account to promote website hostings or other stuff..

Why to get involve in such type of useless promoting tactics for your business…
rather you should concentrate on Search Engine Optimization

**eukhost-reviews** · #10 (**permalink**) 24-12-2006, 13:12

That's Right harry . Such kind of stuff hardly matters .

**psybertek** · #11 (**permalink**) 25-12-2006, 08:07

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Originally Posted by harry

Why to get involve in such type of useless promoting tactics for your business…
rather you should concentrate on Search Engine Optimization

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Originally Posted by eukhost-reviews

That's Right harry . Such kind of stuff hardly matters .

The prospect of buying one of the social networking accounts is not a bad one if the account doesn’t hold any risk of getting banned. The idea of getting traffic and hits from these sources as mentioned by Dave White will obviously be helpful which can upgrade the promotional process of a website hosting because 5000 or may be a little less than that is not a small number for promoting a website hosting.

**Dave White** · #12 (**permalink**) 25-12-2006, 09:18

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Originally Posted by psybertek

The prospect of buying one of the social networking accounts is not a bad one if the account doesn’t hold any risk of getting banned. The idea of getting traffic and hits from these sources as mentioned by Dave White will obviously be helpful which can upgrade the promotional process of a website hosting because 5000 or may be a little less than that is not a small number for promoting a website hosting.

Yes exactly.I second psybertek on this opinion.
I do agree that following Search Engine Optimization techniques is a good and long term investment for webmasters. But if such short term tactics which are almost considered as GRAY HAT SEO can give your new website hosting/product tremendous publicity, the right kind of boost and exposure with a wide spread social network.
I do think that these kinds of things are not forever to follow but using them once in a blue moon is certainly not bad for new webmasters. You can also create your own account and derive great benefits from social networking website hostings like Digg.

Bottom-line is if social networking was useless then these famous website hostings like Digg, MySpace,del.icio.us, Reddit would be an unknown element in online business.

**harry** · #13 (**permalink**) 27-12-2006, 10:00

IMO using such fast publicity tactic will not help you in long run also you won’t be able to get targeted traffic which will have higher conversion ratio.

**rich** · #14 (**permalink**) 21-01-2007, 10:40

Harry, what makes you say that using fast publicity tactics will not help in the long run.
The more aggressive marketing and publicity tactics are the better output can be pulled-off.

**daledavies** · #15 (**permalink**) 22-01-2007, 19:08

I am not a marketing expert, therefore please forgive me if Im not 100% percent acuratre in my understanding of this. This is of no use to Search Engine Optimization and search marketing, but for use in getting your product known by your target audience having a funky myspace profile could be useful.

Depending on your product or service, having a myspace profile to advertise your product or website hosting may be a good way of reaching out to your target audience.

However, this would only be successful if you start one from scratch, once you have made your myspace page you can spend the rest of your life adding to your friends list thousands of people who may be interested in you. When each person logs into their account they will see you in their new frinds list, if you have added the right people then there is a chance they will click on your display picture and read your myspace page (dont forget this could be styled to look like almost anything).

If you add 1000 people then you can be assured that a lot of these will have at least read your name and seen your logo. You can then post bulletins to reach all of your "friends" regarding special offers, events or anything that might be of interest. Although Im not sure if many will bother to read them.

So having said this, buying an account with 30,000 contacts already added would be useless in my opinion. Also, does anyone know if what I have described is in breach of the myspace TOS? This I am unsure of!

**daledavies** · #16 (**permalink**) 22-01-2007, 19:10

I ahve to say in addition, the contents of your myspace page will show up on google, I have also seen the contents of peoples friends lists too.

Im not sure if this will be of any use from an Search Engine Optimization point of view however.

**paul** · #17 (**permalink**) 23-01-2007, 10:00

I don't think it worth to exploit traffic stream through fake profile. Instead create your single account and attractive profile page and invite friends to network with you. Here is some guideline for marketing through myspace; http://blog.eukhost.com/2006/12/08/m...-myth-or-math/

**daledavies** · #18 (**permalink**) 23-01-2007, 16:38

The Myspace stats are impressive and it would be easy to fall into the train of thought that all you need is any old profile page and you'll be on to a winner.

Just like anything else, your page has to be good, with good content and you need to put a LOT of time into the networking side of it to make things work out.

**Dave White** · #19 (**permalink**) 24-01-2007, 08:32

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Originally Posted by daledavies

The Myspace stats are impressive and it would be easy to fall into the train of thought that all you need is any old profile page and you'll be on to a winner.

Just like anything else, your page has to be good, with good content and you need to put a LOT of time into the networking side of it to make things work out.

Yes that's true, without spending enough time and putting sincere efforts you won't benefit from any kind of social networking.If there is no networking done then it's of not use at all.After all the entire concept is based on networking itself.