- Shitty Pearl Press ReleasesThose of you who follow this blog know there are a couple of things that tend to chap my hide. So far I have written about several of them including:
1. Incompetent appraisers
2. Fraud on eBay
3. Poorly researched articles
Well I am adding one more pet peeve to my list today – shitty pearl press releases. I am not talking about the press releases that are hyping a product line or a new Web site. Those I don’t mind as long as they are well-written. I am talking about the releases filled with typos, poor spelling and poor grammar.
Google Alerts has been one of my best friends in writing this blog. I get an alert sent to my inbox every time a piece of news pops up on the Internet about pearls and players in the industry. But that means I get notified every time some two-bit pearl operation puts out a press release too.
Now some may accuse me of not being a perfect writer either. Hell, I don’t claim to be. But if I were to post a press release to the wires advertising pearls for sale, I sure as hell would hire a copywriter to make it look professional.
So in order to find the good stuff to write about, I end up having to read about “the world’s largest consumed jewelry” (ever eat a pearl?), a company calling all their past customers “old” (a better choice of wording may be in order there, and don’t even get me started on the grammar, punctuation and content!), and personal wearing.
Well folks, thanks for letting me bleat. I guess this post really isn’t about pearls. But hopefully it will do something to stem the tide of shitty, pearl-company press releases.
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8 comments:
There are many of us who receive those alerts, professor. Shitty press releases are always a cheap laugh. I think another rule on releases should be:
If English is not your first language, DON'T!
I want sell you pearl. You really like this one my paerl. This hot style the best. Come my store now!
Hi Mike,
DON'T what???
Hi Professor,
Yes, that was a pretty good example of shitty press releases. But what about pearl blogs? Do shitty pearl blogs rub you raw too? 'Cause I got a pearl blog for you that is soooo shitty, it's not even in the shit category anymore, it's in the toxic dump category. On top of that, it tests the limits of HUMAN DECENCY!! And I'll bet the below mentioned "Chistmastime festivities" were a favourite in China in past years!!!
Here is an excerpt:
"Finding the correct sport jewellery crapper be a challenge, however. Wear it likewise tightly, and the jewellery rubs against the skin. Furthermore, a jewellery that’s likewise dripless crapper debase discover and fortuity same Evert’s did. But dress it likewise loosely, and the jewellery crapper grownup on something or added start soured entirely. The saint sport jewellery should be lax sufficiency that you crapper sound your digit in between the limb and the bracelet."
Also:
"But in Hesperian countries grouping ever beam gifts by Santa man. The Santa Negro hides the gifts in advance, dirt the midnight he stealthily puts them into the socks to assail grouping in the morning. Although we undergo that the gifts are place by the parents or granddaddy or grandmother, grouping ease ingest this artefact to savor the region of the Christmastime with families.
People fuck the Christmastime Santa heritage rattling much. Actually the Christmastime festivity is also favourite in China in past years. The junior ever poverty to deal their humanities instance with their lover. When they attain an designation on that day, they ever essay their prizewinning to beam gifts to lovers to get its beatific feeling, too."
Read it all at:
http://blog.cnwpearl.com/
Let's smoke this shit!
that blog is the worst ever! Notice that all the pictures are from LPearl, except one which is marked LGpearl. That tells you all you need to know.
Those blogs are funny. They are even worse than the press releases. I don't want to write about them, however, for fear or propping up those obvious scam-blogs on Google.
Blog posts like the ones mentioned by Slraep are basically made by article software. They're not meant to be ready by a human reader, but by bots and search engine crawlers in an attempt to "game" search engines and achieve high rankings on particular key words or phrases.
While it's sad to see garbage blogs like that festering on the Internet, it's good that most major search engines have caught up with the practice a long time ago and are quick to take them out of their SERPs.
Oh my, that means that the Professor's blog is also being automatically translated in China by bots and search engines from English to Chinese.
I hope the Chinese government's censorship/blockage of certain internet web sites has mercifully been implemented in this case.
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