Jim you bring up a great point and even two years later it hasn’t changed one bit. Their are the “Just get traffic and sell” & then there are the contribute build a following and “Sell”. I have seen some “followers” get pretty abused while others just go about their business and only listen to what they want to hear.

While the method of promoting themselves may have been somewhat “grey hat”, the Doors already had excellent content in the form of a solid band, excellent songs, and a good playlist.

I would liken this more to a Slate employee being spammy on a few sites to promote Slate, for example, then some SEO guy with yuck content spamming sites to come visit his most wonderful directory site of everything goodness.

Good argument, very thought provoking.

I heart your blog.

–Angela