As long as you know a bit about Affiliate Marketing, you must have read Dennis Yu’s guest post on TechCrunch – How To Spam Facebook Like A Pro: An Insider’s Confession. Dennis Yu, as so called “affiliate industry insider”, who has a business website blitzlocal.com was called out by Jeremy Schoemaker(aka shoemoney.com) Basically, as Jeremy Schoemaker said, Dennis Yu was trying to fool the industry, many big names were involved, the top seo brand “SEOmoz”, tech mammoth “TechCrunch” and many others.

Yu, is a Chinese surname, it has different meaning by different characters (same pronunciation), one of the meaning is “Fool”. He seems to be really smart and fooled many big players in the short term, but as a long run business, he paid his reputation and he is done in this industry. Jeremy is really pissed off this time, you can feel the rage from his super lengthy post.

Let’s see what happened between Dennis Yu and Jeremy Schoemaker according to Schoemaker’s post. (I am not insider and I decided to trust Jeremy due to his reputation and many other voices)

First of all, I would say there are more than hundreds of great blogs about internet marketing including Search Engine Optimisation(SEO), Search Engine Marketing(SEM), Social Network, Affiliate Marketing, E-commerce and so on. But lets be realistic, nobody has time to read all of them, and even if someone has the time to read them all, he should spend time on doing practical work rather than be a bookworm (maybe should call it blogworm?).

I’ve been reading many blogs since I started touching internet marketing, I was mainly focused on SEO blogs, but soon found out internet marketing is not only about SEO, it’s just HUGE. So I expanded my reading list to SEM, social network, affiliate marketing, e-commerce and designing, and chose the best ones amoung them.

Here I break blogs down to 5 categories, SEO/SEM (top 3), Social Network (top 3), Affiliate Marketing (top 3), Designing (top 1) and ecommerce (top 1).