Hi, I am the owner of Web2rule.com, and just had to chime in. First of all, great post that provokes a debate on a touchy subject. First of all, surprisingly I am on the side of most of the other comments here. The manipulation of social sites is not really in the best interest of quality content. Only an idiot can argue that.

But as some of the more balanced comments mentioned that if you are trying to earn a living online, you might think otherwise. The fact is that every seo service, back link outsourcing, paid content creation.. …all of it is about manipulating the appearance of popularity for one desired outcome or another. Small time marketers spend half their time trying to figure out how to tweak their site just to get a little love from the big G

One feature that I built into web2rule was a decline job button, If they see something that is absolutely garbage, they can opt out of promoting that site. What I have found is that the people, who join the site, have a strong tendency to Not promote totally worthless crap. Which I have to admit has been a big relief to me personally and it keeps policing the promoted sites down to a minimum. In the end a sites content and the handling of that content is everything. When somebody signs up to web2rule, they are sent to a video I produced that clearly states what I believe to be true almost without exception

You only need two things to make money online, quality original content and good rankings from Google. If you have good content, we bring in the results.

At the end of the day and we are just a powerful tool and short cut to help new/smaller marketers get a foot hold in their keywords. Quality always floats to the top regardless of the platform.

Thanks for the great post….Jess