Jason Calacanis Did it Again

I was browsing into my favorite blogs and many of them mentioned Jason Calacanis about his session on Affiliate summit. Let’s get back in December, 2006 when he did something similar. Jason calacanis mentioned on his session that "SEO is bullshit, if you generate a web page with good content Google will rank the page properly" . Then after this many sites, news, bloggers started to mention him and believe me he got thousands of links.

Now In 2008, he attacked affiliate marketers saying the following quoutes: (Taken from Zac Johnson)

"Affiliate marketing is bullshit. Thank you."

"Anyone here from PayPerPost? You need to kill yourself. I'm kidding. Well, I wouldn't mind it if you did."

Also Jason attacked Zac Johnson and Shoemoney, saying the following (Taken from Super Affiliate Mindset ):

• 1. That it was pathetic holding up 6 figure checks, which was peanuts where he came from (Silicon Valley). He then suggested that people in Silicon Valley work 6-7 hrs a day/5 days a week-making 100X more money-while affiliates work 14 hrs a day/ 7 days a week are fighting for table scraps.
• 2. Secondly, he claimed that showing the 6 figure checks was an attempt "exploit poor people," because these checks encourage desperate poor people to click on the make money online ads ( that are on same blogs where the checks are posted). These desperate poor people would presumably click on the make money online ads and get swindled out of what little money they had.

and something interesting is that in 2006, shoemoney mentioned Jason:

While I was at Pubcon I heard a rumor that Jason Calacanis had resigned. Then at one of the parties I talked to a person from AOL and she said that after all the scandals (digg, Adsense (overall Google relationship)) he caused in the last year they had to let him go. Of course its going to come out as a "resignation"…. lalala whatever. I gotta say I always liked him and I wish him the best. I am sure he will be successful at whatever he does. He is a real bulldog.

Here is an interesting comment about Jason:

LOL here we go again. I wonder if this was all planned by Jason. He saw what publicity Ted got and figured it would be some great link bait.

Yeah, you say something like that at an SEO conference and you're bound to get a lot of attention and links. On the other hand if he had said SEO is good, no one would have noticed.

Yes and the same apply attacking Affiliate Marketing and some of the big boys on this industry, he is using the same “marketing strategy”. I think Mr Calacanis read the article from Shoemoney about "top 10 reasons you should like negative press" and really applied it. Thanks to Zac he added a big list of blog and news coverage about this topic.

By the way, I will congratulate Zac because I am sure that he will get tons of traffic because of this.

Affiliate tip: If you can relate some affiliate programs (or you can promote your blog) with Jason Calacanis start your PPC campaigns with his name & last name! you will get a lot of traffic for few cents! (right now the news are hot and I am sure that many people that don’t know Jason calacanis will search about him).