>this is more about how he handled the project - having 10
>sites is better than 30 but not working LOL and this gmail
>thing is a nightmare - I had 100 working accounts - they
>stopped working yesterday
You know...This is the best way to fight spam, blow up the free email accounts.
Without the email accounts things get much, much tougher.
It's getting harder and harder to get email accounts, almost daily now, and it's not just gmail. It seems Yahoo and AOL are cracking down big time.
The way to counter this is to use the very same strategies I've posted here for years...We need to go "deep" instead of "wide".
By this, I mean we should register for a wide variety of resources using a few accounts, instead of trying to create a bunch of accounts at the same recources.
I believe content should be converted to other media, like pod casts, pdfs, etc and submitted to give a better variety. Also, things like contests, press releases, software submission, etc.
When you really think about it, depending on free email accounts for manipulating the SERPs provided by the search engines themselves is a plan waiting to fail...And it is the SEs that also give the emails.
Also, we're going to need to get email addresses at a variety of places. It may even be an option to buy some cheap .info domains that offer free email forwarding.
-Boom boom boom boom.