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Or so it said… Because the result… I LOL’d my ass off.

Remember a few days ago I told you I got my hand on some of those miraculous eBooks that tell you SECRETS and stuff you would kill for (all for $49,99). I have some 75 eBooks and they are all CRAP, all of them. I read about 30 of them and I now consider myself as stupid as I was before. Not only there was nothing new in those eBooks, but some of them contained literally no information at all. It was just crap. I also got on of those TRAFFIC eBOOKS about how to get more traffic to your website. And now I am writing about it because yesterday I saw and ad for that particular eBook that said:

“No visitors on your website??? Get tons of traffic today!”

I won’t give names but what you are going to read next will be as funny as hell. The first thing you must know is that this eBook costs $97 or $47 (depends who is selling it - because there are some resell/rebranding rights). The eBooks in very short - I don’t like looong thing to read, I like step-by-step stuff, easy to read, clear and concise, that tell you exactly what to do. So I was thinking I finally found something here. But I WAS WRONG. I WAS SOOOO WRONG. Here is basically what the Ebook was all about:

1. Download some CRAZY BROWSER and then join some TRAFFIC EXCANGE/AUTOSURF sites (that’s just smart, I didn’t see that coming). Then you read more about how to use the autosurf sites and the browser you just downloaded. And of course all the links to the traffic exchange sites and to the browser download are all affiliate links (hidden of course).
2. The next thing the program tells us we need is a huge subscriber list. To do that we
   are going to need an autoresponder (that the eBook provides of course, with an affiliate link of course). Now the next phrase made me lol just like a lolcat: “Not sure what to promote to your huge subscriber list? Here are some great programs…” After that there are some links to some other $49,99 crappy eBooks, affiliate links of course.
3. Step 3 consists in signing up to some free hosting services (affil links here too). After signing to that free hosting service you’ll need to create an AMAZING TRAFFIC FORMULA PAGE (???WTF???) - all details are inside.
4. And finally a SECRET that will send targeted visitors to your site immediately - and you are so lucky because this is an INVITATION ONLY and you have an invitation. After sending the invitation code you get the link where you can download the TRAFFIC SECRET: THE TRAFFIC TOOLBAR aka SPYWARE.
5. Finally there are of course some other bonuses: more $49,99 affiliate programs that you can(not) make money from.

And that was it. The conclusion we can draw is:

YOU PAY $47 FOR LEARNING THAT:

• You can get traffic by using traffic exchange/autosurf sites (DOH). Awesome dude, I didn’t know that !!! LOL.
• This is not a scam, is says traffic and it gives you traffic. However traffic is nothing, you need readers. If you wanna make money from this you will need clicks on your site, and traffic alone won’t get you clicks. Only visitors will get you clicks.
• Getting some free affiliate links for $47 is a deal that rocks. Awesome dude. LOL again.
• Getting spyware for $47 is also a great deal. Spyware is way more expensive than that. ROFL.
• You know where the huge number of crappy eBooks come from: the same place, because they are all the same.

So my final advice… Don’t buy crap, use your common sense. No one is going to sell you $1000 worth of product for only $47. NO ONE.

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What is advertising? In my opinion advertising is all about lying. Who does it best. Yesterday I saw an ad saying “Get a site in 30 seconds“. I thought that’s great, even the price was great (at a first glance). But the thing is you don’t get a site in 30 seconds. You just get a template. That is like someone advertising to sell a house which is really just a bunch of walls with no windows, no electricity, no plumbing, no nothing. You can’t use a house like that. Just like you can’t use a site which is just a template. The content is missing. And a site without content is nothing.

But advertising won’t tell you this. Advertising won’t tell you the site you are about to buy is really only a template (which you can also get for free). Because the main principle of advertising is to be misleading. They don’t say get a TEMPLATE in 30 seconds. They say get a site in 30 seconds because it will give you the impression that they are offering so much more. Everybody offers templates, but how offers a full site?

And what about those web hosting ads. Only $2,99/month. You’ll be thinking “Great, I’m gonna pay $6 for 2 months and if the site is working out I’ll get more“. But this is misleading again. Because most web hosting providers won’t allow you to buy just a month of hosting. You will have to buy at least 1 year so I don’t see why (I’m just kidding) they advertise their price like this. But of course, instead of saying $36/year it’s better to say $3/month. I wonder why they don’t say just 10 cents/day - that would be even better.

My conclusion is that advertising doesn’t sell products (contrary to popular belief), the product sells itself. Advertising just leads to the product. If the product isn’t good enough it won’t sell no matter how much advertising it gets. So if you have a product you want to sell and you want to advertise it, try to squeeze the most out of your ad. Use whatever you need to get that lead to your product. That’s why you see all those ads saying “make $3000/day - no experience required“. That’s just something to get you interested, coz the product will be crap.

It doesn’t pay to be a saint in a world full of whores.

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They are not free. These days you see most of the WebHosts offering in their hosting packages free advertising credits with Google, Yahoo, Bidvertiser and more. Now the thing with these credits it that they are not entirely free.

A friend of mine wanted to start a blog and he got his internet space from a hosting company that also gives you a lot of free advertising credits, $80 worth of advertising to be exact. $30 from Google Adwords and $50 from Yahoo Publisher.

These free credits are not instantly deposited into your account. They don’t put the money into your Adwords account, they give you codes to redeem the money. The thing with these codes is that they have a 15 or 30 days validity period. So if you don’t use them quickly you may lose them. And you can’t use them with your AdWords/YP account, you’ll have to create a new one.

Newing this my friend Chris first created a new Yahoo Publisher account (first one for him) because the Yahoo coupon was worth $50 and to him was the most important. But surprise surprise, he found out that in order to get the FREE $50 the must first deposit at least $75. So that is not $50 free it’s more like 66% OFF but not FREE. So that was that. Next he moved on the the Adwords free credits - $30 worth.

He already had a AdWords account but when he tried to use the coupon it didn’t work, saying that the account is too old for this coupon. Bad luck. So he created a new account. As you may now, Adwords accounts are not free - they cost $5 - not much but still, the meaning of the word free disappears. He spends $5 to create a new account, he uses the coupon but again, another surprise, instead of $30 he gets $25. Again this is not a problem regarding money, $5 is nothing, but why do they say $30 when in reality it’s $25? But wait, it doesn’t end here. The money is in his account but he cannot use them yet. In order to use the $25 credits he has to deposit at least $10. So that is $5 registration + $10 min. deposit = $15 to get $25. So you don’t get $30 FREE AdWords credits you just get 60% OFF - which is NOT free.

The only FREE advertising credits that you get (and are FREE) are the ones from Bidvertiser (click on the link on my site - no coupon, no min. deposit, no nothing). Just create an advertiser account from the link on my site and you get $20 FREE (the only thing required is a valid credit card - but no deposit required).

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I always say that the first step in making money is not losing money.

There are all kinds of scams on the web, some of them are very effective and some of them are not. Most of them are easy to spot like the ones saying you won like $6,000,000 in a lottery you didn’t even enter or some guy trying to sell you a brand new Mercedes for only $2000. The people who fall to this are really stupid. But there are some elaborated scams that fool you in no time. Like this one, nothing special, nothing spectacular, nothing about free money… and that’s why it works better:

Yesterday i got an email from paypal, it was like this:

An unauthorized account activity claim was recently filed against the following transaction:

Transaction Date: 08 Jan 2007
Transaction Amount: -$400,00 USD Your Transaction ID: 46U64120SC849601T Buyer’s Transaction ID:
34A33092GU990703J
Case Number: PP-547-249-603

To complete our investigation, you must provide additional information within the next seven days.

Please log in to your PayPal account and verify your details .

https://www.paypal.com/securelogin/ caseissueid373-249-603/

You will have the opportunity to enter any details or information regarding this case which will help PayPal investigate the matter fully.

Thanks for your cooperation through this process. We are continuing to work to ensure that PayPal is secure for all users.

Sincerely,

PayPal
Account Review Department

Now. It all looked OK. Had the paypal logo, the sender was a paypal email. But…

1) Transaction Date: 08 Jan 2007 - this was odd because i had created my paypal account in september 2007.

2) The email address that received this scam email was not registered with paypal.

3) The link in this email… i clicked on it (dumb move) and it sent me to a paypal (???) page where i was asked to confirm: my account email, account password, social security number, security question, credit card and some other important stuff.

Now if you read carefully paypal’s security section you will find that a genuine paypal email will never ask you for:

• Credit and debit card numbers
• Bank account numbers
• Driver’s license numbers
• Email addresses
• Passwords
• Your full name

So even if the site you are sent to looks like paypal, be careful.

The good news is paypal is working on a new plugin (beta is over) that can detect phising sites - it will be available in about 1 month.

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First of all i think that these money making super systems are just bullshit. What they do is give a fancy name to a well know money making technique. As for the reverse funneling system - all the info contained in the $49.99 package is already out there and it’s free.

Now here is how it works (quick review): just imagine a funnel; it has a wide end a tight end; usually something (liquid) flows from the wide end to towards the tight end. We all know what a funnel is and how it works. As for the reverse funnel system just imagine the following: you use the funnel the other way around, and the thing that flows through is not some liquid, it’s traffic. For example you have a site covering a general topic and that site links (with BIIIG links) to some more sites, each of them being a division of that general site.

And here is this funnel system implemented. We have the MarvelStoreNetwork as the entering site (with the general topic - in this case Marvel) and we have the other sites, Captain America, X-Men, Blade, Ghost Rider and others linking from it and benefiting from the main traffic. And that’s it. End of the reverse funneling. (Of course this can be applied to anything).

See, wasn’t that hard. I bet you already knew this but didn’t know the official name. Or if you didn’t know, you found it out here for FREE.

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