Ethical Internet Marketer – Make More Money Online… Ethically!

Most people doing marketing today know that they should be using product reviews as part of their marketing efforts. However, lately I’ve been hearing more people complain that they can’t do this because they are not writers and don’t know how to write “product reviews.” For these people, I have found a great solution.

In fact, I’ve had this idea as well… but Anik Singal beat me to the punch…

In all honesty, it takes even a good writer about 1 hour for each new niche product they research. Between finding the niche, finding a product, seeing if it has an affiliate program, researching the product and then finally writing the review – it can take an hour easily!

So assuming you value your time at about $50/hour, that means that each product review you write costs you about $50!

And, you STILL may not have a good product review. I mean do you really know what elements should be included in the review? How much information should you really give?

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Detlev

Carlos and Lupe Garcia – Two new rising stars on the Internet marketing scene…?

In case you haven’t heard about them so far, here are the direct links to their videos:

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I guess, like many Internet marketers you’ve been intrigued by their videos which were spread through many high profile Internet marketers. You were not the only one who was interested in discovering what this “next big thing” was which they were trying to push with their tactics. I was really looking forward to seeing what this was all about.

After all, in their videos they were showing how their websites received millions of hits and they were telling that they were making 5 million dollars per MONTH… And all this without the search engines or huge mailing lists.

But it seems that there also is a different reality behind it. I mean, who in their right mind would be showing these tactics to the world if they were making them $5,000,000 per MONTH in exchange for what would seem “pocket change” for them? No one – exactly! So why are they doing it and what were they trying to push with their videos…?

Well, the main reason why they have been selling their strategies seems to be because they are not working anymore. Just like I said in my review for Project Black Mask, these guys (and gals) are only selling that kind of techniques if they notice they are becoming ineffective. Or what other reasons could they have when they are showing their traffic stats from 2004/2005? Why aren’t they giving current stats? Internet marketing is so fast lived, new techniques can become ineffective in as little as 6 months.

Ineffectiveness of the techniques was the case with Portal Sites (at least for the average user, maybe not for “hard core black hatters”) and it also seems to be the case with the traffic tactics Carlos and Lupe are putting up for sale. And of course, I knew it wouldn’t be cheap. But what I saw yesterday when I followed the link in their email really made my jaw drop:

You’ll have to pay a $2500 deposit upfront to register your seat for their next coaching program and the rest is collected via the phone once everything has been confirmed. And now hold your seat: It’s $25,000.00 all in all!

This is the exact wording:

“To reserve your seat you only need to put a deposit of $2,500 right now, and we’ll be collecting the remainder of the payment over the phone after you complete this sign up form.”

Another gem from their signup page:

“If you think about it $25,000.00 divided over a one year period is only $67.00 a day!”

– Oh, why didn’t you tell me this before? Just $67 a day… now that’s what I call affordable – lol …..

But it seemed to working… The traffic workshop/coaching program has officially sold out!

Even if it were still a very effective method (and it isn’t because their current Alexa rank is 2,759,627 and everything higher than 500,000 is not getting a lot of traffic) – it simply wouldn’t be affordable to the average Internet marketer and only the ones who are already making good money would be able to afford it.

And on top of that…

… Remember what kind of deals they were talking about in their videos? Something like a $163,000 deal with Advertising.com and $300,000 deal with Yahoo.com which according to them was done on credit. You need to have a very appealing and good selling product in order to make money from deals like that. Most people don’t even get that kind of credit and if they do get it, they must be very careful. If you’re not making enough sales because of a bad conversion rate, you might be paying off debt for the rest of your life!!

The reason why they were doing so well was because their advertising was hyped up. The products they were selling (e.g. cable descramblers and diet patches) did not live up to their promises and according to Eric Holmlund’s blog, they might even face some law suits. According to Eric, the FTC ordered them to shut down their diet patches business (Eric says it’s not yet confirmed, though).

Most likely than not, they are pushing their coaching program to replace the income they lost and maybe even to cover their lawyer’s fees…!

What do you think about this? Please leave your comments…

This is an announcement a lot of Internet marketers have been waiting for:

The most popular platform for digital products, Clickbank, finally allows you to set up sites with recurring billing.

With this new feature, you’ll be able to offer e.g. a membership site or service to your customers and they can pay you via Clickbank something which has not been possible until now. After logging in, you will be able to see a new tab in the “My Products” area. Products which are offering a membership type of site, are now also listed in their highly popular Clickbank Marketplace.

Hi,

One of my favorite Internet marketers, Willie Crawford has come up with an ingenious report that’s making a very bold claim:

“You can make 1000-2000 Dollars in 24 hours” and Willie tells you exactly what to do.

I bought it in a heartbeat because it’s really a no brainer. I can testify that the mentioned method works because…

… He did it, I’ve done it too and you’ll be able to achieve it as well.

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To Your Success,

Detlev

Chris McNeeney, author of “Affiliate Project X” and “Day Job Killer” – both great products – has come up with a new potential bestseller called “Project Black Mask”. But I wasn’t impressed at all – I could even say that I was quite disappointed. I know, I could have made a lot of commissions by promoting this one, too. But it wouldn’t be the right thing to do. Read on to get to know why…

Before I get to that, I think, I’ll have to retract the statement about Chris McNeeney which I made yesterday by saying that:

“… And I think even without having read his ebook, I bet it’s a killer product again.”

– Not this time, sorry. I made that assumption based on the quality of his other products and without having read a single line of his actual “Project Black Mask” ebook. Now that I have finished reading it, I can’t keep this statement alive.

Let’s go into the meat of his ebook:

First of all, the author doesn’t even try to hide the fact that he’s spamming the search engines. Although, the term “Black Hat” makes it sound nicer. But within the ebook itself, several forms of spamming are mentioned. Apart from the fact that you could easily lose your Adsense account if you’re caught spamming the search engines, there are several other risks involved in this kind of “business”.

Okay, here’s what it’s all about:

Content Generators or Portal Builder software

I must confess, I have used them in the past as well. In the beginning, when they were new, I made several thousands of dollars with them, too. But soon after the search engines reacted to this and I lost the Pagerank of most of my domains and got penalized by Google, I realized that this is a fight that the normal user cannot win and I abandoned these tactics altogether.

Sidenote:

Using Traffic Equalizer, by the way, was the main reason why I’ve lost my highly successful PR6 domain Internetmarketing-success.com! By having links from my main index page to the new inner pages which were generated using Traffic Equalizer, I got pagerank for several hundreds of Internet marketing related terms easily and a lot of additional traffic. I should have stayed with my manual approach because one day that I looked at the Google Toolbar for my site, it was greyed out…

There you have it: Being “black hat” can also cost you the fruits of your labor from the past years (e.g. if you’re using existing “white hat” high PR sites to link to your bad “black hat” websites or pages…)! That was about 2 years ago.

Lesson learned… and one of the reasons why I’ve called my new beginning “Ethicalinternetmarketer.com“.

Whether they were called “Traffic Equalizer” which was the first one as far as I know or “Niche Portal Builder” , they have one fact in common: The search engines are constantly trying to delete these kind of sites. If their algorhythm’s can’t catch them, then their staff will be doing manual reviews of the top search engine results for the most searched for terms. And you can’t trick their staff. In 97% of the cases, they are doing a great job and delete these spam sites from their index.

Here’s are some more details about the content (taken from the table of contents + my comments):

1.) SEO: White hat, grey hat, black hat

What is it about: Explains the differences between these 3 SEO techniques.

2.) Black hat money

What is it about: How to make money from using unethical SEO.

3.) Site creation

What is it about: How to find niches to exploit, how to find good keywords, how to create these black hat sites, the tools used and what kind of hosting and domains you should use for it.

4.) Linking and promotion

What is it about: Blog spam, Blog and Ping, Comment- Forum- Guestbook- Spam and several more spamming methods e.g. how to abuse Web 2.0 resources…

==> And if I’m reading something like “Web 2.0 is the spammer’s best friend” – it actually makes me want to vomit…!

Moreover, even if everything were ethical: In order to put into use what he tells you to do – if you want to copy exactly what he does – , you need to buy at least 2-3 different keyword tools, you need several different reseller hosting accounts, even better VPS (Virtual Private Servers) servers and of course hundreds of domains and different IP addresses… This means expenses of several hundreds of dollars before you even get started. Some of the tools needed (e.g. for building blog farms) cost more than $250. The main Portal Builder Software called RSSGM is free, though.

I love automating website building tasks, too. Yes… But then please let the output be real content sites that visitors can actually enjoy and not total crap.

Apart from some tools for finding niches, his thoughts and explanations on doing keyword research and the valid points he mentioned about using long tail keywords (which is old hat already, anyway… ), I didn’t find the ebook very useful. If you’re into building real businesses like I am, you’ll find that the techniques used in his works are just unethical and do not contribute any value to the info already available on the Internet.

Quite on the contrary: It artificially inflates the number of pages in the SERPs (Search Engine Results Pages) by adding irrelevant stuff and lots of link collections directly taken from search engine results + RSS feeds. Then you could better become a member of my Niche Content Websites membership site and get real article websites within hot niches but without the risk of getting whole IP blocks banned by the search engines – because that is what sooner or later will happen with that kind of sites!

My conclusion is: NOT RECOMMENDED!

What are your thoughts on this? Comments are welcome…!