I wrote Best Kept Marketing Secret to show that most affiliate marketers were failing because they were being duped!
In the book I showed that manipulated testimonials and screenshots are the easiest way to convince newbie marketers to buy a product.
Well guess what?
I almost recently fell for the same scam.
Let me explain:
A genuine online testimonial would have the person's name and AT LEAST THEIR URL, though the url does not have to be an active link (to discourage impulsive clicking which may distract the prospect from your message or most desired goal) as well as the fact the webmaster may not necessarily want to parse off page rank.
If a visitor to the site really wishes to follow the link they can copy the url and paste it into their browser...which I did, but I'm getting a head of myself.
The website(s) in question have only two testimonials only one of which has a non active url ( www.pet-guides.com). (click on them to see what I mean) Here are the sites:
UPDATE: Ever since I posted this report and when people caught on 2 of these sites have been pulled! (Click to see what I mean)
www.7dollarsecrets.com,
www.secrets-to-money.com,
www.general-information-general.com)
I duly pasted the url into my browser and went to it.
I wasn't impressed at all!
I was originally going to buy the product (after all it was only $7.00, which by the way is why these scams are so effective) but when I saw how shabby and make shift the site was my scam-o-meter went off the charts!
I clicked through several links and was convinced this was a makeshift fly-by-night site designed to authenticate this product. So I moved to plan B which was to Google the name of the testimonial without a url (the name was: Jeremy Destes).
Lo and behold what did I find?
Several identical sites with the only difference being a different individual (photo and name) claiming ownership of the product none of them the afore mentioned Jeremy Destes. The text, copy etc otherwise is exactly the same. That in itself is okay I guess...but the smoking gun was the screenshot!
The screenshots were exactly the same...same blacked out area claiming "for privacy reasons", same dates, same fragments of names etc.
Now there was no doubt. SCAM!
Well I didn't expect to get much from the book anyhow but I figured that I might find one golden nugget i didn't know about but you can bet I'm not about to get it now!
You see the miniscule price of $7 is what makes this scam most effective. The report is probably a dud but who's going to bother requesting a refund for $7 right?
These guys just teamed up as is the case with so many testimonials (even big established names in the industry routinely do this to get added credibility value) to push their bogus products!
GET GOOGLE ADS FREE SCAM
Before I finish let me mention that recently I have been receiving these email offers about getting 1000's of dollars of adwords for free from a guy who has made millions doing if for quite a while...
WORD TO THE WISE: The reason why the guy is publicizing that secret now is because Google has shut the door firmly and completely on his system (assuming the system ever worked).
Of course with respect to the amounts the guy made (millions) amply illustrated by screenshots (arrrgh..again? But of course!) he his charging a princely sum for his "secrets".
ASIDE: I actually decided to buy the eBook in case there was something I was missing (remember if your hand is always clenched in a fist you can never receive...and he who is not willing to accept can never learn and thus improve).
Anyway having duly paid I tried to download the ebook but was unable to do so. Oh! Oh! So I blasted off the report to the appropriate customer support associated with the product and they replied quite promptly furnishing me with an alternate link within the email whereby I could redownload the eBook. but that link didn't work either.
I tried this on several different computers but to no avail. What caught my eye though was the interesting caveat in the email from their customer support (the email that furnished me with an alternate link that also didn't work) a caveat which stated that because of the PDF one might encounter problems downloading the eBook. I believe the PDF was around 150 or so pages. Now I have downloaded PDFs in excess of 300 pages, PDFs that were chock full of graphics and images without any problem so their excuse was bogus.
Next I fished around in some forums to hear what was being said about the getgoogleadwordsfree venture. One review that seemed honest and unbiased said it worked but that the adwords were not really free; what was going on was a case of arbitrage whereby you initially pay for the adwords upfront and then offset those expenses by getting your visitors to click on some other ad that brings in a greater income (not adsense though; that used to be possible with adsense but no longer, so I'm sure it is another system that they are incorporating).
All in all my assessment is that there could be something in that getgoogleadwordsfree enterprise (in other words it isn't exactly a scam but the wording is fiendishly clever if misleading) but what you should understand is that you are not actually getting Google Adwords free upfront but are offsetting your costs with resultant return of investment (ROI)!
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Do you remember the furor over adsense templates, how-to-make-millions off adsense ebooks and adsense arbitrage?
After losing about 1,000 bucks following "The Adsense Guru's" advice and recommendations I finally figured out it was all a scam!
Google had shut down the system even before I ever bought the $100 book, paid $50/month for adsense-accelerator software and subscription and paid $100s in adsense arbitrage that returned cents to the dollar!
Click Here For Best Kept Marketing Secret The eBook that exposed the unethical practices widely used by some of the biggest names in internet marketing!
