In life, being honest goes a long way.  In the last few days, I had the opportunity to be dishonest with strangers. Fortunately for them,  I corrected them thus paid for what I was supposed too and they earned the money that was due to them.

In the first case, I had given some outsource work to do for my Internet Marketing business. But because of bug in their system, one of her colleague gave me $10 more but he was unaware of fact. I could had taken it but I did not. She was glad that I was honest with the company. On the plus side, the next time she will remember me and be more open to listen/help to me.

The other case happened during the past night.  I was in a resto-bar with friends for a birthday party. When our waiter ask me how many Diet Coke I took, he mentioned 2. I corrected him and told him that it was 3 but even I was not sure either. I was correct and he was also glad of my honesty with him.

Of course, those a just little amount of money. But it's the principal that matters since those are hard working people. They work and get paid.

Internet Marketing Scam

Recently, there is a plague that I find dishonest in Internet Marketing: Limited copies of new IM products.  But the sad truth is that's a scam that Internet marketers are doing more for newbies and pro alike. They turn around and telle affiliates that they sold 10000, 20000.. units when they offered 254, 300, 324 copies. Limited copies my eye!

I did a few posts about scam offers recently but cease because it was too much work exposing them. I hope they will stop this dishonest behavior soon or at least really mean it.

For me, it also devalue a product/service that could be great but because of the scam marketing tactic used for it, they have lost a potential customer in me and others. In fact, because of poor service(never got the product) , I even removed myself from a well known Internet Marketer list because of that.

Greed is good?

Yes, I believe that greed is good(from Wall Street movie) because it will force a person to go above it's own limitations by thinking outside of the box.  But that person needs to deliver the product or service to make an honest profit. Should it be: Honest greed is good instead?

I know, the definition of profits could be seen has a negative greed depending on the context it was done.

Reap away!

You reap what you sow.

That's another saying that I believe in. Karma, the Universe, God ... or whatever you believe in will give what you sow one way ... or another.

For example, if your seed is negative to others, negative things will happened to you later when you harvest what you sow to others.

But if a person do realize the negative impact it did cause to others, I hope it's not too late for that person to fix it the best way possible. Maybe Karma, the Universe, God ... or whatever will help that person to cancel out that negative impact before more harm is being done to others.

Conclusion

With that in mind, it comes back that being honest goes a long way. You will reap the positive effect of that honesty later on.

I know, I only slept around 3h30 and felt a little philosophical that I finally decided to write this long over due post.

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Another day, another "limited copies" offer but from Traffic Anarchy this time around. Is Traffic Anarchy a scam or just misleading customers? So, again  I have done some research and for once, it's not a scam but I do have some mixed feelings about it.

I want to make it clear that I did not buy Traffic Anarchy and don't intent too.  I however did  some researched to see what was the "product" beforehand.

About my mixed feeling first

Why I did not buy it? Because of the claims of only 350 copies. Now, I always have a doubt but it seems it's the "new sales pitch" in Internet Marketing world this days and it has to stop now.

Now, I did not find a "contest" for affiliates but I was hit by 2-3 emails at the exact hour it was launched. This is not a good sign and that's why I have some reservation about the limited copies mentioned on the salespage but...

The Traffic Anarchy product

Traffic Anarchy is a basic software solution that will let you submit your site to many places(RSS feed, Social bookmark, Press Release, Articles directories) to get backlinks and traffic. For a new person in IM with a limited budget, I don't mind recommending Traffic Anarchy.

The software just submit to a limited number of places thus the impact will be lesser. However, it's good that's it not the small sites but the major ones for each categories.

Conclusion

Later when you have the money or if you have it now, I would suggest you get bigger tools(BMD for social bookmark) to get more backlinks. Yes, I own it and use it everyday of the week like other tools. For me, BMD is a must have in my chest of  tools.

But if you don't have much money for tools and want to try your hand at IM basics, Traffic Anarchy is a good option for you since it's an all in one software and will show you the basics of getting backlinks from different sources. It's better than doing it by hand in a semi-automatic way(like entering captchas).

Again, it's mostly the 350 copies that I'm not liking on the salespage of Traffic Anarchy.

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Yes! Auto Traffic Avalanche scam and a big lie. It is the second product launch where the claims of limited copies make's Auto Traffic Avalanche like a special limited offer. As soon I saw the "limited copies", I did not fall for it. I waited for others to review it(not fake one's).

To make matters worst, it's using an unethical script that would violate the TOS of Plenty Of Fish/Facebook thus causing the page owner to be possible banned from Facebook. That's according to buyer's who did buy the product but demanded a refund after that.

The salespage also mentioned it will take 13 clicks but it's even more work than that. Add the fact that you will pay for FB advertising.  Plus, they also offer too many upsells(5) and are doing a contest for the affiliates. Why? there are only 234 "copies" available.

Btw, it's the same guy in the Tweetomatic Profiteer product video from the IM that I warned you about a few post before.  I was sure I had seen it somewhere.

To be fair, a few rare one's did like a few parts of the Auto Traffic Avalanche and even them found that it was a short term to make money until Facebook banned them. For some, it's okay to take a risk but those of us for the long run, we will stay away.

It's another buyer beware but I hate those misleading tactics(limited copies) by big Internet Marketers. I know,  I only reviewed the salepage myself and let others review it. It's up to you to decide if  Auto Traffic Avalanche is a short term solution for you. Good luck anyway if you. do.

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Yes, AutoBlogSystemX scam and a big lie and most Internet Marketers are promoting this with no minimum of personal ethics. But how can I say that since I did not buy it?

Before I start, I'm not reviewing the product but the ethics behind it. Of course, AutoBlogSystemX will tell big possible monthly numbers to attract buyers with yet another magic bullet formula. That's a given in Internet Marketing since that's what attracts those that don't know better. I'm not saying it's not possible either.

The AutoBlogSystemX Scam

Here is what irritated me the most when I had a chance to promote it. I was myself  about to buy it to review/promote it when on the affiliate blog, Rob Benwell(blogging to the bank) mentioned big names Internet Marketers were about to promote it too. But why would they waste their time when only 250 copies were supposed to be available? They would be lucky to sell 5 each.

Also, Rob Benwell was doing a competition for $24,000 for the affiliates. If you multiply 250 x $37(no commission), you get $9,250. You will say that it make no sense but you forgot the upsells that will bring the real money for them and compensate for the affiliate payout/contest.

So far, it's not my main irritation. By mentioning  only 250 copies, it makes the products sound exclusive and an urgency not to wait to buy it for the potential buyers. That's where it's a scam and big lie!

Yes, on the affiliate blog on August 10, Rob Benwell mentioned that 3,000 units were already sold. On the salespages, they mentioned that 120,000 will be invited but only 0.2% will be able to access it.  On August 11, they even mentioned that they are  "on track to hit 20,000 units." That's the big lie/scam since only 250 copies were supposed to get sold.

Some will say: That's marketing!

I'm not stupid but why just says it's a limited time offer and can be pulled anytime. This would had work and might offer a more ethical way to sell that product.

Poor Service

Also, Rob Benwell has another bigger problem now: Poor service for past products he sold. I did buy Rob Benwell(blogging to the bank product) a few years back and got great service then. But not anymore.

You see, I bought another product(Premium Blog) that he launched in July and I never got it. Since I like to give a chance to the runner, I even did preview for my readers in case some of them wanted to take the risk like me(thankfully no one did). I was upfront too that I did not got it. Here is how it went:

On July 18, I bought the Premium Blog and the salespage mentioned a 48hours delivery.

On July 21, I email sales@bloggingtothebank.com about it but never got a
response.

On July 26, I opened a ticket about it on their site. They answered claiming
technical troubles with the servers and gave me this email
blogsetup@bloggingtothebank.com to inquire about it. I got BTTB 2010 to read for my trouble.

On July 28, I emailed them about my Premium Blog since I wanted to gave them time  to deal with the server.

On August 9, since I never got any response, I email them again giving them
24hours deadline or I would ask for a refund. I gave them 48hours.

On August 11, I asked and got a refund(August 12) from ClickBank.

Seeing this, how can his team be able to handle AutoBlogSystemX upsells when they can't even offer proper support for the Premium Blog offer made just a few weeks earlier?

Conclusion

I decided to not buy any product from Rob Benwell(blogging to the bank) from now on because of the above things. Of course, no one can say never but something has to change in his business service and ethics.

P.S. Links to other products if you don't mind about the bad support or ethics(my aff links) but still want to buy them. Jen Su(thanks) wanted others products to stay clear off so here are the products:
AutoBlogSystemX, Blogging Espionage , Tweetomatic Profiteer, SEO Pressor WordPress Plugin, Blogging to the Bank, Money Making Blog Offer

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Lis wrote an interesting post called: Site Build It Scam Review.

Thanks for mentioning MyStarterBlog.

I wanted to leave a comment but found that a post would be better since it's content on my blog and expected to write a lot.

Anyway, Lis found, mostly the same SBI users, commenting and I give Lis credit on approving those comments. They corrected/answered Lis and that's okay. Some comment were so long that I guest some of them were writing their comments at the same time thus duplicating the same answers.  It's a longer read than I expected.

I can also understand using the word "scam" from her point of view when there are many other cheaper alternative elsewhere. But for someone who start in this business, it could be a good way to have everything centralized in one place. That's is you have the first $300 to invest.

But since they show them what they need to do, why should they pay $300 for the the second site?  A user could have a site with 300 products while another have 100 sites with 3 products each.   The second user would be using the tools a little more but pay $300/year!!! Is it fair for her/him?

For example, if SBI would let them use the tools on unlimited sites with a small extra fee, this would be a better deal for users.   Otherwise, just buy software(with free lifetime updates like BMD, FBF, Keyword Elite, SEO Elite... ) and create unlimited sites at a lower hosting cost. Creating the site is not the problem. It's the getting traffic part that's time consuming and dull.

For some with only 1 site  and earning that money back, $300 could be enough for them to keep using SBI and not to have to deal with the technical side of their site. Then again, they remain at their "mercy". That's the real downside. I know that from personal experience with a site I bough from another person(not SBI). I know a lot more now by being more independent.

Last year, I bought around $700-1000 in SEO software. Then again, I have more than 100 domains. If I had used SBI, my cost even with their 2 for 1  or spring sale would be much higher ($10 000-15 000).  At $300, you must be sure that you chosen the right products or it will be a costing lessons for a newbie.

In the next weeks, I plan to be in a "build sites mode" thus increasing and diversifiyng my revenue streams.  I will pay $1 for .info so if I failed, then it's less than 1 hour +$1 I waisted. I will learned months later if I picked the right keywords. If I'm wrong, at least it's not $300 per site being waisted.

But with all those comments, Lis was not answered on the cost of getting you domain out of SBI if someone would want to stop using SBI.

Also, some mentioned that they own their sites. Okay, but following on Lis questions, what if someone used a graphic belonging to SBI. Can they take it with them? Are the images exclusive to SBI or royalty free?

Those that answered are those, I'm sure die hard users, who made or about to make their $300/year back and I'm glad for them. But those few commenter's anti-SBI were accused of not following the steps.

This bring me to ask what is the success rate using a centralize model like SBI after 1 year? I specified 1 year to be fair because you have to put in the time in any model.

Also, what's the average profit margin of those who made more than $300? It's important because if you put 100 hours(part time) but only made a $200/year profit then, it's not a good ROI. Most would not work for $2/hour, at least in develop countries(cost of living).

Some mentioned getting targeted traffic. Okay, but what's their converting targeted traffic reate? If you have 500 targeted visitors/day but no one buys/clicks then it's crap traffic. The only traffic that counts is the traffic that earn you money. It's a business not a blog for the social bragging rights of visitor or RSS readers.

One comment made me laugh about typos on her blog. This showed me the lack of understanding of getting traffic from typos. Heck, I make a lot of typos since English is not my first language. I do try but I'm sure that if I read at my older post I would ask myself what I was thinking at that time. I'm not saying that you should make types on purpose.

So, is Site Build It a scam?

From reading the answers from comments, I don't think so. For me, it's over price and even more on the second site. It's my opinion.

Also, Lis was slammed for making too many mistakes in her review of Site Build It Scam.  But how many potential clients would read the same thing on SBI and passed on it because they were thinking the same thing as her? That's the most important point here that SBIers missed.

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Sometimes, it's my unfortunate duty to warn others about scammers that I recommended in the past. That's the risk we take as Internet marketers. Today, it's the ProductReview.com.au Affiliate Scam.

How ProductReview.com.au worked?

You were paid $0.05AUD(5 Australian cents) for each visitor you were sending to their site.  If an Australian person would write a review for a product, you would get $0.50AUD(got 2 of them). If you registered to be an affiliate, they would deposit $10AUD in your account until your had reach $50AUD.

The referrer(me) would not get anything if you became an affiliate. I just got an email but I figured that was for a future option or they had stop doing that.

Send me that traffic

When I started, they were no restriction on the kind of traffic you were sending to them. So, on the advice of the person who introduced me to this affiliate program, I also used traffic exchange.  For $5.95US, I sent 1000 visitors thus would be making $50AUD in theory. This tip spread like wild fire.

Unfortunately, the total of recorded visitors were about 40% based on the traffic exchange. The visitor had to stay 20 seconds on the site to be counted. But, I did not mind since I was still making $20AUD or $13.98US(today's rate) on a $5.95US investment.

If you check your stats on your site, you would see a big difference between multiple stats software. Plus, their site was sometimes down.

Soon after I was prepared to do it again but on a larger scale, I guest they were alerted because they added this new restriction: no traffic exchange. Okay, but they did not deduct the amount from my account. This should had been easy for them since they recorded the referrer site. I guessed, at that time, that they took it as the cost of not being too specific.

From that point on, I was sending them normal traffic without using traffic exchange.

And it happen!

In November, I was almost at $40. I had recently bought 2 domains with good traffic(800 visitors combined/day). At first, I used them to make test and I still do.

Then, in December, I was near $45.  So, I decided to "unleashed" that 800 traffic over a weekend by redirecting visitor directly to them. On Saturday, I had reached over the $50 mark. On Monday(Dec. 8), I received this email:

Our systems have detected that your affiliate account has been engaged in fraudulent activity or violates our Terms of Service.

They had also canceled my account on the spot thus lot the $50+ I had earned. I expected to be near the $60AUD by Sunday night.

Giving them a chance

To give them a chance, I emailed them 2 times to see if we could be able to reach an agreement with them.  I also explained that I was sending traffic to them from 2 new domains thus my sharp increase in visitors over that weekend. I did not mind if they deducted the traffic exchange I had used 8 months before.  But, they never replied.

Even if I was getting nothing for referring someone, I still received an email from them that a new affiliate used one of my affiliate links. The funny thing is that my account was canceled yet I received such email from them soon after.

Conclusion

That they changed the rules yet never deducted past traffic exchange was not professional of them. Affiliates, like me, who stopped that practice were now sending them the "required" traffic. After all, I did send them at least $30AUD (600+ visitors(40%) or 1500 visitors(100%) ) over many months.

Even if I had made $0.02USD per click with Adsense, I would earned $30USD(1500 visitors).  At least, the Adsense stats are better than them and if you get click fraud, you can still email Adsense if it happens to you.

If I had known that I would had been penalized 8 months later, I would had dropped them then instead of wasting my time oops ... traffic/ clicks.

Here is my theory about the ProductReview.com.au Affiliate Scam:

They will find any excuses(past usage of traffic exchange) not to pay affiliates like mentioning you used fraudulent methods.  Plus, since this happened, I now think that their stats(40%) are faulty on purpose and that it's them who are doing the fraud on their affiliates.

Too bad because they were a good alternative to Adsense.

I would like to hear from others. Were you in the same situation? Did get paid? How many times?

P.S. If you get too many 1-2 cents clicks with Adsense, it's because your whole account has been smart priced. You are sending low quality traffic to advertisers.  You should keep Adsense for your high paying niche sites. You can use NBN(my review) for content.

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In recent weeks, I saw an increase in what I call "fake software" on my software directory. The ideal is to distribute some "fake software" to software directories to get a backlink to your site/blog.

Today, I was reading Vic's blog, I noticed this thread on the forum. A person was asking about the 30 Minute Backlink Solutions.  I was curious and found out that it was the source of this recent plague on software directories. When I saw the promotional video,  I remembered that I deleted the software in the video when it first started. The 30 Minute Backlink Solutions will scam cost you $97.

Why the 30 Minute Backlink Solutions is a scam?

According to AndiC, it would cost you $200-300 more to get you started with the some software. You can use free "premade" software.

The ideal would had been good if it was going to be a real software.  Then again, it's not backlinks but downloads you want when it's a real software. Now, the method is being too much overused that it will very soon not work anymore.

When I see a "fake software", it's deleted and most software directories are doing the same now according to AndiC. So, you will pay $97+ for a method that will no longer work as advertised. In time, the method will die.

Of course, you will still find software directories that don't even check at new submissions.  But then again the webmaster will eventually close it thus removing your backlinks in a few months.

Serious webmaster may give you the backlink now but delete it a few hours/days later. If it get too much work to handle for them, the site will just close. So, the method is for short term gain if any.

One argument is that it give new content to our software directories. Yes, it's true but if I start to have 1000 times the same thing over and over, then it's content that I don't want.

The author had a good ideal but by making it public turned into a spam method thus no longer under the radar. That's for this reason I call the method a scam, and not the author a scammer.

Do you have alternative to get backlinks?

I do understand that you want backlinks and finding a fast way has some appeal to you and to me too.

I see Bookmarking Demon, for example, as the better investment for you to get backlinks. At least with BMD, you don't need to buy other things to use it. I use it but I don't overuse it.

Another way to get backlinks is to leave comments on dofollow blogs using Fast Blog Finder. It's free and it can be upgraded for much less than 30 Minute Backlink Solutions to find more results. Again, leave a real comment and don't spam or your comment will be deleted anyway. The cool thing is that you can find post with some high PageRank.

Conclusion

I must also state that I did not buy 30 Minute Backlink Solutions. I was able to review it because I understand the principal(I'm real software author) and I'm at the other end of that method(I have a software directory).

Btw, I do have pointers(like many directory owners) to spot "fake software" because most users that are using the 30 Minute Backlink Solutions are too damn lazy so it's easier for me. And no, I won't tell you how I do it. But when in doubt, I just delete the software.

P.S. To make sure we are talking about the same software, click here. I saw a few similar sites but they did not show the price on the front page.

Edit 2008/10/16: I finally decided to indirectly link to the 30 Minute Backlink Solutions using my own short URL(my service). I gave you my opinion but in the end, it's up to you make the choice for a quick "possible" buck or use other and better alternative methods for the longer term. I also noticed a decrease of fake software since I posted this. Maybe users are less lazy.

Edit 2008/12/08: I posted about the submission part using a fake software I created.

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While working on the Google Trends form in AuctionSiteWriter, I saw a trend called vaxieplar.com. Since ASW gave me 0 on the number of links for all 3 major search engines, I decided to check out vaxieplar.com.

When I arrived, a popup told me that my IP had uploaded a picture there in the last 48 hours. I was asked to give more information to login. It too was fishy since I never went there before and the background was blurred with many pictures in columns. Plus, I could see that I needed a "special" plugin. Yeah right, like I'm going to trust it. Also, leaving was bothersome with too many "last chance" popup. I did not stay long.

So, it's my warning about vaxieplar.com.

My question is how was it in trends in the first place?

Hopefully, this post will be at the top on search engines and might save people some nasty possible pain.

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I was writing the reply to the comment left by "what is the iq of a monkey" aka Blah blah(on my blog) from part 1 but it was going to be longer than I expected. So, I decided make another post.

Here is the original comment from part 1:

It is me who made the comment that you are discussing now. You haven’t heard about me but I earn a living online. Now, let’s talk a little bit about what I said.
First of all, I was a reader of Blogger Unleashed, but not anymore. I made a few friends there, with whom I still keep in touch, and that’s the only thing why I am grateful to BU. The funny thing is that all of the friends that I made there don’t visit BU anymore - a coincidence? I think not.
Before I go explaining some of the points I made, maybe you should hear point #13: Signing up for Pepperjam Network under Vic’s link in order to make him some money just to be called a cocksucker for about 100 times in a 4 minute video later on. I guess that was a thank you gesture. Anyway…
Having reasonable conversations with Vic on his blog is impossible. If you dare contradict him and make a valid point, he’s gonna delete your comments and “Askimet your ass”, if I may quote the grand master. That says a lot about his character.
I am not going to go through the details of my 12 points again. It is a matter of perspective, and of how much you are willing to believe his bullshit. Yes, I was a reader of BU and I must admit you get brainwashed pretty easily over there, but people who really know what they are doing online pretty soon realize the bullshit (like I did). I can tell you now that I know more SEO than Vic ever will, and I worked in important Internet Marketing companies, which made millions. So I know what I am talking about.
I am not a scammer and I am not trying to promote anything. I am just making my point and iterating my opinion about someone – as Vic so abundantly does so himself.
For BU followers, one thing: when you are able to take down the veil in front of your eyes, you are going to realize that his blog serves only one purpose: to make as many affiliate sales as possible by calling other people in the niche scammers. You will find much better info in other places, like Griz and Court, whose sites are very good indeed.
After all, we all know SEO Elite is crap and has a limited capacity. But it has a fat commission. As for BANS, you can get a free WordPress plugin that will list eBay auctions on your website, while having the versatility of WordPress at your disposal. Submitting the same article to hundreds of directories? Haha. If you are lucky, you will get 5 links counted because Google will filter out the duplicate pages. Those who actually did it, know what I am talking about. I will not try to argue with people who are Vic fans, because it’s useless. But I personally can smell crap from a mile away.

Have a good day.

Here is my reply:

I will go with the supposition that your are what is the iq of a monkey and here Blah blah.

The style of BU is not for everyone. In your case, it's not anymore.

Point 13: Show me a MMO blogger that don't used that method to get passive income. I don't mind using Vic's Pepperjam affiliate code because it did not cost me a cent. But I won't buy something if I can get a better deal somewhere else. I like to save money too.

I don't know if Vic use Askimet that much. I too will use Askimet(last resort) when it's spammy or the person is promoting too much a "suspicious tool" for example. My blog is small so I don't have much comments except for the "normal" spam. But, Vic does answer most questions in comments unlike many A-list bloggers. They might have 100s of comments and no comment from the blogger. That does not mean the A-list blogger has 100s of questions to answer.

"brainwash": Like I said in the other comments, readers need more than one source of information. It also depends on the online goal of that person: Be read, make money or both.

"bullshit","smell crap": But how long were you a reader before stopping reading/watching BU? If you knew more than Vic about Internet Marketing/SEO, why were you reading him in the first place? Is it because he was the "new thing" and you were hoping to learn something new in those fields? It's easy to criticize someone but you must be able to back it up. Why not write a blog to share your knowledge about Internet Marketing/SEO? Anyway, those are valid questions but will you answer them?

Yes, I agree that Griz and Court have given good/much information on their blogs.

You say that SEO Elite is crap. What do you use? What is the cost and what is the commission on both(cost/commission)? Or is it free?

BANS vs free eBay plugin: First, what is that plugin? How easy/versatile is it to use compare to BANS? Vic recommend BANS because it is simpler for most readers. What about the resource that WordPress put on a server vs BANS? Have you done test? Remember that it's 100s of BANs one one server with Vic's method.

Vic mentioned(video) recently that articles directories are less "hot". Who knows how Google will count them but "big G" know about them and I'm sure they don't calculate them the same way has someone who used an article on their blog or RSS full feed stealer's. Personally, I don't use article directories at this time. Maybe in my second round of link building but I'm not a good writer. :p I can say that my best BANS only used one Squidoo page. That was my article.

Yes, I'm a fan of Vic's method with BANS because it's starting to work for me.

"I will not try to argue with people who are Vic fans, because it’s useless. "
"Having reasonable conversations with Vic on his blog is impossible. If you dare contradict him and make a valid point..."
Does it mean that if someone contradict you, you are going to do the same as Vic apparently "done" to you?

Btw, I did not "Askimet" you because I would like you to answer me those valid questions. I will show you that fans can be reasonable. The floor is yours if you want!

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Note: I was supposed to publish this post early this week but did not have time.

I very like the "Subscribe to the thread" plugin. So while reading the comments, I came to read a new comment left on an "old" post on John Cow: Whats The MMO Niche Coming To?

what is the iq of a monkey, no I'm not kidding, left this comment:

So here is proof that franqui from blogger unleashed is a scammer and doesn’t know what he’s talking about:

1. He finds people that brag about their money obnoxious, yet bragging is the only thing that he does;
2. He thinks Amazon affiliate program sucks, yet now he wants to try it;
3. He makes people buy 100 info domains, and many persons got them deindexed by Google;
4. He thinks feed count doesn’t matter, yet he is very proud nowadays of his feed count;
5. He bashes persons like Yaro Starak or John Chow, yet when John Chow comments on his blog, all he can say is “kudos to you”;
6. His only answer to anyone who contradicts him is foul language, when he can’t really argument his claims;
7. He makes 20k / month and runs hundreds of sites and doesn’t have time for anything, yet he doesn’t hire help (maybe because he can’t afford it?);
8. He thinks that submitting the same article to hundreds of article directories will actually help your rankings;
9. His only goal is to tell his readers to buy Clickbank products through his affiliate links, even if there are cheaper and better options available;
10. He thinks there’s no money in the “make money online” niche, yet he is very proud he got into top 20 for “make money online”;
11. He doesn’t have time for his blog, yet he is almost always there – maybe because he is not actually making any money with other websites?
12. He first hates Darren Rowse, then he loves him for his feed count. Talk about integrity, huh?

There you have it. I’m sure there are more, but I can’t waste anymore time with this idiot.

The funny thing is that he used the Bloggerunleashed for the website.

I will try to reply to those points the best I can:

1. He finds people that brag about their money obnoxious, yet bragging is the only thing that he does;

Vic let it slip how much he makes but he does not post how much he makes per month. Personally, I don't care either way. It just show that money can be made online by others if the numbers they show are true(income and expense).

2. He thinks Amazon affiliate program sucks, yet now he wants to try it;

You missed a point here. Vic always talked about having different money streams and I do too. Also, Amazon does not pay much(4%) compared to other ways where you can have 40-75% commission on every sale. To make the same amount, you would need to sell a big ticket items(PS3) or sell a lot of Blu-Ray's at $0.25-0.50 commissions.

3. He makes people buy 100 info domains, and many persons got them deindexed by Google;

Google changed the rules recently and make it harder for .info. Having a blog/software directory, you will be amazed on how many spam listings I delete every day that are .info. Having a real site(non spam) will make .info more valuable on the long run because it will be harder to be index. It's bad timing.

But here, the ideal was to buy a $1 .info domain by creating BANS that will make $1/day. If we had gone with a .com, we would had to pay $6-10 each domain. Of course, a .com is better and Vic even mentioned it. But, he wanted for people to start at a lowest cost possible. Me, I'm going with .info and pre-owned domains and I posted some results about it.

4. He thinks feed count doesn’t matter, yet he is very proud nowadays of his feed count;

Vic always mentioned that Feed count does not matter much on generating money in the Make Money Online blog field. Readers(majority) tend to not buy your stuff but some do. I know because I advertised on A-list bloggers based on the RSS Feed count but never had a good ROI(return on investment). If you have a blog about gardens, it may be more lucrative because it's another field and type of readers.

Yes, he can be proud that people are reading him and it means that is message/teaching is getting heard. Yes, some read him just for the controversy. I read him to learn things and I do.

5. He bashes persons like Yaro Starak or John Chow, yet when John Chow comments on his blog, all he can say is “kudos to you”;

Vic don't like scammers and out them. He did say that John Chow was good at marketing himself. I never saw the "Kudos to you" comment.

6. His only answer to anyone who contradicts him is foul language, when he can’t really argument his claims;

He use foul language when he agree with them too.  That's his style for BloggerUnleashed. Unfortunately, it's hard to find a place where Vic and the other person could meet in a neutral place so that each could argument each others points.

7. He makes 20k / month and runs hundreds of sites and doesn’t have time for anything, yet he doesn’t hire help (maybe because he can’t afford it?);

Yes, he could hire people but he has bigger project in mind like buy a house and pay medical bills. Plus, he often said he was "cheap" and don't like recurring fees. He want to make sure the job is done right(his "paranoiac" side).

8. He thinks that submitting the same article to hundreds of article directories will actually help your rankings;

That's basic SEO: The more links the better. If you can use anchor text, it's even better. Article directories are not about having PR juice but having many anchor links.

9. His only goal is to tell his readers to buy Clickbank products through his affiliate links, even if there are cheaper and better options available;

Vic mentioned that he don't care if people use his Clickbank links or not. Those are good products that he use daily. Recently, someone suggested another product that was cheaper($100 less) and was good enough that Vic told people to buy that one instead for those with the money. He also offered free alternative that does less. So, Vic is open to new products.

10. He thinks there’s no money in the “make money online” niche, yet he is very proud he got into top 20 for “make money online”;

"no money" in comparison to other fields like gardening/weight loss. He also proved a point that link building is important to rise in the rankings. He will/could be first if he wanted with his 6-7 months old blog. Here Vic, another anchor for you: make money online

11. He doesn’t have time for his blog, yet he is almost always there – maybe because he is not actually making any money with other websites?

He mentioned that he use the blog to relax, take a break. I go watch free movies and Vic teach others using his blog. There was a period that he posted many times per day. Now, he have many domains(BANS) to take care before May 31 plus organizing the contest. He is doing the contest for free to help others.

12. He first hates Darren Rowse, then he loves him for his feed count. Talk about integrity, huh?

Vic don't agree with Darren about still promoting TLA. Darren added a note about TLA. They patch things up since Vic made a video that was posted on Problogger and on Bloggerunleashed.

That's my reply(wrong or right(mostly)). I went from memory because Vic has many, many, many videos now on his blog. The point is that what is the iq of a monkey(funny) only showed part of the picture and misconceptions about Vic blog/message/teaching or what ever you want to call it.

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