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Saturday, September 6th, 2008
I’ve gotten a couple of emails asking me about the review I promised to have up a couple of weeks ago, so I figured I might as well explain myself here as well.
I’ve been absent for a while now due to medical conditions, being in and out of the hospital all the time. Due to me not really paying attention to what my doctor said about my new medicines, I managed to mix things up taking the wrong amounts of the new ones and my old ones. I was supposed to lower the dose of the old ones, syncing it with raising the dose of the new ones…
So I got posioned, and for some reason I managed to get an internal infection as well, just to make things even more wonderful 
I was actually pretty close to not waking up, but luckily other people noticed I started getting worse and forced me to the hospital. The infection is getting better, and I’ve started actually reading the instructions on the medicine boxes
With that said, I hope to have the review of Google Snatch 2 up next week.
I hope y’all have a great weekend!
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Friday, August 15th, 2008
Article Marketing - Love it or Hate it? I think there are as many opinions on the effectiveness of article marketing, as there are actual marketers who either use it successfully, or have only tried it with mixed results. I’ve had my fair share of success as well as failure when it comes to marketing through niche-centered articles, and I sincerely believe in the concept as a powerful way to drive traffic, sales and affiliate commissions.
If you’ve been at it, successfully or not, you know that the success partially depends on what article directory you publish your articles in. eZine-articles and Go-articles probably being two of the most prominent ones.
High PR normally means faster indexing, and provided your keyword and keyphrase density is at a good level, you have a good chance at hitting good positions in the organic result lists on the search engines relatively fast and easy.
A well-known and frustrating fact for most article marketers, is the fact that many directories frown upon affiliate links in articles and resource boxes, forcing us to use various techniques that almost certainly cost us a few sales considering the extra hoops our readers have to take to get to the product sales letter.
You can now say goodbye to that frustration! Anik Singal recently launched AffSphere, an affiliate-centered article directory. Not only can you use your affiliate links uncensored, you also get awarded points and commissions on your referrals.
If you sign up today, you can also purchase Anik’s new report on article marketing. A solid, informative report that really should be sold at a much higher price. Yes, that’s my personal opinion.
Go check it out!
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Saturday, August 9th, 2008
I snapped this one up while it was still $9.97, not really sure what to expect from it. I’ve not been overly excited about Dylan Loh’s other products, but I figured I might as well give the guy a second chance when he’s selling valuable, secret information on how to become a top earner using AdWords and AdSense… Atleast that’s the impression I got when I read the salespage.
“How You Can Fuse The Power of Adwords And Adsense Using A *Sly And Sneaky* Formula To Crush The Gurus And Create An Autopilot Income For LIFE – Guaranteed!“
After reading this 35 page report, I think it’s safe to say that there is no new sly and sneaky formula revealed, that will help you crush any gurus.
Chapter 1: Getting Started
Dylan sets out to explain the basics, AdWords & AdSense, selling affiliate products, building AdSense sites, using PLR and MRR material and basic traffic strategies. It all turns into mess, confusing AdSense and AdWords, constantly claiming things “aren’t easy” just to turn around and say “it’s simple”.
Chapter 2: Getting paid
This is basically about affiliate networks - Clickbank, PayDotCom and 7DollarOffers (?). Nothing new here, and nothing that will help you become a top earner.
Chapter 3: Keyword Selection
I heard that this chapter was great, only to find it missing in the first copy I downloaded. After a couple of tries, Dylan sent me the updated report that had chapter 3. Only it wasn’t clearly marked out as a chapter, and wasn’t in the same order as the index page. I could’ve lived with it, if the info was good enough. Which it wasn’t. Again, brief explanations of concepts such as negative keywords, selecting keywords and basic Search Engine knowledge.
Chapter 4: Writing Your AdSense Sites
You get a quick run-through on AdWords Ads, landing pages, bids, lists and whether to advertise in the content network or search network. All this in a chapter that was supposed to be about creating AdSense sites. Confusing? You bet. Anyone new to Adsense and Adwords will likely be just as confused as Dylan seems to be.
Chapter 5: Monitoring your AdSense Sites
Again a chapter supposedly about AdSense, that turns out to be mainly about AdWords.
Chapter 6: Adsense Arbitrage
This is the only chapter I would consider good information. It’s nothing earth shattering, nothing new and no real solid information, but a basic description of what arbitrage is and why it’s risky. It’s only a single page, though, so although it’s good advice, it doesn’t quite make up for the cost of this report.
All in all, there’s no secrets revealed, and it’s likely to confuse more than help if you’re new to the game. “Secret Google Tactics” is a misleading name, and the report seems like it was thrown together in an hour in the middle of the night.
I consider this a waste of time and money, but your mileage may vary 
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Monday, July 14th, 2008
I’m sure you’ve been hit by numerous promotion mails giving glowing testimony to the newest kid on the block, Google Nemesis. I’ve received far too many to keep track of, and I’ve also tested the service, because that’s basically what it is. A subscription based landing page service. A very limited one at that too, I might add.
What you get, besides the service itself (at a whopping bargain-price of $67/month) is two videos explaining how to use the service, two reports (How To Spot The Shadow Elite - about finding successful AdWords campaigns to copy - and Creating The Perfect Review Page - since the landing pages are in the form of review pages) and a free copy of Google Wealth Wizard, if you’re not familiar with AdWords.
There’s an upgrade available too, at an extra $47/month, giving you access to “DJK Blueprints” reports, which I’m guessing is a monthly service.
Google Nemesis is basically a service letting you create AdWords landing pages promoting ClickBank-products in the form of review-pages. That’s the first minus. Not only are you limited to ClickBank, you’re also limited by a worthless search engine for ClickBank products. Once you’ve created your landing page, there’s no way to go back and change products. You’re also limited in that your landing pages can only be for two- and three-product review pages.
There are only two templates available, in red or blue. Hopefully more templates will be made available, but you have no chance to set up your own templates.
All review pages by members are spread around on several different domains, but using your own domain for your landing pages is not an option. The only way to do that would be to use the redirect- or cloak-option from your registrar or webhost.
Imagine two hundred pages on one domain using the same template and footprints… It’s already a recipe for disaster, but if the two hundred pages are promoting similar products and bidding on similar keywords in AdWords, a whole bunch of them are going to suffer from the display URL limitation. Google only displays ONE ad from a given URL. So if you’re bidding on a similar keywords as another Nemesis customer, only ONE of you are going to get displayed, the one with the highest bid. If you were on different URLs, you could still be displayed if your bid was lower.
The editor used to edit the templates and fill in your text is very limited. You’re far better of using something else and then just copy&paste your review-texts.
I’m not really comfortable with giving out login information for ClickBank to anyone, and especially not to a script hosted by someone else. You need to do this in order for the statistics in the Google Nemesis dashboard to get more accurate numbers. The dashboard lets you see stuff like where your visitors come from, what keywords they clicked to arrive on your page, and the number of sales that can be connected to each keyword.
Google Nemesis is only hype. It doesn’t help you in any way with creating your review pages, in fact it takes me longer to create them in GN than doing it manually. For the statistics, if you use ClickBanks tracking id’s together with Google Analytics, you get statistics that are just as accurate as the ones you get from GN.
Now, if you don’t know how to create landing pages and track visitors, but you’re a master at writing compelling reviews and AdWords campaigns, you might actually find this service quite useful.
If you’re not a master at writing reviews and creating AdWords campaigns, it’s not for you. In fact, I believe you’re better off without it either way, but hey - it’s your decision. As far as I’m concerned, Google Nemesis is just a waste of time and money, but your mileage may vary
Parts of this review was added after reading another review that made some good points I didn’t even think of at first.
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Friday, May 23rd, 2008
First things first, Eric did one thing I really like in this product. The main report itself is available at $0. Doesn’t cost a dime. Kudos for that. What he charges for is the two additional reports “AdWords Best Practices” on how to use AdWords better, and “Relationship Marketing” on how to better create a relationship with your lists, and the set of 26 instructional videos weighing in at around 2 1/2 hours tutorials of what’s discussed in the reports, both the free and the two additional ones.
The main report was good. Not great, but ok. Eric introduces what he calls his “Autopilot Money Machine“, which is more or less standard affiliate practice:
- Find a market/niche that looks profitable
- Examine the competition to find out what keywords and ads work best
- Set up your landing pages on their own domains or on free blogging platforms
- Set up your AdWords campaigns using the keywords and ads based on what works for the competition
- Track, test and refine your keywords and ads to find out what works and what needs to be dropped
- Rinse and repeat
Eric says he’s going to show us a market and exactly how he profits from it using his “Autopilot Money Machine” - and yeah, he shows a market. But that’s about it. There’s the basic overview of where to go to find niches, but nothing on how he chooses a “profitable” one.
Next there’s a chapter on examining the competition (find, spy, swipe) to find out what’s profitable using either Affiliate Elite or SpyFu, and finding keywords using Googles Suggestion Tool. Standard practice here too: use a broad phrase to find more targeted keywords and phrases. He also explains that you need a domain containing your main keyword or phrase, and how you shouldn’t have any ads or other distracting elements to make sure the visitor has only one action to take - clicking your affiliate link. Oh, really? 
Eric explains the philosophy (ok, not quite but i like the word “philosophy”) behind creating review-type landing pages, using his own xbox 360 repair landing page (XBox360 Redlight Fix #1 and #2 ). Those two are very good examples. I like to put in one or two products I give negative reviews on as well, to add to the “honest guy getting ripped off”-image.
The Affiliate Conspiracy is pretty much Affiliate Marketing 101. The videos makes the package feel more solid than I’m used to with these types of products.
The free report surprised me by actually being more revealing than most other free reports. There’s no question as to whether the report is meant to sell the full package or not, but it still provides enough information and instructions to be considered good learning material if you’re new to affiliate marketing.
I like the two additional reports, especially the report on relationship marketing.
The instructional videos covers everything from a short presentation of ClickBank to installing your own blogs, from using spyfu to building lenses and hubpages. He also shows how to build a multiple-page landing system.
All in all I think it’s a pretty decent package, and I’m confident that you will find solid information and learn quite a bit if you’re either new to affiliate marketing, or have already dipped your toes for a while but still not grasping everything in full. If you’re a seasoned veteran, this is not for you…
If you’re not quite sure where on the scale you are, visit the site and sign up to get the free report. If you skim it through and realise there’s nothing new to you, consider yourself a seasoned veteran
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Sunday, May 18th, 2008
I know you’ve seen them, and I know you have an opinion. Everybody has an opinion on the VirtualSmartAgents. My dad has an opinion too, and I’ll get to that in a moment.
First though, if you don’t know what VSA’s are, they are annoying little popup-windows simulating a customer service representative wanting to give you a better deal than the one present on the page. The popups appear when you are about to leave the page, or atleast they are supposed to… In some cases I’ve stumbled upon, the script is set to show the popup every time the mouse pointer loses focus on the current page (as in your mouse pointer slides away from the browser window), which includes when you click a link. Not good.
The better ones won’t popup until you’re about to close the browser window (or tab if you don’t use an older browser), or hit the back button… I find these friggin scripts annoying. REALLY annoying! I wouldn’t be caught dead using them. I heard someone discussing how the “AI” in these scripts could be improved. If you ever hear anyone talking about VSA’s and AI in the same sentence, please slap them and tell them I said “ARGH!”
There is no Artificial Intelligence in the VSA-scripts (there actually is a javascript/java experimental AI implementation, but it’ll probably take several years ’til it can actually be used as a service representative), there are a set of phrases (answers) that are triggered by certain keywords/partial phrases (questions) making the VSA seem almost human if you by chance happen to type in a question and trigger the script to deliver a correct answer. Try rephrasing it and it’ll answer you completely different.
So, where does my dad come into this?
My dad is 63 years old and got his first computer in ‘96 (not counting the computer he bought for me ten years earlier). I wouldn’t go so far as to call him savvy, but he knows what he needs to know to use it for both work and fun. Popups tend to confuse my dad, but most of the time he figures out how to close it if it doesn’t seem legit. My dad loves photography, and he’s a good photographer. I set up a test-page promoting a non-existant product and showed it to my dad.
He read the sales-letter and seemed somewhat interested, but said “I’ll think about it and check it out later” after bookmarking it. When he went to hit the back-button, the VSA popped up, alongside a notification window asking if he really wanted to leave this page, phrased in a way to make him believe he had to click “cancel” to leave the page. He got a bit surprised and clicked cancel. Then he noticed the VSA “talking” to him. So he tried to communicate with it, starting with “hello who are you” and he got the standard greeting phrase, and a discount+bonus pitch. He tried telling the VSA he just wanted to go back to Google, and got the same pitch again. After a while he got really annoyed and simply closed down the browser, after me assuring him he didn’t have to buy to leave the page.
If that’s how you want to get customers, then go ahead and buy a VSA. Don’t be surprised by the large number of charge-backs and refund-requests when people figure out what happened though…
If you prefer people buying because they want and need your product, just forget you ever heard about the VSA’s - they’re not worth it.
My dad’s opinion? “If that thing was real I’d give it a head-butt“.
Take care.
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Thursday, December 6th, 2007
I received a very annoying mail today …
Today I have good deal for you today.
I prepared 6 Private Label Rights for $6.17 each
You can instantly and effortlessly have six profitable online
businesses you can stick your name on …and have these businesses up
and running by tonight!
Check it out
http://www.xodostore.com/PLR/
The main reason this disturbed me was the fact that i recognised every single book on that page… So I did a quick search on my harddrive, and found them all.
I feel sorry for possible newbies who takes him up on this offer, as every book in that package is from 2005. Yes, you read it right, 2005. I got my packages from PrivateLabelMonthly. Sure, they weren't fresh even when I got them, but this is ridiculous… Talk about recycling!
He wants $37 for this bunch of old plr ebooks, and claims the value of each book is $997.
$997! Can you believe the nerve of this guy?
More like $7 for the bunch of them.
They have no value what so ever since they've been devalued by people selling PLR to them for a buck or two over the last 2 years!
Cody's never been one of my favorites, but this puts him on my blacklist.
I suggest you do the same :)
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Friday, November 30th, 2007
So, I finally managed to get some spare time to read through the whole thing, and there are both negative and positive things to say about this ebook. Most of it is actually positive (yeah, I shocked myself when I just wrote that).
But let's take care of the negative parts first, shall we?
From the salespage:
The Jealously Guarded Secrets Of A Few Very Smart Underground Marketers… Learn Them All & Unleash Your Dreams!
That's not really true. They aren't exactly "secrets", and they aren't exactly "jealously guarded" either. It's true that the techniques aren't something you'd pick up your first month of dabbling with affiliate marketing, but if you know your way around the internet and know where to find the hottest search-trends, you'd figure it out yourself.
Yes. Two of the techniques involve Google Hot Trends. Not very earth-shattering or "jealously guarded". There are a number of products out that names Google Hot Trends as the place to go when trying to determine what you should market next.
The first one involves PPC. If you don't want to spend click-money, that's not for you. The second one involves adsense. If you want a couple of good adsense days til the hot search trend dies off, that's one for you
If you want to make recurring, steady adsense-income, build a content-site. Don't use blogger. I still like the way Alok describes these both techniques, so they made a good read. And technique 2 is very doable. But it won't get you any income in a couple of hours. 'nuff said about that.
Technique #3, called "Underground Niche Profits" - is neither Underground, nor will it make you cash in a couple of hours. It's basic knowledge for anyone doing any type of micro niche marketing. But if you don't do micro niche marketing, and hardly know how to identify a niche, much less a micro niche - this chapter makes for a solid read. But it won't make you quick cash.
Technique #4 involves placement targeting of your adwords campaigns. Anyone with a bit of curiosity and an adwords-account know where to find this. But again, if you don't know your way around adwords, this is a solid read, with step-by-step instructions and some tips on how to make it effective.
Technique #5 is all about piggy-back riding on product launches. Alok tells you where to find info on upcoming launces, how you could steal traffic by registering the right domain name and simply forward the traffic to the real site with your affiliate link. Then there's the blogger-way, the squidoo-way, and again the adwords placement targetting.
So. There you have the recap of what Project Quick Cash is all about. The only negative things I really have to say about it is that
1 - None of the techniques is really a "quick cash"-method. They are fast ways to start generating revenue, yes. But "Quick Cash" they are not.
2 - They aren't "jealously guarded underground secrets". But they are not common knowledge either.
It pleases me to say that this product won't get the "Crap warning" or the "Re-cycled crap"-warning, but it won't get the "Hot Product"-tag either.
I picked up a couple of tweaks that seems to work great so far, so I'm fairly pleased.
Will it be of any use to you? Well, if you read my recaps of each chapter above, and you recongnize and can easily replicate it immediately with success, then it's not for you. If, on the other hand, reading the recaps makes you think "I want to know how to do that" - it's a good product. It's for you.
The price? It says $77 on the salespage at the moment, but if you hit the "back"-button in your browser, you get a $10 discount. Sneaky? Yes. Fair? No. A smart tactic? Hell, yeah!
Now it's up to you to decide. I told you how to get a $10 discount. I'm not going to ask for a refund on this one, even though I do feel uncomfortable about spending $67 on something I only picked up a couple of tweak-tips from, that I only consider "a good read".
Here's my affiliate-link again (you can't blame a man for trying) if you want to check it out.
As always, take pretty much everything you read on a sales page with a large grain of salt.
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Friday, November 30th, 2007
Yes, that time of year … Christmas giveaway time of year
James Reilly and Javed Akram are running their 3rd annual Free Giveaway Event. The 30 days of Christmas. From December 1st (tomorrow!) 2007 to December 30th 2007.
Like the last 2 years this year aims to be even bigger & better than the previous ones. You will receive 100s of exciting gifts from some Top Internet Marketers during this special promotion.
Download Hundreds of Free gifts here!
You knew I was going to promote this one, didn't you? Do me a big favour and go sign up.
The Project Quick Cash review should be up shortly, I just took a break to post this message ;)
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Friday, November 30th, 2007
I just got this one, so hold off your purchase, and I'll post a review later today.
It looks good so far, but I haven't even finished reading the first part yet … 
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