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Thirty Day Challenge: Why Must Traditional Email List Internet Marketers be so Sleazy?
I recently saw Ed Dale teaching thousands of Internet marketing newbies how to use Market Samurai, a paid tool promoted through their free course. Which, it turns out, is another good example of why many free information sources are worth less than they cost.
As their B case video (showing the free alternative that justifies the month-long sales pitch for various products pitched as free help) they used a poorly configured version of SEO for Firefox to make it look worse than what they were trying to sell. The video reviewing SEO for Firefox was given the title of SEO Competition The Old Way, and concluded that for SEO for Firefox
I am sorta hoping that you never have to use this, but if you do, it is there, and it is available.
Thanks for the faux recommendation. Pretty sleazy stuff there Ed Dale. Thumbs down for you.
For anyone who wants to see how SEO for Firefox actually works with all its features enabled, please check out the following video...and compare what you see to what you saw in that other video (while noting that I took half the time to show a much more comprehensive picture of the actual features).
How to Use SEO for Firefox - YouTube
Traffic Power Proprietary and Confidential Information
As reported on Traffic Power Sucks News Page:
I received a little letter from the same lawyer threatening me with a lawsuit if I didn't take "proprietary and confidential information related to Traffic Power's business" off of my website. I called the lawyer and asked him exactly what information he was referring to. He had no idea what I was talking about. This was the guy who signed the letter, and he was clueless. If anyone can find anything at all on this website that could possibly be considered Traffic Power's "proprietary and confidential information", drop me an email at webmaster@trafficpowersucks.com.
How do you sue a person without giving them any specifics? Is anyone reading this into legal policy much? Is that legal?
Eloquent Forum Spamming: a how to...
Step 1: Merchandise - create a product to sell or signup for an affiliate program or 2 if you are in a rush.
Step 2: Distribution Channels - get a long list of forums (like the list located here: http://www.spiffysoft.com/myposter/boards.php)
Step 3: Create a script - categorize your channels and create a script that will spam bomb the same question to a ton of different forums.
Step 4: Signup - create your accounts with a generic name.
Step 5: Post - try the script out. start marketing.
Step 6: Get Busted - ooops, that is not part of the plan. But it happened here
One thing many people miss is that many people who run forums are technically gifted, well socially connected, and know a ton about the web.
It's much easier to spam forums more naturally if you do it on a small scale in small groups. Its even easier to do well longterm if the people who are running the forums like you.
I originally found the reference to this clown move on Threadwatch. Chris from SearchGuild has identified the mystery poster.
One wonders why he did not password protect his page or register his domains via proxy? How long did he expect to get away with this? The same guy created SEO tools and certainly has to expect this to hurt his inbound link popularity...
bragadocchio also threw out a good resource link " How To Ask Questions The Smart Way" in the Cre8asite thread where he busted newsguy.
Overture & MSN Extend Partnership, Google Scholar Search, SEO Secrets
The Ruling Class:
NFFC is the David Beckham of SEO?
Auctions Expert...
knows how to make bank from click fraud, says Google.
While We are Selling...
Google Scholar:
New Google Scholar Search. Andrew Goodman has an interesting post about Google Scholar.
Link Building Info:
Andy Hagans has a new site offering link building tips.
Traffic Power Sinks to New Lows :-(
Web Advertising Info.com : Traffic Power & 1P Launch Fake SEO Forums
Fake SEO Forum?
Probably didn't think people would notice them about a week after they created their absolutely fake forum, but I did. Web-Advertising-Info = complete garbage... Web-Advertising-Info.com
Web-Advertising-Info.com Forum Facts:
Only list two category sources of seo news (one of which being me)
Individually review a bunch of seo websites...as the seo forum categories (not normal)
Say that I cold called them offering SEO services...based on how much time I spend reading books and posting in forums and stuff... I don't have time to cold call people. In fact I have even called a bunch of other SEOs asking if I could refer people to them...and even yesterday refered away a repeat client sell to a friend.
They reviewed both of my sites as two of about 14 categories
Only have categories of sites that have bashed (gave honest feedback out the services of) Traffic Power AND
Give positive reviews of Traffic Power AND 1P
Their forum is premoderated. When someone tried leaving a message they couldn't.
No way that many negative things have been randomly said about me in less than a week in an honest premoderated forum with less than 100 posts.
Can you say scam?
Avoid that forum like the plague.
Traffic Power & Cold Call SEO
A good SEO has enough ideas in their head and enough things to work on to not need to call you. If they are calling you it most likely means that they do not understand the concepts of reverse broadcast networks and they are no good at their job.
I just got a phone call from Traffic Power (read the Traffic Power review).
He saw one of my crap websites from when I first started playing on the web (It is super duper bad). I then told him to try "my other URL." I had him enter my http://www.search-marketing.info into his address bar and then stated if he searched Google or Yahoo! for "search marketing" I would rank #1. If he searched for "search engine marketing" I would be in the top 10 on both.
My favorite part about the Traffic Power website is the link to the clients page has an almost nuclear trifoil type looking symbol and says "you have reached this page in error." Indeed being on the Traffic Power client list is an error.