Entries from November 2009 ↓

This is becoming boringly repetitious, but I do have to review these programs just to warn people against the unscrupulous vendors of nonsense like the Google Wealth Connection.

Here’s another newspaper style webpage along the lines of Google Home Affiliate and Google Profusion.

If you find this page yourself your local town will be at the head of the paper – mine is Maidenhead in this case.

Click the link to Google Wealth Connection in the ‘Steps To Work At Home For Google’ and you end up on yet another signup page for the Internet Home Business Kit.

It’s the same old thing all over again – pay only a dollar and a few cents for shipping, they say. But what they don’t tell you is your credit card will also be charged with the first month’s ‘membership’.

You’d think that Google would have pursued these people for misuse of their trademark by now? Maybe they’re having a hard time tracking these sites down (oh, really,they’re a Search Engine aren’t they?).

I can hardly believe it. Only a few days after I posted about the Google Profusion scam along comes another variation – The Google Home Affiliate Program.

This time the webpage looks different. It’s not a blog, it’s made out to be a newspaper column complete with bogus ‘Windsor and Maidenhead Career Digest’ title:

The ‘newspaper’ reports that ‘Sarah, a college drop-out’ has a current income ‘around £5,648 a month’.

This is all very attractive but click through the link for The Google Home Affiliate Program and you’re back at the signup page for the Google Profusion Internet Home Business Kit!

And, just like the fake blog entries on youronlinesuccessblogs.com, the comments below the article lead you to believe others are having the same success – yes, they are faked too!

Look, don’t get taken in by this nonsense. The evidence from other people who’ve handed over their credit card details for the ‘$1.98 shipping fee’ is that the first month’s subscription of ‘$79.90′  is taken at the same time.

If you’re really interested in earning money as an affiliate, and it is possible to earn this sort of money if you receive the right training, then I suggest you click here to see all about Wealthy Affiliate University (which I can vouch for because I am a long term member).

And if you already know a little bit about affiliate marketing and really want to earn from posting ads on Google, Yahoo and MSN then take the $1 trial for PPC Classroom below (yes, I’ve followed this course myself too). In this case you will only be charged $1, not a cent more, unlike The Google Home Affiliate System!

Question: What is the fastest way to get traffic to your website?

Answer: PayPerClick advertising (e.g. Google Adwords)

Question: What is the fastest way to lose money in Internet Marketing?

Answer: PayPerClick advertising!

Trust me, if you don’t know much about PayPerClick (PPC) advertising then don’t go there. I did and got burnt.

That was before I joined PPC Classroom around a year ago. There I discovered more about PPC advertising than I knew existed. And the simple tutorial method put me on the right track to making money using PPC.

Today you can join PPC Classroom3, the latest version of this online tutorial system to making profits from Google Adwords and other PPC systems, for only $1.

Go ahead. Take the full course over the next 14 days for just $1. If you decide it’s not for you then cancel your membership. But I think you’ll like what you see.

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I’ve just found a scam called Google Profusion that has been catching people out all over the internet, so much so that I feel it needs to be uncovered here.

I found an online ad, while downloading from Mediafire, about earning from home by posting Google links. I don’t normally respond to these things but some idle curiosity made me click on it while my file downloaded.

What came up was a blog called ‘youronlinesuccessblogs.com’ which seemed to be written by Emily Rosher with a nice photo of her latest check from Google at the top of the page and another photo of her and her family to the side.

This blog post is very persuasive along the lines of

Emily Rosher’s success story takes the cake for our success story for the month of September! Learn how she gets paid £5 to £30 for every website link that she posts on Google. She accomplished this through working from home 4-8 hours per week on her personal computer. Read her inspirational survival story below:

She explains how, using something called the ‘Internet Home Business Kit’, she was able to pay off £37,500 ($50,000) of debt and now makes a full-time living from home.

What’s more, if you want to copy her success, you can have the ‘Internet Home Business Kit’ sent to you for just the cost of shipping!

Below the blog post were a host of comments from apparently delighted users who were thanking her for putting them in touch with this money-making opportunity.

Just to see what I could uncover about this ‘free’ system I did a little website search in Google to see what other pages were on the blog. This one turned up seemingly written by Sharon Tan:

Sharon Tan’s success story takes the cake for our success story for the month of September! Learn how she gets paid $7 to $40 for every website link that she posts on Google. She accomplished this through working from home 4-8 hours per week on her personal computer. Read her inspirational survival story below:

I smelt a scam!

In fact the post was 95% percent identical to the Emily Rosher wording, only the previous employer and earning figures were changed. Even the comments were the same!

I clicked through to the ‘Internet Home Business Kit’ to find a page from Google Profusion with more claims about massive earnings from CPA and Adwords.

So I then did a search on Google Profusion. A little bit of research dug up claims that were markedly different from the comments on the blogs. According to one user he filled out the application form with his address and credit card details for the cost of shipping the ‘free kit’ and was surprised to find his card debited for an extra $59.95 for the first month’s ‘membership’.

There have been a myriad of complaints about Google Profusion and Profit Profusion. This seems to be a recurring post on various forums, including Google’s own – see http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Google+Apps/thread?tid=421476d1f7d77382&hl=en

Keep well away from this one!