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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.

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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!

Is Google Adwords the only answer to profitable PPC (Pay Per Click) campaigns? Of course not! In fact, although Google is probably the most used Search Engine, it is also the most difficult to break into.

Of course there are hundreds of marketers making thousands of dollars every day using Google Adwords PPC campaigns. These are guys who have been using Google PPC for years. They’re experienced, they have a system that works well for them, they know which keywords work for them and which don’t.

Do you really want to go head to head with these guys? Do you really think you can break into Google Adwords campaigns with immediate profits? Forget it! There’s just no way you can compete with the big boys as a beginner in PPC.

Or is there? Well, yes, there is a way providing that you steer clear of Google. You see, simply because Google is the biggest used Search Engine it is also the most difficult to break into with PPC.

There are several reasons for this. One, it is the Search Engine that everyone who makes big money with PPC wants to use. Two, it is the Search Engine that people who know what they want go to in order to find the things that they want.

This means that the users of Google are, in general, discriminating buyers. They are the people who are more likely to search thru more than ten websites to find either the best supplier or best deal before they click the Buy Now button.

These are not the ideal buyers to single out for your PPC campaigns. Discriminating buyers = poor conversion ratio, that is unless you have a campaign for a product that has little or no competition!

So just where do you go to find PPC campaigns that will work for you and won’t cost you a fortune to enter? One answer is Yahoo PPC and I’ve shown in a previous post how you can learn how to use Yahoo for instantly profitable PPC campaigns (see Yahoo Cash 4 Idiots).

But recently I’ve been following Rob in Dominate IM to see how he runs profitable marketing through PPC. I’ve been a member of Dominate IM for over six months but I haven’t mentioned it up till now because I’ve been working on the strategies they lay out to see if they work for me.

Rob’s approach to PPC struck a chord with me and I had to follow it up with a few experiments myself. Just like I’ve outlined Rob doesn’t use Google for PPC but he’s found another approach which allows him to copy and paste campaigns straight into profit, and it works!

If you want to find out for yourself how you can copy and paste successful campaigns straight into your own, new, PPC account and start making profits in just a few days you’d better join Dominate IM now and let Rob show you how he does it.

BTW that’s not all Dominate IM teaches you, but I’ll be reporting on more about this no-BS coaching system in later posts.

Could you be a Slumdog eMillionaire?

That’s the question asked by Mo Latif once, on his own admission, a ’slumdog’, now a successful internet marketer. Like he says, internet marketing is easy. The difficulty is in finding out how to be successful at it – become an eSlumdog Millionaire.

So Slumdog eMillionaire breaks the steps to becoming successful into 15 modules. This is easy learning in simple steps. Each module comes with a mindmap, which shows you the steps to take, and a series of blueprints which detail each step and sets out a progress chart.

That way, as you tick off the progress you’re making, you feel you are on the way to getting away from slumdog status. By Module 15 you should be all set to be grabbing sales from your chosen niches.

But what I’d like you to do first is take a look at the salespage for Slumdog eMillionaire – jonathanpaston.com/presents/slumdogemillionaire -  because it is a prime example of how to put together an arresting and persuasive salesletter.

First the headline. It grabs your attention because it tells you what you can hope to achieve by following the ’system’. The opening section of the salesletter then reinforces this, including a ‘proof’ video.

Once into the salesletter proper Latif reveals who has already benefited from his ’system’ and, of course, includes testimonials. By this time you’re feeling ‘it could be me’!

Then he tells you about his Slumdog background – in detail so you can almost see his rags to riches story. Then Latif shows his system, with a series of ticked bullet points. If you’re experienced you can already ‘read’ his system right there!

Finally there’s the call to action – and the guarantee. It’s a real guarantee, backed by Clickbank. And the call to action isn’t just ‘buy here’ – it’s a ‘do this and you’ll succeed’ call; yes you’ll need to do a little work, and go through each module in detail, but the system will get you there, if you promise to follow it.

Take a look. Let me know what you think…

jonathanpaston.com/presents/slumdogemillionaire