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Network Marketing Downline Scam

Ok, it’s not a scam but it seems that when you mention the word SCAM the whole world and their uncle come to fetch the scandal.

It’s something to do with preying on people’s fears. The advertising companies and especially those in government know that FEAR grabs attention - that’s why they keep doing it.

So, now that I’ve got your eye…

I received a question yesterday from a subscriber of mine

I have received notifications of signups being place below me in [NAME OF NETWORK MARKETING COMPANY WITHELD]. Do these go in my downline and do I get paid for them?

Here’s my answer:

Sending notifications of signups is a common strategy of Network marketing companies to give you the idea that your business is actually growing and that all you need to do is get on board to cash in.

I cannot speak for all such companies but everyone I have been involved with - without exception - will not pay you for indirect downline members alone. You DO NOT get paid anything worth talking about until you actually recruit your own people .

There is nothing unethical in sending you posts about new members in your downline. They ARE being placed in your downline team - and many times you do benefit from those members - BUT you MUST bring in your own members, if you are going to make it in network marketing.

For instance I am a member of Success University. I have 100s of members in one leg of my team placed by those above me. This is known as spillover. I don’t earn a cent though until I qualify for commissions by personally referring TWO full paying members.

Do I get email stating how many members are placed below me? Sure I do! I get them whether they are going to benefit me financially or not.

I am still a big fan of SU, because they supply me with a great product in the form of audio classes that I would pay a fortune for otherwise. Also because I OWN my business - meaning I don’t rely on anyone else to build it for me - I do well with the Success Universitys’ compensation plan.

So, if joining an network marketing program you had better do so in the full knowlegde that you are going to have to do some recruiting of your own.

Don’t depend on your upline, sideline or backline to make your money for you. Take responsibility for your business and your business will soon take care of you.

Sorry! But that’s the truth of it.

Tags: network marketing, online scams, network marketing reviews, success university

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Dominating Google with SEO and Social Bookmarking

I am currently holding three page one positions on Google for a series of posts I made about the new release of Who Loves Money. After just over a week, since the release of ‘Who Loves Money’ I think that is good going.

I achieved the top Google spot for Dayjob Killer, which I sill hold at the time of writing, when it was released a few weeks ago.

This is really powerful stuff and believe it or not it isn’t rocket science to getting top positions like this on Google.

You can check my positions here. They may have changed though by the time you read this post. So, I have captured the positions today with Snagit image capture software:

Freeadvertz.com is my domain and is number one for the term as I write this.

As you may have noticed from my previous blog postings I don’t believe in holding anything back so I won’t this time either.

The explosive combination for achieving top rankings on Google is Blog - Article Submission - Social Bookmarking.

Blogging -

First of all you make a relevant post to your blog for the keywords you are targeting. Don’t overdo it though with the keywords and put plenty of similar keyword phrases in there too. For instance if you were writing about ‘Search Engine Marketing’ you would mention ‘Search Engine Optimization‘, ‘SEO’, ‘Search Engine Ranking’ etc etc. Do not use the same keyword phrases more than a couple of times if possible.

Article Submission -

Then submit an article to the top Article databases linking from your resource box to your blog post on this particular keyword phrase. For example I linked to my ‘Who Loves Money’ blog post, using this exact phrase, from my article byline. You get two links from your resource box so you could also put ‘Who Loves Money Review’ in there as well. I use Keyword Elite to get ahead with grabbing the best keyword phrases for my different campaigns.

You can get a complete list of the article database below:
Article Submission Sites

Social Bookmarking -

I use Anthony Ellis’ Auto Social Poster to automate the process of submitting every blog post I make to the top social bookmark sites. I also manually submit to Digg, Technorati and Stumble Upon. You can see from the above images that my Digg post on ‘Who Loves Money’ has reached the top page on Google.

You could also use Onlywire submit your posts to the top social networking sites. Auto Social Poster is much more effective and automated - Onlywire is FREE!

Apply this simple strategy to every new IM product that comes out and watch the dosh roll in!

That’s it! Simple really !

Here’s a few pointers too:

You MUST regularly update your blogs to get the most from this process.

If you have a number of blogs you should post to them as regularly as you can PLUS link each blog to the other, only if they are in the same niche. The above SEO strategy isn’t going to work for you unless you have a blog that you have been submitting to regularly.

This is even more powerful for those blogs that are in niches with little competition. Can you see how powerful it could be to transfer your Internet marketing knowledge to those markets where the majority don’t have a clue what they are doing - niche markets?

As you can see too, I ‘bold’ the keyword phrases in my blog posts. This is another helpful tip and very effective when going after the top spots.

Obviously blogging from domains that have been around for a while and that are already getting traffic is going to work better than a new domain. You have to start somewhere though, so make a start today!

Please don’t forget to leave your comments and your own tips.

Tags: seo, search engine optimization, top google ranking, social bookmarking, blogging, top search engine positioning, article marketing

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Adding Unique Blog Content Does the Trick

It doesn’t take a genius to realise that the more targeted traffic you drive to any site then more opportunities you have to make a sale.

I’ve been seeing an increasing number of visitors coming to those blogs that I actually take the time to update with unique content.

This reconfirms what I have been saying over this past few months that UNIQUE content carries a lot more weight with the major search engines than rehashed content. It’s much simpler to copy and paste articles from article databases to your blog but this strategy is no way near as effective as putting in the extra effort that come with writing your own stuff.

In fact, you don’t even have to write it yourself. Invest some of your earnings in a good copywriter who will write your blog content for you.

I have someone at the minute writing unique articles for one of my niche sites for $3 each. The average is around $10. For $3 you may get crappy writing but I touched lucky for someone who does offer a good standard of writing for a very low price.

There is absolutely no excuse for not getting traffic to your sites. Add regular content to your blog and the traffic will come. When you are actually getting traffic to your site or blog then there will be opportunities to monetise these assets.

1000s are already making money with their blogs and the longer the net continues the more ways to earn a living arise.

The post I wrote yesterday examines a way that you can make money by adding reviews to your blog.

Get started firstly - then look at those income generating methods. Whatever you do make a start!

Tags: make money online, make money blogging, blogs, earn money online

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Making Money Blogging
I just signed up for a new company today to help add some revenue to my various blogs.

The site is called Review Me and basically pays blogger for adding reviews of products to their blogs. Great business concept! I thought so anyhow and that’s why I signed up.

I figure I need regular content and if I can get it through writing reviews of products PLUS get paid for it then that has to be a no brainer.

If you own a blog and want to increase your revenue then check it out below:
Get Reviewed At ReviewMe!

Have fun writing blog reviews!

Tags: make money with blogs, blog reviews, review me, blog income, blog revenue

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