The SEO Bozos are getting pretty shifty with unbelievable get rich quick schemes.
If firm's like MerchantCircle or LeapFish can't get you suckered into buying their pumped up SEO service cleverly disguised as nothing more than a stupid directory listing in somebody's portal that less than .000004% of your web customers are ever going to visit -- watch out!
The SEO Bozos are back and they're luring in thousands of people with clever webpages that show you people holding big checks from Google.
The scam, buy their book, or buy their $49 a month service so you can make $10,000 a month from Google with AdSense.
Let's assume for a minute that there was A Google Gold Mine out there for real.
If you found one... WHY would you tell people how to steal your private Gold Mine?
Why not keep the secret to yourself?
This is the big acid test. It's such a great Gold Mine why are you sharing the secret with me for $19.95? Pure stupidity.
It simply defies conventional wisdom and the way people are.
If you look carefully, these are Photoshop'd versions of the same check and 95% of them are several years old, before Google made substantial changes to the program.
While some people are getting checks, they are not like the one above for $132,994.97.
Google PREFERS to deposit to your bank, instead of mailing them. We get paid by Google for traffic to several websites. My average check runs under $1,000 a month but is never mailed to me. It is direct deposited to my account. About what it cost many REALTORS for their monthly desk fees, Top Producer and your $19.95 a month active Rain Website.
The websites to watch out for are all like the ones below;
KevinLifeBlog.com, MarysLifeBlog.com, ScottsMoneyBlog.com and the big scam site: GoogleMoneyTree.com.
GoogleMoneyTree.com was one that the Bartman tried so I could include this in my book or next SEO workshop. I found out they just scam your bank account for a nice recurring fee every month all the while thinking you just paid a one time charge for the report they offer.
But when you buy the report, you never see that very clearly. Which is why there are so many hate mails and death threats to Google Money Tree as a result. You start seeing recurring charges on your PayPal account debiting your bank for the monthly recurring charge and you have no clue how they got access to your bank.
The BBB has hundreds of complaints against these websites, but GoogleMoneyTree.com tops them all.
Other websites like YoogleMoney.com and Google-money-maker.info feature believable people like Kevin Hoeffer or Mary Steadman both from San Jose Califonia who lost their jobs as "boring account temps," and miraculously turned their being laid off into a $5,000 a month or more income by filling out forms for Google.
ScottsMoneyBlog.com is another down to earth and believable website that features Scott Hunter -- another boring account rep for some manufacturing company in New York until he "wised up" and learned how to make mad cash on Google. He even has a recorded message, "How can you go wrong with a company that is publicly traded on the stock market? I knew that as a company Google was solid and the opportunity to make money with them was not BS."
Well it is pure BS and all I had to do was call our former Chief Technical Officer, who has been a full time AdSense employee at Google for three years now. Google does not have any official program like this. Scott's website at the very bottom has teensy text that does in fact disclaim that his Website has no affiliation whatsoever to Google.
ScottsMoneyBlog.com recorded 2.2 million visitors in May 2009 according to Compete.com. This is down 4 million from April, 2009.
The lure of what these companies offer start to get more compelling especially if your last commission or commission advance was a few months ago.
These Get Rich Quick schemes tap into our brains just like the 2 am TV infomercials for Carlton Sheets Make Money in Real Estate program. Carlton might be an okay guy but even Carlton realizes his once $299 real estate program he used to sell a few years ago had a limited life span. Because that same program today sells for under $40 bucks. As real estate agents, nobody on Active Rain is going to buy Carlton's program... We see the Carlton info-mercial and we turn the channel.
Why? Because as REALTORS, we know better. No matter how you package it, Carlton is out there pitching his Get Rich real estate products to the average Joe who hasn't been trained in real estate practice or real estate law. If he wanted to provide education to REALTORS, he could be doing that.. but he isn't.
REALTORS who are just now getting up to speed on how the Internet works might be lured into the spider web of the bozos offering the Get Rich Quick Schemes. Here's what to look out for;
1.) The Google Get Rich Quick sites all look like they were all cloned from the same Monster Template.
2.) My guess is there's one guy named, "Eddie," doing the Blog scam websites and lucky for Eddie, he seems to have no shortage of work here.
3.) Before you buy the book or free report, Google them like this: GoogleMoneyTree.com Complaints.
This is how you find out about the firms so-called claims BEFORE you get hosed after buying their product or service.
There are so many Google Get Rich Quick schemes that Google is having a hard time keeping up with them. They're springing up like weeds. Google is aware of the problems and sources close to me at Google say there are lawsuits brewing for any website that is using the Google brand name. For now, anyone using the word Google in their AdWords ads are starting to get penalized. Many of them are about to become black listed.
GoogleMoneyTree.com was black listed. Try it and see. You won't find GoogleMoneyTree.com at all. Enter that domain name into Google search right now, and you get zero results for the domain itself. You will find 33,000 complaints and information about the site, but you cannot GO to the website anymore.
www.GoogleMoneyTree.com is officially black listed and OFF the air, and the Bartman is celebrating this event as of 10:17 am this morning.
For the REALTORS and brokers I coach -- this is VICTORY.
One LESS SEO Bozo out there to scam your money now.
-- Bart
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