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Warning: Read what Google says on traffic schemes: Google AdSense Blog!
Where there's hype there's not me! I don't like to flock and I, with my dirty mind, can see / imagine more than meets the untrained eye. Why would such a service be made free by one of the guru internet marketers: John Reese a guy who runs Income.com and MarketingSecrets.com?
A new car was designed and sold here. Nice car and extreme advertising. The advertising created a buying queue of over 50.000 people before it was being out for sale. They sold it and guess what? Troubles started to show up and the mileage was off the charts among other issues.
This teaches us to stand back, let them step on each other, analyze and then take the right decisions based on more than ADVERTISING! Aggresive promotion is meant to sell as much as possible before the real value of the product can be figured out. And there are people who would go after anything free! Where there's 3 there's doubt!
It's easy. You show the ad once and one other blog shows you ad once. So it's like impression for impression. It's a matter of actually loading the script. Nothing said about clicks. No clicks included policy. And this is where the EVIAN consumers are separated from the rest.
Real marketers like John Chow know it's all a matter of impressions. So if you take a look on his page and work that scroll you'll eventually find the little BlogRush widget. It's deep … deep down! But others figured this trick out too according to John Chow's BlogRush stats! Extremely low click-through rate and huge impression count.
On the other hand check this WhiteSeo.biz blog and NowSourcing.com (random finds). You can actually see the widget on the main page without scrolling. And I'm not discussing here about your display and resolution.
So we have the wise guys who know how to hide it and the white hat guys who do trust others and who will place it on top on one side column. And there's more of those who will place it in broad daylight. This is a mistake! The design of the widget is catchy and will tempt people to click if they see it right away.
They even have an affiliate system so if you refer others you get extra impressions. So they will get a lot of publishers!
The impressions system is also exploitable. Referer spamming the JavaScript from proxies?:) Dunno …
I don't state this is what he does but this is what I would do. I always believe that anything has a reason and any action has a purpose. Nothing is actually free. And BlogRush.com may not be a scam …
If I put out a widget like this I would let it run for a bit. Then I would check the statistics and see which sites generated most clicks. I would make note of those sites and here comes the tricky part. If a site sends a lot of traffic then it's 99% certain that the widget is above the page fold.
If I know some sites send traffic what if I put in the system some sites I made especially for this. Some apparent blogs that would actually convert traffic for me. Many of them! So let's say I borrow 10% of the traffic. Nobody will notice as I can find out where the owner of the site logs in from and a blog looking site would pass any common sense checkups. The traffic is supposed to be shared by blogs.
What if I could guess the theme of the site sending in traffic??? I could send the 10% to sites related and on topic and I would definetly sell. Potential is huge and if you feel like giving up free sales … great.
So what if I'm tricked into sending free traffic. I do get some traffic!
My question for you is : Do you enjoy working for free? If you do contact me. If you like to build traffic to your site and loose visits thanks to the widget … it's your choice.
Disclaimer:This article was written just as a warning. It may not be accurate. It may be even wrong. It's a personal opinion and feel free to disagree. But do learn one thing from this: Don't always go for free as you will eventually pay in this life or the next, whether you know / like it or not!
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