Reviewer: Joshua
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Website Reviewed: Wild SEO

Wild SEO is a well organized membership catering SEO that provides tactics for increasing site traffic.  Created by Ben Cooper and Chris Wilson, two ill fated computer geeks with big ideas and bigger egos, the information they present is in a step by step format, with great detail given to the methodology behind the tactics that will dramatically increase your rankings in the search engines.

What You’ll Get

For a one time fee of $49.99 – currently listed as reduced from $97.00 – you will receive 3 eBooks entitled “The Quickstart Guide To SEO Mastery…”, “Advanced SEO Bootcamp” and the “Raw Source Report,” in addition, you will automatically receive every ebook and report that Wild SEO publishes in the future, as well as having the security of knowing that any changes to search engine algorithms and rules will be reflected in follow-up program updates.

Is the program useful?  It depends on your intention.  If you plan to design and build your own websites, are inexperienced in the field of search engine optimization, and need training from the ground up on how to accomplish your goals in listing as well as building your websites, this may well be the program for you.  If you are new to the affiliate marketing field itself, and are just seeking out all of the relevant information that you can get, purchase of Wild SEO is not recommended as the program content is technical and too in depth for the new affiliate marketer just interested in picking up info on all aspects of the business.

If now established that this is the program for you, you’ve made a wise choice.  Wild SEO is excellent at explaining every detail of even the simplest tactics that are often overlooked and can result in dramatic traffic increases to your sites and bring you to the top of the general search listings.  The data given in the program is both complex in details and basic in fundamentals, in that not only the tactics are explained, but great attention is also given to making you understand how the algorithms of the search engines are set, so you can take the information you learn from Wild SEO and adapt it to facilitate domination of the search engines on all of your sites.

One of the most satisfying aspects of Wild SEO is that it provides multiple tactics which will yield results in your search terms page rankings within 48 hours of implementation.  Furthermore, Wild SEO illustrates how their methods not only provide immediate results, but also maintain your ranking over the long term.

In addition, the continual updates to the members only companion forum ensure that all information regarding site optimization is current in technology and search engine restrictions.

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Possible Drawbacks

The information presented in Wild SEO is technical and intense, therefore generally too complicated for the newbie to affiliate marketing.

The Recommendation

Wild SEO is highly recommended for the experienced affiliate marketer who intends to design and build his own website but has little or no experience in the tactics to expand search engine optimization.

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Guys over at startacellphonebusiness.com just launched a great new product that has high conversion rates. They are also paying a whopping 70% commission. I personally was able to read the e-book and I was impressed by what I had learned. I once thought about opening a cell phone business myself, but didn’t know where to start. I browsed the internet but I found no comprehensive guide like this. Anyway, it’s always good to jump on the band wagon early while there is little competition. For more information on how to join there affiliate program, go here http://startacellphonebusiness.com/affiliates/

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Website Reviewed: Rich Jerk

The Rich Jerk is Kelly Felix’s ebook on accumulating internet wealth that has been the source of much controversy.  Reviews of the product vary wildly, depending on the affiliate marketing experience level of the reviewer, as well as the reviewers personal morality level.  The Rich Jerk is just that.  No lie.  His obnoxious delivery and blatant promotion of unethical practices all in the name of chasing a dollar, or in his case millions of them, really turns away a lot of potential sales of his own product.  But he’s not crying.  Advanced affiliate marketers who have purchased his program have verified that all of his ideas and practices are legal, and have conceded that most are very innovative and successful, and a few of them are not even unethical.  But most are.  You have to possess the “get rich at any cost” mentality to benefit from the Rich Jerk.

What You’ll Get

For a one time fee of $9.95 – that’s not a typo – you will receive one free money making website, instructions on how to make money from the free website, instructions on how to sell products for companies that pay large commissions, instructions on how to create your own eBay business, a complete list of the websites that have made Kelly Felix the Rich Jerk he is, free updates and 24 hour support for life, and access to The Rich Jerk private members forum.

For those of us who do not have quite the stomach for the cut-throat nature of most of the Rich Jerk program, there are portions which contain valuable, and palatable, information.  For example, Kelly Felix lists his own wholesalers and drop shippers which he recommends as trusted resources for running an internet based business.  Not very convincing when the Rich Jerk program author was in cognito, and it was widely believed that he was actually a fictional person.  Now that his identity and credentials have been verified and exposed all through the media, relying on his personal resources is a more plausible request.  Keep in mind, the recommended resources are not subsidiaries of The Rich Jerk, therefore you will likely not have to deal with “The Drop Shipper Jerk” or “The Wholesaler Jerk” just because Kelly Felix has recommended the company.  The recommendations are for legitimate resources who have admirable business practices.
The Rich Jerk also advises on how to protect yourself from technological scam artists, which is valuable information.  Also notable, The Rich Jerk describes many innovative tactics for search engine optimization strategies, which the expert affiliate marketers are agreeing are impressive money making techniques.

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Potential Drawbacks

There is monetary risk involved in the use of Rich Jerk’s tactics.  These, again, are not avenues for the novice affiliate marketer or someone who is not willing to spend money with no guarantee of return.  Not necessarily lots of money, but for example you should be willing to pay website registration fees for six months on a particular site that you may find is not working for you.  You’d be out a few hundred dollars.  Too much money?  Don’t buy this program.

The Recommendation

The Rich Jerk, although unethical in many respects, does provide skillful marketing tool implements which are profitable in the online marketplace.  With eyes open to the callous nature of many of the programs tactics, this system is recommended for those who have the ruthless business nature to implement any means necessary to generate revenue.

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Website Reviewed: WorldWide Brands

The WorldWide Brands database is a fantastic membership only resource for people who are searching for products to sell for profit over the internet.
 
What You’ll Get

For a one time fee of $299, you become a member with lifetime access to WorldWide Brands database which includes over 8000 premium drop shippers and wholesale suppliers with access to over 8 million products.  The user will also have access to instant market and pricing research which is to be used to confirm the profitability of the products he has already researched. 

And this is where many consumers who have purchased the WorldWide Brands program fail. 

The program is designed to alleviate the frustration and wasted time associated with the typical trial and error method of coordinating drop shipper and wholesale companies to do business with.   WorldWide Brands provides lists of reputable wholesale drop shippers and wholesalers whom you would then contact to form a business relationship.  The process from there is between you and the drop shipper or wholesaler.  WorldWide Brands makes no claims regarding the policies of their listed companies other than the fact that the drop shippers and wholesalers listed work with small businesses.  They can’t make any other promises.  The companies listed are independent companies.  What WorldWide Brands does do is save you countless hours of aggravation in dealing with unreliable or fraudulent drop ship companies, or product supplier that only sell in bulk quantities, and there are plenty of these companies out there to keep you busy.

WorldWide Brands’s primary focus is to provide these lists to its members.  Another benefit they have added to their program, likely in response to oceans of complaints that the drop shippers do not stock the most popular brands, is education and business advice regarding conducting market research to determine the most profitable products to resell.  Note that this is an add-on feature to WorldWide Brands’s original marketing plan, and not the primary function of the company.  Therefore, we highly recommend that the purchaser of the WorldWide Brands program also invest in other in-depth training programs that will explain the background rationale for decision making in product selection.

WorldWide Brands accurately claims  that their drop shippers and wholesalers provide products that provide the most profit.   The large name brands will not work with small scale retailers, therefore they are not on WorldWide Brands’s lists.  It is up to the user to do the research and make the selection of which products he wants to list for sale, either through websites like Ebay or through his own website.  When the purchaser of the WorldWide Brands program receives an order for one of his products, he contacts the drop shipper of his choice from the WorldWide Brands list, the drop shipper will then package and ship the product to the user’s customer from the DS warehouse, only charging the user of the WorldWide Brands system the wholesale price for the product.  

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Potential Drawbacks

WorldWide Brands does not provide instruction on setting up websites or nor does it teach users how to create listings that will bring your ad to the top of a general search request.  While this is not a fault with the product, since WorldWide Brands does not claim to be this type of product, nonetheless many consumers’ complaints have arisen regarding WorldWide Brands which are based on disappointments resulting from poor sales or lack of brand names on the drop shippers’ product lists. 

The Recommendation

For the user who understands what service he is actually purchasing, WorldWide Brands is very good at what they do, delivering on what they promise to consumers and is, therefore, highly recommended. 

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Reviewer: Joshua
Rating: (For the novice to intermediate affiliate marketer)
Website Reviewed: Super Affiliate Handbook

Perhaps the most refreshing thing about visiting the Super Affiliate Handbook website is in it’s plain language delivery by Rosalind Gardner.  Obviously a master at marketing through and through, Ms. Gardner immediately has our attention by declaring that she has made her fortune with no business experience whatsoever.  We are all used to these types of catch lines, but this entire site is comprised of simple explanations and honest testimonials that don’t intimidate those new to the program with technical jargon and don’t dissuade the skeptical with lots of short phrases and exclamation points.

What You’ll Get

For a fee of $47, the purchaser of the Super Affiliate Handbook will receive a downloadable version of the program via internet, future program updates, members only discounts on telephone consultation services and access to the Super Affiliate Handbook companion website and blog.  In addition, the program comes with an 80 day money back guarantee, if not completely satisfied.

Rosalind Gardner, a former air traffic controller, starts at the very beginning with the basics of an online business and affiliate marketing.  She explains all industry terms in depth, and gives reasons behind the information she provides, giving the reader the ability to take her knowledge and apply it in areas that she does not cover in her program.  This is invaluable, and not done often enough in affiliate marketer tutorials. 

The Super Affilliate Handbook focuses heavily on researching internet products for effectiveness and profitability before becoming an affiliate marketer.  Rosalind Gardner believes strongly in promoting products that you believe in.  While many affiliate marketers are not so emotionally selective in their online product choices, there are still enormously useful research tools in her descriptions that will translate into profit dollars for the affiliate marketer who uses the techniques. 

Lessons in the Super Affilliate Handbook are constructed in simple step by step instructional formats, and include explanations of all industry terms.   Rosalind Gardner also points out the pitfalls of the industry to avoid wasting time and money.

Potential Drawbacks

While simplification of all other aspects of the program are advantageous, where simplicity is a disadvantage is in the section of the Super Affilliate Handbook regarding promotion.  Traffic generation is obviously the backbone of any affiliate marketing plan, and this topic is sorely thin in this tutorial, which is surprising considering the extensive descriptions, background information and reasoning provided on all other topics.   This chapter leaves the student with only cursory knowledge of promotion, and no basic knowledge with which to develop his own promotion and traffic generation plan.  Keep in mind that there is telephone consultation available to all Handbook owners, but at an hourly fee.

The Recommendation

Overall the Super Affilliate Handbook is an excellent resource for the novice to intermediate affiliate marketer, providing in depth knowledge of not only “how” but also “why” in the way the industry is geared for success.  For a seasoned affiliate marketer, there will also be informative portions of the program, as there is always something to be learned, but most of what is covered will already be second nature.  Therefore, the Super Affilliate Handbook is highly recommended for the affiliate marketer who is still relatively new to the industry, but not for the advanced affiliate marketer.

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Popularity: 11% [?]

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Rating:  (Worth Every Penny)
Website Reviewed: Traffic Secrets 2

Noted affiliate marketing guru, John Reese, has launched his follow-up to his widely successful Traffic Secrets internet marketing plan, which revolutionized the affiliate marketing industry, with Traffic Secrets 2.

What You’ll Get
 
For a one time fee of $397, the aspiring affiliate marketer will receive the Traffic Secrets 2.0 12 CD-Rom set, a 377-page Training Guide, a Workbook, Reese’s famous Blueprint handouts and free access to private coaching, the Traffic Secrets online affiliate community website, and all future course updates for life.

The CD-Rom set is interactive, each one providing instruction and utilization techniques which are not updated from Traffic Secrets 1, but rather is a completely new program with current, innovative marketing strategies.

John Reese openly states on his promo website that advances in the market in the last four years have prompted him to completely revamp his program.  Market and technological progressions covered in the Traffic Secrets 2 program include social media marketing, video marketing, and search engine ‘backdoors’ among several others.

Traffic Secrets 2 masterfully incorporates all of the basic “must have” knowledge platforms necessary to start out in the affiliate marketing business.  In addition, the program details the current trends in link building and innovations in site architecture, providing a true affiliate marketing course, rather than just an online wealth advancement program.  Here are a few of the highlights:

The Foundation CD is very helpful in saving you time, especially if new to the affiliate marketing venue, in developing and implementing traffic strategies that will sustain a long term business.

Reese’s approach to Market Discovery, as illustrated on CD2, actually shows you how to determine the unique characteristics if your target market and how this translates into site traffic, rather than just giving you a generic technique for increasing traffic.

And the Content Factory CD will teach you the techniques and methods behind generating a consistent and long term traffic flow.  Traffic Secrets 2’s focus is on generation of valuable leads that will produce end results, rather than lots of cursory traffic that will mathematically result in a certain percentage of sales. 

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Potential Drawbacks

This is not a get rich quick plan.  It takes a serious time commitment to comprehensively go through the entire course, and you will need to do this if you want the program to be effective for you.  Therefore, this program is best suited for users who already have a product and a website. 
Oddly, the Traffic Secrets 2 Workbook is not very useful, as it is really generic and is just a task manager.
The Recommendation

Overall, the Traffic Secrets 2 program is extremely satisfying in that it spends it’s (and your) time teaching you how to make money, rather than being filled with tons of testimonials of people who have already made money.  This program understands that we don’t need to be sold, we’ve already bought it, and it cuts to the chase.   The information contained is innovative and up to date, and organized so it can be easily followed by the novice and easily scanned by the experienced affiliate marketer.

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For the person who creates the affiliate marketing program, also known as the merchant, and the affiliate, who is the person promoting the products, an affiliate marketing program provides a means for merchants to sell products without having to invest in the purchase and stocking of actual products.  The merchant, in an affiliate marketing program, supplies the affiliates with products to promote, and affiliate is paid a commission on any of the products he sells.  Avon, Mary Kay and Tupperware are good examples of well known affiliate marketing programs.

The primary focus of the affiliate is now to build as much traffic to the website as possible, implementing marketing materials and techniques that may or may not be supplied by the affiliate marketing network.  There are as many techniques to promoting products as there are products to promote, and to speak in depth on any of them here would take hours.  Below is a short list of ways to help you secure financial success as an affiliate marketer:

The real first step in affiliate marketing is to obtain training in the terminology, techniques and methods of promoting products in an online forum.  There are many affiliate marketing training programs available online, and the program you select will be instrumental in helping you select companion training programs to ensure that you possess all of the background knowledge you will need to successfully bring qualified customers to the website.

Establishing a website that satisfies the search engine algorithms for keyword hits will bring your website up at the top of the list of results when an interested consumer types a keyword of your site into a search engine such as Google.

By continually being at the top of the results list for general searches on multiple keywords, you increase the amount of traffic at your website, resulting in more product revenue.

By including an opt-in page on your website, you will establish a email based mailing list of interested consumers whom you can then periodically check in with  with special offers or additional product recommendations for additional sales commissions.

Establishing backlinks from companion websites or article messageboard forums will create a working relationship with other sites where they will install a hyperlink from their site to yours in a reciprocal fashion, increasing the lists for both of your websites.

Pay Per Click advertising, or PPC, is a method by which you increase traffic to your own website by purchasing advertising space within other related websites.  In exchange for a site ad on their website you pay the web host a fee every time an interested consumer clicks onto your website ad for more information.  Basically, you are purchasing advertising space on another site.  The targeting of a specific market sector is  an important factor in PPC advertising and Google Adwords, Yahoo Search Marketing, and MSN Adcenter are the most widely used  PPC forums.  These search engines are advanced to recognize very narrow fields of your target market, based on how your website is constructed, and have the ability to deliver product information to a small niche of your market sector, dramatically improving the revenue generating results of your site traffic.

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The single most important aspect of most consumers’ decision to make a purchase of any product or service is in the level of confidence they have in the company they are purchasing from.  Especially in the case of purchasing a service, rather than product, the customer wants to know that they can rely on the company to be there for support, answer questions, provide follow up services, and resolve any problems, should they arise.  This all amounts to trust.  In the vast world of internet marketing, there always seems to be another producer of whatever it is you are interested in buying.  Therefore, liking and trusting the company and people you are dealing with becomes a large part of the decision to make a purchase.

Compound the simple issues of trust with the vast amount of internet based scams out there, and the online marketing professional really has an uphill battle on his hands.  It’s becoming increasingly difficult to convince online consumers that all internet based companies are not out to take advantage of them.  Where the past promises of money back guarantees used to alleviate much of the tension of making purchases “sight unseen”, the advent of ghost companies and false P.O. Box addresses for returns has brought the anxiety of the back alley marketplace to the forefront of internet marketing.

Using photographs of real people on your site will make a connection between your clientele and your staff.  We can all tell when the “staff” photo on the landing page is really a set of paid models and when it is actually the staff of the company.  This builds trust.  It also builds a personal connection when your staff members are dealing with your clients, and you clients can put a face to the voice at the other end of the line.  Having a face to identify with even makes the email transactions more personable.

If you have a building where your business is located, a photo of your building on the website also promotes a sense of stability and permanence, which is another pitfall of the come and go nature of internet commerce that marketers must overcome.

If you have photos of your product, that will go a long way also.  If you specialize in kitchen remodeling, you would be making a grave mistake to not have before and after photos on your site.   Similarly, the person ordering the taillight for their mustang wants to know that it matches the other one, and photos are again imperative in securing the feeling of the right product in the customer’s mind.

Be sure to include a customer privacy statement on your website when asking for email or other personal information.  Similarly, reassure your customers by being sure to include all of your company’s contact information, including a mailing address and phone number.  If at all possible, including the name of a person to contact at your company at the website will also instantly instill a feeling of security with your new clients.

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Backlinks, or incoming links, are a lucrative way for your website to generate additional traffic through companion websites of similar or complimentary products.  By use of a backlink, another website will direct its visitors to yours to view your products in conjunction with theirs, and the reverse as this type of marketing is typically based on a reciprocal relationship with another company.

There are some relatively easy ways to increase your site backlinks instantly:

Forums

Using forums to create backlinks is a great way to generate one way site traffic, that is, prompting visitors to link to your site without your having to reciprocate to another.  This method not only generates additional site traffic directly from the forum, but also increases your listing with the search engines with every link, thereby compounding your traffic by bringing your site closer to the top of a general search result.  The forum method of creating backlinks is most profitable when accompanied by related articles outlining the benefits of the backlinked site.  

Blogs

By posting blogs on a message board related to your product, you have the opportunity to promote yourself and provide a link back to your own site.  Be sure the blog site is of the same nature as your website, so you are attracting those that are already interested in your marketed item.  The most successful blogs appear to be concerned with resolving a common issue on the blog site, rather than shamlessly plugging their own product or service.

Social Bookmarking

Social bookmarking sites categorize web user posts for easy access by other visitors.  By posting your website on a social bookmarking site, you are precategorizing your visitor base to those who are already interested in what you are trying to promote.  Most social bookmarking sites also contain user blogs which will help to advance the site traffic of the most popular links.  Posting your own blogs to these sites will increase the ranking of your backlink and help to increase site traffic.

Article Directories

By writing and posting useful articles related to your business on an article directory site, you gain the advantage of additional market exposure and becoming known as an expert in your field, and have the opportunity to direct readers from the article directory site to your own site for further details of your product.  Again, this is not the forum for shameless plugging of your product.  A more reliable method is to post several articles relaying your knowledge of the topic and including a link to your site at the end of the article for additional information.

Regular Link Directories

Website owners who submit their links to regular link directories typically pay a fee to use the site if the link is not reciprocal.  As increasing numbers of spam generating sites are forcing the regular link directories to enact certain restrictions for use in the marketplace, when posting a non reciprocal link most regular link directories are requiring submission of website links for approval prior to posting.

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Website Reviewed: Yahoo Cash 4 Idiots

Promoting itself as an absolutely foolproof method to capitalize on a cost per click glitch, Yahoo Cash 4 Idiots promises a yield potential of over 300% over Adwords and at less than 50% of the cost per click.

What You’ll Get

For the cost of $77, you will receive Yahoo cash 4 idiots contains an e book (125 pages) and 3 videos (about an hour combined).  The program website warns that it is only launching 300 copies of the program every 3 months in an effort to maintain its level of customer service to its consumers.  Very admirable in today’s marketing climate. The program also promises a 100% money back guarantee if not satisfied.

The first few chapters of the ebook cover the basics, in detail, of setting up accounts with Yahoo Search Marketing.  This information is vital even to the experienced affiliate marketer who has previously only worked with Adwords, as there are lots of differences between Adwords and YSM, all culminating to the fact that YSM is user friendly to the affiliate marketer.  Yahoo Cash 4 Idiots illustrates the Yahoo glitch that, and guaranteed conversions.
 
Providing simple step by step instructions on how to implement Yahoo Paid Search techniques, Yahoo Cash 4 Idiots gives its users inside information on how to guarantee conversion with a major search agent who is not continually implementing roadblocks to thwart the efforts of affiliate marketers.  This will lead you to very profitable campaigns quickly by lowering the cost of advertising and eliminating the costly Adwords required testing phase. While Google may still be the most widely used search engine, this is of no use to affiliate marketers whose clicks never convert and therefore never produce a sale. 

This program also does a reasonable good job of illustrating how to research key phrases and write an ad campaign to target your market.  Through proper site set up, your ads will reach more qualified consumers who are genuinely interested in the products you are promoting.  Again, the focus with Yahoo Cash 4 Idiots is on quality of clicks, rather than quantity.

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Potential Drawbacks

Yahoo Cash 4 Idiots is not very useful for the novice affiliate marketer who is still getting his feet wet in the PPC format of marketing.  The program does not go into the basics of PPC marketing, so if the user is not already experienced with Adwords, and looking for an alternative, there will be holes in the information that will leave him a bit lost.

The real test of whether Yahoo Cash 4 Idiots is going to be a moneymaker is going to be time.  As of right now, the program is basing it’s success on the fact that there is far less competition on Yahoo than on Google, so the PPC list you generate will contain more bonafide leads from your target market.  Conversely, it can be argued that less competition also means less traffic.  The impact of Yahoo Cash 4 Idiots on the marketplace is yet to be seen.

The Recommendation

The internet public’s fascination with Google cannot last forever, but until it wanes, or Yahoo begins being more restrictive, the ability of Yahoo Cash 4 Idiots to more accurately targeting the users niche market at a considerably lower cost per click makes it a strong recommendation. 

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