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Internet marketing syndicate vs robot, my money is on the robot!

via Rob Sellen ... by Rob on 14/10/10

Gladly watching you fall!

You may or may not know about or care about the Internet marketing side of things, just to let you know what this post is about … if not, skip it and go write some great articles …  :-)

I do care and I think people should know about this …

I was into it one time, not selling crap, just interested and learning things, but for the last few years it’s made me gag… once this clean up starts taking hold it will be a more appealing niche again.

This Internet marketing (IM) niche really is starting to get interesting… the crap is hitting the fan for those scammers among the niche, don’t get me wrong, not all Internet marketers are scammers, not by a long shot but the scammers ARE getting found out and to many of us it’s always been obvious who the scammers were.

There’s always been good and bad people in every niche, nothing new there, online this niche is one where it stands out, much as it does in the self help one with all their kum-by-yah shitty mumbo jumbo, but what is surprising to those who know nothing about the IM niche, is when they stumble on it and (IF they do their due diligence, keeping money in pockets for now) see the scale of the “success” these baduns suppossedly have… the badduns brag about it often enough!! With the fake pictures and their crappy “pals” testimonials!

So, these people look around then see just how deep the rabbit hole is and who is connected to who, where they hang out and how they do their shit! It’s a jerkfest! And they are supposedly getting rich off it!

Well actually…

No, they aren’t!!

They are liars, they are relying on launches like people rely on wage packets!  The problem is they ruin lives and rip people off, think about it for a minute…

Internet marketing launches equal wages

Yes, they may make some money from promoting their buddies crap, but nothing like the claims they make, think about it, IF they were really making the millions they say, why the fuck do they need to promote more crap constantly?

Because they are breaking even with a wage?

They are continuously feeding more and more gullible newbies into their lists trap in order to pimp crap to them… because they know anyone with any knowledge, or sense, would avoid them, I’d like to give some credit to the masses and say a huge portion of those that get “trapped” will not fall for it… so it’s a small minority, hence them having huge list numbers, they need it to get the few gullible ones…

Then continuously keep feeding those list…

They say their list(s) are important, after all, they can keep flogging shit to them yet they do the worse emails out there, not a clue, just a pitchfest galore, upsells, cross-sells, downsells and whatever damn sale they can get out of you… bollox to fleece the most gullible of money!

Yet, they must suck at that, else they wouldn’t need to keep doing the same shit over and over again without a thought for who they are hurting, ripping off. Let’s face it, most people waste money on this shit.

Avoid 99% of Internet Marketers lists

One thing is to NEVER get on any of their list, it’s crap plus bloody hard to get off them again.. not to mention they sell your email out… even though they say they don’t.

Get onto 100 lists and you will see they all promote the same crap over and over, cross promotions galore… so best to avoid ALL of that and ignore 99% of them.

Most have no idea how to do what they say they do, they are the ultimate “fake it till ya make it” bunch, still faking it most of them…

What they say and do is often polar opposites, so it’s pretty obvious when you look for it.

And I bet the list they have gives a really shit return, only fanboys fall for their crap, you will find the same people comenting on their blogs… asskissing idiots!

It’s not just their blogs…

The Internet marketers old boys club

Yes, they had some craphole called the warrior forum to hang out in too, their old boys club where they could fleece the sheeple… you can’t separate the two in my mind, I don’t give a toss what any of the so called “warriors” say… I was there when all this crap started out really, it may NOT (don’t know, don’t look at the shithole!) be as bad now as it was… but it is still happening I bet!

Thankfully I could see through them and they have never had a penny of mine, or anyone I know who has sense!

No, not all of them were bad.

I tell you this, the best people in that place were the ones who never sold anything… that leaves very few! Work it out… most have left though!  Put it this way, I only trusted maybe 4 people in that place and no, I won’t name them, they are good friends and honest decent people.

Back to the scammers and their mess…

These scammers don’t have any respect for anyone, not even their gullible sheeple “customers” … nor the law half the time!

I say… Gullible because they bought into a fake dream, these ARE the target market of these scammers after all, dream chasers!

Unicorn juice and bloody rainbows! *sigh, will people not learn?!

There are no magic bullets, just shattered dreams

But these “gullible ones” and even not so gullible people are starting to rant in places, on their own blogs, on comments on other blogs, all because that hang out censors shit. Aye, you can’t slam any of these in the syndicate, or gurus, or anyone else who rips people off on the “warrior” playground, do that and get nuked.

I won’t link to that craphole, that’s cruel, like leading mice to a den of cats!

Cats that you can’t complain about there if you get caught, they protect their own, after all it is the old boys club.

So, the ones getting hurt are actively going out there and writing about it, complaining, sharing in comments on blogs, because they are not afraid anymore…

Afraid…?

The cartel are losing influence and cannot hide

Yes, many were afraid of what would happen to them, after all, they were in the same niche. They were worried about the big guys making it harder for them… but …

They can’t hide crap now like they could 5 years ago, they don’t have the influence to “crush” people who dared question them or complain, like they used to say and do… oh yes, these bastards would ruin your reputation and use their list of gullible idiots to slam you, they would call you a “loser”… they sill do. Except now, they realise they are in fact the losers, and people are waking up, and ranting about it … at last! *sigh, take ya time eh people.

Now their fucking-furious-back-peddling starts…

That is the ones who in some way are connected to these scammers are crapping it and starting to try and distance themselves, that’s gonna be hard considering how many affiliates and such these scammers have conned into becoming affailites, plus the plain greedy ones who just promoted their crap without a thought for those who may buy it… sad shit, they will all have a job on their hands trying to look “clean”!!

It’s getting so lame that some of the so called big names are trying to manipulate how they look, failing badly I must say… let’s face it, “big name” you either promoted their crap, or they promoted yours, or used your crap to help their “launch” or you used theirs to help yours… either way, you are connected, no matter how you try to “address” it in your shitty blog, newsletter… it’s a deed done that can’t be UNdone!

Tough shit! Should have thought about that a long time ago! Greed glands got the better of you…

The robot will rule, with your help too

That’s the gurus, big names, B tier affiliates, and launchers of crap… all absolutely crapping themselves… All mainly due to an R2D2 lookalike, one with the legal nous and the information to blow the whole scammers situation wide open … Creating the shit storm in the niche. Some profanity on that, but the message matters!

What we can’t do is leave it all up to a bloody R2D2 robot to make it known to people that these scammers need avoiding, exposing, so DO check out the “cloud” of names on that blog and avoid them all!

What you can do is link to that blog with some anchored keyword and help him rank for those keywords, IE, rank for the scammers names… this will piss the scammers of, being outranked by a pissed off R2D2 lookalike who is revealing the truth about them under their own name. Or even d-bags which is what they are.

You know, link to what appals you, there is enough of the scammers telling you with their own words on that site, help get them ruined like they like to ruin others. Maybe with enough juice going and people making it known the law will have to take notice somewhere.

Even Tony Robbins is getting involved! This is someone that’s just been given a platform on TV in the USA I believe?

Makes you think, doesn’t it?

Never bought his crap, so no idea what it is like, mumbo jumbo I expect, but for him to get involved with these scammers is saying something, whatever happens, he has stepped into it.

Karma is real, it’s working too!

They are reaping what they sowed

It’s getting funny, you really couldn’t make this crap up, but it is about time these scammers were properly dealt with where appropriate, by law and for them to do so takes them being aware of it, there is a simple reason non of these scammers will “sue” anyone, more so that R2D2 looking droid (a lawyer!) …  for  a start the scammers know it’s all true, they say it in their own words… plus they know if they sue someone, that someone is going to get some seriously damaging info about the scammers… IF they get a decent lawyer… and the law is just involved.

They don’t want the law involved at all by the sounds of it.

I’d ask the droid if he would be mine for free… I’d bet he would oblige, rubbing his metal palms in glee at the case.

Internet marketing needs cleaning up of this crap… the sooner the better, social media is helping, people, meaning the scammers perfect “target market” are in a better position to find out answers before committing to anything, and the bad crap does get talked about out there… alot more than the scammers would like…

That’s your role if you haven’t got a blog to write about it, if you ever fell for buying their crap and lost money, then go spread this post, or that robots post, or anyone sharing the truth out there, Ryan Healy has written a few things too, he has a good blog there by the way.

One thing I noticed is Ryan linked to some lawyers blog who allows a scammer to “defend” himself… and you know what, his little favicon in the browser is a Pyramid… very telling!!

It’s worth noting that even though on a few of them post on the robots blog there are 100′s of comments, (yes really) many are saying alot too, it is making people come forward and speak up.

These scammers need to be hit hard where it hurts, like they hurt others. Those fanboys, don’t bother telling me I am a “hater” or “loser” … I don’t hate them, just what they do and how they do it and I’m not a loser simply because I don’t do this evil shit they do…

So, if you been conned or know of some proof of these scammers conning people, share it, if not, just make sure you and your credit card avoid them all.

If you want to help rid the niche of this crap, share these post, link to them. Anything that helps get the word out.

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G.A.S.P, 10.10.10 and no spam!

via Rob Sellen ... by Rob on 10/10/10

What a crap few weeks! Been quiet here due to sorting out other things, offline and online (like I mentioned in the last post) which set me back a bit but hey ho, no harm done…

But I got bloody man flu now too which is making me feel like shit in general, ah well, life ain’t meant to be all plain sailing, but being ill sucks, thankfully I am now on the tail end of it.

Still, a break can be good for many reasons, funnily enough I noticed a few interesting things that you might like to know, might not, but anyway, I thought I’d share a few things… at least get a bloody post up and get back into my rhythm again.

For one thing I get NO SPAM comments anymore…  Aye, a good thing, it’s freed up some time to do other stuff for sure… and I’ll share about that too.

It might help you, might not, I’m sharing anyway…

No posting does not mean no traffic, more so when using commentluv

It’s good to see the traffic still coming here daily, shows that the work and effort put in over the months is always worth it in the long run and interesting to note that much of the traffic is through commentluv links on comments left elsewhere, something else to note, it’s the better comments left that get the biggest hits…  whodathunkit!?

Another thing about it is blog post titles matter… a good reason for it’s (commentluv) success is the fact it changes the whole concept of comments adding to a conversation, whatever the said blog and comments conversation is.

The old way was just a link in the name field to our main url, (as it still is) and the comment alone was the only added benefit to both sides but now with commentluv allowing you to have specific post (which is also keyworded, ie related, if you done it right) linked to after adding the good comment as well as the main url in the name field, it’s easy to add another dimension to the post comments conversation, IE, leaving a link related to the post itself is benefiting everyone, so you benefit others twice, once with the good comment, and once with a related link, and that link is much more likely to get clicked than a name field url… it’s more appealing for a start.

As these links vary as much as you vary them, you can have related links to several different post on several different blogs, depending on what you wrote about, and it means traffic is still coming regardless of whether I post or not, from several different places… stop posting and it doesn’t mean traffic dies, or course it will be less than if you do post, that’s just common sense and no-one needs to tell anyone that…

Commentluv allows you to have up to 10 of your post linked to, so you have enough to scatter within decent comments on decent blogs to keep the juice flowing.

I see people saying they MUST post daily to keep traffic and I think for myself it’s not true, only you know – if you test it.

Posting more often will increase traffic some I admit, but so would marketing the damn blog more without having to write daily… swings and roundabouts. And leaving good comments on blogs IS marketing.

Good comments, not spam!

Want less spam? Of course you do

Spam is not marketing, though it’s pushers are persistent!

Or… they were until they come up to more blogs (like mine!) with the great new antispam plug in which is working… a treat!

This antispam plug in (G.A.S.P) is created by the same person as the commentluv one, Andy Bailey. Though also brought about with Gail from growmap, who shared it with me.

No more spam, bye bye bots.

The one good thing about blogger was the sheer lack of spamming, but hey ho, wordpress is just too good to leave and go back to blogger (for now at least) ok… maybe for good, so it’s something wordpress users just have to deal with, combat, get pissed off over,  and things have just took a great leap forward with this new plug in I think.

You can see it’s set up below, having a tickable box which only humans can do, not bot’s means 99% of the spam crap is getting nowhere!

Now we can stop relying on askimet, – (even though it was and is a good plug in to use) – though I have yet to turn that off, I am seeing almost nothing of spam anyway, askimet was never perfect as Gail documents, it often wrongly labeled people as spammers, heck it’s happened to one commenter here on numerous occasions even though he had already posted good comments here several times before. He needs me to turn askimet off… I know Jason… I will.

WordPress users would do well to add this new antispam plug in to their armoury, seeing as it’s outperformed all the others I have tried so far. If anything it will just free up your time, time not wasted dealing with 100′s or more of spammy crap daily.

It’s also helped in removing the captcha code crap, which is easy to get wrong, or just play up… a ticked box is infinitely easier to deal with and better understood by everyone.

So, that’s a 10 out of 10, on the 10.10.10. to Andy for creating two fantastic plug ins that have massively benefited me as a wordpress user.

What next? Well, add them if you use wordpress, if not, please share this post, leave a comment, or “like it” below, or subscribe, buy me a beer, or something … thanks.

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Attraction factor and Missy magic…

via Rob Sellen ... by Rob on 8/25/10

My next secretary!

Well… had an interesting idea for a post from my friend Missy… My next secratary…

Now I have to get some crappy work in order to justify that!

Anyway… Missy… Ya famous now!

Full of ideas, nuttiness… but this was at least an interesting idea for a post.

Now… what would you say about the picture there?

“OMG… she is nice…” or something along those lines… Highly likely I bet!

Or if you are somewhat blind… maybe… “she is ok…” !!

In that case… you really should have gone to bloody specsavers man!!

The attraction factor

What makes us attractive, why do some people attract each other, is beauty skin deep … what makes something/someone attractive or worthy etc… what are the properties we should be looking for in other people we choose to surround ourselves with, in whatever capacity.

So many questions Missy!

Lets roll around together with that …

You seen her jugs??? …

What?

well, what was YOU expecting?

Men are shallow… ya right missy! Well apart from this blurk… as you say!

The truth is, we are all wired this way, you ladies too, that’s fact and no point fighting it, we would all do well to accept it.

But what an interesting thought process we started on facebook faceache, one that no doubt all of us think about at times… mostly when we are young, when we have no real idea as the lack of experience is telling.

It often takes us several relationships to know where you “fit in” IE, “she/he is out of my league” is often said, it’s an important factor in life too.

Who chooses where we fit?

We do… we work this out over the course of a few relationships, even though every relationship is unique it’s often that we find patterns, we all know that is a truth, some girls always go out with assholes, different assholes but assholes all the same… some guys always choose ditzy blondes, or fiery redheads… whatever!

Is beauty really skin deep?

In a word, YES on meeting… that is we make up that decision faster than we know… blink of an eye is all it takes most of the time, most men don’t know it, but it’s not just the beauty of the girl, it’s often the unconscious notion of have beautiful offspring, likewise women also take into consideration the gene factor… but more often than men, they are aware of it and more consciencley choose.

It’s not a coincidence that women usually instigate divorce after a longish marriage, the kids are grown somewhat… chances are the man is not attractive to them like they were… IE you got the gorgeous kids, so now you want to have an attraction for you… not for a genetic reason…  selfish reasons, yes but completely understandable.

What makes us attractive

100 men could look at the same gorgeous women and all find her attractive, yet all will find something different that’s attractive about them…

So many things make the difference with all of us, far too many to name, the truth is, it’s small things, we can see the beauty in everyone, it may be just a small thing that captures the eye, more often than not I find hands a big part of attractiveness, may seem odd, but hey ho I AM odd!

Nothing worse then seeing lovely ladies with manky hands, manky nails.. no thanks! They ain’t touching my… oh wait, let’s not go there!

With the ladies, 100 women could look at one good looking man and of them, 30% won’t even like him… the rest all to varying degrees for various reasons, some won’t even see him!

Ladies.. go into a bar filled with men and you will agree many of them men are almost invisible to you, yet with men, they scan the room different, they see all the women, then ignore most…

A bit of a difference there wouldn’t you say?

Many would say, Missy, you got stunning eyes, or a gorgeous smile… or cracking jugs…

Me, I say all of them lol… but I know you, I know what is the main factor with you… your personality, or more accurately, your crazy sense of humour… you drag the Kenny Everett out of everyone!

Why do certain people attract each other?

This largely in my mind depends on where you are in the circle of life, your age, if you have kids (their age too) the kind of things you like doing, all these circumstances effect it, without us even thinking about it at times but the question is a good one, certain people do attract certain people, that saying “opposites attract” must have some merit… Yin and Yang… Chalk and cheese… Missy and me.

Back off Missy!! Oh,  just a little bit, so I can gaze…

The key for me is, what is it you need from a relationship, that should be the bearing on who you attract, who can give you that…

Who can make you feel the way you need to feel, rather than want, as they are close but the results can be a gulf…

I can’t think of this as a cut and dry thing, we change, things change, what attracts us changes, what we see as attractive in others changes… nothing stays the same, ever! (apart from my youthful loks!)  :lol: …

What should we be looking for in other people

That depends on too many things, but there is one basic truth, you don’t… when you look for it, you never find it.

What I’d say is, what can you offer that others who you would like to attract will notice…

The stupid thing is attraction works like buses, nothing happens for a while, then two or three people start liking you… why?

Because people want what they can’t bloody have, that is why some people try “stealing” other peoples women, blokes, the chase all just to confirm to their own little minds that they can, regardless of the pain they cause others… they don’t care, sadly.

So, missy… what say you? Food for thought?

Does it answer any questions or thoughts you had?

All that from a bloody single bloke!!!

So Missy, forget the old ginger dipstick who hurt ya, when ya ready, give us a shout… I can grab me some Missy magic!

Scammers … internet marketing syndicate

via Rob Sellen ... by Rob on 20/08/10

Stunning

People, strange things!

More so, the female variety… well, I am a man, so it stands to reason!

Lots to learn, our best teacher is ourselves, I have learnt lot’s over the years, some… good, bad, crap and amazing things … lessons I need to learn at the time. Much like anyone else.

But…

Scrap that…

Let’s not go there…

Don’t want a fall out on here, well… not one of them kinds!

People though… not all is as it seems.

Interestingly… things are going to get messy!!

Things in the internet marketing world are going to blow up sooner than later, the syndicate is going to come a cropper… Salty come right out and say’s The Syndicate scams – read it all and the comments if it interests you, but don’t attach the comments to the blog owner… he is only the blog content writer … that blog is a bit on the edge of the line itself, so thick skin is needed too when reading it… can’t blame him, telling it as it is… I like that!  Why he gets a backlink here …

I remember most of them starting out. Got rich ripping others off, selling unicorns! Bragging about earning 6 figure sums while earning 3 … fake it till ya make it punks! Way to go … Irwin

Shame on them eh… No, you don’t want a bleeding unicorn!

I do not align myself with any of that, nor that blog, they are not my words, so… take it for what you will, but bear in mind I DO agree with the fact they are taking liberties with people…

What's inside is what counts

These people are bad inside… They are so stuck up their own arses that they expect you to stick your head up there too, bow to them or they dismiss you … sad pricks.

The inside is what matters … what?

You want to hear about what? Women? *sigh… funny enough, there is something to connect these two things …

The majority of the bad ones in this lameass internet marketing syndicate are men… as you can see with the list posted near the bottom by “fergetabouthem”… worth staying well away from that lot.

I happen to think personally, that while there are female scammers out there, most of the time in business women are generally more honest, more upfront and more subtle in what they do, they don’t brag like the men do, more often than not they don’t need to…

Shame it’s not that way with personal relationships…

Well… you know.

Now, I am hoping this jerkfest in the Internet Marketing arena gets slammed, they start top lose anything their ill gotten gains from people.

This crap started about 2003, 2004… I remember it well… the warrior forum was a hangout, I don’t say that place is scamming, just that it was where alot of these rip off merchants got together… just like the syndicate, if you don’t fit in with the inner circle, you get nowhere.

Sucks… best avoided.

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