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online money-making schemes beware

The Internet is a dangerous place at the best of times, but since Facebook started allowing adverts to appear on its interface, we have been noticing a prevalence of similar ads saying you could earn $5000 per month by using Google.

If you click on one of these ads, they link to similar pages, apparently run by different people saying the same thing, and often showing the same pictures of $5000 cheques paid out by Google. If that doesn't put you off, then the website of the so-called eMillionaire Institute (or similar) may convince you that this really is a genuine opportunity.

Using a domain name that seems to have been registered only in December 2008, it's hard to see how these people can have been making money since January 2008 (the date on one of the cheques in the photos). The website itself looks slick - with logos of major TV networks and a fancy 10-minute countdown, implying you only have ten minutes to fill in a form to start making money.

But what happens if you pay the $1.95 to order your kit that tells you how to start making your fortune? There are reports appearing on the web from people who have tried it. One says you will unwittingly be signed up to a $39.95 per month subscription fee if you don't cancel. Another reports that not only the $1.95 was taken from his credit card, but a $197 fee was also taken out at the same time and he didn't know why.

Can you really make money out of Google? Yes you can, if you become a Google Adsense affiliate? I am sticking my neck out though and suggesting that this heavily-promoted "make money from Google" scheme being advertised widely across Facebook looks like it may be more of a classic pyramid scheme. Rather than making your money out of Google itself, I hazard a guess that the money you make will come from you setting up as an affiliate of this scheme, earning commissions if you get people to sign up, and you have to spend money to advertise on Google. Hence, there is a Google connection but Google is not actually employing you.

I could be wrong, of course, but I am not taking the risk of trying to find out, and I advise anyone who sees one of these enticing ads to leave well alone. If it sounds too good to be true, it is. If anyone knows different about this scheme, feel free to let us know.

Goolge Adsense and Google Search in your Mobiel Website

Google search can be found integrated on tons of sites across the Web, including this one. Now, Google is extending that functionality to the mobile Web, where publishers can now integrate Google search and earn money on the revenue generated from clicks on mobile ads.

Much like Google’s custom search for websites, the mobile version can be branded with your own logo and design to make it feel for like your property. From there, users can search the Web as well as Google’s local, image, and news content.

Google Drives Affiliate Network Users to Google Accounts

Users of the Google Affiliate Network can now access the network through a regular Google account. This means uses will be able to access Google's other products like AdWords, AdSense, Gmail, Google Docs, Google Calendar, etc. with the same log-in.

"Users who have updated to Google Accounts have the option to bookmark their new sign in page or select the link marked Already Updated? Sign in with my Google Account from the legacy sign in page," explains Product Manager Sheila Parker. "In addition, if you are already logged in to your Google Account (via another product) and navigate to either of these pages, you will be brought to your Affiliate Network dashboard (no need to enter login information again)."

For now, Google Affiliate Network users still have the option to continue using their existing log-ins. In fact, Google will not be updating the Affiliate Network Sign-in pages until all users have updated. Once a user updates their Account, they'll no longer be able to use their old Google Affiliate Network username and password.

It seems like an interesting way to get more people signed up for real Google accounts. It could prove to increase the amount of use of other Google products, as I'm sure that's the idea.

How Informative Post is Superior to Associated Content

I don’t write this to brag, I write this to inform my referrals, and educate others on the true blessing that Informative Post truly post is.

The superior blessings of IP to start with, is there is no guess work on what you are going to be paid for your work, so like on Associated Content you have to sit around waiting for a content producer to look over your work, and screw you on payment. IP lays it all out there for you, take it, or leave it.

IP isn’t covered with Google Adsense, or any other kinds of spammy ads. Informative Post web design isn’t ever changing, and full of glitches like Associated Content is. Everything is right up front when you log into your Informative Post account. There is no guess-work involved.

Many of IP’s “Jobs” are above AC’s average payout, and even Associated Content’s “Calls for Content”.

Informative Post is superior because each account has an “affiliate link”, Associated Content places one in your account but you get no credit what-so-ever for their sign ups. I posted about this in AC’s forum once after I received a $5 referral bonus credit. They were all shocked and amazed claiming AC had dropped that a long time ago. I guess I should have kept my mouth shut and I would have still been getting paid for it.

Douglas Brown who owns and operates IP is one of the nicest guys I’ve ever come across online. Though Associated Content has a massive staff, their support replies can take upwards to a week to receive (if you even get a reply at all, which they are famous for ignoring messages). Doug has always replied within 12 hours of contact, thus making IP superior. AC will never be able to say that, because their support is horrid. If you don’t believe me, do a test support contact, and see if your reply has anything to do with what you asked.

Informative Post is superior because they don’t run surveys, or contests with promises of prizes never handed out. Many others I’ve spoken to in the AC forums, admitted none of them ever get anything Associated Content has promised them, even simple things such as stickers.

Associated Content promotes defamation of government property, and private property with pictures of the stickers on mailboxes, and other items. It’s shocking they haven’t been slapped with a lawsuit. AC awards prizes for such things, or at least they use to. Informative Post is superior because they run no such promotion.

Yes there is two things that AC is superior over Informative Post and that is the personalized RSS feed, and webpage listing all our articles. No harm there though, I created my own, and who knows perhaps in time this will be implemented so everyone, not just me can advertise their articles.

Considering Associated Content is ran by hundreds of people, and Informative Post is ran by one, I’d have to say I’m overwhelming happy to admit that Informative Post is superior to Associated Content.

MSN adCenter's Content Ads Showing Horrible Click Through Rates?

Brent Csutoras published results of his Microsoft ContentAds test by accident. I wasn't able to see all the results because he pulled them after being notified that he is not allowed to share any stats because he is in a private beta. I can tell you that I tested the ads on my personal blog and actually removed them about a week ago, due to the poor results in revenue making.

That being said, what I did see Brent post in his MSN Adcenter’s Publisher Beta vs. Google Adsense, which is now 301 redirecting to the home page. He said that the CTR (click through rate) was a fraction of what he noticed with his Google AdSense ads. I believe it was less than half, but possibly even worse.

Clearly, a publisher program that gets paid out by click and not impression, with a low CTR is not a publisher program that publishers want to participate in. MSN Content Ads is still very new and in very limited beta. I suspect it will do much better in 2009, but it appears they still have a long way to go to earn the trust of publishers and take market share from Google AdSense.

Note, if anyone has a cached copy of the post, please share it with us. :)

Forum discussion at Sphinn.

Update: I received a screen capture of the original post and posted over here. You can see that the CTR with Google AdSense was .11%, but with Microsoft Content Ads it was .01% - huge difference and it showed in the earnings.

Video Recap of Weekly Search Buzz :: New Years 2009

In this week's recap, I wish our readers and viewers a happy, healthy and prosperous 2009. Google updated the toolbar PageRank scores, but it seems like the search results both here and internationally were updated also. Live Search is using MSNBOT-Media to crawl JavaScript files. Google got hit with wildcard domain issues. Google Alerts is trigger happy. Google shows a did you mean answer for a child day care service, leading to a porn site. Google's strict image search option shows more porn than the moderate search. Danny Sullivan slaps Microsoft on their search initiatives. Microsoft's Content Ads program is doing poorly. Google AdSense is offending overweight people. Happy 2009 everyone!

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