Why Skip McGrath's Amazon Affiliate Package Is Not Worth It

Skip McGrath is one of the many online sellers offering an e-book on how to earn your riches from setting up a website with Amazon Affiliates. Whilst I'm not going to say it's a scam, buying such a book is a waste of money. There is a whole host of people who buy up these books and don't act on it or don't put enough time in to the final product and then give it up. Setting up an Amazon Affiliate blog or website is not particularly complicated.

All you need to do is:

Set up an Amazon associates account
Find a niche
Write catchy blogposts / reviews in the area of your product
Post the widget (preferably with an image) at the end of your blogpost

The results will vary depending on the items that you are focussing on. Music, for example is not a particularly good idea. Less people buy music than ever before, there's quite a lot of websites that review albums and so it's quite tricky to compete, unless you focus on a less popular type of music. The price of albums is relatively low and as your earnings are commission based, you are better off looking at more expensive items.

So nothing particularly against Skip, I just think that what he's got to say is widely available info, some people act on it and some people don't. It's not as easy as he makes out but it is a feasible form of income. 

Maxbounty - A scam or not?

Maxbounty are a major affiliate and banner network, whilst many people seem to do quite well from it, others are reporting enormous losses and that the company fail to pay or find a way out. Of course the people who are doing well out of it, support it with an unhealthy passion which sort of poses the question that if a company scams one person but treats another one well, how can it be considered a scam.

Obviously Maxbounty also have to protect their earnings and with a lot of people using black hat methods and driving fraudulent traffic to their sites, they need to look closesly at the clicks received. It seems to me to be a case of everyone trying to scam each other and some genuine users losing out in the process.

Look at other options and if you still decide you like the look of Maxbounty, then go ahead but proceed with caution!

Build up your blog with reviews and earn money from Amazon affiliates

If you are one of many of the review writers on consumer sites such as dooyoo and ciao, then you may be overlooking a very simple and straightforward source of income. Cross posting has probably become a nice little earner for you but there's an additional way of earning more.

Here is the lowdown on what to do:

1/ Choose your niche - French films, Sony electronics, old computer games, books of a certain genre.. it can be anything.

2/Title your blog appropriately - both the title and the url should bear some resemblance to the topic.

3/Use an interesting template for blogger from btemplates.com

4/Begin writing posts designed around your site and then re-post them on review sites. Try to do at least one a day, preferably a few more.

5/Add adsense to the blog

6/Sign up as an amazon affiliate and begin including advertising links to the product you or reviewing, above, below or to the side of your review. They pay 10% of sales that come through your site and if you have enough traffic, this can soon mount up.

7/Treat the blog as your baby - do everything in your capabilities to fill it up with good unique content and gain traffic. Put thought in to your niche, layout and content.

www.money.chipzentrale.com - Old Scam New on the Scene

It's a while since I've unearthed one of the many casino scams on the net but today I came across yet another one. I've mentioned in the past sites which encourage you to start playing roulette wth what seems like a method that may work.

The fact is that there are so many of these that if everyone had done well - there'd be no poverty and no casinos doing business! This doesn't work and although it looks appealing - should be steered clear of. The only people making money here is the webmaster through affilliates and the casino at your expense.

A scam with a bad name - adcommunications2u.bravehost.com/casino.html

I've caught out quite a lot of scams today and here is one that can't even seem to afford a decent domain name - maybe there's a reason for that because I'm sure this person is earning quite well from this site. They offer free info regarding a highly well known and less than succesful roulette system as well as a mediocre blackjack system which also well known and promise that it's easy to win plenty. If it was, they wouldn't be needing to make money through the affiliate systems below.

Study the info and if you see anything like it again - make sure to stay away from that too! The casino is no place to earn a living unless you are a croupier!

AceCashSystem.com - Another Roulette Scam

AceCashSystem.com fits into the category that I mentioned previously on my post entitled "Forget the All Blacks"

The fact that they are giving the information away for free, should lead you to think - what's in it for them? Simple - they make money through the affiliate links to the casinos at the end of the page. After bigging up the possibilities of winning loads of money at the casino, you are likely to click. Don't do it! Read the above post for complete details.

Bankersprofits.com - Yet another scam!

Once again, I've been on the hunt for google ads which promise big but fail to deliver. Bankersprofits.com is a neat little webpage which advertises easy money, a cartoon man in a suit makes light of earning £6,000 a week. He's willing to give the details to you for free - nothing to lose, you may think. I gave it a go with an e-mail account I don't use and don't mind getting spammed to.

In fact what happens once you've registered with the site is that it tells you about the same old - black/red or odd/even roulette system (as mentioned in a previous post "Forget the All Blacks.." )which simply does not work in the long run.

Where this guy makes money is that he makes it sound incredibly easy and then has various banners to various casinos below it. Not knowing that you making him a killing, you sign up to the said casino from his site - he makes money as an affilliate, the casino makes money eventually from the roulette game and you are the one to lose out. The website may also sell on your e-mail address, although I have no proof of this. My warning is give this website a wide berth! Gambling is most definitely not a sure way to winning big unless you are a highly skilled poker player!