Today on the Warrior Forum, there is another example of this. So-called marketers are complaining because the Chief Warrior made them read an advert beofre they could access the forum. They’re going on as if their ‘rights’ had been infringed. Howver, I’m looking at the huge number of sign ups that the owner achieved by forcing people to read the ad and noting how well this technique has worked. As always in marketing, it’s not what people say but what they do that counts.

That’s why I’m so keen on Article Marketing Automation. Firstly, you can place your link twice within an article on any text you wish. Secondly, it actively suggests your article to relevant sites within its system. I’ve never built up so many links so quickly.

Highly recommended.

But those of us who sell REAL products online, telephones or beauty products, know that people will be buying less often, and probably cheaper products. I was in a shopping mall in the UK today and the shop doing the business was Primark, the store with a low-price policy.

So while a small group of people might do well out of the recession, most online people will not. Don’t let them sucker you into laying out another thousand dollars before you find out.

So I asked for my money back. But then a person I know well and trust moved into the company to sort out their problems. He wrote me a note asking me to ‘hang on in there’ so I did. But nothing changed on the technical level so I again asked for my money back. Not only didn’t I get it but they insisted upon charging me a further $99 before I could leave.

My friend has now left the company. I have no confidence that the company will ever have a decent product but they are still running a very effective marketing campaign. Do I start a campaign warning others against them or do I let sleeping dogs lie?

It’s hard work writing articles all the time though the benefits in terms of visitors to your site is excellent. That’s why any ‘automatic’ system which can give your rankings as big a push as article marketing seems so worthwhile. Pay 97 dollars a month, press a button and go play a round of golf sounds “a great strategy”.

But we all know it’s only a matter of weeks now before Google gets on top of all the people manipulating social bookmark sites. And when that happens, all those people doing that are going to lose their top spots in the search engines. And us article writers are going to replace them. Original content rules.