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Archive for January, 2010

My Viral Blog will no longer be offering free blog hosting services.

When Initially launched the intent of My Viral Blog was to offer free hosting for online bloggers interested in for profit blogging and owning a home based business. In the past several months though, what was hoped to be a well received project adding value to our systems and sites has turned into an attention and money pit with massive attacks from blog spammers and link sellers using illegal methods to rip off the webmasters of the world.

My average week since inception has revolved around deleting around 2500 spam accounts per week including fake blogs designed only to create a back link. This process takes around 5-6 hours per week alone, another 6-10 hours per week has been spent to research and improve blog security and blacklist attacking domains and IP strings.

Along the way we have developed a popular blog and are seeing increased back links, syndication of our articles and post, and support for our training in blog, social media, and search engine marketing. The efforts to improve on this have resulted in a PR4 ranking from Google which could be higher if it were not for the spammers who create pages we must later delete. The deleted pages and fake blogs with no unique content result in a penalty to our blog's Page Ranks and indexing by generating too many indexed and site mapped links that result in a 404 error page or blank blogs linking to the home that appear to search engines like gateway pages which are heavily penalized and can result in de-listing.

Dropping the free blogs and it's effect on users:

As a result we have shut off new blog creations and are giving notice to our bloggers to retrieve their SQL back ups in order to move their blogs to other hosting either self hosted or through other free services. Those seeking affordable blog hosting with large account space and unlimited bandwidth and unlimited domain names are welcome to check out Velocity Marketer Hosting. Pound for pound our hosting service offers features not found at comparable prices and service that is above and beyond expectations.

Velocity Marketer and My Viral Blog are making some minor and major changes this week to streamline business operations and focus our service and resources. Other major announcements will follow over the next few days as we return to a 100% blog at My Viral Blog and begin spending more time writing articles and less time consumed by blog security issues.

Thanks for all you do,

Andy Zeus Anderson

MVB Admin

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Seems 2010 is going to bring with it a fresh batch of sites making preposterous claims in order to scam web users out of their money, too often my business partner Andy and I come across these sites pretending to offer an unbelievable business opportunity when in fact there is nothing of the sort to be found.

One recent site we came across http://ismyblogs.name/ is one such site lets look at what makes this site a scam.

1. It makes a ridiculous opening statement "WATCH THIS VIDEO TO SEE HOW I USED THIS BLOGGING SERVICE TO
RANK IN THE NUMBER 1 SPOT IN GOOGLE IN UNDER 2 MINUTES".

Anyone with even a small amount of experience on the internet knows that this is just not possible (unless you own Google that is), even using the best submitters available it will still take the better part of the day for Google to visit and schedule your site/post for indexing it can then take several days even weeks before it appears in the search results .

2. This site claims to provide Free submission to 800,000 search engines 

This is another false claim as even the best submitters do not submit to that many engines or directories and if they did submission would take months as most require some form of manual submission and in a lot of cases confirmation via email.

3. potential signups through 5 levels.

Now if this were possible it would be great but most payment processors will not allow payment to multiple tiers, apart from this there is no clear product being sold, to be a legal business you need to have either a physical product or service, Paid Membership in the opportunity is not a qualifying factor for legal status.

further lets look at what the above site offers as it's affiliate payment system (this is copied direct from the site)

• POTENTIAL EARNINGS LEVEL 1 – 10 new sign ups = $10 to you each month (this covers your blogging service fee)
• LEVEL 2 Your 10 each sign up 10 = $100 to you each month
• LEVEL 3 These 100 each sign up 10 = $1,000 to you each month
• LEVEL 4 These 1000 each sign up 10 = $10,000 to you each month
• LEVEL 5 These 10,000 each sign up 10 = $100,000 to you each month

If this were possible don't you think every adult on the internet would be members after all $111,100.00 a month is far better than most company managers earn why everyone would give up their jobs and just do that , well they would until the power went out and the phone lines quit and the food became impossible to get because all the shops were closed and nobody is growing food or running the essential services like electricity or water, after all we would all be on $1,333,200.00 a year incomes that require little or no work , not that there would be anywhere to spend the money anyway making it valueless.

The Bottom line is don't be sucked in by these scams, sure they may pay out a few dollars to the few that get in on launch but for the majority of the members no such income is possible, they are mostly designed to be short lived with the owners pulling the plug as soon as they see membership tapering off and the number of complaints rising.

Look for the real product or service in an opportunity and do the maths remember there are only so many people on the internet and while some quote the world population they don't mention the figures include people in poorer countries where only a small percentage of the actual population can own a computer let alone connect to the internet.

Remember the old Adage "If it looks too good to be true it generally is"

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