This is a great chance for product creators, especially those with Adsense experience to be among the first in on something huge.

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Unlike the primary competition in the PPC advertising business our service is webmaster and small business friendly and focused on the parts of the web Google does not already cover. We appeal to webmasters who have been burned and cheated by Google over minor violations of their ever changing TOS or who were forced to give up Adsense to see free and low cost advertising after Google practically starved them to death. Other webmasters will choose KART to get back content control and stop having Google tell them what they can add to their websites.

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A Velocity Marketer Program

Andy here from Traffic Firestorm.

I wanted to take a couple minutes here, because we have denied over 30 sites so far in the past 3 days that were legally considered PONZI and thus illegal.

By Law a Ponzi scheme is any program not offering a product of fair value that exist as a business opportunity based solely on the flow of new members into the system. Also known as a pyramid scheme these programs do not hold any value outside the business opportunity promise of commissions on sales of the business opportunity.

Often referred to as cash cyclers, randomizers, HYIP, or Cash Gifting, these websites promise huge rewards off of each cycle. To cycle means to fill a limited matrix which required a set number of new members into the system. Example: 2×2 forced matrix earn $100 when you cycle. To get paid you must bring in two members who bring in 2 members each our you can recruit enough members beyond your two to fill in the first level of your downline.

Under U.S. and most international laws these programs are illegal.

Why are they illegal? Because the flow of new members always stops causing some people to have potentially invested thousands of dollars into growing to the new levels and lose all the money they have put in. In many cases the member can lose even more as being a agent and active promoter of the scam. In some cases you personally can be held liable for monetary losses of those you bring into such a program and can even serve Federal jail time.

How bad can it be? Well when you consider that each downline member you recruit into a Ponzi scheme is a separate offense and each time you use e-mail or the United States Postal Service to promote it you are committing a Felony mail or electronic fraud with fines up to $100,000 and imprisonment up to 20 years per offense, the penalty can include life in prison and more money then you will ever see. The exact fines and maximum jail time is directly related to your success and the amounts lost by your recruits.

Some companies are very tricky in their presentation.

One that I saw today offers a profit and business opportunity guide as the product of the initial $5 buy in. The product in this case is a instruction guide to promote the criminal levels of the program that have no attached product, so you are basically buying an instruction manual for committing a crime. Really sounds like it’s legal looking at it on those terms. The same program goes further in masking the crime by stating that buying into the gold and platinum memberships will result in a share of co-op advertising traffic and sign ups and where this fails to meet the law is for it to be a product the Co-Op would need to allow you to promote any website or business and this co-op is solely for the same purpose, promoting the scam.

Our members are good people, I know that in my heart and I know many of you from other programs and feel that you simply did not know before attempting to put these programs into rotation. Many Traffic and marketing system owners approve such sites either out of ignorance or greed. More sites to promote means a greater chance you will buy advertising, but here are Traffic Firestorm we take member security to heart and background any program that looks even the slightest bit suspicious.

Key factors to get your mind going on investigating any business opportunity website so you can avoid being scammed.

1. Is there a visible product of value?
2. Is that product of value related solely to the promotion and education of how to promote the opportunity or does it have extended use?
3. Do successive levels have added products of value and is any promised marketing product able to be used for more then just that program?
4. Are your earnings related to commissions on the product or to sale of the business opportunity only?
5. Major red flag for any program stating 100% Legal. A Legal business never needs to say this, there is little to no question of it on a legal business. Always run a back ground on any program claiming such a statement and you will find over 90% of them to have multiple scam alerts and fraud reports.

Thanks for all you do,

Andy Zeus Anderson

Traffic Firestorm Admin

One of the most important tools in a marketers toolbox is the microblog, no other form of free promotion can get visitors to your site faster than a microblog.

Now there are many sites on the net offering microblogging apart from twitter and sometimes using one of these other sites can be more beneficial than posting on twitter alone.

Some of the other microbloggers deal only with certain niches and for targeting these are ideal places to launch your product or service that fall into a certain niche (most products and services belong to one niche or another) SPNBabble for instance deals mainly with search and advertising while Hot Spot Social is focused on the Internet Business community and social media as a whole and deals mainly with business networking and link building.

Most of the Microblogging sites allow you to place a URL within your post but you have to remember a microblog is small normally between 160 and 200 characters so keep the text short and link to the information rather than try posting all you need to say in the microblog, most will have found this post simply because it is linked to my microblog demonstrating the power a microblog has.

When joining a microblogging community it is important you read their rules in order to avoid being banned for spamming, be sure to fill in your profile giving as much detail about yourself as possible (the more people know about you the more they are likely to accept you in the community), be honest never try to embellish your abilities as you will quickly get found out and be shunned as a fraud.

Be active in the community never just post and leave, your post will quickly disappear from the activity feed so you will need to re-post daily, you may also receive some comments about your post, be polite and answer them even if the comment is upsetting replying with a thank-you for your input can be more upsetting for the commenter who probably just wanted to get a reaction from you.

Follow people, the fastest way to get followers is to actually start following people you come across in the community, most times they will reciprocate and follow you also, following a person means when they post you should be notified of a new post most times you will receive an email notification likewise when you post your followers will all be notified providing instant  promotion of your new post.

Your Avatar is important it should reflect who you are, personally i prefer to use a good head shot photograph of myself but you could also use your brand or logo as effectively.

Check your spelling when making a post and use proper language skills, if people can't understand what your saying they are going to dismiss your post as rubbish.

Don't forget to check out all the facilities offered at the microblogging site, some are pretty cool and can be a great tool for promotion .

Most of all remember microblogging works and if your not already using them then you are missing out on a ton of free traffic not to mention the links your posts will provide back to your main site.

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"

The face of the internet is changing and for many sites it will be time to make massive changes or face extinction, advertising and good content will not be enough to guarantee survival it will require a  lot more effort on the part of site owners in order to maintain traffic numbers and positioning on the search engines.

It will be important that site owners and webmasters ensure that evey piece of content on their sites is also registered on as many social networks as is humanely possible, the greater the saturation of pingbacks from the social networks the better they can expect their sites to perform, of course this means tons of extra work.

SEO and site submissions will fade in importance replaced by social bookmarking and good marketing practices, various forms of advertising will still be a strong influence in a sites prominence on the internet but without the addition of social linking sites will suffer badly in the coming year.

Socializing your site will entail a little more than simply installing one of the many social bookmarking scripts though, site owners and webmasters will need to establish a strong presence within each network, building friendships and groups of followers, these are extremely important as these same people will be the driving force behind your sites promotion and the root source of your sites traffic, initially you will need to establish your self within the network and it is a good idea during the first few weeks to post often but avoid any direct advertising of your sites, many networks will only allow advertising is certain locations and it is imperative you stick to their rules or face being banned.

When joining a network it is always a good idea to use your real name over an alias and where possible a photo of yourself (I suggest a good clear head shot photo over a full profile as it allows viewers to look into your eyes and establish a sense of trust).

Avoid making outlandish claims and avoid conflict at all costs, you can still prove your point with out getting nasty and gutter talk will upset more than just the person it's aimed at, be polite at all times and remember you are trying to build respect and trust, it will pay off in the long run as people begin to see you as a pillar of the society.

Once you have established your self within these communities it's time to look at ways you can promote your sites, my favourite is to include links within my signature as this will be seen in all areas of the network and in most is not deemed to be against the rules.

There are 4 main traffic areas in most social networks where you need to be very active these are

• The Network Forums.
• The Network Article section
• The networks Groups
• The Networks Blogs

Most networks also have a classified section however i would not waste time or money there as people generally visit a social network to meet people and gain information not to visit the classifieds (would you go to the swim pool to do your grocery shopping ?).

Posting articles in a social networks article system or blog system needs to be done right in most cases you will be allowed to use some html and this is very handy as it will enable you to put links to relevant articles on your sites within these postings, forums and group areas are normally controlled more rigidly and posting of links is generally frowned upon so you will need to rely on your signature to get people to your sites.

Performed correctly social bookmarking will rocket your sites value and turnover, it will expose your products and services to millions of users and with the launch in 2010 of Googles Caffeine search system and personalised search will see it gain page 1 on a regular basis across a much wider range of queries, You will be seen as an authority figure in your field and could even see approaches from other companies wanting you to feature on their pages and in their publications.

As a webmaster your New years resolution should be to become hyper active as a social networker and Survive the coming Netquake.

Alternative business is a term to break the mindset falsely given to the home based business industry because of the minority of Internet users that practice fraud and scams.

Alternative business start ups are seeing a huge spike as millions of unemployed professionals have taken their skills online in a tough economy and tight job market. With over 10% unemployment in the United States alone the most experienced workers, true experts in their industry, are finding it hard to gain employment over college graduates that offer new direction at a lower salary.

I am just such a person. I have over 16 years of business management experience and have been marketing online since January 2003. I don't have a college degree but have made a range of employers millions of dollars in income due to my real world experience. My experience though will come in handy to someone starting out in management and business promotion though, so there is opportunity still to be found even if not in employment in my chosen profession.

So how are older and more experienced experts making a move to online business?

The biggest trends I am seeing online are in:

• Former executives and managers offering consulting services online on a per project fee basis.

• Industry experts from all levels building for profit blogs and sharing tips and strategy from their years of experience with their readers, and earning money through selling advertising, using affiliate programs, and through PPC Publisher programs such as Google Adsense or Bidvertiser.

• E-book, video, and audio training courses. Experts are becoming self publishers at the speed of light and beginning to create complete training systems in their niche industry in the form of well written manuals, video training, and audio book formats and selling through such channels as Amazon, E-bay, Click Bank, and PayDotCom.

• Displaced sales professionals and stay home moms and dads are also turning to affiliate marketing and selling other expert's products to add extra cash to make ends meet.

• Still others prefer to accept some degree of retirement and have opted to become online business start up investors, angel investors, and silent business partners.

So how much money are they making and how hard is it starting a Alternative Business?

Starting a online business is pretty easy but success takes effort and ethics. The money varies based on exactly what approach you use and also depends on if you are an affiliate or a program author. The most successful are finding a path to Internet millions and the least successful are supplementing that unemployment check with few extra dollars each month. Your mindset also dictates success. A home business is a real business and requires time and often money. You see free to join programs and others touting free advertising etc.. but there are in reality only a few methods to gain targeted visitors and convert sales and they require real effort and research or at least a small investment .

The most lucrative Alternative Business or Home Based Business enterprises seem to be coming from the development of targeted training memberships sites, and from e-book series authors who have a line of products and a team of affiliates working to help promote and sell their multi-part courses. They will write a new step in the system every month to two months expanding on the first book or audio and if the information is good they can see each new release exceed $100,000 in sales using popular affiliate management services like Clickbank mentioned above or running their own in house affiliate system like we do at My Viral Business.

Our own business model provides tools, supplies, training, and advertising for Alternative Business. We have a developing online store with website scripts, templates, themes, and training manuals for starting a home based business. We also provide low cost hosting services and through ISEDN have begun offering sponsored keyword targeted search engine advertising for less then $4 a month across more the 400 search engines and directories including our own Easy Search Live and directory network.

Important rule of thumb: Affiliate programs offering real products of value are a good move that is often free to get started. Joining a membership site with no product of value is not. Counting on all those free sign ups to upgrade and pay you is a pipe dream especially if you yourself have not taken the upgraded membership. Again all programs you want to join offer a real product of value because those that don't are illegal in most countries. Cash Gifting sites are Ponzi schemes, they are illegal no matter what the site says, and no one online becomes a millionaire in 30 days. Come on now, you have lived long enough to use your brain and live in reality.

Regardless of your skill set and interest the first step to turning your experience into alternative business profits is to get your feet moving forward. Bookmark this blog to get articles and ideas on how to start, run, or improve your online business and add our feed to your favorite RSS feed reader today.

Andy Anderson

My Viral Blog

Recently we announced that Easy Search Live had Joined the ISEDN network of Search providers, as part of our membership we are able to offer the ISEDN alternative to PPC advertising.

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The ISEDN ads are also very cost effective in comparison to other advertising systems, instead of a bidding system there is just the one low fee per keyword (around $4 per month) this allows advertisers to maintain their budget while increasing the number of keywords/phrases the ads will appear under.

Coupled with millions of searches performed monthly ISEDN advertising all adds up to better Bang for your advertising dollar click here to check it out for yourself