FTC Is Cracking Down On Flogs!
With CPA networks and blogging platforms on the rise, there are a number of bad apples in the business and setting fake blogs to drive their CPA campaigns. These blogs are known are FLOGS.
I was looking around the internet and found a couple of such campaigns immediately. They are single page blogs with high traffic (due to heavy PPC advertising) and usually there’s a “before” and “after” image prominently displaced to capture attention. The RSS counters and even the comments are all made up to provide the visitors with fictitious information. However, that doesn’t mean the products they are promoting are not up to expectations but the fact that making facts and misleading statements could harm both the network and also the advertisers. Thus The FTC is tracking down on such blogs and shutting them down. Even the before and after pictures are faked easily using photoshop.
Making money is okay as long as we stick to ethical standards. Here’s a video I found on Youtube that clearly demonstrates how the pictures are morphed into “perfection”.
Amazing stuff huh? It also applies to some sites I saw on teeth whitening products. Making money is fine with me but faking stuff up to bring in the cash is simply WRONG and might end up in hot soup!
CPA Marketing Explained
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CPA Marketing is the hot topic these days and almost all internet marketers are taking the plunge into this marketing system. So, what is CPA? It stands for Cost-Per-Action. The advertisers pays you for every lead that you generate for them. It could be a trial-product offer or even a simple email submits. If you don’t know what CPA is about, then you are living under a rock!
Lets watch the following video I found for a deeper understanding of what CPA networks and campaigns can do for your online marketing business.
Over the next few posts, I will review several CPA networks and had submitted my application earlier today to MarketLeverage as well. Internet marketing is no longer just selling miserable ebooks from Clickbank and CPA marketing has taken a big step for internet marketers to get more involved with brand building and awareness for the “Big Boys” advertisers. My approach is using direct PPC and having highly optimized landing pages for campaigns. Yes, it could mean that I can easily rake up alot in adspend but again this is the fastest way in which I can start split-testing my campaigns almost immediately and deliver results for the advertiser on a much quicker pace. Ther are other source of traffic generation techiques as well but as for now, I will concentrate on PPC.
Blogging The Steps Of My Journey…
I recalled the days of fighting over the usage of phone line for internet access and surfing the web using a “top-notch” US Robotics 28.8K modem.
As 14 years passed by, so much has evolved on the internet and taken the economy by storm. What seems to be a “time-waster” suddenly became the main infrastructure for many businesses today. People get more out of the internet and many are quitting their jobs and run their own internet business. I have a couple of friends having great success doing that and gained a lot of knowledge over the years. I still remember the early days of eBay, Amazon and back then, Google didn’t make much of a headline. Within a short period of a decade, they have emerged as internet “super-powers”. Amazing, isn’t it?
I guess I must have a gazillion bytes worth of info lying inside my computer on making money online but the problem that most of us faces is not taking action at all! You know who you are… It’s time to tap into those resources and put it to practical usage.
People like John Chow and Yaro Starak have inspired me to consider blogging seriously. I have to admit that I’m not a “best-seller” writer but heck, there must be always a starting point right?
Anyways, this first post is dedicated to all who encouraged me and also going out to my son who is celebrating his birthday today as well!!
