"Get Google Pay-Per-Click Ads for Free" was the title on the report that promised an amazing way to advertise on Google AdWords without having clicks ding your wallet.
This ebook was #1 on Clickbank's Marketing & Ads category, so curiousity got the best of me and I paid $97 to see what it was all about.
Want my honest assessment? Read on...
This ebook was the biggest waste of money, and perhaps most deceiving marketing scheme, that I have seen in a long time.
First of all, please know that as an author I respect other authors. If there was any substance to the mentioned material, I wouldn't share the "secrets" within. But my consumer alert antenna went up with this one and you need to know what is inside so you don't get bamboozled into buying this.
Here it is. The BIG secret that can get you Free advertising on Google.
Are you ready?
Are you sitting down?
It's a shocker.
I hope I have prepped you adequately, because this is going to be earthshattering and life-changing.
NOTE: If you aren't perceiving extreme sarcasm, please go back and read the last few sentences again. ;-)
THE BIG SECRET - Sell advertising on your web site to pay for your Google AdWords clicks.
Yup. That's it.
$97 and 122 pages of digital material to reveal that big secret.
Sure, he's got some supplementary material on how to go about selling ads on your site, how to buy space and resell it at a higher price and some basic tutorials on how to use AdWords.
But honestly, I can't believe that this material is actually being sold.
It's all in the marketing. Everyone wants to get Google AdWords clicks for free!
Heck, he got my curiousity.
And you know what? I'm not even going to ask for a refund.
I'm going to keep this ebook as a reminder of how the very worst kind of junk can be presented as gold.
It's also a reminder that I, too, am a customer and can be marketed to.
Anyone else buy this ebook?
Joel, are you telling me that wasn't worth $97 even if you didn't know what you already know? :)
just kidding.....
That's ridiculous.......I could see maybe it being worth $10 to someone who had no previous knowledge, but the fact that it was even more of a scam to get the consumer to purchase it makes it worth nothing!
Yes I agreed. This ebook is totally worthless and waste of time.
Joel,
I'm surprised that Google isn't giving you Google ads for free already, considering all the customers you've brought them.
I saw the sales page for that book, but read the fine print at the bottom and it mentioned that it is not affiliated with Adwords or Adsense, so I immediately knew that that was what they were going to suggest. I dodged that bullet. Glad to hear that my prediction was correct.
I have to admit... I buyed it too.
And you know what?
I told myself: Damn... He really selling this 100 bucks? Ok... Let's write an Ebook filled with crap and sell it 75 bucks...
But I didn't found enough stupidities to fill up 150 pages.
why pay $100?
i will wait for the seminar for $1000 and find out all the "secrets" that the ebook could not include for only $100!..ye of little faith!
I agree with you that this book is deceiving and way too expensive for the information it provides. I have to say that for some people it will bring up an alternative to Adsense or other types of ads that could bring in more money for the, Let's say you have a decent site, pr3, get a couple hundred clicks per day. You could sell ad space on the home page for $30-50 a month and sub pages for $10-20. It could be a nice addition to your Adsense revenue.
Yeah I got caught in this same trap a while back and I was completely pissed off to find out that the BIG secret was only to sell advertising on your site to pay for the adwords campaign. If anyone had an Ahah moment from reading that eBook that had to be completely retarded. I think that eBook should be removed because I know at least two dozen people buy it every single day, making that scam artist rich.
Sorry about the ramblings, but horrible products make me upset.
What about buying traffic, is it a scam ?!
thanks for that post Joel.............appreciate the info on that ebook. I knew something was up with it but just wasn't sure. The testimonials looked fake and I don't even think the main page had the guys name who was talking or addressing the consumer.
Great stuff for exposing this guy!
Thanks Joel for this exposure. I could have been the next victim. It stinks to high heaven when you imagine this guy is siphoning money from innocent people. Why give advertising space to obvious scums?
i used your book to make my own google adsense
Hi there Joel.
Mate I have to tell you that I read this article and was completely dumbfounded.
I asked myself,why would anyone give away this sort of information for even 100 bucks?.Let alone give away such a secret.I have always known one thing in my life,and that is that nothing is for free.
I just didn't buy into it,yet the temptation was was seriously there.My gut feel however was just too strong to allow me to buy into this bullcrap.I only had to find one article that proved otherwise,and I did thanks to you.Your a life saver.
I have been battling for two years with adwords and it has done nothing but cost me money with very little sales.I am starting to wonder if the whole GOOGLE ADWORDS scheme is nothing but an almighty massive scam.Yet I still battle with it.I have practically given up and still work my day job even after 3 or 4 scammy e-books on adwords and after two years.
I don't believe there is anybody out there,even after two years of massive spendings on adwords.I also don't believe anybody is giving away the real information with google or clickbank ,but rather making sales from e-books on information which just isn't durable.
Thanks again Joel
Your one of the honest ones.(very rare to find.)
Regards
Pete.
Hi there Joel.
Mate I have to tell you that I read this article and was completely dumbfounded.
I asked myself,why would anyone give away this sort of information for even 100 bucks?.Let alone give away such a secret.I have always known one thing in my life,and that is that nothing is for free.
I just didn't buy into it,yet the temptation was was seriously there.My gut feel however was just too strong to allow me to buy into this bullcrap.I only had to find one article that proved otherwise,and I did thanks to you.Your a life saver.
I have been battling for two years with adwords and it has done nothing but cost me money with very little sales.I am starting to wonder if the whole GOOGLE ADWORDS scheme is nothing but an almighty massive scam.Yet I still battle with it.I have practically given up and still work my day job even after 3 or 4 scammy e-books on adwords and after two years.
I don't believe there is anybody out there,even after two years of massive spendings on adwords.I also don't believe anybody is giving away the real information with google or clickbank ,but rather making sales from e-books on information which just isn't durable.
Thanks again Joel
Your one of the honest ones.(very rare to find.)
Regards
Pete.
Great post,
I could have hit myself in the head after reading the "secret"
I guess I can count myself lucky for not buying the book.I should of seen it because like others who commented here I had a gut feeling it was something like that.The sad part is though I bought into the hype and started to promote it on my blog by being an aff.Guess I'll make a post to my readers and tell them of my mistake.
I to hate it when I'm sold a bill of goods,thought it might have been something worthwhile.
Anyway,again great post,
Scott
P.S. by the way your about the third one I've read so far who posted the "secret".
Has anyone out there heard about WideCircles.com. It seems like a way better service then wasting money on PPC. Apparently they are using refering websites ( forums, blogs, wiki, etc. ) and have a viral word of mouth distributed approach to it. My friend told me he got around 100 visits from single post which cost him $0.40c. I am going to give them a try today . In case you are intrested here is it. http://widecircles.com?s=imt1
i fell under the same trap but i was luckey i wanted to see mabe i could find it for free and then i found this it saved me $67 im happy some one maid this plus the amount off adds put on you website will not be able to put any amount of google adds on your site
Yeah I agreed, This book is not totally helpful.
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That does sound like trash about buying an AdWords e-book. Best thing is see Brad Callen about the AdWords e-book for free and then sell the search engine optimzing software as Brad's affilite...
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I bought it a year ago.
Went through it and promptly asked for a refund, which I rarely do for Clickbank infoproducts, but for this case, I felt it was my right to.
Thanks for the info, wouldn't have helped me at all considering I already use adsense!!!
There is a way to get free advertising. I'll tell you right now, no problem at all, why? Because once you see how it actually works, you'll either kick yourself in the ass, or get over to the website on the bottom of this post for some more stupidly simple to impliment, quality info. Here goes.
You're doing almost what that guy said to do. You need to purchase pay-per-click adds on OTHER search engines, as in NOT google, yahoo, and MSN. Now, put in a google adsense banner in between each of your paragraphs. The adsense ads will pay you about 10X what you shell out for pay-per-click ads on the same keywords. If effect, you are a traffic middleman. If you add some affiliate products or better yet, your own products in the mix, you'll bank thousands without really having to do anything.
So there ya go, I just helped you out. Now get on over to that website and learn what driving traffic and really making money on the internet is about.
i was just gonna purchase, before done a quick web search on people who bought it. PHEW!!! and cheers
I am very happy to have found your review. I spend several hundred per month using Google Adwords and was thinking maybe I was making a mistake by spending the Adwords money, but not spending the $97 for the "Free Google Ads" book - I send out a very sincere thank you.
I would like to just say to Pete (the comment regarding the 2 years of Google Adwords with very few results) - Google Adwords is in no way a scam. It is the very best advertising one can buy. However, spending money on Adwords certainly does not guarantee you any sales (I don't work for Google, I'm trying to be constructive). I have tinkered with various campaigns and after 4 months now I'm finally figuring out which products work and which don't. All I can say is Try Different Stuff. My best tip is to run your ads for a couple days to test results. Set a small budget - Write different ad titles - Use country targeting.
One of the best and easiest tips I can recommend is simply Google themselves. The campaign optimizer they offer really rocks and gives a LOT of great tips and info.
I won't go into all my google tips, but I hate to see people who obviously are willing to try and get frustrated - It's easier to say something is a scam than to take a look into what we may be doing wrong. I hope you try some different stuff and not give up.
Google Adwords is the best advertising you can get - You just have to learn how to use it.
Thanks again for the review - I am joining your newsletter now. I love finding great sites like this!
Hi,
I have read very carefully each opinion on this page. Unfortunately I didn't agree with some of them. The company I work for purchased Get Google Ads Free from http://storesales.godomainnames.net/Google-Pay-Per-Click-Ads-FREE.htm in October 2008, few days after the Stock Market loose billions of dollars and the depression start being noticed.
I follow the instructions on each manual and I consider the information incredibly valuable. It will take me probably years to discover all the marketing secrets and techniques I am using to promote my company business at this moment. I don't want to mention the Web Site here, I am not trying to sell anything, just want to share my experiences.
One more thing, my boss asked me to read the information, to implement as many techniques as I can and to prepare a detailed monthly report with the achieved goals, our company have not being suffered form the bad economy, thanks to whet we learned and implemented. After reading all the material, I realized that I could start my own business from home and apply the same techniques and is working.
Regards,
Jose Andrades, Assistant to the Marketing Director
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Joel,
Thank God You are there! The industry needs more guys like you to expose such trickery. Almost bought that until I found your blog.
Thanks and God Bless,
Edwin
Instead of receiving comissions for the adsense I put on my pages, CAN I get free PPC advertising as payment for the comissions ??
Yep...I was sucked into this one too, over a year ago. It hasn't done a thing for me but make me feel dumb for buying it.
thanks for the honest post, Joel.
Jim
Here is the latest one
"Aggressive Wealth Sectets"
I signed up for this and was not provided access
2 emails to the support site
2 emails to publisher
2 telephone calls to support
No replies from any
This is a rip off
Am cancelling transaction as fraud with visa
Thanks for saving me $97, Joel. I felt it was too good to be true yet I wanted to know what big secret he was holding out on. Thanks for letting me know it was a scam.
Unfortunately there are people who pay for this "inside knowledge" of how to be successful online when the tricks of the trade are at your fingertips for free. Kudos Joel for posting this and hopefully saving some people some money.
Thanks for the informative content. Most folks still consider free ppc as an option to the paid services, not knowing that most of them are mere scam and the genuine ones will go off air in short time since they cannot compete with the big boys PPC search engines.
Hey what's upper Joel,
I was curious, I noticed that you were upset about the book, and yes the marketing will go down in history as one of the best and most timely messages ever ;)
But my curiosity is that you didn't say much about the concept or idea used in the GetGoogleAdsFree.
Do you think that buying PPC ads (from anywhere) and sending them to a splash page that sells off ad space (which off-sets some of your cost) is worth it?
If you bought let's say $10 a day of traffic and sold it for $10 a day to 3-4 advertisers, is that something that people should try?
Thanks for you input.
Yeah, my company spends quite a bit on Google Adwords each month, but we don't see much of a return on it. We don't have ads on our site, and it's not something I can convince our business owner of doing. I think ads on a site are just kind of an eyesore and a cluster-mess anyway. When I see them on other people's sites, it actually makes me think less of the company because of it.