World Internet Challenge Day 1

So what’s the big deal? Today started off with a Web basics 101 day which I almost didn’t go to, thinking I knew a fair bit already. A lot of Internet basics were explained, along with a lot of motivational stuff, cheering, hugging and that sort of snuggly warmly stuff. It does help to some degree, depending on how receptive you are to that sort of thing.

As for the basic web stuff, one thing for sure is that the Internet is constantly changing. A few useful links were provided, such as http://fiverr.com (you pick someone to do some work for you for the princely sum of $5.00 per task) and http://tinyurl.com which basically lets you shorten your affiliate link urls (some can be quote long). It’s a free service – Cool.

I am not sure about the ethics of using low-paid experts in other countries to do one’s web building, product or whatever that will make someone else megabux. Perhaps a service allowing one to pay more money if he or she wants to, for what one sees as value in the results one gets could be a good thing.

The Internet Challenge

Today’s clincher was launching the Great Internet Challenge in which a product is promoted and sales are awarded to one lucky participant in the audience.

The new product disclosed was authoritybacklinkpro by Steve Essa. The product is a downloadable software utility that generates backlinks from high-ranking sites to yours, thus elevating your own site rankings. It works off ‘trusted’ sites, that being urls with .gov and .edu. Such sites typically have a higher Google page ranking.

So, being an evaluator of all things software and the like, I purchased the product (my friend chipped in with half payment). I don’t mind putting the affiliate url here for backlinkpro – in this case moneys earned don’t go to Steve Essa this weekend; they will go in the form of a check payment to an attendee in the audience -and that is a good thing.

One annoying thing is that after you purchase the product you are then goaded to purchase a backlink sniper product. Of course you have the option not to purchase.

Another annoying thing is (after an audience member went onto the stage to purchase her product on a Mac laptop), some errors showed after the purchase was complete. This did not affect the purchase, but was an ASPX error that occurs often when sites are done in Windows without much thought to code cleanliness and crossplatform compatibility. So boys; clean up your act and think about Macs!

When I tried to get the affiliate link instead I got a set of three PHP server errors! Incidentally, the error shows on both Windows and Mac.

The workaround is to go to your email, click the link to the affiliate page and fill in the ‘forgot password’ edit box, which is then sent to you.

The product itself I am told by others is pretty good and probably worth the investment, but there are other similar products out there, so have a look around first.

Still, if one signs up to be an affiliate for this product, a high commission is returned and you get some money back if someone purchases through your affiliate link.

Now Steve Essa has made hundreds of thousands of dollars doing sites like this, each for literally a $2500 investment in creating a sales page, graphics, copy and of course a product (but you can do it via WordPress for next to nothing, and make it nicer looking -more on that in a future post). The affiliate stuff fuels the affiliate ‘pyramid’, as some say, in perpetuam -well for the foreseeable future anyway, as there is plenty of bandwidth for this kind of product and selling style.

Hats off to him – he made it -and he’s showing us how to do it. But remember, the audience in this event; me, you, us, all help him achieve his goal -and that’s what it’s all about; people linking and sharing, buying and advocating, and helping each other make money.

KarinG

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