Even more will not act on it. Some will ask for a refund but many others will just forget to act putting it aside till later and later never comes.

There are people writing books on how to play guitar, or how to improve your golf game, or how to speak a foreign language. Yet the success rate of people buying and reading such educational books is low as people often lose motivation or don’t implement things properly as a teacher is not present to push them along, plus there is no penalty for not completing what they set out to do. Making money online is like learning any other skill. And it requires consistent dedication and solid application of the basics. I’m not saying I don’t agree with you that there are a lot of crap ebooks out there, but much of the basics are taught well out there. For example, search engine optimization, conversion tactics, outsourcing, finding profitable niches and so forth. There’s no reason why you can’t master all of those, just don’t go looking for a get rich quick scheme and start putting together proper websites that provide solutions to what people are searching for, it isn’t rocket science.

Offtopic but how well indexed are the KWA article sites? Do you pay attention to how fast your posts on the sites show up in google?

I’m thinking of rejoining just to have access to the directories but I want to know if the links are good and get picked up fast or if people are just spamming them or what.

Thanks

I went back and rewrote and freshened up some of my Hubpages on a couple of accounts. Targeted keywords better, etc. I’ve made a few bucks and noticed that I’ve got some PR2-3 Hubs. It doesn’t suck. Though you never know what Google will think about them over time.

TKA- I stay for the “article directories”. Quite useful I think.

I know a few things that work ref making money from sites. I do not post about them on blogs and I do not sell the information. Instead, I try to capitalise on it myself.

The idea that anyone would sell a method of making $100,000 for $49 is utterly ridiculous…. dont be fooled… again!!

Just think… you have a sure fire method that is making you $100k per year would you:

1) Post the method on your blog
2) Sell it for $49
3) Use it to make $100k per year
4) Try to make $500k per year with it?

Software is the one I have got stung on though… I have bought some very good software tools in my time, which made me gamble on a few not so good ones… nothing major, but one thing I did learn is that Pay Pal does not protect you… at all.

You can buy a complete dud and Pay Pal just say “we dont intervene in matters of product quality”… so, if you want to rip people off with software:

1) Use Pay Pal, as this will instil false confidence in your buyers
2) Offer a “cast iron money back guarantee”
3) Print a sales page of lies
4) Ship out a product, anything, it doesnt matter if it works. It doesn’t matter if it is not as you described it in your pitch.
5) Ignore requests for refund
6) Ignore Pay Pal disputes
7) Spend the money you stole