Author: TristanB

Despite the fact that there have been a number of online money making scams over the years, a lot of people are still falling into these up to now– even with scams created 5-10 years ago!

What’s the reason behind this?

Based on findings, the usual victims of these scams are those who are desperate to make quick and easy money online.

Don’t be one of them and beware of online money making scams!

Here are some of the most popular scams that have been around the Internet for a number of years.

1. Pyramid Schemes

Pyramid schemes are usually illegal as it is a very shady and suspicious concept.

Likewise, it’s often mistakenly linked with MLM (Multi-level Marketing) due to the commission structure they offer.

The only difference is the fact that legitimate MLMs have products that you’ll be required to sell.

2. Survey Sites

Although there’s a lot of legitimate survey sites out there that do pay, there are also scam survey sites that offer false hopes of ‘high payment’ per survey.

In fact, some of these even proclaim that you can earn $3,000 a month by just answering surveys!

This is too good to be true. Most legitimate survey sites only pay a couple of dollars per survey.

That only implies that it’s impossible for this kind of gig to be the main source of income.

3. Congrats! You Just Won the Lottery!

We’ll be surprised if you have never come across something like this!

These usually appear as pop-ups when you visit website or when you have accidentally mistyped the popular ones.

You can give it a try and try to mistype “youtube.com” to “youtuube.com” and you’ll see what we mean.

These kinds of offer will ask you to fill in personal details, such as your full name, email address, phone number, etc.

If you’ll think about it, you’ll be giving a lot of information to a complete stranger!

Even if it’s free, giving your personal information can be really dangerous– you’ll never know what they’re going to do with these.

4. Mystery Shopping: Wiring Cash

Just like with paid surveys, there are also legitimate sites that offer mystery shopping services that you can try.

However, there are also some scammers who take advantage of this. How does this scam work?

a) You’ll be given a mystery shopping task to assess a money transfer service.

Then, you’ll receive a check of $2,000 to back in.

b) You’ll have to wire $1,400 of this to a third party, and keep the $600.

c) Unfortunately, the check will bounce and you’ll just lose $1,400. This might even affect your credit rating at the end.

5. Email Scam

This is a very old scam, however, a lot of people are still falling for this!

These emails are automatically directed to spam mail, but some still end up in your mail.

Basically, you’ll receive a letter where a stranger will give you a huge amount of cash and all you have to do is enter your personal details in the link provided in the email.

NEVER FALL FOR THIS or you might get yourself in huge trouble.

6. Auto-Surfs

These are programs that will allow you to surf various websites as a way to earn cash.

Some advertisers do pay for these programs to show viewers the products they are promoting.

Most of these will ask you to pay for membership.

After that, you’ll be asked to refer new members as a way to pay the old members– similar to a Ponzi scheme.

Then, after a while, they’ll stop paying the users once the program cannot sustain itself anymore.

7. Data Entry Jobs

For the past few years, “data entry jobs” has been one of the most overused words.

Unfortunately, although this sounds like an easy job, most of these are usually scams.

There are plenty of websites that offer data entry jobs, such as transcribing, proofreading, or entering information in spreadsheets.

There’s a catch.

Some of these data entry websites will ask you to sign up for a lot of services that you don’t even need.

What’s worse is that, even after signing up, you wouldn’t get any jobs after. Basically, you’ll be wasting your time filling up those sign up forms for nothing.

How to Detect Them:

One of the most obvious signs that it’s a scam would be– they’re willing to pay too much for a very simple task.

For instance, if they’ll promise to pay you $2,000 a month for just basic data entry work, you should be cautious of it.

Another scam sign is that they’ll ask you to pay for a registration fee just so you can start working.

These are just some of the money making scams that you should avoid. Don’t be a victim of these!

Have you been to an airport? Have you seen the way Aircrafts, land on the airstrip and then taxi into the airport terminal?

Very systematic, just imagine, what would happen if the Aircraft tried to land directly, on to the terminal!

Absolute chaos and discomfort to everyone and phenomenal losses.

Do you have a product?

You have created an affiliate program and adsense ads and are ready to rock and roll, but have you created a landing page, for the ads and the affiliate programs that you have created?

There is very high probability, that the answer is no!

The net result, you incur losses, because you led up the customer, to the home page of your site, instead of the page, which was supposed to give the information, about the product, the customer was searching.

The net result, you lost a prospective customer, but also lost money, in Google Adsense as well as, in the affiliate marketing program.

Landing pages are similar, to the landing strips in Airports, a page where visitors are directed to, whenever they click a web ad or a search a web result.

Landing pages would be the right place, where your potential customer should land, read the information, make a decision and then probably make a purchase.

They aren’t anything special, that would make them distinct from the other pages, just that, it is the right page where a customer, can find the information he is looking for.

You can wonder why have, extra pages, when you can send your customers, to your home page.

If you do want more, from your business i.e. more profits better create a special landing page, for your web ads.

Still in doubt, consider a few reasons below … after you read the reasons, if you decide to create one, do a professional job of it than a so-so one.

Reason #1: It is a great way to earn conversions in an affiliate marketing program

Though there are a numerous affiliate marketing programs, most of these programs ask the merchant pay the affiliate, on a pay per click basis.

Once you signup the program owner, would distribute your ads, to various affiliates who would place the ads on their websites.

So there you go, anytime your ad is clicked, the visitor would be directed to your landing page and of course you pay the affiliate for his service.

As a merchant, the only earning you make is through conversions i.e. whenever a visitor decides to buy a product.

So your expenses increase, as more traffic comes into your site.

No conversions mean, no revenue and no revenue would mean an ever increasing expense on ads.

You are getting into a loop, which would be very difficult to get out.

Your ads might be getting you enough people, interested in your products, but without a landing page, they have no way of knowing, how to purchase the products.

So have landing pages for your ads, because that is the only way, you can ever earn any money in an affiliate program.

Or else you will be in a loop, where you will be spending, spending and spending.

Reason #2: Other web pages may just not be enough.

How about landing people, on the “Contact Us” page? How about on the home page?

Well, each of these pages have their uses.

You cannot expect a visitor, to take time out to find your contact details and then purchase a product.

The same way, a home page is designed, to be a kind of welcome kit for the visitor, one that gives him just about relevant information and serves multiple visitors.

So the net result you have visitors, who have lost interest in your products already.

Keep the customer in mind, when choosing a landing page.

Let the page be relevant to the key words and the contents of your ad and lastly, it should induce your visitor, to take action i.e either by purchasing your product or direct you to customers, who would buy.

Final Word

The very purpose of you getting, into an affiliate program was to save advertising expenses and to gain more profit.

But without a proper back end, you will end up spending too much, on ads with little ROI.

If you still don’t have a Landing page, well, get one soon then. And get a great landing page.