If you do a quick search on the web you will find hundreds of work from home offers available, the aim of this blog is to sort the legitimate offers from the get rich quick schemes, or as I prefer the alright from the all shite. I’ll give you weekly updates on my progress and give you some real feedback regarding the truthfulness of their claims and let you know how much I really earn. Any obvious charlatans that I uncover will be put to a public vote to determine if the web would be a better place without them, should their guilt be upheld by the public then the Interweb Assassin will be pleased to deliver cold vengeance.
Mission:
Online Paid Surveys
Objectives:
Can you earn from them?
How much work is involved?
What are the pitfalls and how to avoid them?
Phase One
My first action is to Google ‘PAID ONLINE SURVEYS‘
The first result is a sponsored link: Online Surveys Are Scams? By LegitimateBusinessReviews.com
The Interweb Assassin feels the need to investigate further, and decides to click through.
Immediately LegitimateBusinessReviews.com looks cheap and nasty, it feels like an a web version of one of those TV infomercials, it says all the right things but something isn’t right. The first thing that sets alarm bells ringing is as a sponsored link within Google they are paying for every click they receive, but they don’t seem to be selling anything. Why does an independent information site that does not appear to be a merchant need to pay to promote itself? As I scroll down through this web enigma it gives three excellent reviews for three different survey agencies, they all charge a one off sign up fee for their services and offer me the chance to potentially earn as much as $100 an hour by taking surveys online for market research companies, each of these three agencies offer the opportunity for third party affiliates. OK, mystery solved! No doubt LegitimateBusinessReviews.com are signed up affiliates of all three sites and make a nice little cut of the cash whenever someone signs up. Nothing unusual there, standard practice on the web, LegitimateBusinessReviews.com are what is known in the affiliates game as a mini-site, a webpage built with the sole aim of promoting another site or sites by giving a wonderful review and enticing potential users of the service to click through and sign up.
I’m not casting aspersions regarding the legality of any of these sites, nor am I sure that the webscape would be any better or worse for their assassination, but I do feel you do need to be aware that these affiliate sites are only there to push your buttons and get you to part with you cash.
There are literally millions of these mini-sites on the web, used to promote every kind of product or service you care to imagine, from birthing pools to coffin manufacturers. If and when you come across one of these sites you need to remember that their opinion will be biased towards whatever or whoever they are affiliated to. To ensure you get a balanced view always search for an independent review site that is not affiliated, One way to tell if this is the case is if there is no click through link between the sites then its safe to assume they are not affiliated.
So the question regarding these affiliate mini-sites remains, are they a legitimate method of web promotion, or are they a deceitful practice deserving of this assassins ‘great vengeance and furious anger’? Feel free to give your own guidance by taking part in the Public Vote, you'll find it at the top right of this page.
Next phase of my project will see me sign up to one of these Survey agencies and see what they have to offer for my money.
Spider
The Interweb Assassin
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