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I just got an email today from one of the people I’m subscribed to, fellow Aussie, Colleen Slater. I didn’t really notice that she’d be quiet for the past few months until I’d received the email from her today.

Apparently, she was embroiled in her legal battle again with her ex-husband and her children, which has been going on for 3 and a half years. 3.5 years! Talk about holding a long grudge! I don’t pretend to know Colleen Slater, but anyone who can make as much as she does online isn’t someone to be messed with. The fact that love empowered her to become Australia’s best niche blogger with 0 experience is also to be commended.

The main thing here is that her income had kept on steadily coming in, WITHOUT her maintenance. That’s an Affiliate Marketer’s ultimate goal. She didn’t have to worry about looking after it and let the dough roll in

Anywho, in other news, I had another mini-brainwave today while walking down to a train platform on the way back home. Everyone says that the greatest asset that everyone has from the day that they’re born is Time. And that’s true. It’s so great because once you spend Time, it’s gone forever. There is no way you can get it back. No dumb jibes about time machines, please. Thank you.

So. How does this apply to Affiliate Marketing? Well, this should actually go into the Incantation post that I drafted last night, but think about it. If you gave people the choice to leave the page, ie. you actually said, “if at any time on this page you find it unhelpful, click out of this window. Thank you!” Be grateful for people actually visiting your site at all. I’ll refine this post later when I get around to writing my Incantation post.

The main thing I want to say about this sort of mindset is that not only does it help you bond with your prospects, it also FORCES you to become a better Marketer. Think about it. If you don’t want to waste your prospects’ time, you want to offer them the best possible information, ie. giving them exactly what they need fullstop.

You don’t want to waste your own time by spending either a short amount of time writing a scrappy review that sounds spammy and increases your bounce rate, nor do you want to spend hours procrastinating and putting up a poor review that sends your customers around in circles and inevitably off your landing page. A time-oriented focus will benefit all parties involved.

Oh by the way, if you’re a stay-at-home mother wanting to make it big in the online industry, turn to Colleen Slater for a bit of inspiration and advice!

I was working out a bit earlier today when I got home. Afterwards, I checked my Windows Live Mail. 20 in the inbox. Pretty standard. A few twitter adds, GoDaddy promos. Some stuff from Australian Peter Drew.

Now, I’m always for supporting locals. More so if the person is from Victoria. But after my rant earlier about SENuke, I’ve got to say that Brute Force SEO is something that I don’t personally endorse. Hey actually you know what? I haven’t ranted on about SENuke yet. I must’ve just done it on my Notepad. Well, here it goes…

If you go onto Google and look up “SENuke”, a few entries down on the first page, there should be a website: SENukeSux.com. Basically, a guy who didn’t like it bought the domain, then someone who did like it bought it off him. There are a HEAP of comments there; the split good/bad is about 50/50, but there’s one in particular that’s interesting. You people should be looking for this in a review.

It’s from someone who works with computers and knows their stuff about programming. Basically, SENuke does work, but this person argued that the way that they built backlinks was through “cookie stuffing”. Now, I’m not sure if this is technically black hat, but the way that the SENuke software works is that it’s an automated system that builds a zillion backlinks and shoots them to a website to get it ranked.

For a better definition check it up on Wikipedia (OK, not THAT much better =p).

I’m not comfortable with that. I want to be an ethical affiliate marketer. I AM an ethical affiliate marketer and I’m only ever going to go into grey hat, never black hat. If you get a chance to check out SENuke, I’d recommend reading the comments at the aforementioned website.

Now, Brute Force SEO, is, to what I believe, virtually the same (pun unintended). By paying $147/month, you’ll get sites and blogs and accounts made for you (by people I believe), and pretty much, the backlinks are guaranteed. Drew claims you can own the first 30 pages of Google for a given keyword.

I could’ve sworn I ranted about this on this blog, it sounds so familiar… oh well, I’ll paraphrase it again:

WHO NEEDS TO OWN THE FIRST 30 PAGES OF GOOGLE?????

Notice the Italicised “NEEDS”. See, the way I see it, you’ve got your backlinks alright, but you’re not increasing the overall value of the Internet. See, at least with something like JetSpinner, You have control over what people see online; I thought about it today, and it’s just about increasing the spread of an article you have. You want people to read your article because it will be genuinely helpful, but in order to maximise its exposure, you spin multiple copies of it (which you can control) and submit it manually or with a service.

Assuming the article(s) you wrote are good quality, you will be increasing the overall value of the World Wide Web. Call me a prude, but I’d like to see myself with integrity. Personally, I don’t mind a bit of struggle; I don’t like doing things the easy way because you don’t learn as much out of it than if you struggle then succeed.

So Mr. Peter Drew, good on ya for being Aussie, but I’m not going to be investing in Brute Force SEO anytime soon.