Step Right Up!
November 1, 1998
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This article describes a few of the pitfalls along the Website promotion
path, including:
Sleazy site-promotion services who'll take your money and give you little
in return.
Lame links pages and so-called search engines who will waste your time and
give you absolutely nothing in return.
Spammers who will offer you whatever you want, in exchange for your soul.
There are a lot of scamsters out there targeting you, the webmaster or
Web publisher. Some want your money, while others only want to waste your time.
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As everyone knows by now, cyberspace is lousy with shady "business"
types. MLMs, GRQs (get-rich-quick), chain letters, pyramid schemes
and pigeon drops abound. Snake oil salesmen, flim-flam men, charlatans
and mountebanks...You get the idea. A large percentage of these wide boys
are targeting you, the webmaster or Web publisher. Some want your money,
while others only want to waste your time. A complete list of the ways to
get ripped off in cyberspace might be an appropriate topic for a
multi-volume book, but for this article we'll just take a brief look
at some of the pitfalls in the Web site marketing and promotion field.
Everybody wants to promote their Web site. Nobody wants to
spend much money. Dispensing advice to webmasters who want
to increase their traffic is a booming business these days,
but the field is rife with bad advice, shady deals, and just
plain rip-offs. In fact it is very important to promote your
site, and there are a lot of legitimate resources that can help
you out, so how to separate the valuable from the vapid? Read on.
Contents:
Bogus Site-Promotion Services
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