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I'm Not A Fan Of The Fake Blog
I'm sure many of you have seen the diet ads saying we need to obey one rule. Well, these ads take people to a fake blog (aka "flog" in the new marketing terminology).
A fake blog is a page that looks like a blog and has a personal story being used to sell a product, but is nothing more than a made up set up words designed to sell a product.
There is no "Maria" who lost 25 pounds by following the one rule. There is only the marketer who made jup the story to mislead people.
I wonder how long Google will continue to allow these fake blogs to advertise within the Google network? These marketers are misleading people into buying products that are not effective. People actually think they are reading a true testimonial on someone's blog when it actually is all made up.
Also, the people are being encouraged to try the products for free, but the "free trials" don't remain free. From what I understand. People are having trouble cancelling the free trials and are being mislead on when the free trial actually begins. A normal person might think the free trial begins when the product is received, but the company starts the free trial when it is ordered. This is causing many people to pay big fees as they don't cancel the free trial early enough.
I guess the main reason this makes me mad is because Google is allowing these marketers to mislead people and scam people into paying for products they thought they were trying for free. So while these marketers are able to drive lots of traffic to these fake blogs, Google tells me that my sites are not "relevant" enough to advertise even though my sites are based entirely on the keywords I am bidding on.
Very frustrating.
A fake blog is a page that looks like a blog and has a personal story being used to sell a product, but is nothing more than a made up set up words designed to sell a product.
There is no "Maria" who lost 25 pounds by following the one rule. There is only the marketer who made jup the story to mislead people.
I wonder how long Google will continue to allow these fake blogs to advertise within the Google network? These marketers are misleading people into buying products that are not effective. People actually think they are reading a true testimonial on someone's blog when it actually is all made up.
Also, the people are being encouraged to try the products for free, but the "free trials" don't remain free. From what I understand. People are having trouble cancelling the free trials and are being mislead on when the free trial actually begins. A normal person might think the free trial begins when the product is received, but the company starts the free trial when it is ordered. This is causing many people to pay big fees as they don't cancel the free trial early enough.
I guess the main reason this makes me mad is because Google is allowing these marketers to mislead people and scam people into paying for products they thought they were trying for free. So while these marketers are able to drive lots of traffic to these fake blogs, Google tells me that my sites are not "relevant" enough to advertise even though my sites are based entirely on the keywords I am bidding on.
Very frustrating.
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Permalink Reply by James Scott on -
Those diet ads are all over the place. I didn't realize they were "fake" blogs. I guess I didn't look at it too closely, but I thought it was a real person telling their story. So yep, I was dupped, but at least I didn't buy anything from the sites.
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Permalink Reply by Willie on
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I agree that the biggest problem here is that Google is allowing this marketer to advertise all over the place. It is like Google is in on the scam. Well, I guess they are in on it since I'm sure their making plenty of money from this ad camapaign.
People have a certain trust associated with the Google brand so when they click on these ads and get scammed into a free trial based on a fake testimonial, Google is aiding and abetting this scam.
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Permalink Reply by James Scott on
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On many sites the top three ads are for:
Weight loss fake blog - Follow these two steps to get free trials of Acai berry and colon cleanse and then see your credit card get charged when you don't realize the free trial starts when you order, not when you receive it. The marketer gets $20-$30 for each free trial that signs up through the fake diet blogs.
Best Teeth Whitener - A quick review of teeth whitening products with Celebrity teeth whitener taking the top spot and giving the marketer a nice commission if people sign up for the free trial.
Government Grants - Another fake blog about how someone got over $12,000 dollars from the government. Sign up for the government grant resource being sold and the marketer gets $27 - $31 per sign-up.
Sorry state of Google advertising that these are the ads being shown in most of their ad boxes.
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Permalink Reply by OICUAM2 on -
I just came across a new fake blog marketing campaign selling the Google Biz Kit. They tell you that Google pays people for posting links, but they don't tell ou the whole story. If you read the fine print on the bottom of the page, you find out that "results are not typical" and all the pictures of people holding big checks and saying they are making good money are fake: "Photographs or images are depiction of individuals and payment methods".
And you can't blame people for seeing the big checks and then finding out they can learn this information for only $1.00. However, what they don't know is that "it's a $1.00 trial offer which automatically converts into a $78.64/monthly fee at the end of the trial period" and the trial period starts when you order the service and there is no reminder from the company that the trial period is ending so many people fail to cancel their trial period and are hit with the huge monthly fee.
Also, all they are going to tell you for the big montlhy fee is that you can join the free AdSense program, put Google ads on your site and make money. What they don't tell you is how difficult it is to get traffic to your site and to get that traffic to click on ads.
This is another scam from a company in Colorado called InfoMedia who had a similar program called Joel Comm and My Google Payday. Stay away folks.
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