Ezines United - an ad co-op to be avoided
Ezines United is an ad co-op I definitely recommend you to avoid.
Let’s visit together Ezines United and see why I did recommend you to avoid it …
75% of the homepage talks about how you can boost your advertising campaing by using solo advertising provided by their network. Visit any other page you want and you’ll never ever find anything about solo advertising that can be purchased from Ezines United. We may assume that the owner doesn’t even know what solo advertising means … or it’s just a trick to make people and especially newbies to buy their classified ads … Google ranks them very well. If you search for “solo ads” Ezines United can be found on page 3! The description taken by Googlebot from the description provided by Ezines United webmaster is “An ezine ad submission service offering solo advertising to reach over 110,000 potential customers”.
Let’s go further and visit the page Advertisers.
The first think you can read here is that you can buy a “Five line ad in 1 group of ezines ( 110,000+ subscribers )“. This is the solo advertising they are talking about?! Let’s read further … “Your ad will usually appear together with other paid classified ads“. Crystal clear, right?
Let’s read further … Then it comes a table containing more groups of ezines the advertiser may choose and two payment buttons. Let’s see in detail what the table contains …
The first group of ezines has the following subscribers count: 2149245355. Yes, two billion subscribers. Nice! Let’s click on Show Ezines to see this magnificent group 1. First ezines seem OK if you don’t have the information that some of them are no longer published. For example: The Upper Hand Ezine. No big problem (?), let’s see other ezines. Scroll down to see some great ezines. For example “free web tools“, an ezine having the following description: “list links to locate free stuff“. Nice ezine! Read further to see even more “ezines”: “cccccccccc” and others like this … The “ezine” before the last one has one million subscribers and the last one has 2 billion subscribers. Can anybody believe this?
If you go back to the table of ezines where the payment buttons are, then you will notice that both buttons for ClickBank and PayPal payments are working.
Do you have your own blaklist of places to avoid? If you have it, be sure to add Ezines United. If you don’t have, you should have one …
October 9th, 2007 at 5:10 am
It’s exactly this kind of post that we all need to pay more attention to, and for that matter, to make ourselves. People in the marketing industry are way past being fed up with scammers like this. They’re tired of the hype, the spam, the phishing, and spoofing, and all the other ways that the unscrupulous find to slip a few more bills out of our pockets.
Thanks for bringing this one to light. I wish we had more people writing these exposee’s. It would make life a lot harder for the scam artists, rather than the hardworking entrepeneur, just trying to get ahead!
Best regards, and keep up the great work!
Tim
October 28th, 2007 at 9:40 am
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January 14th, 2008 at 4:52 am
Thanks for exposing these crooks. The internet will be a cleaner place if we have more posts like this.