What is your opinion?

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I hope I'm not breaking any forum rules by posting this link. However I would value your opinion on whether one would be wasting one's money purchasing it. It looks good, but I have been taken in by these guys before, especially with a program that spun links and put them on blogs for you. Thankfully I managed to get my money back through the 30 day moneyback guarantee. However, I am not going to make them same mistake again. But if you guys think this is worth purchasing, that is good enough for me.

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  • Profile picture of the author yukon
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    You've been hoodwinked by these guys but your on the fence to make another purchase from them?

    A friend of mine says this when someone tries to pull a fast one:

    Screw me once, shame on you.
    Screw me twice, shame on me.
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    • Profile picture of the author Oscarfishlover
      Originally Posted by yukon View Post

      You've been hoodwinked by these guys but your on the fence to make another purchase from them?

      A friend of mine says this when someone tries to pull a fast one:

      Screw me once, shame on you.
      Screw me twice, shame on me.
      I Wouldn't say I was hoodwinked or even conned.I don't think for one moment these guys are producing software just so they can try and con people. The software I had before and got my money back was one of these programs where you create an article and then they submi to something like 1500 blogs every month, Blog sites that they have actually purchased. I'm sure you know what I'm talking about? After researching a little bit after I started using it, I realised that all the blogs were basically crap and carried absolutely no weight whatsoever, so what was the point in spending £150 each month?

      However, I Notice the other day that people were talking about a program called Samurai, or something like that. So if people are willing to pay for that program, what is wrong with this program? All I'm asking is for an opinion on the program.
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  • Profile picture of the author MikeFriedman
    I'm not even going to look at the page. From what you are describing, I will bet that this is a Callen product. If that is the case, I would stay away.
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  • Profile picture of the author jezter6
    Sounds like a cheap version of SEO Spyglass. But apparently without the free version or some sort of trial, just your typical IM sales BS page with a whole lot of hype, but no screenshots or demos of the software.
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    • Profile picture of the author Mike Anthony


      Gives you the percentage of anchor text links on your site and the competitions. Also gives you social signals. Trying to sell that as uncovering the search engines algo is really bending the truth quite a bit.

      So no Spyglass is waaaaay better in actually showing you the links not just percentage of anchor texts. Plus for a one off price you can be sure the backlinks that it is pulling for its "analysis" are pretty slim consisting of only free API services.
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      • Profile picture of the author Oscarfishlover
        Thanks for that guys. I'll admit that I have been taken then by some of these promotions in the past.

        I must admit there are quite convincing. They often talk about websites that they have done and make lots of money have, and it's strange how they won't actually give you the URL.
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        • Profile picture of the author jezter6
          Originally Posted by Oscarfishlover View Post

          Thanks for that guys. I'll admit that I have been taken then by some of these promotions in the past.

          I must admit there are quite convincing. They often talk about websites that they have done and make lots of money have, and it's strange how they won't actually give you the URL.
          I just don't get it. I go over to the main IM forum and see links to these same goofy sales pages. Videos and big yellow "buy now" buttons. Pages 10 screens long because apparently in IM you can't have more than 1 sentence per line.

          Every bit of these sales pages just SCREAM over-hyped-garbage. Yet more and more sales pages start looking the same (much like this one) and people are actually falling for this crap???

          I'm not trying to shill for SEO Spyglass because I only have the free version, but go and take a look at their site vs the one you linked to here. One of those pages looks like a real company that will be there 6 months from now, the other looks like something who's going to use clickbank as a payment processor and will probably be gone by the next Panda update. One of those pages has "features" and "screenshots" as pages. The other just sells hype.

          Why would you even remotely think about shilling out money for something that looks like it was made with the standard IM landing page template?

          As someone in IM, you should be able to recognize someone selling "IM".
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  • Profile picture of the author pianopro
    If you saw a site that offered a NASA built rocket ship to be delivered to your front door for $25, would you buy it?

    This SEO offer is about the equivalent. Finding relevant keywords is one step, not the final step. You still have a lot of leg work to do after that to succeed.

    Really good SEO is not cheap and it never will be. There's no way of getting around it.
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    • Profile picture of the author Oscarfishlover
      When you it's not cheap, are you referring to employing people to do their SEO, Or are you talking about purchasing software?


      Even with fairly good knowledge of search engine optimisation, at what point would you start spending big money?
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  • Profile picture of the author MikeFriedman
    Alright. I could not resist this morning. I had to go look at it. Yep. I was right.

    After the fiasco that was SEO Link Monster, I would advise people to stay away. They were still selling that crappy network to people even after most of it was deindexed. Then they put out some report from their "SEO expert" (and I use that term very, very loosely when referring to Dori) that links on deindexed sites were still good for your rankings.

    Wow... I just went and looked and they are still letting people sign up for SEOLM. Shameful.
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  • Profile picture of the author yukon
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    The please don't leave popup & stupid countdown timer are dead giveaways of a desperate IMer.

    OP, cut up your credit card If your prone to falling for gimmicks.
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    • Profile picture of the author Oscarfishlover
      Originally Posted by yukon View Post

      The please don't leave popup & stupid countdown timer are dead giveaways of a desperate IMer.

      OP, cut up your credit card If your prone to falling for gimmicks.
      It only happened once, and that was with SEO Link Monster. And even then, after various threatening e-mails, I managed to get my money back from them under the 30 day Moneyback guarantee. Mind you, that was one hell of a struggle, they don't make it easy.

      I've come to realise now that anybody that continuously boasts about how much money they make on the Internet, but won't actually let you in on any of their websites are probably best kept at arms length.
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      • Profile picture of the author yukon
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        Originally Posted by Oscarfishlover View Post

        I've come to realise now that anybody that continuously boasts about how much money they make on the Internet, but won't actually let you in on any of their websites are probably best kept at arms length.
        That goes for anything, including offline.

        Learn to spot hype & you won't spend much time reading the BS claims.
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