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Making Money Online

All these Free Trial scams all over the Internet advertising world have started making people nervous of any free deals.  Howeve, free has always been and remains a great sales and marketing tool. Giving something away for free gets people’s interest in your product or service with very little sales “friction” since it’s free.  If [...]

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Free Link Building Through Social Networks

by El Plumber (admin) on February 19, 2010

I’ve been planning on writing my own free program for making money online through building successful websites for a while now.  I keep getting distracted by the crap that tends to derail all great ideas.  Creating a site and program that is worthwhile with real tutorials takes time and investment and I keep going back [...]

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Number of Clicks For Ranking First in Google vs All The Rest

by El Plumber (admin) on January 17, 2010

SEO, or Search Engine Optimization, is a very important component of getting traffic to any website.  Ideally you would have a great site that magically spreads virally around the internet by word of mouth/email/Twitter/Facebook then holds on to that traffic long term.  Until then, there is great traffic available free from Google if you know [...]

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Tycoon Cashflow – Legit or Scam?

by El Plumber (admin) on November 22, 2009

We’ve received a couple of questions from readers about whether or not Tycoon Cashflow is legit or a scam, so we went and had a look at what they had to offer.  NOTE, we have NOT purchased the Tycoon Cashflow program nor looked at what is in the members area.  Everything we are going to [...]

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The Best Place To Learn How To Earn Money Online

by El Plumber (admin) on October 5, 2009

One of the things that amazes me about many of the “Google” money making offers have almost no information about what you will be receiving when you sign up, what you will be doing, how much added investment is necessary and the like. People are blinded by the thought of working at home and making [...]

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Adsense Vs Chitika Experiment Week 1 Report Delayed By Cold Feet

by El Plumber (admin) on October 3, 2009

[ad] Well, I was typing up my first two week cycle report on the little Adsense vs Chitika experiment I’m running on one of my niche sites, when I started to get cold feet. Literally because it’s autumn where I live and the basement under my office is unheated, and figuratively because the Adsense Terms [...]

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Were You a Victim Of Consumer Fraud?

by El Plumber (admin) on October 2, 2009

[ad] We get a LOT of visitors here at The Plumber who ran into one of those fake blogs and fake news sites that keep sprouting up all over the internet.   The Google Biz Kit and Google Adworks and Google Fortune sites all appear to be variations on the Google Treasure Chest scam that was [...]

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Inside A Google Biz Kit Trap

by El Plumber (admin) on September 27, 2009

[ad] We get some darn good comments here at the Electron Plumber from people sharing their research into one offer or another and if it’s worthwhile or a rip-off.  And sometimes they are so good that they deserve to be seen by more than the people reading the comments on that one post. We received [...]

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Chitika vs Google Adsense PPC Experiment – The Real Story

by El Plumber (admin) on September 22, 2009

[ad]  I keep running into blogs claiming that Chitika is better than Adsense, that as soon as they switched from Google Adsense to Chitika, their earnings doubled or tripled or some other such unsubstantiated claim. What is important to note in all these claims is that as of today, September 22nd, 2009, Chitika offers referrers [...]

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Are There Any Real Get Rich Quick Schemes

by El Plumber (admin) on September 13, 2009

We report on many sketchy make money online programs here at the Electron Plumber in the hopes that we will save some of you from getting scammed by the many wolves out there trying to trick you into giving them your money. And in almost every scam post, there is someone who asks in the [...]

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