Google Treasure Chest Exposed!

June 27, 2009

Thanks to Big Chuck Turner for pointing us to a  news video produced by the hard hitting news team at a local ABC affiliate in Philadelphia about the Google Treasure Chest and the fake Miami Gazette News site promoting it.  Note that the news story doesn’t touch on the affiliate networks promoting this, or the [...]

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Amazon Closes All Affiliate Accounts Based In North Carolina

June 26, 2009

At 4:30am this morning, all Affiliate accounts based in North Carolina were closed by Amazon.  That means no more referrals paid for anyone sending affiliate tagged links to Amazon if they are based in NC.  The affiliates received the following email: We regret to inform you that the North Carolina state legislature (the General Assembly) [...]

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Google Kit Scam Sites – The Full List

June 21, 2009

[ad] Well folks, I just can’t keep up anymore!  There are so many ads placed by affiliates pushing these different Google Money Kit, Google Biz Kits, Internet Cash Kits, Google Fast Cash, Google Money Makers and lying/hiding the real pricing that we here at the Plumber just can’t keep up posting about each one we [...]

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The Plumber Goes Do Follow! And You Should Too.

June 19, 2009

Well, Matt Curtis from Google dropped a bombshell on the SEO community the other night by clarifying the “basic” operation of PageRank, the value of link sculpting, and what really happens when you nofollow a link. He made it very clear that this was based on a simplified version of Page Rank than what Google [...]

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What is “free as in beer”?

June 18, 2009

I used the term “free as in beer” in a comment the other day and a couple people asked what it meant. There is a saying in software development called “free as in beer” vs “free as in speech.”  I’m going to add an article about a new phrase to these called “free as in [...]

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Your Town Tribune News First – Another Easy Google Profit Scam News Site.

June 16, 2009

[ad] Someone sent me a link to tribunenewsfirst.com, which hosts a bunch of Easy Google Profit fake news blogs trying to convince you to input your credit card for only $1.97 and learn Mike Steadman’s secrets to making money at home working part time for Google.  Wait, now it’s Ashley Steadman’s secrets.  Wait!  Now it’s [...]

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The Best Free Make Money At Home Course.

June 15, 2009

[ad] You won’t see this free course I’m about to tell you about advertised all over the internet like all the Easy Google Profit scams we keep reporting on.  Why not?  Because it’s FREE.  No one is going to pay big bucks to advertise something real like this, so it remains mostly secret for only [...]

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Watertown Tribune News – Another Easy Google Profit and Google Cash Secret Club Scam Site.

June 14, 2009

I saw another fake work at home for Google ad today on Facebook. This time it’s a fake newspaper called the Watertown Tribute News with an article about Mike Steadman the college dropout pushing the Easy Google Profit and Google Cash Secret Club methods of working from home for Google for “only $1.97 or something”.  [...]

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The Easy Google Profit Scam

June 1, 2009

We’ve been reporting on many of the fake blog and fake news site scams here at the Electron Plumber over the past couple of months and they just keep coming and coming, changing their names every once in a while in an effort to appear new and different.  At first and sometimes second glance, they [...]

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The Los Angeles Tribune News and Easy Google Profit – Is It Real?

May 18, 2009

[ad] I keep seeing ads all over the place for a news article on making money at home from a paper called the Los Angeles Tribune.  Well, it’s just another day, another unheard of news site touting another part time work at home money making offer.  This time it’s losangeles-tribune.com advertising the Easy Google Profit [...]

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