Reviewing the Roadmap to Riches Business Opportunity

"How Would You Like to Earn $999 Commissions on Every $999
Product Sale Placed Through Your Roadmap to Riches
Affiliate Website?"'

This is an actual question that is asked on the homepage of
the roadmap to riches affiliate marketing program. But is
this a real possibility or is this business just another
scam? Well, I had to put out $999 to find out so I could
have the opportunity to review the product line offered as
well as the affiliate training that is available in the
backoffice.

As you probably already realize, any new business
opportunity should have an excellent product so it will be
able to sustain itself longterm in the industry. Having a
viable and attractive product to the masses is a crucial
aspect that can't be ignored by anyone considering
marketing any affiliate program.

Here is my viewpoint on the products that are offered:

As I paid my $999 cash payment for the personal development
products, I had decided that I really wanted to spend some
time reading the audio and ebooks offered to see if I could
see real value and feel good about promoting the affiliate
program. I was impressed by how simple it was to access the
products once my payment was made and once I dived in, I
did find some great value in the products which included
the famous book, "Think and Grow Rich" by Napoleon Hill.

The business opportunity is made up of a 2 up compensation
plan with a 100% cash payout of $999 for every sale made.
But unlike most 2 up compensation plans, where you must
give up your first two commissions to your sponsor, roadmap
to riches allows you to split the first two commissions
with your sponsor and earn $499 immediately on these first
2 sales. This is a tremendous benefit as it allows someone
to get into profit immediately, but it also retains the
traditional leverage that 2 Up compensation plans are known
for. After the first 2 sales are made, one earns the
complete $999 on every sale from there on out.

To conclude the review, RoadMap to Riches does have some
well known personal development products. The uniquely
tweaked 2 Up compensation plan also gives a new person the
ability to earn immediate income while still having the
ability to create leverage and therefore allows them the
possibility of earning substantial long term income.

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About the Author: Brian McCoy is a top internet marketer
who works with other industry top marketers from around the
globe. To learn more about him, check out his website at
http://www.MyWorldPlus-Mentor.info .

Search Engine Ranking Back Link Building Software - Useless

As all webmasters look to create better ways to achieve
link building, in hope of gaining top search ranking, more
and more software is developed and sold to make this task
"easier" and quicker.

However the problem with this as a lack of knowledge of
processes, creates a waste of your time and money.

Lets look at this based on a product that claims to
generate back links from high page rank wordpress blogs.
Wordpress is well used free blog software that has a huge
following . Many top bloggers are using it due its easy use
and friendly free tools or "plugins" – which provide more
functionality.

The software I looked at claims to post comments on high
ranking blogs, in the market of your choice simply by
clicking a few buttons. Wordpress is on its 2.2 version and
is very aware of these type of actions, as so are other
programmers.

So I log into my own blog, and I see I have 104 comments
for moderation like:

"Hi !!! -The Author, you - super hero!" and "What beautiful
text and visitors!"

Well thank you very much – (head beginning to swell….)
however they *all* link to "questionable subject" sites at
Blooger.com – the free blog site. Now all of this links
have very similar comments, so my best guess is that
similar software has posted the links.

There are 2 faults with this method:

1. Plugins stop these comments ever appearing- I use a
plugin which will highlight these links and them make me
approve them before they even display. Lets say for a
minute that I don't have the above plugin and the comments
are shown on my site - then comes the second problem.

2. External nofollow Tag– The main reason this software
exists and is being used as the owner area seeking "High PR
links" That's high Page Rank links back to there own
websites in order to rank higher in Google.

However Wordpress, in its most basic form uses what called
a "External Nofollow" –Tag on all comments placed on the
blog (I believe blogger and other blog platforms also
follow the same outline)

The no follow tag does not pass on any of the page
reputation on from the page which means you get no benefit
from the link at all, it will not help your ranking.

The best way to see this in action using Internet Explorer
is to follow these steps:

1. Go to any blog page, that has comments on it, with
external links

2. Click View >> source on the top menu bar

3. In the new text window that opens click Edit >> Find

4. Type: external nofollow in the box

If you are using the firefox browser- (which I highly
recommend) – you can load a SEO for Firefox extension
,which make it very easy to see these links and it
highlights them in red:

It also provides a wealth of information as well on the
sites you are looking at ,about links, alexa rank, Page
rank etc

So back to the software- Who does it really help? Well the
programmer who got paid to make it, the marketer who made
money when he sold it (and sold resell rights to it as
well)- everyone except the person using it!

Also at the same time do you think Google would approve of
its use? They left it to the programmers to update the
wordpress software and keep everyone (well almost everyone)
honest.

So when looking at software to help your business, (there
are many helpful software tools) be aware that anything
that totally automates any process is unlikely to be
effective when a few people start using it. Especially
anything that has a purpose purely just to create links for
search engines, which is highly disliked by the engines as
its seen as attempting to influence results.

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Paul Easton is a Web site Link Marketing Expert, and the
owner of DigitalAwol.com, The Link Exchange Directory that
helps the small online business get traffic from links. You
can instantly get 20 High Quality Fre.e Links to your
website by visiting:
http://www.DigitalAwol.com/