I have been making a living at home for long enough to be
skeptical of just about every piece of email I receive that hails one system or
another as the greatest thing to ever hit the internet. I have fallen for more
than my fair share of those over the years, to the point where I can now
separate the outright scams from the few that seem to be legitimate. The sad
part of my learning that was that it cost me a bit of money over the years, but
that is how these guys work. They will put up websites with fancy cars,
glorious mansions, and hot women plastered all over the place. It’s an alluring
visual to be sure, but it amounts to nothing more than smoke and mirrors that
is nothing more than an effort to sell snake oil.
I recently received an e-mail that I have to admit intrigued
me from the start. The link took me to a sales page that was surprisingly free
from the types of images I mentioned above. It was a long read that detailed
how one man had created a piece of software that could get your links to the top
of all the major search engines. Reading through the sales pitch, I became
surprised that no red flags were popping up as I read. The first sign of those
is usually enough to send me running back to the programs that I know work well
and which have made me a decent living working from home.
The name of the program was Submission Works, and the basic
premise of the software was that it would take your links and spread them over
thousands of similar type websites, thus creating a huge number of links back
to your site. Those of you who know anything about how search engines work are
well aware that these types of links are what sites like Google gobble up and
love. There was no real fancy sales pitch included here, or confusing
terminology that is intended to sound great, but only really ends up confusing
the reader. What really nailed it for me was the inclusion of an impromptu FAQ
section on the sales page, which even included how to cancel your subscription
if you weren’t happy. It’s amazing how many sites of this sort make it
virtually impossible for you to cancel once you have signed up.
I decided that the $59 per month subscription was more than
fair, especially since it was made perfectly clear how easy it was to cancel if
I was unhappy with the service. I happily dropped down the money and
immediately decided to test a couple of the claims right off the bat. One of
the claims that caught my eye as I read through the sales page was that certain
affiliate links would be denied to avoid over saturation. I decided to test
that theory by adding a link to a program that I had stopped promoting for the
very fact that it was now everywhere to be seen on the internet. Sure enough, I
ran the link through the saturation checker and found that it would be a waste
of my time to submit it: score one for Submission Works.
Once you login to the member’s area of Submission Works, you
are prompted to enter as many as seven different links that you want to
promote. I thought the best way to test out the software was to test just a
single link that I had been having very little success with. I had joined a few different affiliate programs that were all particularly hot at the present time. I had created a Wordpress page
and set about marketing my links. Sales were sluggish to say the least,
prompting me to believe that I had made a bit of an error in judgment by
creating this particular site.
Before I get to the results of my test, let me just say that
this is a program that anyone can use, regardless of experience in internet
marketing. It really is as simple as copying and pasting your link into the
member’s area and sitting back while the software goes to work. And trust me,
it works quickly if my results are anything to go by. The first thing that I
noticed in the first week of using Submission Works was a fairly dramatic spike
in the number of visitors to the site that I was promoting. Those new visitors
resulted in a couple of $50 sales. That may not seem like anything to write home
about, but you have to understand that this was a site that I believed to be
completely dead; so much so that I was actually thinking of pulling it
altogether and simply giving up promoting this particular program at all.
In the next two weeks, the number of visitors to my website
continued to increase, as did the sales. I very quickly surpassed the amount
that I had paid to subscribe in the first place, which meant that anything
after that was pure profit. I use a number of tools to see where my traffic as coming
from, as well as who is visiting. I noticed that I had an increasing number of
repeat visitors during that time, which told me a couple of things. They either
liked what they saw and wanted more or liked it, but weren’t able to get what
they wanted. I soon thereafter submitted one new link from a new program I had just joined and saw my sales numbers spike
again. Many of the new sales were from those latest links I had just submitted into my Submission Works back office. As
you might have already guessed, I have decided to continue into a second month while adding more of my links into the mix. I will update everyone as to how everything goes.
Danica Ramondo
