Bottom Feeders Using Obama for Bogus CPA Offers
Sorry guys but those bogus government grant offers are NOT the same as Obama’s stimulus package!
President Barack Obama hasn’t even been in office a full month yet and already some affiliates from the dark side of town are using him in a dishonest way to promote CPA offers. There are tons of these ads on Facebook, I only grabbed 3.
The ads go to flogs (fake blogs) like this and when you click through you end up at a CPA offer like this one.
This is the type of thing the FTC is going to jump ALL OVER, for false advertising. If we don’t SELF REGULATE the government is going to do it for us folks! Then even the honest marketers are going to be restricted.
DM Confidential writes: The Affiliate Marketing Stimulus Package
“Is the affiliate marketing the cancer of the online advertising world? Do we look for any opportunity, push it to the natural extreme and simply hope that those in charge of the resources (the advertisers and more importantly the inventory) won’t notice? Or, do we simply assume that we can adapt to the environment because we have already.”
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#1 Bottom Feeders Using Obama for Bogus CPA Offers - 5 Star Affiliate Blogs « AffiliateFortuneCookies wrote on Thursday, February 5th, 2009:
[...] Bottom Feeders Using Obama for Bogus CPA Offers – 5 Star Affiliate Blogs: “President Barack Obama hasn’t even been in office a full month yet and already some affiliates from the dark side of town are using him in a dishonest way to promote CPA offers. There are tons of these ads on Facebook, I only grabbed 3.” [...]
#2 Joseph Ratliff wrote on Thursday, February 5th, 2009:
Linda,
This is totally terrible…
I actually went to my Facebook account and clicked on one of these ads on purpose…to see what was on the other side…
I was thinking about leaving a comment on the fake blog with fake comments on the other end…but decided not to lower myself to their level.
Sad.
Joseph
#3 Jeremy Palmer wrote on Thursday, February 5th, 2009:
Here’s an MSNBC article exposing the grant ads – http://snurl.com/govtgrants
#4 Linda Buquet wrote on Thursday, February 5th, 2009:
Thanks a lot Jeremy for the link to that story.
#5 Eric Nagel wrote on Thursday, February 5th, 2009:
I called into the press conference… my notes are at:
http://www.netnagel.com/2009/03/ftc-on-economic-stimulus-scams.html
I agree, make money the honest way.
#6 Linda Buquet wrote on Thursday, February 5th, 2009:
Hi Eric,
I’m glad you were on the press conference call. I didn’t make it but just Twittered the link to it and posted it in the forum.
These guys just give affiliate marketing such a black eye!
Thanks for sharing your blog about it with our readers!