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Name: Adam for web page design, not program
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All right, I promised I'd read the eBook if Chris sent me the code, and that's exactly what I did. I'm going to split this review up into pros and cons:
The Pros
It's a quick read. In fact, it only took me about 3 minutes to cover the important parts of the 9 pages.
The major points are highlighted in red, and only the major points are highlighted in red.
A few unusual sources of traffic were listed.
The Cons
Most of what was listed only applies to the two sites that Chris promotes, lightthatfart.com and popthatzit.com. He mentions traffic sources such as ehowa.com (Ernie's House of Whoop A$$, for those not in the know) and thismight.be/offensive. While they may provide traffic, these sites will generally only provide traffic to sites of a similar theme (i.e. sites where the content appeals to the immature idiot that secretly lurks in each and every one of us).
The link to Directory Maximizer is clearly an affiliate link. While this is the only affiliate link in the eBook (that I noticed, anyway) and is in no way distinguished as an affiliate link. While other eBooks and articles (e.g. anything by Joel Con...er...Comm), and while using affiliate links isn't wrong in and of itself, the link in question is an undisclosed affiliate link from a product that's being resold. That's too much.
The eBook covers a lot of topics and suggestions that are already made thousands of times daily in most web forums (e.g. use StumbleUpon, Digg, etc. as traffic sources). Again, the way Chris writes it isn't quite as insidious as other eBooks, but there's no reason to include "social media optimization" in anything these days.
The site mentions v7n.com and digitalpoint.com as forums worth visiting. They're the kinds of forums that tend to attract a lot of link hungry spammers. To be fair, Chris did mention WMT as well (although it really should be first!)
I had to configure Adobe Reader to open PDFs within the browser (which I hate) before being able to open the eBook. PDFs should open in Reader. That's why it's a PDF reader.
The copy comes across as having been written by someone who is a "young punk" and doesn't have a lot of experience in the Internet marketing field. "Ok so heres..."
In other words, the eBook represents a lightning-in-a-bottle scenario and a case of what worked for one individual, but would likely not work for 99.999% of others. If the book were free, it might be worth reading because there are a select few tidbits that may be useful to some people. But it's not an eBook that will provide any real answers to the masses.
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