SpiderWeb Marketing - an Unbiased Review
About an hour after you start looking for an Internet based business, you start clicking every banner or link that shows up and run down every bunny trail that you can find. Inevitably, you will find SpiderWeb Marketing sooner or later in your search. Should you pass and try another route, or see where the trail leads?
You will notice right off that the SpiderWeb system is free. This is both good and bad news. The fact that it is free means it will draw those looking to get rich quick without doing any work, who will do exactly zero after they sign up, but it also means some heavy hitter may consider it as another income stream.
I joined SpiderWeb looking to add to another income stream. The tutorials are easy to set up and use. There is a video that walks you through the signing up process for each affiliate program (all 22 of them). Most all of the programs are free, but a few require money to start. You can pick and choose the ones you want to join. You sign up for those, and pass on the others. Later, if someone in your downline elects a program you don’t subscribe to, the system will default to your upline’s affiliate number.
Two of the 22 (at this time) programs they suggest for driving traffic are Direct Matches and Yuwie, two popular social networking sites. SpiderWeb prompts you for some information about yourself and even has some Shout Page copy you can cut and paste. SpiderWeb also has an option to produce an automated blog. You set the posting tool on autopilot and the blogs magically appear on your page. Sounds great so far, huh?
Oops. I went to Direct Matches after signing up, just to see what I had done. I did a search for people looking for business associates which is what SpiderWeb suggested I use. The results come up ten to a page. I viewed seven pages,(70 profiles), and found 59 Spiders. Two pages had ten out of ten. To my amazement, 37 of them had “been involved in Internet marketing for 10 years” (including me.) Basically the same numbers come up if you search groups or blogs, and similar results appear on Yuwie.
So, is the SpiderWeb system good for most people? I would say yes and no. Yes for the fact that they provide you with instructions on how to sign up for 22 affiliate programs that might have taken you days to find, and no for the fact that their advertising and marketing strategies point to “SpiderWeb,” and not to your own business. Give it a pass, and go to something else.
