WEALTHY AFFILIATE LIVE TRAINING
T H E S E V E N D E A D LY S I N S O F O N L I N E M A R K E T I N G
H A L L O W E E N S P E C I A L
T O D AY ’ S T O P I C S
• The Deadly Sins of Online Marketing
• True Horror Stories of the Results
• How to Avoid the Temptation
• How to Recover if you’re a victim
• The Eighth Sin?
• Live Q & A Session
T H E D E A D LY S I N S O F O N L I N E M A R K E T I N G
T H E D E A D LY S I N S O F O N L I N E M A R K E T I N G
• Lust
‣ inordinate craving for pleasures
• Gluttony
‣ desire to consume more than that which one requires
• Greed
‣ desire for material wealth or gain
• Sloth
‣ avoidance of physical work
T H E D E A D LY S I N S O F O N L I N E M A R K E T I N G
• Wrath
‣ inordinate feelings of hatred and/or anger
• Envy
‣ desire for others' traits, status, abilities, or situation
• Pride
‣ excessive belief in one's own abilities
# 1 B U Y I N G L I N K S
# 1 B U Y I N G L I N K S ( G L U T T O N Y )
• Have you ever been tempted to buy backlinks
‣ “They’re only $5 bucks!“
• Buying backlinks will NOT get your site ranked higher
‣ Horror Story to follow..
• Build your links by providing link worthy content.
# 2 S H I N Y G U R U S Y N D R O M E
# 2 S H I N Y G U R U S Y N D R O M E ( E N V Y )
• Following self proclaimed guru email lists
• Product launches
• WSO’s
• Fancy pants sales letters
• All of this stuff are merely convincing words with empty promises
‣ stop following the clan of gurus
‣ unsubscribe from their email lists
# 3 TA K I N G N O A C T I O N
# 3 TA K I N G N O A C T I O N ( S L O T H )
• Learning.. Learning.. Learning..
‣ Reading
‣ Watching Videos
‣ Chatting
• “Why is my site not ranking!?”
‣ What have you done for it lately?
• Take action RIGHT AFTER you learn
‣ “procrastination is success’ worst enemy!”
# 4 A R T I C L E C U R AT I O N / S P I N N I N G
# 5 A R T I C L E C U R AT I O N / S P I N N I N G ( P R I D E )
• “All I need to do is write one article and I’ll spin the rest…”
‣ spinning articles will get you nowhere
‣ they don’t make human sense
‣ you WILL get caught by the search engines and penalized
‣ your readers will not come back
• “I don’t need to write as I will curate other authors’ articles…”
‣ this is worse than spinning as you’re taking other articles
‣ and adding a few ‘editorial’ comments about it
• Write your own content as YOU are YOUR best voice.
# 5 S T E A L I N G N I C H E S
# 5 S T E A L I N G N I C H E S ( G R E E D )
• Someone tells you their niche in a forum or WA
• Someone asks you your thoughts on a potential niche
• You watch a live niche walkthrough WAbinar
‣ and you take the niche from right under them
• Enough said…
# 6 B L A C K H AT S E O
# 6 B L A C K H AT S E O ( W R AT H )
• “Google sucks!”
‣ “I am going to game the system and outrank everyone!”
‣ by doing backhat SEO…
• bhSEO is unethical practices of search engine marketing
• essentially it’s a combination of all 7 sins.
# 7 S H O R T C U T S T O S U C C E S S
# 7 S H O R T C U T S T O S U C C E S S ( L U S T )• Show me the quickest path to success.. as I need the money now!
• Maybe you’ve been told how you can make billions of $$ in days
‣ seen screenshots of:
‣ cars, houses and bank accounts
‣ and you WANT that!
‣ automated software
‣ damn gurus.
• Regardless of how alluring these may be
• It simply doesn’t work and is not evergreen
T R U E H O R R O R S T O R I E S O F T H E R E S U LT S
H O W T O AV O I D T H E T E M P TAT I O N
H O W T O AV O I D T H E T E M P TAT I O N
• Think of your online business as a building or house
‣ you can’t skip out on a few studs or bricks
‣ as it will eventually collapse
‣ running a business is NO different
• If you’ve been tempted…
‣ go into WA and ask about what you’ve been tempted with
‣ someone there will talk you down to reality
H O W T O R E C O V E R I F Y O U ’ R E A V I C T I M
H O W T O R E C O V E R I F Y O U ’ R E A V I C T I M
• OK, you got duped..
‣ accept it and move on.
‣ nobody will judge you (except yourself)
‣ you’re not the only victim
T H E E I G H T H S I N ?
T H A N K Y O U .
Q U E S T I O N S ?