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?
The first thing you will notice about SpiderWeb is that it is free. This can be good news and bad news. That fact alone means it will draw tons of lookers, but it also means some business builder may take a peek at it as a source of added income.
I went through the SpiderWeb system as a producer looking to add to an existing Internet income. I found the process and tutorials very easy to use and set up. For each affiliate program– 22 as of this writing– there is a video that walks you through the process. Most of the affiliate programs are free, but a few are paid programs. You gather the ones you want to use, and pass on the others. For the programs you pass on, your upline’s affiliate link will be credited if someone elects that program.
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?
Not so fast, my friend. I went to Direct Matches right after signing up, just to see how the system worked. I searched for people “looking for business associates,” which is what SpiderWeb had me do. The results come up ten to a page. I looked at 70 profiles (seven full pages), and of the 70, there were 59 Spiders. Two pages scored a perfect ten out of ten. To my amazement, 37 of the 70 had “been involved in Internet marketing for 10 years” (including me.) What a coincidence. Some of them were in grade school ten years ago. I got pretty much the same numbers searching groups or blogs, both on Direct Matches and 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.
