Buyer Beware

If you are planning on attempting to make more than a dime from the Internet today, you will want to invest in some type of advertising. This is where the confusion can set in very easily. There are literally hundreds of thousands of sites that offer free advertising or low cost advertising. 90 percent of these sites will not show you their true audience numbers. Straight off the top, these are the ones to avoid. They are fly by night and within a month or two they and your money is gone too. The whole point here is to stick with reputable sources. Look for the number of active users on their site. Even a site like www.easyhits4u.com which has almost 800,000 members doesn't have that many active at one time, but they are the top rated traffic exchange on Internet today.
The situation that I have run into lately is these sites that claim to submit your site to one million sites or viewers or something equally stupid. All they are doing is harvesting your email address and whatever else you give them and selling it somewhere. DON'T fall for it! You are smarter than that!
The other good option is a Safelist. Some of you are familiar with these type of email lists. Same rules apply. Check the size of the member database. There are also several sites that rank Safelists. Compare the results from these sites and go from there. This is one of the best Safelist programs I have ever used and the most responsive. State of the Art Mailer . Try this one Safelist Rankings.


Good luck and Hopefully I'll have some information about organic site ranking next time....