Sometimes when new member registers for an online marketing board they go in with the intention of spamming the board with affiliate links. Or sometimes, like I, myself (i.e. "me", not "you") did today, they just register because they’re bored and just want to check it out.

You see, I had recently finished my review of the HydraMedia Affiilate network and was surprised that i had hit the first page of Google in under 24 hours for the keyword "HydraMedia". Not a terribly competitive keyword, but the company is a Fortune 100 company so it’s likely to be a keyword that isn’t showing true search volume in the keywordtools.

At that time I also noticed a comment on a major affiliate marketing board about someone’s experience with Hydra. I really didn’t care about that particular comment, but I was curious about this particular affiliate marketing board because I had been meaning to check it out for some time.

So instead of watching TV or hitting myself in the head with a baseball bat (ummm. I’m kidding) or any sort of meaningless activity, all i did was register and login to the affiliate marketing board and answer a few questions with NO affiliate links and NO recommendations of any products i promote and NO signature file and some old  veteran accused me of spamming the forum.

I won’t state the nickname of the forum veteran who attacked me of course, but it starts with an "F." and ends with an "o". And know it’s NOT "Flying Weirdo"…well, maybe it is.

Hmm. Sounds like hitting myself in the head with a baseball bat would have been more productive. What they heck?

Anyhow, i got pretty ticked off and told them to delete my account. Oh, and I called the person who attacked me an idiot…maybe more than once. And as most of my subscribers know it takes a pretty idiotic thing like this person did to get me angry.

Apparently, being the butt-end of baseless accusations aren’t my strong suit.

I don’t know. Maybe they didn’t like that they made my username WorkAtHomeTruth.  I could actually see how someone might consider using your website name potential spam. So, to fend off future accusations I requested that one of affiliate marketing board moderators change my user name to a random sequence of characters in orderto deter future accusations of forum spamming when I post answers with NO affiliate links, NO sig files, and NO recommendations of any products I promote.

I will confess that i acted like an idiot the instant someone attacked me and started posting angry comments. Yes, i was having a bad day – a very bad day I’d say. No, there was no excuse for how I acted…did I mention that I acted like an idiot? I know you can’t believe it – suave, always-composed acting like an angry buffoon – not possible!

3 lessons:

1) Most of the time participating in public forums is a waste of time. Most people who hang out in them are forum "junkies" and not serious business people.

2) You would be more productive focusing on learning on your own or finding a trusted advisor/teacher if you need one. The problem with online marketing forums, especially for newbies is very difficult for a beginner to know who’s feeding them correct information and who’s feeding them dangerously wrong information.

3) If you enter a forum where forum veterans, mods, or owners think you were spamming and their first response is to attack you, consider just deleting your account and leaving. Certainly don’t allow people to potentially qualify you as a lunatic as I did today.

You see most forums that are actually designed to help people instead of being an incestuous hangout for long-time buddies will first give a new member a warning if they think the new forum member is violating forum rules. Then if the  member actually did intentionally violate the rules and continues to do so, they are typically told to leave and/or banned from the forum.

Sometimes your best bet for enjoying your experience at an online marketing forum is to post angry commentary like a babbling idiot in an intentionally made up language and then if you are questioned about your intentions reply steadfastly and consistently with nonsense such as "The Shoes. The shoes. We must save the shoes!"

I’m telling you, sometimes you’ll get much more out of your experience there doing that than trying to have a reasonable and intelligent conversation.

Paul

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I’m going to start reviewing various affiliate marketing networks. You see a lot of affiliate marketing books give the impression that ClickBank is the biggest affiliate network around. So thousands of newbie affiliates swarm to ClickBank or CJ or the most well-known networks.

Meanwhile some of the other major players like HydraMedia, Azoogle, RoiRocket and others are the exclusive territory of the affiliates "in the know".

Paul

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