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Monday, November 27, 2006

Is the Forum Equalizer Spam?

I recently received several emails from internet marketers promoting a product called Forum Equalizer. It's a new piece of software that allows you to post a message on hundreds or even thousands of forums in just minutes. Everything is automated and you don't even need to visit the forum to post.

But I do not recommend this product to anyone. I only see it being used by "hit and run" posters who spam a forum just to get their link seen by members.

While forum posting is an effective way to bring targeted traffic to your site, using software that allows you to spam hundreds of forums will only bring you trouble.

Any forum worth a grain of salt is moderated, and they will quickly see through your message as spam and delete it. Repeated attempts will likely find you banned.

As a marketer, your reputation is as good as gold. Don't ruin it by looking for cheap shortcuts. Building an online business is hard work. As soon as you realize and accept that you will be light years ahead of your competition.

1 Comments:

Blogger Peter Dobler said...

I'm a forum owner of the Internet Marketing Forum and I really feel the pain from this stupid software. Not do I get the same stupid posts over and over again. It doesn't seem to bother them to spam my forum time after time.

I have a hard time to keep my ban control up to date. First I ban the username and then I ban the ip address. Not only am I annoyed by this, my legit forum members are starting to complain about the garbage posted.

There must be a way to block this.

2:20 AM  

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