Why Some of the Make Money Online Courses Lose Me Right There

While earlier on I used to get and gabble in every course I could find (well except for the $2000 courses, obviously, due to lack of those kinds of funds), these days, especially since the Panda update, I’ve become much pickier on what I keep - and what I ask a refund for.

Let’s just take one of the newest courses on the market right now, called Extreme Niche Empires. I’m going against the tidal wave right now because if you check out the reviews at the WF on this course, it’s 5 stars and everyone loves it. But if you also check indepth who bought and talked about this course, well, it’s mostly the newbies. But what on earth I’m talking about and why don’t I like this latest Sean Donahoe’s course? Afterall I did buy a few ones before, including his Backlinks Booster which served me well for about a year, until it finally stopped working and I moved on to another way to index my backlinks.

So I get the course (videos and some plugins) and start watching the videos. Sean Donahoe is an expert on video marketing and he’s quite a good salesman too, he really knows to persuade his prospects.

Basically this course is about creating your own niche empire, which is what he calls it a ‘an authority autoblogging’ system. While initially I didn’t want to buy it due to the fact that it is about autoblogs, the many rave reviews on the WF convinced me against my better judgement.

One (actually two) of the better videos of this course is the one on keyword research and also market research. It’s good, and if I were a newbie at it all, I’d definitely learn a few things about it. There was nothing new for me in there, obviously going to Quantcast.com to learn about your prospect demographics is one of the first thing we all need to do in our keyword research, but for a newcomer, this video is really good. So where did all go wrong in my book?

Well, after the Panda update, Google is all about quality content. And to be honest since the course was done in April if I’m not mistaken, I was pretty sure he actually tackled that. Based on his keyword research video, I was almost sure I’ll find a video on how to write content CATERING to that prospect and making a really great article worthy of Google out of all this. And that video did get me quite curious on how he’s gonna use that information about the prospect to target them…afterall what’s the point of making an indepth research if you’re not gonna use it afterwards?

Instead..when it came to the content video, he clearly admits that he doesn’t like to write articles and he suggests going to Textbroker for $5 articles. This was my first signal that something was wrong. I mean I’ve been using Textbroker before for my small Xfactor sites, but c’mon, this is one of the last sites you should use now that quality has been redefined in Google’s eyes.

And then I got to see two of the articles that he posted on his autoblog. They were typical fluff articles going something like this: (paraphrase to not give away the niche he’s talking about)

If you have this x problem, you need to find a good treatment that will help you overcome this problem. Without the treatment, your problem will be there and you will suffer from it. Thus make sure that you research for a good treatment for X problem. You can find many treatments for X problem if you only search for them’ (or something to that extent).

Both of the articles shown in the video have the same ‘high quality’ information, organized through Textbroker for $5. And that, in post-Panda times. Seriously.

And here is where I’m really confused. What’s the point of the market research to know your prospect, male or female, x age, married (or not), with kids (or not), with x type of income, all written nicely down on paper, if you then go ahead and order articles from Textbroker for $5 a piece? HOW are you using this particular information in the cheap articles that you then put on your website to target that particular type of people, coz I haven’t found it anywhere. The articles are basically made from keywords that are searched from the Google Keywords tool and then given to Textbroker to write around them.

Funnily enough, that video on market and keyword research was one of the best of the entire course.

And sadly, this is just one such course that promises big things (especially now with the whole Panda thing looming above us) and fails to deliver. It definitely didn’t help me create a better website that the visitors are proud to go to and Google is proud to show on its first page.

And no, no affiliate links for this course from me.