The Glenn Canady Gorilla Website Marketing Course Review

I’m going to try and get back on track with documenting my experiences of Glenn Canady’s Gorilla Website Marketing Course ! The last post about the course had taken me up to mid January 2004. My last session had been completed and I’d been left on my own to get on with it. I was already months into the whole thing, I was $8000 out of pocket, and there was no sign of ANY of the money I had been led to believe that I would be making.

My last session had taken me up to the point where I had to start emailing people and trying to get links. This was really the starting point of what passes as ‘marketing’ on Glenn Canady’s course. So it was clear that there was no way that I would be getting any money coming in in a hurry !

I set about getting my links. Money was extremely tight after Christmas (it was before Xmas, but it was worse now). I had taken a temporary job which I absolutely hated. They wanted me to work full time. I was the only guy they had that knew anything technical. I accepted the offer to work full time, but it wasn’t long before the the struggle of getting up at 5am to work on my links, then doing a full days work, then coming home and working on the linking until 11pm - midnight started to take it’s toll on me. Call me a wimp, but I was struggling. I had to make a decision. What was the most important thing to me.? I was commited to making this work. I’d invested the money (that we didn’t have) and I was feeling guilty that I wasn’t spending every minute working on my site. I wanted to make sure that we got the money back from this site as soon as possible, and I certainly didn’t want anyone suggesting that I wasn’t putting enough effort into it.

I made my decision. I switched to doing part time, which meant that I could spend the extra time working on getting the links to my site that I’d been led to believe were going to bring me success. While talk prior to sign up was all about how much I was likely to earn, and how successful my site was likely to be, little did I appreciate at that point that despite the grand claims made by Glenn Canady and AB Development regarding the sort of money this course was likely to earn me, they were about to change their tune in a big way
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I should have posted this some time ago, but I was pretty busy and forgot all about it until today. Back in the middle of December I got yet another email from Glenn Canady (why does he keep sending me this stuff ?). This time it is all about a new book that he has coming out that ‘takes your efforts to the next level’.

And what level would that be Glenn ? Subterranean perhaps ? Straight down the toilet ? Glenn Canady, what you’ve done with your sites is an inspiration to us all. I’m sure anyone wanting to get their sites banned by Google will be waiting with baited breath for you to release your book.

Please note that I do not believe in editting any of the emails that I paste in this blog. However this email contained references to affiliate programs that would have benefitted Glenn Canady. The lines concerned have been removed, but had no relevance to the rest of the email.

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Chris,

I just wanted to tell you that my latest book about

website marketing will be ready for release in January.

I’m very excited about this new material because it’s

going to be the foundation that takes your efforts to the

next level. You need to understand all the concepts in my

first book, “Gorilla Website Marketing” so make sure

you’re familiar with that. I’ll let you know just as soon

as it’s done!

Oh, and before I forget, I’m still looking for a couple of

people who want to work with me in January on building

multiple streams of income in my new Internet Entrepreneur

program. I’ve never before offered this program to

anybody so if you’re interested, please fill out this form

and my staff will call you to explain what we are doing

for select clients.

Just fill out the form here:

http://www.gorillawebsitemarketing.com/entrepreneur.html

Have fun during your Christmas Holidays!!

Wishing You Success!

Glenn Canady

I was planning to post some more information about possible reasons for Glenn Canady’s sites getting banned from Google (as if what I posted yesterday wasn’t reason enough !), but I’m running short of time today. So, what I’ll do is post a link to a forum which seems to shed a bit more light on what Glenn Canady was up to when he was getting people to link to pages that he was FTP’ing to their servers.

It’s been suggested that he was using Traffic Equalizer. Now I don’t know if you are familiar with Traffic Equalizer. It’s a program designed to generate thousands of doorway pages for your web site, with each page optimised for a particular keyword. The idea is that these rank well in the search engines, and even if each page only brings 1 or 2 visitors to your site then thats a few thousand more than you would have had otherwise. Sounds great doesn’t it ?

Think about it. How many times have you been searching for something only to find page after spammy page of this sort of thing ? Pages that contain no real content, just a bunch of keyword optimised ‘filler’ text, a link to the sites main page (sometimes a redirect), and almost always a bunch of Google Adword/Adsense boxes down the side.

It’s not difficult to see why the search engines HATE this sort of thing. If just one site is generating thousands of spammy worthless pages with no content, then imagine what it must be like if there are thousands of people doing this ? How many millions of pages must there be in Google and the other search engines that are doing nothing but polluting them, diluting the results, and vastly reducing the value and effectiveness of the search engines. To my mind, the really bad thing about these sort of programs is that they undermine the honest, hard working webmaster. The kind of person who takes time to work and create genuine and useful content that people would want to read . These poor guys often end up buried underneath the sea of worthless crap that the Traffic Equalizer users churn out.

Traffic Equalizer users, instead of spending money on stuff like Traffic Equalizer, why not use the money to buy something like WebPosition , or pay someone to optimise your web site ? Instead of spending time generating thousands of keywords and FTP’ing them to your server, why not spend the time writing some REAL content that people would want to come to your site and read ?

I’m mentioning Traffic Equalizer because it is the product mentioned in the thread about Glenn Canady. I don’t want to single Traffic Equalizer out as a ‘bad’ product, because there are a lot of similar offerings out there. I’m sure most webmasters have either used, or considered using software that claims to boost their traffic by fooling the search engines somehow. I’ll be quite honest, I have in the past ! Sometimes we desperately want to do well, but at the end of the day there is no substitute for hard work, knowledge, and experience. The search engines have rules, break them and eventually you WILL pay the price. A lesson Glenn Canady seems to be finding out.

Here is one of the comments from the discussion thread :

Glenn is actually putting spammy pages on other people’s sites (Freetrafficblast.com) and collecting on Adsense as his “compensation” for increasing other people’s traffic.

One of these “spammy software” owners told me that Glenn got an unpaid copy of their script to do this and refused to answer any questions or emails from said “software owner”.

I would be very reluctant to have Glenn put any of these pages on any of my sites. If he’s gotten banned from google because of his practices, make sure he doesn’t bring you down with him.

And here is the link to the thread.