It sounds like hyperbole, but think about it. Every time you use a search engine to find information, the results are skewed by who has paid the highest dollar amount for pay per click advertising. The results you get also fail to take into precise enough account your location, which means you could be wasting time with results that don’t apply to you anyway. The way the advertising on the internet works right now, you are left in the hands of whoever is willing to pay most.
And it gets worse. Marketers Are Using You - And Lining Their Pockets!
I - You - We’ve been duped. Marketers convinced you that to get the best deal you need them on your side. It started as a coupon. Then it was a deal site. There was a pretense that you needed them to 'Get the Word" out. And now, they’ve got you right where they want you.
You wanted to pay less - they want to leverage you and other people like you as a group with buying power so they can get a cut.
What affiliate marketing has done to how we buy online
The way getting the best price used to work was you waited for an ad in the paper to come up for what you needed, then you went and bought it. It took a while, but at least it was clear how the exchange worked. You brought in the coupon or mentioned the deal, and you got the price break.
Even when the internet was becoming a way to purchase goods, you typically went to the site you wanted to purchase from and were able to buy directly from that merchant.
Not anymore.
AND it gets much worse. Invasive Targeting, Intentional Search Obfuscation, Real Time Sacrifices & tremendous Security Consequences. Their Algorithms are designed to continuously segregate Shopper from Merchant through SEO, SEM, 750 New TLDs, PPC and the list goes on and on.
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AdFor puts Pandora back in her box and separates all of us from the Miss Direction Matrix of Arbitrage Mayhem Marketing!
Targeting the consumer, in any form is unneccessary! Privacy is big concern to a lot of people for many valid reasons, but it is a MAJOR concern of ours. Learn what the web will look like when MERCHANTS ARE THE TARGET!
Just say NO to SEO, SMO, SEM, PPC, Adwords, Fraud, Waste, Abuse. Learn WHY the Algorithm puts all of us in a web of Mayhem full of security threats.
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