If you have a similar story or if you think I'm full of it, please leave a comment.
Together I think the honest Internet Marketers among us can put a very quick end to scammers like $7 Freelance. With the power of today's social networking these kinds of scams have little chance of surviving for long.
As always; I don't expect you to take my word for it. If it's of interest to you, investigate for yourself.
Having done pretty well on Fiverr quite quickly, when $7 Freelance followed one of my Twitter accounts I was intrigued. I'm always looking for new income streams and since there is no cost or payment information required I thought it might be a good source of some additional traffic.
Setting up the WordPress page was a matter of minutes. I linked to an example video of my service and posted my email asking people to contact me directly to inquire or order. This is perfectly acceptable according to the site's rules.
The first few days the page was fine. I went a couple of times to look at it and it was just how I had made it.
So this morning I go to check out the page and see that my email address is now an image. I actually thought it was kind of cool until I clicked it and instead of opening up Gmail I was sent to someone else's ad. A quick check of the page's HTML showed a nice little redirect courtesy of the site admin. I'm guessing as they have access to the page.
So I deleted the page and have spent an hour or two trying to warn people to not waste their time driving traffic to some low-life's ads.
Talk to you next time.
And remember, be careful out there!
Brent
Free Business Training
4 comments:
Dear Rogue,
Dude, You are totally mistaken. The image you see is a result of a plugin that protects your email identity from email harvesters.
Log into your account and enter your email properly. This is not a clickable link.
Before you jump to conclusions, you could have contacted us through the form located in the sidebar to let us know what is happening.
Let me know if your problem is fixed. If not contact us, for customer support.
So that is why when I clicked the link it redirected to some one else's ad?
And the redirect was in the HTML? Is that what you're trying to get me to believe? My only regret is that I didn't make a screen capture video before I deleted the post.
Like I said before : "don't take my word for it."
Just be real careful in all your online activity. And investigate for your self.
Thanks for the comment sean.
Nice try.
Brent
Yes you should have taken a screen capture video, because, that would have really helped us fix the problem you are facing.
We also deactivated Autolink URI plugin, just in case case it was linking to the image.
But in any case, it should'nt be linking to any ads, if at all an empty 404 not found page, where we dont display any ads.
We sincerely apologize for any inconvenience you faced. I assure you, it was not intentional. Our goal is to help you market your gig so you can make all the $7, almost twice as much as what you would make at Fiverr, without cutting any fees (and Instant payments to your paypal account.)
If you want to contact us with any suggestions, you may do so by using the contact form in the sidebar.
So the redirect in the HTML just magically appeared? It went to another ad. But you didn't put it there? Must have been the HTML gremlin...sure, sure that's the ticket.
Good thing for me I always check my links or my traffic would still be redirecting to some one else's ads.
Once again: Investigate for yourself!
Brent
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