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• MKnowles said:
  

  Once again Eric your info is truly ahead of the pack thanks for the heads up on the OTO I will be ready when I buy from your link and yes I think I will get the O.T.O.

  I have a solid SEO associate working on something that will make a ton of SEO and Other traffic gen stuff work much easier for newbies and pro’s alike hopefully i can share this with you and get your feedback thanks again and keep up the great work.

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  • Eric said:
    

    Thanks Mknowles. Sure thing, you can let me know about your SEO related product.

    And remember, you don’t necessarily have to buy the OTO, but you will need to buy an additional plugin which is explained in the PDF.

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• Paul Counts said:
  

  Great review! Very insightful. As an SEO and traffic guy myself I will have to check this out, but you are right in your assumptions that they may catch onto the loop hole soon. Until that time though it sounds like you can really make this work. Thanks for the awesome review!

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  • Eric said:
    

    Thanks Paul, its always nice to hear from you

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• Kenneth Washington said:
  

  Great stuff Eric.

  I myself hate purchasing a product and then being tricked into paying more money for additional components to get the product to work successfully. If the creator clearly spells this out in their sales copy that’s fine, but to keep it hidden until after you’ve purchased the product, that stinks.

  I find the only reason why someone releases a white/gray/black hat technique is because it will soon be discovered. So they are trying to make some easy money from it before it does.

  I’m going to stay far away from this product.

  Kenny

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• Bill said:
  

  Thanks for an honest review. Rather than here it is Go, Go, Go…

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• Izrul said:
  

  Eric, all I can say is Thank You, Thank You, Thank You.

  I’ve been trying to search for reviews regarding this product but none actually tell the whole story. I am quite surprise with the OTO. I thought I can buy it for $67, but now I have to spend another $47. The total now will be $114 and I must say it is quite expensive.

  I also have a question. Can this linkubaiter thing install in free blogger blog? Or do I need to have my own website to use the linkubaiter?

  Many thanks

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• Ben said:
  

  Hey, Eric, appreciate you giving it to us straight. If there’s something that really annoys me, it’s getting a product that is only one part of what you need. Thanks!

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• Jason Stanley Marshall said:
  

  Hey Eric,

  Thanks for the straight forward review. Do you or anyone else know of a good MSN keyword tool? It would be nice to be able to do some research on the keywords first.

  Thanks!!!
  Jason

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  • Eric said:
    

    Hey bro, I covered some keyword tools in lesson 20:
    http://www.ericstips.com/tips/lesson20/
    Also for MSN, if you sign up for a PPC advertising account with them, you can do some internal research there.

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    • Jason Stanley Marshall said:
      

      Thanks for the response Eric! I’ll get on that right away.

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• Franck Silvestre said:
  

  Hey Eric,

  THIS is a review. thank you very much. You are really revealing what is beside the sales letters.

  Thanks for letting every body know that they will have to buy another product to make it work.

  Franck

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• LUCKY O. OLORI said:
  

  Hello Eric,
  Thank you for your very honest and down to earth review of the ultimate search engine loophole.
  You have saved newbies from rushing into purchasing a product that may take a much longer time to benefit from.
  I prefer marketers to be honest upfront about whatever additional purchases, would make any initial product purchase function properly.
  Old marketers must realise that newbies are never happy about shielded purchases.

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• Richard said:
  

  Eric, I too bought this and was a bit shocked and angry to find out you need more to make it work. You still haven’t mentioned half the extras you’ll need to make this truely work.

  1. Original offer $67.00
  2. Linkubaiter script $47.00
  3. Content builder for blogs $77.00
  4. Webhosting (because normal hosts like Hostgator or Oneandone will not do) $40.00 a month (minimum)
  5. 10 domain names (for blog building) per keyword you want to rank for (10 x $5.00 = $50.00)

  Total cost to setup = $721.00

  Now you could argue that if you get a number one ranking for a good keyword then $721.00 is a drop in the ocean for what you might make in return but it’s still a serious amount of money for newbies to have to fork out when originally they purchased something at $67.00

  Just my 2 cents.

  Richard

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  • Eric said:
    

    Richard, you are right… it would cost a newbie significantly more to set this up. I wasn’t thinking about the domain and hosting costs, because I have dozens of unused domains sitting around already, and multiple dedicated servers to host them on.

    Also, I guess I expected that a method such as this would require some domains and hosting… but I suppose a lot of people would not make that assumption so I think I’ll add a line about it in my review above. Thanks

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  • Ray said:
    

    Hi Richard,

    Glad you’ve done your home work and made this post. I have also bought the offer and upsell.

    I am certainly not a newbie, but I’ve never done any blog work or used content builders for blogs. I’m wondering what you recommend for generating the content?

    Thanks

    Ray
    http://www.visiolo.com/t/74

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    • Richard said:
      

      Hi Ray, on page 13 of the MSN Loophole pdf you’ll find a link to a program for generating content for the blogs. Its called Caffeinated Content.
      Cheers,
      Richard

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    • Danny said:
      

      Ray,

      Have you had any luck with the program? This is a lot of money and you won’t see resuls for 2-4 weeks. That’s an aweful gig Gamble.

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  • Affiliate Site said:
    

    Richard,

    how you come up with $700 for setting this up is beyond me I started this paying a TINY FRACTION of this amount.

    a) content builders like Wordpress and plugins, or YACG or RSSGMAI are *FREE*
    b) Reseller Hosting with 10 diff IPs i got for $29 (!) for 2 months, otherwise something like $60 for three months, i used a coupon for half off

    This is a still, its not even $10 month for hosting…this is unlimited subdomains or addon-domains and as said, 10 different IPs.

    My “normal” hosting i dont even count since i pay $2/month for excellent PHP hosting.

    Domains? Who gives a ****…$5-$9 for a domain/YEAR.

    How do you come up with that numbers?

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• Ngahiwi Smythe said:
  

  Thanks Eric for this great review. I was not planning on buying more products but I find you an honest person and if I have time I will look at other websites/products you recommend.

  I generally don’t mind OTO’s, but if it is part 1 of a product and you really need part 2, then I get very annoyed. It’s semi-dishonest if this is not revealed on the main salespage.

  O won’t be buying, cos I already have a full time plan for now. Something else always comes along next week…and the week after…ad infinitum.

  Thank you very much.

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• Alex Poole said:
  

  I guessed there was an upsell because it was mentioned in the Warrior forum, but its arguably a bit cheeky to not mention a required purchase!
  Thanks for the heads up Eric.
  Alex

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• Asem said:
  

  Hi Eric,
  As usual, top useful information and really an honest guide. However, can I suppose to skip these gray stuff and focus on something else, that worked for me very well. It is about writing 3 versions of an article with equal number of paragraphs. Then, mix them up to come with around 12-15 unique articles and then submit them to top article directories. This simple technique is a bit time consuming but the results are really great as Google loves it so much to have unique contents linked back to my website.

  Best Wishes for all.

  Asem

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• maximumgravity1 said:
  

  I have to give thumbs up to Kenneth Washington - I kind of align myself with his views. As the article also mentioned, this sort of thing can be “nerfed” overnight if MSN becomes aware of its explotive nature.

  One other question, I know that Google benefits from other search engine rankings - like MSN and Yahoo especially - but does this ranking on MSN translate into organic results for Google? IS this exploit more of one of “those things” that MSN benefits from without giving “real” ranking to the page or search word?

  Thanks again for your unbiased reviews. Looking forward to more.

  In the meantime - stay healthy - it’s the most important thing we have
  My Omega-3 and Antioxidant Benefits Blog

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• Joanne said:
  

  Eric,

  I’m a newbie and have been listening to your tips. Thank you so much for your insight and honesty. It is refreshing to read a review with pros and cons in it. You rock!!

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• Bill Brown said:
  

  Appreciated your effort on our behalf!

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• Winston Wehrman said:
  

  Eric, Thanks for your words of wisdom. I am a beginner and have not made any money on anything yet. Sincerely, Winston.

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• Mike said:
  

  Eric..

  Are you finished the video series on how to make money?
  Or is just pushing stuff through your affiliated links from now on ???

  Wheres the tutorials gone…

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  • Eric said:
    

    No I’m still working on the videos. I’m planning on there being 100 lessons. E

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    • Ray said:
      

      Do you have some sort of revised time frame in your “planning”? It seems to be much longer than was initially suggested and I don’t see myself hitting the goal you said would be achievable by the end of the year if we continue at this pace? There are people waiting and depending on you for these videos.

      I’m not trying to be offensive but I feel it needs to be said you do seem to be going off track a bit from our perspective, especially after saying “Stop buying stuff” and that you were “retiring”.

      Your videos are top shelf and as freely given we don’t have “rights”. Just a humble request from a Chrsitian brother, “Can we stay focused?”

      Ray

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      • Eric said:
        

        Ray- sorry for the delay of the lessons. I talked about it a month or so ago in an email, but a lot of people probably missed it. I’ve been really busy with higher priority family matters, and projects outside of internet marketing, which has caused me to have to spend less time on the lessons. Part of it is because I am transitioning/retiring out of the internet marketing world and into new things. I anticipate this transition being a 1-2 year process.

        But I will definitely complete the lessons. For one thing I gave my word to my subscribers, and for another I really want to provide good information to help others. Thanks for hanging in there with me.

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• Matthew Hunt said:
  

  Yeah, I just bought this product before i read your review. All I want to say is it’s worth it. But there is a little leg work involved, but looks like it will be well worth it.

  BTW, been reading your posts some time now and wanted to give a “big shout out” on doing a real stand up job on solid content!

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• oliver said:
  

  Eric,

  If I have 5 keywords I want to promote do I have to have a unique hosting account for each keyword?

  Meaning, 10 domains per keyword, can i host 50 domains on the same server and still get a top ranking?

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  • Eric said:
    

    I can’t get too much into the details without giving away the trade secrets of the ebook. But I will say that they recommend hosting each domain on a seperate C-class IP.

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• steve said:
  

  Hi Eric,
  Thumbs uo to your work!

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• Snowwhite said:
  

  Thanks! Eric, i like your free technique, i would like to asy in few words, that hat’s of to your work!

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• JD Sanders said:
  

  Hi Eric,

  Are you still sending the lessons. I Haven’t seen any since #25 on 10/5/2008?

  JD

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  • Eric said:
    

    Yes, I’ve just had to slow down on them lately. #26 is online already and I’m currently working on #27, thanks

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• Richard said:
  

  Hi Eric,

  I have the utmost respect for you, as one of your many sterling attributes is that you never gloss over the truth. You say it as it is. You gave an honest opinion of the product and even ensured that people are aware that they will have to purchase an add on.

  Usually some internet markerters will never reveal this and they allow us to learn the lesson the hard way.

  I am sure that you are very well respected by many people due to your honesty and urge for may others to succeed.

  Keep up the good work and I am sure that you will propel to even greater heights of success.

  Thnaks Eric

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• Halina said:
  

  Hi Eric,
  I appreciate everything you giving to us.
  Whith your advice and lessons I began to trust in online marketing.
  Best regards,
  Halina

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• Michaela said:
  

  Hello!
  Eric you probably work to explain blog – Website (on a domain), and other websites for squeeze page, landing page, websites in general etc.
  You told me to remind you about:
  1)“do follow” for blogs, and
  2)A free good software for creating covers for digital Products.

  Again, thanks a lot for your quality lessons, you spread the most detailed and useful knowledge and I am grateful.

  To your success and ours.
  Regards
  Michaela

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• Edward said:
  

  Eric,

  You said “And they’re not paying their affiliates commission on the upsell”

  Are they using another payment provider besides Clickbank for the upsell?

  Thanks!

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  • Eric said:
    

    that’s correct, they were running the upsell directly through Paypal.

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• Michaela said:
  

  Hi! Up till now I created blogs only with Blogger.com.
  Because I hate the restriction about affiliate marketing links when … affiliate marketing is what I am doing, for the first time, I have created a Blog on my domain using WorldPress. Now I am free to do what I wanted.
  I am still experimenting, I have only 2 posts and 2 other pages, but I think is looking good, still some small goofs, hey! I just started Sunday.
  I invite everybody to look it over. Only constructive criticism, please; don’t tell me that you don’t like color blue, just kidding!
  But your opinion is important to me, I want to here from you all.
  http://michaelacernescu.com/
  is the blog.
  Regards
  Michaela

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• Shane said:
  

  Are some of these people stupid, how many times do you have to explain yourself Eric? & the way some people come across in their posts, well its just plain RUDE, you are doing these lessons FOR FREE & these people should remember that,most of us thank & appreciate you, THANK YOU !!!!!

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• Affiliate Site said:
  

  Yes i said it over at W already, this is a very SOLID product and a twist of normal link building, interesting for me since i never dealt with blog-farming before.

  It needs “work”, but installing a WP blog via cpanel is easy as pie and can be done in 4 mins.

  Linkubaiter is super easy to integrate and manage…all super easy…FAR easier than similar programs on a “bigger” scale like DP link program or TNX etc.

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• Web Design Nepal said:
  

  Hi ! Erics, you idea is working. no follow this link frn. you are great ….

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• Company Registration said:
  

  Ah the world of the upsell, cross sell, down sell, and well any which way we can sell.

  Thanks for the heads up. Will check it out and walk with eyes open!@

  Rich

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• Pixie said:
  

  Eric,
  So glad you posted on Loophol. I found that very helpfull, so thank you. Not ready for it but it sounded good didn’t it. Loved your holiday pics.God bless. From Pixie Down Under.

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• Joseph said:
  

  As a newbie I have been sucked in on offers that had a additional purchase requirement after the initial purchase or “steps” that were unworkable for me many times. I appreciate your honest and open review. Keep up the good work.

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• Greg Simonds said:
  

  Eric,
  Great site and a fountain of information. Thank you for all your efforts. I have purchased the “Loophole” and LinkuBaiter fully expecting that actual work would be required to make it succesful. This is a program to build a business, not a hobby. The investment in Caffeinated Content, LinkuBaiter and the associated Class C IPs and domains are just part of the cost of doing business. As a business decision I felt that the returns have such great potential that the investment was well worth the risk. I expect to spend about $1,000 on the front end to set up the system. How many actual money making businesses can be had for $1,000 (that are worth having - not MLM or some scam overnight wonder)? I mean something you would actuall ENJOY doing every day.I think Dave Kelly and Chris Rempel are straight shooters. If I build my business tightly around their model I feel confident it will yield great results. But yes, this is NOT for everybody looking for an online business. It takes much more effort than you might expect at first. If you buy the “Loophole”, expect to work ALOT to get it up and running successfully. But please don’t whine about the “high cost” of the business, or about the fact that it is going to take actual work to make it happen. What you get out of life depends upon what you put into it. Thanks again for all your insight and honest work.

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• Jane said:
  

  This is an honest forthright appraisal. Thank you
  Jane

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• Clive said:
  

  I bought it and have set up http://blogwam.com/members where people can save on hosting fees by simply swapping dead sites/blogs to use the Loophole system ( which involves using unique C-Panel IP addresses).

  It’s a free resource set up by me to facilitate my using the system but, by definition, I need people to ’swap’ with!

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• Computer Repair Man said:
  

  Very straight forward review. I purchased the product before coming to this site.

  I did pass on the aditional script costing 47 dollars. I figured the Loophole could be used with out it and they were just trying to do the whole up sell thing. Not the case after all. You really do have to have a script to make this thing worth your while. Other wise it will take way to many man hours.

  Also for this to work you will need several call C IP’s and blogs with content.

  In my case this product is still well worth it because I have many domains and products that I promote and have the 700-1K upfront to build the network up and will make far more off of it.

  For those that are new to the game you may want to pass on this for now. After all in just another day this loop could be closed. I am sure it is on it’s way out already

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• Telly said:
  

  Just a note to those thinking of buying it…

  If you follow the video on their website they show you examples that you can trace back to msn.

  If you follow their examples you’ll notice one site, low-mortgage.org has slipped from position 1 to 3 only a month later.

  That’s ok right? Wrong. If you search Google you’ll find out that website has been BANNED from Google.

  Getting a #1 site in MSN that is slipping at a constant rate is only ok if it doesn’t affect your ranking with engines like Google. If you get banned by Google then I guess it is tough luck.

  So definitely I’d consider this to be at least grey hat if not black hat.

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  • Carlos said:
    

    Apparently the Google ban was temporary. I just looked and it’s back in there.

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• Dave said:
  

  Like many here, I wasn’t keen on shelling out the $$$ for LinkUBaiter without really understanding how the program worked and why it was needed. But once I understood how the system works, there was a portion that became very tedious to so manually. So I built my own version to accomplish what was needed that anyone can use at linkrotatr.com

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• Nick said:
  

  Hi Eric,
  I bought the msn loophole, and your right it is not for beginners. I do have an online business selling paintball gear from my website, but I have a hosting company that did everything for me. They built the site from scratch added the bells and whistles and submit it to the search engines and they showed me how to add my products, descriptions, keywords, meta tags, processing orders and some other stuff that I have been working on for about a year now and only made back about half of my investment of about $5,000.00. So when I bought the loophole I thought it was going to be an easy way to bring traffic to my paintball web site, but is not easy at all. I fact I have no clue about any of the things they talk about in this program. I have no idea how to build a website or even a webpage from scratch, I have no experience with php or html or class c ip, so I would consider myself a beginner. I could not figure out how to upload the linkubaiter. I never worked with severs or data bases at least not that I know of and when I asked for help I felt like I was being a pain in the neck and that this was way over my head.
  Then I watched one of your videos Eric and I thought wow! this guy really knows how to explain things and right about my speed, maybe even a little slower but thats o.k. I would rather be well informed then left behind. I really want to learn how to make a full time income online and I’m willing to spend as much time as it takes, sure i’d love to jump on one of those over night success deals and be a internet guru but I’m also realistic. I know there is much to learn and it is an ongoing process. I just need the right program that stars from scratch and allows me to work at my own pace. I also have a remodeling business which is my full time work and I’ve been in business for 19 years, I’m married with three children and my body is not getting any younger. So I decided to play around on the internet to see if there was some way of supplementing my income, something that I could make a little money with when my remodeling business was slow and maybe put some hours in at night and on the weekends. Well I did, my paintball business, but it is very time consuming and not very profitable, so I’m still looking for other programs that might work better with less effort, not that I’m lazy but if I’m going to put my hole heart into something I do expect to get a decent return on my investment. So I’m looking at your video’s and hopefully I will be on my way to a new carrier that doesn’t involve strenuous physical work for the rest of my life. Again I’m by no means lazy, I just prefer my physical activity to be on the golf course or the basketball court or fishing my favorite hole at my favorite vacation resort. Well, it was nice venting, I got a lot off my chest and it feels good. If anyone actually finished reading this hole what ever you want to call it, god bless you and thanks for being there in my time of need.
  Peace,
  Nick

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• Ashley said:
  

  Afer I had confirmed with Arbitage and read the rules I read that they will charge me every month.
  I cannot afford to pay anything out and tried to cancel.
  I have had no reply from thier support address. Can you help please.
  I enjoy reading your tps,thank you.
  R W Ashley.

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• Dulce said:
  

  Hey Eric — I installed LinkuBaiter… now I’m trying to install the code into my wordpress side bar and footer files, and I’m receiving errors. Do you have more detailed instructions for wordpress?

  Thanks.
  Dulce

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• Tony said:
  

  I’m wondering if anyone is actually using this and getting results…I bought on launch day, and have had my blog network on 10 different c-classes for months, have had my monet sites made uploaded and everything since November, and have even bought into their linkumate program to plug my sites into their HUGE bog network. I added 5 money sites, and 5 of my blogs…Nothing…Not in the first 100 results for any of the 5 money sites…which by the way aren’t even that heavy of key words…none get more then 30-40 searches a day in MSN…Is anyone doing the loophole process with positive results?

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• Richard Roper said:
  

  Thanks for your review Eric.

  It sounds like you have to know what you are doing to use this product. Which probably lets me out. At least I know now.

  I really love it when people give reviews on products, it saves me heaps on products that sound real interesting but in the end I wouldn’t (or wouldn’t understand how to) use and gets me on to ones that are rally helpful.

  P.S this is my first entry into your community.

  Richard

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• Andy, Send Flowers To Singapore said:
  

  Wow Eric, this is a great review. I just stumbled over your site and I’m enjoying many of your honest and transparent reviews about PPC Classroom, Arbitrage Conspiracy, etc.

  Your inputs are really open and helpful.

  I found another review at http://www.ultimatesearchengineloophole.com/ but honestly, you’ve peeled away more rosy layers than this one. Great job.

  I was initially ready to purchase, but having read all the inputs, I’m reconsidering, at at least, I’ll be making a really educated decision when I commit.

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• White Label Dating said:
  

  Hi Eric,

  I was looking for an honest review of the ultimate search engine loophole, and after checking a few sites I am glad I found yours.

  The review mentioned in the previous post isn’t - as some people say - an unbiased review. It just looks like another sales letter where the guy tries to sell his affiliate product (the msn loophole) or his own product (a substitute for the linkubaiter script).

  All in one, thanks for reviewing this with honesty, I’ll probably buy from your link because I am convinced that this can work, and most of the additional expenses, just like you, are things that I already have (domains, C-blocks, blogfarms with auto-generated content etc…).

  Thomas

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• Suzie said:
  

  Hi, Great review! Just a couple of quick questions, will it work if you can work in WYSIWYG, or do you need scriptwriting skills?
  (Is is simply “cut and paste” or does it involve quite a lot of implementation?
  I can pull a page together in WYSIWYG with adwords etc, however anything more involved may well faze me somewhat!

  Also, be interesting to know which sites (and their relevant niches) out the 100 didn’t work
  and why…

  Anyone able to comment?

  Cheers!

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• software development london said:
  

  very fair review, I’ll try that for sure.

  thanks

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• reusch goalkeeper gloves said:
  

  Thanks for the review Eric…saves us a lot of time.

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• John Classick said:
  

  Assuming this review is real (I’ll suppose it is,) great info. Thanks!

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• Dwayne said:
  

  I guess since NO PAGES were indexed in google - he decided to sell the site mentioned in the video re: “low-mortgage.org”. HE sold it for $1750.00

  Obviously NOT making any money? Go ahead and check the link yourself.

  https://flippa.com/auctions/107729/due-diligence

  Just sayin’

  (maybe I’ll wait till next week for the next “loophole” - but for now I found “Mass Money Makers” WORKS! Page one (#9 - but I’ll take it!)in google in 3 days with over 18 million pages indexed. Now This is a system that works for ranking in google. Haven’t made any money yet BUT - it’s only been a week since I purchased and these things take time.

  Mass Money Makers - intermediate to pro skill - beginners may have a bit of a struggle since alot of the terms used are pretty common among IM’ers. Use yer own CB ID to get a “discount”

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• Bill E. Sheers said:
  

  If you call making $1750 “not making any money” then I’m not sure what kind of business you would want. Probably took 5 minutes to make that site and it was sold for $1750.

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• Software Development said:
  

  Looks like one to avoid

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