What is AGLOCO? The MLM answer to Autosurfing.
Here is an explanation of the latest pyramid scheme, What is AGLOCO™?:
"It is a system that connects advertisers and online retailers with their potential customers - internet users.How do I earn?
Become a member, download the Viewbar™ and browse as you normally would! No need to change your habits! Viewbar™ will observe your surfing and display relevant ads accordingly. You will be paid for each hour you have the Viewbar™ turned on while surfing (up to five hours per month).
But this is not the only way of making profit, because you will also get a percentage of surfing hours of your friends', whom you invited to AGLOCO™.
How do I invite my friends to AGLOCO™?
When joining AGLOCO™ you will receive your ID and your own link to the Join AGLOCO™ form. Your friends only need to follow the link and join. That's how you'll be earning more with each friend you refer. Even more, you will gather profit even for friends of your friends, down to five levels of referrals"
Hmm, this apppears to be a recruitment scheme with no product, exepct a toolbar design to help you recruit even more. At least one SEO think so, also.
"After months of waiting and promises, AGLOCO flagship software, the Viewbar, is released — emails have been sent out to all participants.I do not participate in AGLOCO, so, I didn’t get one, and I had to get the news from Net Business blog. Some people are joyful and glorious. Some, like me, are quietly thinking about the consequences.
AGLOCO took the affiliate marketing on the new level. You didn’t have any product to sell, you didn’t have any money to earn. You just recruited, recruited and recruited, hoping that they will release the Viewbar, hoping that they will go public and hoping that they will share revenues with you."
Lame, very lame. Let's hope that this appeal to something for nothing dies a quick death.
Comments
I can see why someone would create this type of program, but I'm not a fan and I haven't even tried it. One of the great things about the web, is that people send you things that they think are cool. They aren't always cool, but for the most part, if someone knows a little about you, then you end up getting great articles or games or websites that are huge time wasters. It's great. If all of a sudden, people start getting compensated to send you a quick link to a story/ad, then it has the potential to turn your friends into spammers. I think that the social networks tend to work best when being helpful is it's own reward.
Posted by: Davis Freeberg | June 18, 2007 10:53 AM
Davis, my problem with these social widgets is that when you look at the underlying privacy notices, it appears that you are simply giving away your consumer preferences to any one.
I don't mind Amazon knowing what books I bought, but I don't want to be on some scam criminals latest list.
Posted by: Michael Webster | June 18, 2007 11:32 AM