Is this Shaun Stenning's internet marketing? Be a thief?
An intriguing document landed in ThePaepae.com mailbox for my review recently. It appears to be a guide to (supposedly) making money through the internet by adopting ‘blackhat’ techniques used by ‘YouTube Traffic Thieves‘.
From appearances, this MAY emanate from spruiker Dean Letfus’s new business partner itinerant salesman and self-proclaimed internet expert Shaun Stenning (or perhaps one of his henchmen colleagues?) judging by the ‘twa.lk 2.0’, ‘make big money on social media’ branding (not to mention the giveaway typos and poor grammar).
But I note there is NO author’s credit, publisher, copyright notice, nor contact details showing on the document as I received it, so it may be that Shaun Stenning et al has simply plastered his (latest) branding on someone else’s work. I really don’t know. (If you can shed light on this, and you care, please let me know. And feel free to send me more material.)
Whatever its origins, it is an ODIOUS little volume, let me tell you.
It’s interesting to note it carries this anonymous ‘disclaimer’, neatly demonstrating the term we recently touched on in another discussion, consciousness of guilt:
Hardly confidence-inspiring, is it? (Source: YouTube Traffic Thieves report)
The unnamed author shares dodgy methods he uses — and he says you can try at your own risk — to hijack people watching videos on YouTube and driving ‘traffic’ to your websites (ka-ching!) — with no value added, it seems to me. In fact, some of the techniques are downright dishonest, in my opinion. (Hence the disclaimer, I guess.)
Here are some extracts, to give you a sense of the ‘flavour’:
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