Traffic Siphon, Scam or Not?

Many of you who appear on internet marketeers lists will have been receiving emails over the last few days from various sources all plugging the same product "Traffic Siphon". If you click the email link you will be taken to a sales page where a pitch video automatically begins from a guy calling himself Mark Barnard. Barnard claims to have produced this product himself having discovered various loopholes in driving traffic to your site and has decided to "for the first time" make it available to others. Strange then that if you try to contact Traffic Siphon support you will be directed to a site that tells you they no longer support this product under its' new ownership. The fact is that this is not a new product at all but one that has been around for some time. So what do you actually get, well this is nothing more than a glorified advanced backlink course relating to ezine article marketing, forum profile creation, blog commenting and so on, in fact nothing you couldn't find out for free researching the internet for an hour or so.

We've been keeping an eye on this one for a few days and find it hilarious that on our first visit the site claimed that only 250 of these systems would be sold and that only 78 were left, at the time of writing, yep, you guessed it, it's still saying only 250 available and only 78 left, of course this wont change as the page is a graphic and not a script. We also enjoyed the part of the page showing Mark's old car, describing himself as being an ex construction worker (US terminology), with a small apartment (US terminology) and getting only 2 weeks vacation (again US terminology and duration) we ask why his car should be a right hand drive model with a british number plate, parked on what is obviously an English road.

Now should you decide this is not for you and try to leave the page you will instantly be offered a 5 day trial for just $1, sounds good, until that is you go for the purchase. When you hit the add to cart button you are taken to a clickbank order page which not only shows your $1 but a future payments to be billed monthly of $67, when did this turn into a recurring cost system? Oh, and by the way, the $1 trial was only available to the first 18 people and there have been only 5 slots left - for the last week, ha ha.

And finally, if you do decide to buy you will immediately be pushed for $197 upsells which include the stuff the sales pitch infers you're getting in the first place.


VERDICT: Save your money, you can get all this information for free at Backlinks Forum.