Is edUpay A Scam – Or An Affiliate Marketing Opportunity
With the heightened interest in online courses to replace lost jobs due to the Covid-19 pandemic and related factors, I wonder is edUpay a scam or a real opportunity for people to get trained to work from home?
Updating one’s credentials is rarely a wrong move, and many who are laid off due to the virus disaster now have the time to do it.
I want to share with you good opportunities.
Before we get into the details about edUpay, I want you to know that you can get some free web site training, to create a blog that you own and can develop into perpetuity, just by clicking on the blue button below.
edUpay is a program based in the cloud, which creates one or more educational course web sites, depending on how much you want to spend.
It culls courses available from Udemy and Warrior Plus. Pulled onto your web site, the courses show with descriptions, and a shopping cart.
Your market reach can be wide or narrow (a niche).
Once your site shows courses, you need to make sure you acquire an affiliate marketing link (connecting you to sales) to each and every one of those courses.
The system will curate (take from other people’s original content) and spin – or, re-write with enough changes to make it “original”, publishing posts on your site.
This increases its value as it maintains presence on line.
Once you have purchased edUpay, you create a site and give it a name. You can select to have a logo (optional).
Next there is a menu of topics to pick from.
You select one and the system creates a web site and adds some courses. This happens in about a minute.
Now is when you go to your dashboard and follow the prompts for obtaining your affiliate links, one by one.
It is possible to edit the info that shows on each course, with descriptions and video choices (from YouTube) that will show about it, et al.
Next you navigate to your site’s blog.
You select to have content found for your blog, and then activate the spinner, to change the post into something unique, and avoid copyright infringements.
Loading up your blog with content is the backbone of a web site. It should gain visibility, courtesy of (mostly) Google.
Google inspects your site and your content and judges where it should fall in terms of relevance to searchers online.
I have experimented with content spinners in the past.
In my experience they produce terrible blog posts, if not just mashed up gobbledygook.
I ended up doing so much re-writing on these posts that it took me longer than writing from scratch.
Your spun material may rank for a time, but gradually other sites with better content will rank better.
Furthermore, if the visitors that come to your site notice this bad material, they won’t hang around long enough to notice the courses.
“The problem with simple automatic writing is that it cannot recognize context or grammar in the use of words and phrases…Article spinning is a way to create what looks like new content from existing content. As such, it can be seen as unethical, whether it is paraphrasing of copyrighted material (to try to evade copyright), deceiving readers into wasting their time for the benefit of the spinner (while not providing additional value to them), or both. Other criticisms liken the results to “a haystack of low-quality blog networks and article repositories.” – wikipedia
The assumption here is that this automated content will generate lots of free traffic to your site, with potential for sales.
It wasn’t until I partook in some professional grade training that I understood this.
It is always to your advantage to create your own content, because your site visitors will recognize your style and your voice.
Once someone has bought a good product from you, they will come back to you to buy something else. Doesn’t that make sense?
You shop that way, right?
Another option on the edUpay dashboard is to add banner ads on your site where a reader can click over to the product you’re presenting.
You can also add Opt In forms where a reader can leave their email address, to receive more information.
The sales pitch says this system will create 100% Automated Udemy-like sites. After all I outlined above, truly a lot of this is not automated, there are plenty of steps for you to do.
If you don’t know how, there is some training included for getting it all set up.
How Much Does edUpay Cost?
$27.00 gets you all that is described above (1 site, course, content creator, spinner, etc.)
+$57.00 allows you to create unlimited sites, and include several niches within each of those sites, some tracking analytics and split testing
+$27.00 per month gets you new videos everyday that you can add to your site
+$297.00 gets you the right to re-brand the system as your own and sell
+$197.00 gets you your site set up as outlined above, your email list attached to your autoresponder (your monthly cost), banner ads placed etc. One Skype call is included to make sure you understand it all
+$14.00 provides some “Ninja Training” on choosing content and getting ranked better
+$197.00 gets you resell rights, you keep 100% of sales
Is edUpay A Scam?
No, it looks like you can do what the basic offer says you can do but bear in mind that:
- It’s not automated, except for content hunting/spinning
- That type of content is not going to make a good or competitive blog
- If you’re a new blogger, there is lots of configuration to do
- It’s most likely you will need the $197 ‘Done For You’, although you’ll never understand the set up if you don’t do it yourself
That is why I recommend the unequaled training provided from my favorite professional community.
It is a place where newbies are welcome and given much help along the way as they create a business oriented blog.
It is especially formulated to educate you as to how a legal and well made site is put together. Plus, many of the “secret weapons” that build to a decent income you can live on.
Because you want a work from home job, right?
And don’t you want ownership and control, so you can benefit, way into your future?
Okay, So Where Do I Learn Blog Writing For Money?
Where I recommend you develop a business on line, you will also get a site up pretty fast, that’s the initial ‘done for you’ part.
You can become a Udemy or Warrior Plus affiliate without edUpay, and create a unique and interesting site, or multiple sites.
There are hundreds of affiliate opportunities to be had, there is no way you won’t find one that appeals to your enthusiasm.
You have built up a lot of knowledge from career choices and probably hobbies too, right? These are your sources of information to write content about and publish on your blog.
You will be guided as to the easiest ways to start, popular niches and products to promote, as you slowly, day by day, build a beautiful web site.
Other benefits you will get:
- Complete understanding of hosting, domain names and using WordPress
- Correct templates for Disclosure and Privacy Policy pages
- Proper notices about Cookies and data retention
- How to find writing prompts for content on Google and other search engines
- How to choose popular search words for your titles and headlines
- Where to find free-to-use images for your blog posts
- How to organize your site for easy navigation by visitors
- No up front fees for a week’s access to the basic classes
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This product is looking more like scam by the minute.
If it turns out I’m wrong but I have to say, they don’t seem liked they are pressed about the fact that links that are supposed to work for me do not.
And of course why would they be?
They have already soled the product. There is no monthly recurring so they have my money and if (as in this case) things are not working the response is “support MIA”.
Warrior products are suspect to me in the first place but I didn’t except to get burred on this one but they are not doing anything to inspire confidence.
I would say buyer beware but you can’t buy this product because the buy links don’t work.
They do claim their is a “working sales page link” but have not offered to share that as proof thier Warrior account is in good standing.
There has be a reason Warrior has blocked thier links.