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Who cares! A guy's got to make a living. His commission can't be much. Your raising a fuss over nickels and dimes.

Let's get one thing straight. Anybody can tell when they're intelligence is being insulted. You can do it all yourself, but you'll struggle with getting found. SEO or SEM is not an easy game if you have competition. The SEO landscape is always changing.

There's a reason why Aura ranks high. Somehow, I don't think this encyclopedia of yogic knowledge runs for $10 a month. An SEO / SEM expert can't be found for $100 a month. Your just breaking into the good ones at $500 per month.

Big companies spend thousands on websites and that's a fact. To say websites don't cost thousands is also right, but nobody will ever find your cheap site if you're ranked on page 29 for the keywords you're targeting. SEO guys look at cheap sites you put your heart and soul into and want you to redesign it all over again to be search engine friendly.

If you just want a site, but don't care if you're found then make the plunge. At the least, you'll be learning.

Reminds me of free yoga instructor training that was promised to me by an ashram in exchange for seva. In reality, I could attend lectures by yoga celebrities for free, but TTC was the same price for me as any stranger who walked in the door. I finished out my year of seva with no certification of any kind. Free sites - I'm not falling for the bait.

Matt, I don't apologize. This is my first visit to this thread. This isn't entirely a flock of passive yogis. Expect to see counter points here because you have been and will continue to be exposed. You tried to play up your good karma yoga and you've been caught red handed.

Now your feelings got hurt. You use the word free for a reason. To catch trusting yogis who don't know anything about SEO, SEM, or building a website. You played on their trust as a fellow yoga teacher and supposed karma yogi, but you're exposed as a small time affiliate.

You said, "I make no money." Then you said, "Normally I'd resist the temptation to defend myself on the internet. And maybe I should have." Please defend yourself as to how "I make no money" means: I make a small affiliate commission.

You said, "it really hurts to have your hard work attacked by skepticism." You haven't been attacked - YET! So, we're supposed to have blind faith for your $5 per head affiliate scheme? Was it hard to make your site, the quick sites, run your camera, and upload a You Tube video?

Really! I suppose you can sell that to somebody who doesn't know. That's 6 hours work for a lifetime pay off that sells yogis down the river for around $5 a head. "Et tu, Brute?"

You say websites don't cost thousands. It's a myth! What a crock! Tell that to a legitimate web developer and the satisfied clients who rank high and make good sales daily. Your line is for those who don't know the truth. You're not a legitimate web developer. You're an affiliate selling cyber snake oil.

You probably haven't got your first affiliate check and you're roping people into believing prospects will see these yoga sites. You're right about how anybody can create them. Yes, you give classic examples of Yahoo Business type sites that were slapped up quickly and won't rank.

Thousands of these unranked sites are floating out in cyber space and nobody will ever find them. They might as well get a free blog, Twitter, and Facebook than waste their money with junk sites they have to pay for. If they buy in, then at least they'll have the experience of paying for a site no prospect will ever see.

Search engine marketing is my business and your junk sites have multiple SEO flaws on every page. My services aren't free or cheap, and I don't pretend they are. Free means it's really free and anybody can find free training on You Tube for anything.

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Mila, Really! You apologize for doing nothing wrong. Save your apologies for something you did. I'm sure you're a nice person. Aum Shanti

Karma has come full circle on this thread. Try to resist piling on and let this go as an example of a deception that revealed itself.

LOL I can't resist. This is pure entertainment. Thank you Rose for uncovering this one. Yoga teachers are so trusting because they give so much. Con-artists are always looking for a "mark." This was a great wolf in sheep's clothing plot, but once revealed this thread is a warning buoy.