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Very soon after you start searching for the perfect Internet based business, you click every banner or link that you can find, and run down every bunny trail they lead to. Inevitably, sooner or later, you will find SpiderWeb Marketing. What to do, what to do. Follow the bunny trail, or find another offer?

The first thing you will find out about the SpiderWeb system is that it is free. This can be both good news and bad news. The fact that it is free means it will attract tons of tire-kickers, those who will sign up and then do nothing, but it also means some top performer may take a look at it as a source of added income.

I joined SpiderWeb looking to add to another income stream. The tutorials are easy to set up and use. There is a video that walks you through the signing up process for each affiliate program (all 22 of them). Most all of the programs are free, but a few require money to start. You can pick and choose the ones you want to join. You sign up for those, and pass on the others. Later, if someone in your downline elects a program you don’t subscribe to, the system will default to your upline’s affiliate number.

Two of the programs they suggest for generating traffic are the social networking sites Yuwie and Direct Matches. You are asked some questions about yourself and even gives you some cut and paste Shout Page copy. SpiderWeb even produces an automated blog posting tool that you can set on autopilot and watch the blogs magically appear on your page. Sounds great so far, right?

Oops. I went to Direct Matches after signing up, just to see what I had done. I did a search for people looking for business associates which is what SpiderWeb suggested I use. The results come up ten to a page. I viewed seven pages,(70 profiles), and found 59 Spiders. Two pages had ten out of ten. To my amazement, 37 of them had “been involved in Internet marketing for 10 years” (including me.) Basically the same numbers come up if you search groups or blogs, and similar results appear on Yuwie.

So, is the SpiderWeb system good for most people? I would say yes for “some” and no for “most.” Yes for the fact that it provide instructions on how to get involved in 22 affiliate programs. That might have taken you days to do on your own. It gets a no for the fact that their marketing strategies and advertising point to “SpiderWeb,” and not to your own business. I suggest you give it a pass.

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