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Free-For-All-Links pages are, as their name implies, pages where people and companies can place free links to their websites. Originally, they were run as reciprocal links sites -- if you wanted a link on an FFA page, then you had to provide a link to their page. The process was mutually beneficial. People coming to the FFA page would see your link and potentially clickthrough to your site. The FFA page owner, in turn, would get more traffic, because their pages were being linked to by hundreds or thousands of different websites.
Soon, however, it turned into a business. People saw how they could create multiple FFA pages, and sell them to customers, promising a boatload of visits, ad exposures, and spam-free mailing opportunity. You pay a monthly fee to the FFA company, they create a mirror FFA page under your name, and do all the work required to maintain it. Hundreds of people would visit the page each day, noticing your ads (which had prominence). The FFA page was merely a marketing tool. Those hundreds of visits to the FFA page would mean a dozen or so visitors to your "real" website. And assuming most of the visitors to the FFA site would be there to post their own links, you'd get to EMail them all a short ad in your "thank you" note. A marketing gurus dream!
FFA companies soon realized that, in order to greatly expand business, they needed to create a multi-tier affiliate program. If you signed up to be an affiliate, you paid your monthly fee, but you would get a percentage of the fees generated by the people you enticed to join. Five referrals would mean your monthly fee was paid. Hundreds of affiliates would mean hundreds of dollars each month. A win-win situation!
But is it really? There are now hundreds of thousands of FFA pages out there, most of them completely identical to one another. There are so many pages, that people don't go to each page and manually add their links - they use software to add their links to tens of thousands of FFA pages automatically. No one actually goes into an FFA page to see what's there. What? Yes. Hard to believe as it is, no one actually goes to an FFA page. If no one actually goes and sees what's there, then no one will actually see your ads. What about the pitch you send the submitters in your thank you EMail? No one will ever see them. If the software submits to just 1,000 FFA pages, then the submitter will receive 1,000 EMails, all in the matter of minutes. If you got 1,000 EMails in a day, would you meticulously read each and every one of them? I thought not. As a marketing tool, FFA pages leave a lot to be desired, at least the ones that allow automated submissions.
But, I can still make tons of money by getting referrals, right? Well, yes you can. And ffanet has a pretty decent affiliate payout scheme, that even allows the referrer to move personal referrals and assign them to other referrals. It's a great way to build a downline, and to encourage those "downstream" to keep working hard. But, strangely enough, not many of the affiliates at ffanet actually do that. They don't give new referrals any sort of a running start. So, new affiliates end up having to do all the work to get enough referrals to make any money. But just how many new affiliates will stay on when they see their credit card being dinged for $20 and absolutely nothing to show for it? Without actual visits to each page, the program becomes just another pyramid scheme. All your income comes from signing people up. The service being sold, provides absolutely no benefit to affiliates. To their credit, ffanet.com offers a 30 day money back guarantee.
Unless 5 of you decide to click here and sign up under the pro plan in the next 2 weeks, I'll be taking them up on their guarantee.
Sadly, until ffanet gets rid of their automated submission service, they get a Not Recommended rating.
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