Here is a Joe McClain website that is a great example of a scam artist at work. Heath, Ohio’s Joe McClain is currently going to prison for 5 years for real estate scams, but he also wanted to get in on the ever-popular web scams.

Here, he is trying to use to sell you a front page spot in Google. Apparently, whoever is taking care of his web endeavors while he’s in prison is putting the wrong website on the wrong domain. To sign up, he wants to know if you have $4,000 – $6,000 to get started! Google’s services are free, no need to pay this crook.

His real estate scams were illegal, but numerous other scams are not, just unethical. Do some searches and find what this guy is pushing. Look at the websites and get the jist of what a scam website looks like.

I won’t spend to much time explaining Google, but you can’t do any tricks to “get on the first page”. The first question would be, get on the first page for what term? Sure, I could get to the first page for a term that nobody searches for, there isn’t any competition. People do get on the first page for popular terms, so there must be a trick right? No, no trick at all. You can find out manually how they did it or purchase low cost software that speeds up the process. They do it by providing quality content and getting that content referred many times. In other words, they work for it or they spend money to get it done for them. Even then, no reputable service would ever claim that they could get them to the top for a certain keyword, nor would they claim to have a magic secret that they could teach them. Even if they did get them to the top of a Google search, there’s no guarantee that it would stay there.

The point of the Joe McClain Google scam is that he is using a fancy landing page and website to entice a buyer into false hopes. The Internet is just a tool and it will not work magic for you. First of all, these Google gurus forget to tell you that you need a product or service that people want to purchase! I could advertise rats for sale, get them to the top of Google’s searches, and have my ads for them appear all over the place, but nobody is going to buy rats of course.

If you’re trying to use the Internet as an advertising tool, be cautious and take the prudent steps to be sure that you’re not wasting money on a scam. If you’re Web Developer is making wild claims of untold fortunes with very little work, RUN.