The All Inclusive Ads Scam
The All Inclusive Ads Deception
As an Internet marketing newbie, I am constantly searching online for free and paid methods of advertising my blog and affiliate sites/programs. I've tried many different programs and websites, of which most have done nothing.
One of the marketing sites I tried out recently was All Inclusive Ads.
What is All Inclusive Ads?
All Inclusive Ads (AIA) is an advertising service that claims to have professional media buyers that spend over $40,000 per month promoting up to 10 of your links via dozens of different advertising methods including, but not limited to:
- Google Adwords / Yahoo PPC (multiple thousands spent monthly) - Newspaper Advertising (in over 5,000 North American Newspapers) - Banner Advertising (bulk ads purchased on a network of thousands of websites) - Expired Domain Name traffic (traffic shared from 1000's of expired domain names) - Popup/Popunder traffic (pop traffic from a network of hundreds of websites) - You Tube Videos (traffic on hundreds of unique You Tube videos) - Social Bookmarking (traffic from links on 125 of the top social bookmarks sites) - Articles (from links on thousands of search engine indexed articles) - Press Releases (traffic from links on 100 search engine indexed press releases) - Blog posts (traffic from links on over 250 high traffic blogs) - And much MORE!
All Inclusive Ads is supposedly the #1 Ranked Ad Site of the Year. I'm not really sure which year it was ranked #1 as this information is not made available via the website capture page... Seems fishy.
All Inclusive Ads Claim #1
All Inclusive Ads claims to spend $40,000 per month on managed campaign ads. Each member pays $29.95 per month to advertise up to 10 links and get one share of the $40,000 per month spending budget. You receive 1 share of the advertising budget in month 1. For each subsequent month that you pay for your subscription you receive another share of the advertising budget. So in month 4, your share increases to four shares of the advertising budget.
I'm not quite sure how they are able to afford spending $40,000 per month on advertising campaigns when each member is only paying $29.95 per month. Of course AIA does not give you information regarding exactly how many members it is advertising for... Seems fishy.
All Inclusive Ads Claim #2
When you are in the back office, you will immediately see a banner that tells you how much money was spent advertising YOUR site(s) in the current 30-day period. Well, I signed up 8 days ago, which means I only have 1 share of the budget, and it claims to have spent $13,835.12 so far on advertising for my sites.
None of that math adds up. Why? Because if $40,000 is spent every month on advertising for ALL members, how in heaven's hell did they already spend $14K of the budget on MY advertising in only 8 days?! Seems fishy right? EXACTLY.
I would also like to note that on Day 1 this same banner displayed that they had spent over $3,000 promoting my links when I hadn't even added any of my links to the site yet... Sorry I don't have a screenshot of that, but ummmm... Seems fishy.
All Inclusive Ads Doesn't Stand Behind Its Services
I was instantly pissed off because I felt like I had already been scammed. The only reason I kept the membership this long (8 days) is because I was so busy with my everyday activities that I wasn't able to cancel within 24 hours of the initial payment.
Taken straight from the All Inclusive Ads Terms and Conditions: "Membership to All Inclusive Ads automatically re-bills every 30 days at $29.95/month. A 100% refund will be issued if requested within 24 hours of the initial payment. If an account is canceled after 24 hours of the initial payment, the recurring billing will stop and the account will remain open for the remainder of the 30 day term."
The fact that you can't cancel after 24 hours of the initial payment leads me to believe that All Inclusive Ads doesn't stand behind their services. Yes, I understand they are supposedly spending all of this money on advertisements for your site; but if after 24 hours I never added any links for advertising then technically you spent nothing on advertising for me. And if you spent nothing, I should be able to get a refund regardless. Not backing their product?... Seems fishy.
More All Inclusive Ads Research
So my initial frustrations lead me to do further research, which I should have done in the beginning, and I began to discover articles in which people were complaining that all the hits sent to their sites were coming from the same servers.
Luckily for me, I cloak most of my sites and track them using an online service. After using All Inclusive Ads for 8 days, these were my results:
- To see my picture results please visit my blog (link in Resource box)***
As you can see from the above pictures, I'm getting traffic to my sites. The problem is that none of these clicks are converting to sales. And I'm promoting a FREE lead generation & list building software and a FREE money making system. You can't possibly tell me people aren't looking for FREE stuff.
Also, you will see that most of the clicks from All Inclusive Ads aren't even unique clicks and this is the ONLY method of advertising I am currently using (besides Facebook). You can clearly see that pretty much all of my clicks on my cloaked links are coming from All Inclusive Ads.
What is All Inclusive Ads REALLY doing?
Are they paying people to just click ads that they are supposedly creating? That seems to be the only way to get clicks that are not unique. I've seen reviews where people claim that the clicks come from some type of ad rotator that is used on the same server, but regardless of whether the ad rotator has all of the ads on the same server or not, the clicks should be coming from unique IP addresses. Seems fishy.
It is important to note that All Inclusive Ads has an affiliate program, in which you can make money off of people's subscription each month down to five levels. I'm starting to believe folks who are receiving results are getting their results from the affiliate program and NOT the actual advertising done by All Inclusive Ads each month.
These are the people writing the hyped up articles and defending AIA's non-unique clicks... And that makes me angry.
My Final Thoughts On All Inclusive Ads
In the Internet marketing world we are scammed and duped by so many people using so many different resources. It is a shame that people will promote non-useful products and services just to make a quick buck. I am not one to do that, which is why I did not... and will not... post my affiliate link to AIA on this site, or anywhere else for that matter. Besides, it'll only be active for 22 more days anyway.
All Inclusive Ads is useless. Yes you get traffic. Yes you get (non-unique) clicks. But do you get conversions? NO, not even with the promotion of FREE products and services.
Hopefully the $29.95 I wasted 8 days ago will help someone else keep $29.95 in his or her pocket.
If I get any useful conversions while using All Inclusive Ads' services over the next 22 days, I will surely update you. But I'm 99.9999% sure, you won't ever see me promoting this crap.
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