About an hour after you start looking for an Internet based business, you start clicking every banner or link that shows up and run down every bunny trail that you can find. Inevitably, you will find SpiderWeb Marketing sooner or later in your search. Should you pass and try another route, or see where the trail leads?



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 went through the SpiderWeb system as a producer looking to add to an existing Internet income. I found the process and tutorials very easy to use and set up. For each affiliate program-- 22 as of this writing-- there is a video that walks you through the process. Most of the affiliate programs are free, but a few are paid programs. You gather the ones you want to use, and pass on the others. For the programs you pass on, your upline's affiliate link will be credited if someone elects that program.

Two of the 22 programs they suggest for finding traffic are Yuwie and Direct Matches, which are social networking sites. SpiderWeb asks you some questions about yourself and even offers some Shout Page copy you can cut and paste. SpiderWeb even has an option to produce an automated blog. The posting tool can be set on autopilot and the blogs automatically appear on your page. Sounds great so far, eh?

Not so fast. After signing up, I went to Direct Matches to see how I had done. I decided to search for people looking for business associates. They come up ten to a page. In the seven pages I viewed (70 profiles), there were 59 Spiders, and two pages scored ten out of ten. Amazingly, 37 of them had "been involved in Internet marketing for 10 years." You get basically the same results if you search blogs or groups, and similar results on Yuwie.

So, is the SpiderWeb system good for most people? I would say yes and no. Yes for the fact that they provide you with instructions on how to sign up for 22 affiliate programs that might have taken you days to find, and no for the fact that their advertising and marketing strategies point to "SpiderWeb," and not to your own business. Give it a pass, and go to something else.