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People are struggling in our current economy. Many are looking for ways to work at home and make money online. Opportunities to make extra money are in high demand. There is no shortage of advertised opportunities to earn money from home. The internet is teaming with companies that report that they have the answer to how to make money without leaving your home. Many such businesses cannot deliver on their promises or are outright scams. Diligent research and persistence, however, can mean finding legitimate opportunities.

ClickBank is an online retail outlet that makes a sale somewhere in the world every three seconds. It is one of the internet's most highly trafficked websites and processes more than 26,000 transactions each day. More than 12,000 digital product vendors and nearly 100,000 active affiliate marketers have found success via Clickbank marketing. Clickbank affiliates are websites that add products or services to their websites and earn commissions on sales that originate from their site. This program offers effective ways to make money both directly and indirectly. The company was founded in 1998 and is available in 200 countries throughout the world. Some with a true entrepreneurial spirit want to strike out on their own by creating an internet business. The most successful of these concentrate on what have come to be known as the three C's which are commerce, content and connection. Commerce is, of course, about selling. Content is your product and connection is about how you market your product. Making money, specifically making money online, is all about marketing. Those that have gone before and found success have a wealth of internet marketing tips to offer newcomers to the arena. Marketing products online is about instant response. It brings together the creative and technical aspects of the internet via design, advertising, development and sales.

Leapfish is a type of metasearch site known as a search aggregator.Search aggregators compile and list the results taken from other search engines, in addition to providing their own content (generally in the form of advertising or result positioning based on internal algorithms.

In the case of LeapFish, the top results of any given search can be advertisements, where an individual or company can pay a registration fee to LeapFish to be positioned at the top of the result list in response to certain keyword searches.

Controversy

The new Leapfish has had a mixed reception from users of sitepoint forums, from bloggers and other regular web users.

On February 3rd, 2009 the online blog TechCrunch posted evidence of LeapFish sales representatives intentionally abusing the Google's pay-per-click model against potential customers. The CEO of LeapFish's parent company, DotNext, confirmed the sales representative's actions, but announced that the representative was no longer employed by the company.

The company has also been accused of astroturfing(Note, in particular, the comment from Robin Wauters on November 20th, 2008 at 12:57 pm PST), and spamming.

As opposed to other Search Engines, such as Google or Yahoo which appear to favour web based sales, Leapfish keywords are largely sold via aggressive telemarketing[11] operation which has not been without friction with the online community. The telemarketing team consists of 80 sales persons.