SuccessUniv .info

The only one making money off this site
is the guy who runs it

When I first found successuniv .info, I thought that it was the answer to my prayers. Finally there was a website that offered information on how to make money online without charging to for that privilege. The site seemed to be well laid out, though I was just skimming it at first.

By the time all was said and done, though, I realized that I’d given them my name and email address and gotten nothing but some extra junk mail in return. The site creator, on the other hand, probably made at least a little bit of money from my visit (and possibly more, depending on whether or not he or she sells the email addresses that they collect or uses them for spam purposes.)

Upon closer inspection of the successuniv site, I realize now that it just screamed “scam” or at the very least “useless.” One of the “free tips” that the site offers up is to sign up for a Google AdSense account, and it’s very obvious that the site owner has followed this bit of advice at least because there are an ungodly amount of AdSense ads all over the site. In my first scan through of the success univ site I thought that some of them were actual helpful links, but even the links which appear in the middle of the page in a highlighted box have the little “ads by Google” text at the bottom.

The only other content on the successuniv site is a link at the bottom to “last week’s topic” which talks about autosurfing websites and similar “get paid to surf the web” sites. This advice at least seems halfway reasonable, as it mentions how most of them will cost you more than you could potentially make with them. It’s still very vague, though, and there’s another huge batch of Google ads all over the page. When I was looking at the second page, there was even a set of graphic ads that looked like part of the page content but were once again more ads.

Even though they don’t charge anything for their “helpful tips”, the entire site is just a thinly veiled way to get a bunch of ads up and convince people to click on them because they think that they’re links to more content.

Of course, considering the subject of the successuniv site itself many of the ads are for other sites that feature money making scams so the more click throughs that the site gets then the more people are going to end up losing money to the exact sort of sites that this one claims to warn about.

In the end, the site’s a sham. They’re just looking to collect email addresses for worthless tips while raking in advertising clicks using deceptive placement. I guess it should have been obvious since the title of the page doesn’t even match the successuniv site’s URL. Next time I’ll be more careful, and I hope that this will help other people to avoid making the same mistake.

Review by Thomas Netz