Frequently Asked Questions about Learniacs.com (FAQ)

Here are some of the questions people often ask about Learniacs system. If you need more information, you can also read the about section or you can contact us directly.

Q1: Is this a multi-level scheme? A pyramid one? I hate both of them!
Q2: How can I earn money with the Learniacs.com website?
Q3: I've visited my new blackboard a couple of times and I still have no ad impressions. Why?
Q4: How does the daily virtual income work?

Q1: Is this a multi-level scheme? A pyramid one? I hate both of them!

A1: You can call it whatever you want, but there are some things to clarify first.
Here is a list of "4 Multi-Level Marketing Common Fears and Problems" and how our system deals with them:

1. Marketing saturation.

This is the greatest fear of multi-level marketers, but, not a problem for our network. MLMs are told to be "doomed by design" to reach market saturation and thus put the people who are legitimately trying to sell the product into a difficult situation. Let's say marketing saturation has already occurred and you cannot bring anyone into the system anymore, so you have no referrals. In this case, you still earn 40% of your own pages revenue which is more than other similar user-generated content websites pay you for the content you create. The advantage of publishing your content through our website is the amount of organic traffic you can get because of the reputation of the website. What you need to understand is that we don't sell our own product. It's your product that you're selling (advertising, affiliate products etc.). We have chosen this multi-level type of spreading the word because, in our case, marketing saturation is a good thing. After marketing saturation occurs, this website will do perfectly fine. Everybody knows about Squidoo.com, right? Does this make it less attractive? No. It's the opposite.

2. When you buy the product, you are paying a higher price just to "feed" 10 (or more) levels.

Hmm... Did we ask for your credit card? No. Instead, we pay you 40% of the ads impressions that your pages generate, we allow you to promote your own websites or products on your pages, we make link building for your websites an easier job and we are teaching you how to promote them. Fair enough? Not to say that networking with other people in our community is a lot of fun and addictive (but, hey, don't tell anyone, ok? :P ).

3. Special MLM "job" offers are losing proposition.

This may be true for regular MLM systems, because it's all about how early you came into the system. Not the case with our website. We've tried to build a community for writers and experts - not marketers - and we'll continue to improve the system to better serve them. Even if an early adopter has a better chance to earn more than a late adopter, the most important factors for your success are the quality of your pages and the number of them as in every other non-multi-level user-generated content website. Good content will always get a lot of exposures, because of the nature of the Internet. Article publishing is now a well-known way to build your reputation as an expert, your backlinks and increase your traffic. But, why not earn some money directly from your published articles?

4. MLM involves trying to convince your friends and family to join the system. No need for me to ruin my relationships.

We don't need that either. You don't have to talk to anyone. The pages you create are designed to do that for you. When people visit your blackboards to read your articles, they have the option to create their own blackboard. When they follow that link and sign up, our system automatically registers them as your referrals. So, your network grows on its own without making you look like a salesperson. Of course, if you want, you can use your referral link to get other people to sign up, for a faster grow of your network, but this is not mandatory. If you want, you can be a publisher only.

Q2: How can I earn money with the Learniacs.com website?

A2: There are two ways to do it:

1. Publish your own unique pages about your passions. Your ads will be displayed 40% of the times your Learniacs pages (aka blackboards) will show so, make sure you create high-quality blackboards and promote them well. Every time you create a good blackboard and promote it, you are basically increasing the chances to rank well for some long-tail keywords in the search engines and increase your organic traffic. This leads to more passive earnings from your pages.

2. Bring other people to Learniacs.com. When you bring other people to our website, we pay you 20% of the ads showing on the blackboards they create. But this doesn't stop here. If they do the same thing, you will also get paid for the people they bring in, 10 levels deep. The best part of this is that, once you've set up a decent network, your ads will continue to show on the blackboards in your network creating a nice passive income stream.

These are the main two ways to make money with Learniacs.com. For greater success, we recommend you to use both of them, combined. This way, your own traffic will contribute to the grow of your network. The beauty of this is that once you've established a network and you've succeeded to bring some organic traffic to your blackboards, your income can grow on its own, because of the nature of the Internet (all the blackboards in your network - including your owns - will continue to get traffic from search engines, earning you more money from advertising and bringing new people to your growing network).

Q3: I've visited my new blackboard a couple of times and I still have no ad impressions. Why?

A3: There are two reasons why your' ads might not show:

1. Make sure you have your account information set up. After login, go to the "Account" section and fill in the "AdSense publisher number" field. Your ads won't show until we have your publisher number. You can find it in your AdSense account at the top-right corner of the page and it looks like this: pub-XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX where X are digits.

2. We do our best to protect our users' AdSense accounts. With that in mind, we NEVER display their own ads to themselves when they are logged in, even if they are only surfing on blackboards from their network. We encourage you to stay logged in to help us determine if your ads should be shown or not. You shouldn't try to cheat the system because you're only cheating yourself. If click fraud is detected, not only you won't get paid for that clicks, but Google can shut down your account immediately. Our algorithm will do its best to display your ads with priority, based on the depth level (for example, on your own blackboards, we always try to show your ads first if possible).

Q4: How does the daily virtual income work?

A4: Basically, you gain a green coin when you create a blackboard. Every new blackboard you create increases your daily virtual income. This is a way to measure your potential earnings from your own blackboards.

Let's say you have 10 green coins. This does not necessarily mean that you actually earn 10 cents a day or 10 dollars a day or... whatever... from your blackboards. Your actual earnings depend on the quality of your blackboards, on the optimization and on how well you are promoting that particular blackboard. I personally have blackboards which generate more than 30 unique visitors a day and I also have blackboards which barely get 1 visitor a day, but you can easily increase the value of your green coins each time you feel you are not earning enough from a certain blackboard. For long term success have in mind these three things when you decide to write a blackboard:

1. Topic. Remember to choose a hot topic (and when I say "hot" it's not necessarily about how new the subject it is, but the number of people wanting to learn what you are about to teach them).
2. Quality. Make sure you write your blackboards in proper English, make sure they are neat and add everything needed in order to be really useful and look very good.
3. Optimization. If you optimize your blackboards a little, the chances to get a lot of organic traffic increase dramatically. In my opinion doing a quick research for related keywords and getting some quick links with the related keywords in their anchor text is that 20% of the work which increases your results with 1000%. Don't be lazy! Do 20% more and you will get enormous benefits.