Mike Deese presents My Advertising Pays as an honest way to earn money by clicking on ads. In reality, this product is just a rehashed version of outdated, worthless traffic exchange programs that have flooded the internet. But M.A.P. is actually worse, since you’ll have to spend money to purchase “Credit Packs” for $50 each. In this My Advertising Pays review, I’ll explain why the traffic that you’d be purchasing is a complete waste of money and why Mike Deese’s product is a one-way street to losing cash.
Why You Can’t Build a Business on Traffic Exchanges
The key to earning money online is attracting quality traffic to your website and converting it into sales. Some beginners hoping for a shortcut fall for the “traffic exchange” trap, which means trading traffic with other website owners. Basically, you click on a link to someone’s website, and in return some random person visits your site.
The problem with My Advertising Pays and all other traffic exchanges is that they’re sending spammy, unqualified traffic to your site and there’s zero chance of converting these visitors into commissions. The only reason that these visitors are vistiing your website in the first place is to earn credit, and they couldn’t care less about the actual content on your site. Traffic exchanges compile a random list of websites that usually have extremely thin content, as you can see from the My Advertising Pays traffic exchange below.
Since the traffic is completely untargeted and likely not at all related to what your site is about, the visitors from traffic exchanges have extremely poor conversion rates. This means that visitors only stay on your site for a few seconds, just enough to earn credit with the traffic exchange.
Experienced marketers stay away from traffic exchanges because they know it’s impossible to earn commissions this way, and ultimately it’s just a complete waste of time. Visitors from traffic exchanges are some of the lowest-quality visitors a person can get on their website, and My Advertising Pays is no exception.
My Advertising Pays’ $50 “Credit Packs”
With most traffic exchanges, all you lose is the time that you invest clicking on spammy links.
The thing that makes My Advertising Pays even worse is, in order to be eligible to earn money, you first have to invest in a “Credit Pack”, and each one costs a whopping $50.
This $50 is being spent on completely worthless traffic. The Credit Boosters for sale are just as worthless, and it’s nearly impossible to earn money as an internet marketer using traffic exchanges like this.
“But Mike Deese is Just Like Me, Right?”
Mike Deese goes out of his way to make My Advertising Pays seem like an honest, family-friendly business, but don’t fall for the lies. After all, trying to convince unsuspecting people to invest in traffic exchanges is far from the values that he preaches.
If you make a poor choice and invest in one of his Credit Packs, that money is gone forever. You might as well have just set it on fire. And as opposed to legitimate work-from-home systems, there is absolutely no refund policy with My Advertising Pays.
Another red flag is that the site is filled with spammy advertisements. It seems as if Mike Deese is much more interested in earning money than in providing a quality product to his customers. As you can clearly see, almost the entire homepage is filled with “sponsored advertisements” for low quality sites.
Conclusion: Traffic Exchanges Aren’t Worth Your Money
Mike Deese hopes to put a new spin on the old “traffic exchange” programs which most people already know to avoid. Unfortunately, the traffic from My Advertising Pays is no better than the low-quality traffic from similar exchanges, so don’t count on making any sales. Even worse, Mike charges $50 for their “Credit Packs”, which are massively overpriced considering their low value. All-in-all this product won’t get you a single step closer to owning a successful internet marketing business – it’s just another product publisher trying to get a piece of your hard-earned money.
Interact with Me and the Community!
Do you understand why My Advertising Pays suffers from the same flaws as all other traffic exchanges? Did this review help you understand why paying $50 for a “Credit Pack” of untargeted traffic is a very poor decision? Let me know your opinion in the comments below!
I am a MAPS member with app 110 Credit Packs in my account. With my initial purchase of 50 CP for $3000 I have made withdrawal of app $1400. Unfortunately since more than a month the profit shares are stagnant. The MAPS Admin claiming the site in the process of modification for negotiating large data and so the VXGateway processor is out of run currently where I recently got transferred app 440 euros. Now, through this Processor I made few withdrawals earlier. But presently, when I tried to send money from VXGateway to bank account, I was asked to upload all verification documents like ID, Add. Now, my question is “Why the site is asking to load the documents again from where I have already made several withdrawals. I feel my Account Balance is gone fore ever. Secondly, why MAPS is thrusting to transact from this site which is repeatedly posing problems to MAPS members when the other payment processors barring Pay pal are also good performers in terms of customer satisfaction and timely delivery of payments. If this site is causing problems, then why the MAPS are associated with it. I feel, that’s not the right logic. Also, MAPPERS to notice that after MAPS have transformed to MAPS 2.0 the profits have also lowered. Now the credit Pack purchase is 49.9 euros or $62 and expire at 67 euros. When you consider in terms of profit sharing, buying 2-3 credits won’t stand anywhere but min investment of $1000 only give some profit sharing but still very low due to extremely poor quality of traffic. Now, not known about the future. I see it as a bad investment without any real market value. I wish to withdraw maximum at least to make good my loss. I expect other affiliates to think 100 times before jumping in such Bad Ponzi schemes that only run down after staging a world class appearance
So what about traffic monsoon??? Everyone is raving about that. But isn’t that the same?
I haven’t reviewed it yet, although this is the second time I’ve had it mentioned to me. I’ll try to look into it soon.
So sad that people dont get it…..
EVERY Ponzi Scheme pays members at first….
If they wouldnt they couldnt get the people to
talk in more members and by more “Ad Packs”…
What makes this a ponzi scheme is that MAP doesnt have
ANY outside revenue… The only money that can be divided
is the money that members pay in.
And it is NOT possible that everyone pays in $10 and gets out $12…
That would require outside revenue from purchases that are not
entitled for profit….
MAP also ADMITS they are a ponzi… No new purchases –> No payout!
That would be OK if You would get a decent product for your money…
But all You get is “forced” ( or incentivized ) traffic.
Pepole do not click on your ad because they are interested
in it. They click because they are forced to click to earn….
This is the LOWEST quality traffic that exists….
Just ask yourself why You have never seen a large and legit company
advertising on this type of sites… Only affilates of get-rich-schemes ?
Very well said, Ansgar! I couldn’t agree more. Thanks a lot for such an insightful comment.
You’re exactly right, this is absolutely no different than Studio Traffic (and a whole host of other similar sites) from a decade ago. Studio Traffic was unique because they were able to keep scamming people for 3 years or so, and don’t worry there were thousands of suckers that toed the company line believing in their crap.
I can’t believe how many people to this day still believe this nonsense, but I guess that’s why people still create these Ponzi’s as they are profitable. Sad really
Hi,
I have been asked to comment further as I have let my credit packs run their course. I contacted admin some time ago expressing my concern that I could not see my credit packs returning what should be in my Lifetime Profit Sharing Earnings and I have been proved right.
My present situation is that I now have 8 credit packs which will expire very shortly and I have withdrawn $1900 but my lifetime earnings are saying that I have $4662.47.
Basically I have got my money back what I invested but I have made nothing.
So where is my other $2500 assured by admin they would transfer to my available account balance.
My view is that if you don’t withdraw regularly you are basically throwing your money away.
I really believed this system would be a good second income. Sadly this is not the case.
With my existing 8 credit packs I may earn another $20 dollars at max.
I’ve been an affiliate of MAPS for few months now and I was bit sceptical at the beginning as most here. But now I’m quite satisfied with my returns and the way its moving forward so far. But I have to say that MAPS haven’t done a good job at all to clear the air on how they operate or allegations of it being ponzi/pyramid scheme. And also, I’ve couple of issues with some shortcomings of MAPS, i.e. advert quality, filter/search facilities, etc.
MAPS make it clear that it shares profit daily and it DOESN’T guarantee a profit share. If the company makes a profit, affiliates get paid, otherwise no payments. As far as I know, MAPS make profits by selling their products, which are “advertising packs” (these needs to be bought by affiliates, both new and existing ones, to be qualified for profit sharing), “banner adverts” and “guaranteed visitors”.
Hence the notion of ponzi/pyramid scheme (where money generated from new comers to the scheme are paid out to the individuals at the top of the ladder) cannot be applied to MAPS due to following 2 reasons. Firstly, MAPS do have products that can be sold. Secondly, those produces need to be bought by all affiliates, regardless of whether they are new comers or existing affiliates, to ensure that they receive a profit share, hence MAPS ensure that affiliates at the top of the ladder DO NOT get paid automatically.
In another word, if MAPS products are not bought by its affiliates (new and/or existing ones), no one gets paid. And also, as far as I understand, MAPS plan to bring in outside corporate advertisers, once it’s number of affiliate membership reaches around 250,000 (its about 96,000 currently). Now, if you want to argue about the quality of their products/service, I think its a different discussion.
Thank you very much for taking the time to share this thoughtful perspective, Maverick? Could you shed some insight on what a couple of other commenters have mentioned below, regarding racking up money in their Lifetime Earnings but being unable to get all of it out due to restrictions? They seemed to feel like they would never get all of their money out and that they were being deceived because this is their money that they’ve earned, but they can’t access it.
Ian, I didn’t see your response earlier and sent you another comment asking for a feedback, apologies for that.
Yes, I’m curious about that Lifetime Earnings comment. If you don’t re-purchase credit packs from your earnings, your available balance should be your lifetime earnings minus your available advertising fund (5% of your profit share earnings). And your available balance is ready for you to withdraw at any time. I’ve spent more than £2000 and I’ve withdrawn a small amount from available balance just to test/ensure that it can be done, and I didn’t have any problems.
If you could, please contact “ian” and try to get an update from him about what exactly his problem was and whether he still has that. I will also contact MAPS and get a confirmation from them whether there are any such limits exists.
Hi Ian,
I’ve received below response from MAPS to my query regarding withdrawal limits, and the same information is available for all the affiliates on their website under FAQs.
“You must have at least $10 in your Available Account Balance for withdrawal. Withdrawal to STP is limited to $500 per week, per member. Withdrawal to VX Gateway is limited to $9,900 per day, per member.”
Hence, “ian” should not have any problem with withdrawing his available balance of $245. Therefore, I think we need to get an update from “ian” as to whether he still has this issue, so that it can enlighten all affiliates of such an issue, and then take appropriate actions.
Hello again Maverick, I’ve sent Ian (the visitor that commented on 10/21/14) a message with a request to come join the conversation. Hopefully he’ll be stopping by and sharing more details about his experiences soon.
Great review. I will admit I am a member however I’m more along the lines of 50%. What I mean is that I am not a buy more type of guy as most MAPS affiliates are. I bought around 20ish credit packs and now I simply use 50% of “profits” to repurchase and 50% to go to my Solid Trust Pay.
My theory is that if this is legit, then there is no need to rush and go “all in” because it should stand the test of time depending on how the affiliates act and the true legality of the company.
I have been in Zeek Rewards and have gone through Kevin Grime’s (MLM Lawyer) compliance course and still seen it shut down. Unregistered Securities is a fine line and a lot of affiliates are boasting along these same lines.
I recently undergone Kevin Thompson’s MLM compliance course for another company (who is also supposedly on MAPS retainer) and was also informed that the SEC can come after a company because of the behavior of its reps and not necessarily the companies practices in and of itself.
I bring that up because I think that affiliates will get out of hand and get the attention of regulators sooner or later.
On another note..
Most traffic exchange traffic is poor. I have got leads from the exchange and know of a few people who are doing very well. They also have a lot more money involved in the advertising but nonetheless they use targeted capture pages that speaks along the lines of “build another income stream now with MAPS”
Again I’m towing the line and feel that time will always reveal!
Rob
I had maps up to 100 packs starting with 15 packs.
I quickly realized what a load of rubbish it is so I have let my packs gradually run down, expire and keep withdrawing the earnings from them instead of buying more packs with it.
I have now got all of my money back plus a bit of profit, however I won’t be bothering with it once my last pack has run out.
Anyone in it now I recommend to get out by letting their packs run their course and transfer the money out.
Do your ads every day until they have all cashed up and then leave it!
Use you advertising fund to renew your membership if that runs out. I have enough in there to complete the run of packs until they run out.
I can breathe a sigh of relief now that I have my money back.
The traffic is useless, and there is no product, and yes it is a total waste of time.
Eventually it will go bust if too many people do what I am doing and let it run out.
I have advised my referral to do the same thing and get out while the money is still being paid on credit packs as long as you do your 10 ads per day.
you really should of kept it going.. because, as of lets say april 18th you could of been withdrawing $654. 00 a month and maintain the 243 credit packs you would of had by april 18th.. and this is with you having ZERO sponsors….all that with just your $150.00 dollars you invested in the 15 credit packs when you started…so that is 654 dollars a month income that you threw away.. grannit that your 100 credit packs would only allow you to withdraw $270 a month and maintain your 100 credit packs
Sounds like a Ponzi scheme if ever I’ve heard one!
Hi Ian, thank you so much for exposing this scam. I am the creator of the My Advertising Pays Scam Facebook page and I’ve posted your wonderful You tube review on our page. A number of people are going o be duped and lied to about this ponzi/pyramid scheme and will lose their money , just as many did in a previous ponzi scheme known as Banners Brokers. The disturbing thing about MAPS is that a number of corrupt Banners Broker leaders have jumped ship and joined MAPS. The aim of our FB page is to expose this money making scam, we feel lucky to have Tara Talks to helps us bring this ponzi to it’s knees here is the link to the FB page https://www.facebook.com/pages/My-Advertising-Pays-Scam/788704724492200
To anybody posting here who thinks they have lost their money to My Advertising Pays, I can tell you you haven’t! My Advertising Pays is a SCAM. You have been conned and as such are entitled to claim for a Chargeback on your original purchase. I have already helped loads of affiliates at Banners Broker get their money back. Claim from the banks and Credit Card Card companies directly – it works!
I have over $3200 dollars in Lifetime earnings, but you can’t withdraw from there. You can only withdraw from available account balance. So if you keep buying you think your money is there.
The reality is I now have 245 dollars in my available balance and at this rate it may take years for my money to transfer over but when your credit packs expire basically you have lost your money as you will not be earning at all.
One easy answer for maps is to change their system and let people withdraw from lifetime earnings, which you have paid for and earned but they are stopping you accessing what is rightfully your money.
I have spent well over a thousand dollars and cant get back.
I feel sorry for the people who have bought hundreds of credit packs thinking their money was safe. Sorry… but I think it has gone.
I’m really sorry to hear that, Ian. Thank you for stopping by and sharing your experiences, now people coming by my video review and this review bragging about their lifetime earnings makes a lot more sense!
I have been a member since May and did have 78 credit packs but a few have just fallen out bringing me back to 54.
My question is this:
I have recently lost 19 credit packs which have earned and are now in my lifetime profit share earnings so how can I earn now as I have fewer credit packs but they will not be earning so how is this money actually earned to get to my available account balance as once the credit pack has expired I am not earning on these any more so how will my account actually build up
What worries me is that if you keep repurchasing and get to 1200 credit packs they will all max out and go to Lifetime Profit Earnings but will not be available to you in available account balance as you have nothing left to earn money
Hi Ian,
I have been watching MAPS from the start. The problem is that it’s just like every other ponzi revenue sharing program before it. Promising a 20% “return” (profit) on your “investment” (Credit Packs). Just like AdSurfDaily, Zeek Rewards, etc. etc., it will be shut down by the feds. It’s just a matter of time. The feds (Secret Service) usually wait till the bank accounts are nice and full, then they raid the offices and freeze all the money.
There is no outside revenue from any REAL advertiser. It’s a closed loop and the ads are seen only by other members who view only to qualify for their daily ‘revenue share’. Several years back, these were called “pay to surf” programs. The name may have changed, but it’s the same ponzi scheme as before. All the payouts are coming from people buying Credit Packs and of course you are encouraged to buy, buy, buy, more credit packs to increase your account.
As long as people are getting paid, everyone’s happy and swears it’s legit. But make no mistake, the feds are watching and the end will come without warning. Most of the big promoters that got the ball rolling with MAPS aren’t in the USA and the laws must be much more lenient where they live. Here in the USA, the feds WILL go after the big recruiters and force them to pay some of the money back. I know 2 friends personally that had to do this with Zeek Rewards.
Be AWARE people, any so called business where you do NOTHING and get paid a RETURN, is a ponzi scheme.
I applaud you Ian for your reviews, I imagine you get a fair amount of flack for them.
Keep fighting the good fight!
Greg
Wow Greg, thank you so much for coming by and leaving such an insightful comment! I didn’t even think about likening the product to Zeek Rewards, but you’re absolutely right. A really great side-by-side comparison, and I hear from a follower every couple of months that did well with ZR but had all of the money in their accounts disappear as soon as the program was shut down.
Thanks again for stopping by, Greg! You’re right, I get my fair share of hate mail and comments, but it’s all worth it for the people that aren’t getting scammed because they’ve seen my reviews. Take care!
Sorry Greg, MAPS is not an investment program where you get something for nothing. If you think you can get paid something for doing nothing in MAPS, then you’re mistaken. You must think MAPS works like buy a $50 credit pack today and make $60 tomorrow. If it DID work like that, then it wouldnt be an advertising site in the first place. On most ad sites, you gotta view so and so ads in order to earn anything within 24 hours, and you gotta keep viewing ads in order to earn. There’s no set time frame on when a pack reaches $60. It all depends on how much revenue is coming into MAPS via purchases (and not just credit pack purchases)
In order to earn on MAPS, you also need an active membership. Which means someone has to pay for more than just a $50 credit pack. And guess what? That also means money coming into MAPS comes from more than just credit pack purchases.
Call me a year from now when MAPS is still up and proves people like you wrong. I’m not “scared” of the “Feds.” I dont know what they’re going to do especially since MAPS is almost a year old. Maybe the Feds are gonna shut down ANY site that sells products? I’d like to think the Feds got more important things to watch on the net like terrorists.
I have invested into My Advertising Pays and it is a great company and is growing fast. I respect your opinion, however you are entirely wrong about My Advertising Pays. I do not appreciate your value judgement and your negative comments about this company. Companies have a right to be in business and do not need negative feedback from you and your followers. Good luck with slamming other companies but please leave this company alone.
Thank you for taking the time to leave a comment, Roger. Could you please elaborate a little bit on what you’re doing to be so successful with My Advertising Pays?
Hi
I posted my comment on here a week or so ago but it seems you have not put it on your website. Could you let me know why you did not put it up?
In my view if you are all about No Bull Shit reviews then you should let people from all sides have their say and then we can come to better concussion on your reviews, especially when you have never even joined my advertising pays to be able to give it a real and honest review.
By the way just to let you know I made $300 this week from MAPS so it does make money… In fact everyone makes money every day who are members and have bought credit packs.
Regards
Tim kemp
I fully welcome both sides of the conversation on these reviews, but your last comment (as does this one) falsely states that I did not create an account with My Advertising Pays. I created an account and thoroughly went through the product, but did not purchase a $50 add-on, as I do not purchase many upsells on products that appear illegitimate, and typically only purchase upsells and add-ons to continue the review process if the program shows promise during the initial product review. I did not find MAP’s business model to be valid based on what I saw of the membership after creating my account, but as you can see in the conversation I had with another visitor that left a comment, if you can clearly explain how you are using the credit packs to make money using My Advertising Pays’ platform then I will publish the comment for other visitors and even update my review if I follow the steps that are outlined and can produce results that are congruent with what the MAP program outlines on the sales page.
For Mark: For me would be interesting, wheather Mark already got money from this business in reality. I mean: Did he really got the money to his private bank account for his own free disposal ? Or did he only see grow up his account at MAP’s more and more ? And what is the way to get your own money from Mike ? Which way ? I could not find any information on Mikes site about this. My sister spend (lost?) a lot of money into this business and she sends me her account status every day to show me how it grows up – but what will happen, if she really want to have this money, because she will need it for anything ?
Yes your sister can withdraw money from my advertising pays because I have and I am a member.
Hi Ian,
You didn’t seem to mention the fact that each credit pack returns $60.
In other words, you make $10 profit per credit pack so you don’t actually lose any money at all.
I have been a member of MAPs for a while now and I am in profit,
The credit packs expire as soon as they hit $60, making you 20% profit.
I definitely think you need to research the credit pack part of the equation in more detail.
Regarding the traffic exchange, lots of people are making money from this.
MAPs has a facebook support group, you will see a lot of people having a lot of success with this, everyone makes money.
Just as a matter of interest, I signed up 3 referrals to your free affiliate marketing course via the MAPs traffic exchange, if you send me a private message,I can prove this to you.
Apart from all that, keep up the good work as I enjoy your reviews, but please do more research on the credit packs because you have clearly misunderstood how this system works.
Kind Regards,
Mark.
Hey Mark! Thanks for taking the time to read over the review and leave a comment here. Would you mind sharing with the community here how you use the credit packs so successfully? I like to treat these comments as an open forum to share other perspectives and would love to have your advice/direction based on your experience with the credit packs here as an add-on or addendum to the review. Thanks again, and let me know if I can help with anything down the road!