UPDATE: AGLOCO doesn’t make your members anything. DO NOT sign up for AGLOCO. It is straight rubbish.

Search: Every time you use the Viewbar™ to do an Internet search, AGLOCO earns money from the search engine providers. (For example, Google pays as much as $0.10 on average for each search that is directed to its search engine.)

Advertising: The Viewbar™ itself displays ads that are targeted based upon the websites you’re visiting. When you click on an ad and make a purchase, AGLOCO receives a referral fee, which we pass on to our Members. (Please note: Individual members do not receive any compensation for clicking on ads in the Viewbar™, and the Viewbar™ can detect if someone is clicking ads in a fraudulent manner.)

Transaction commissions: Many major retailers pay commissions when you refer customers who make a purchase. AGLOCO collects that commission and passes it on to our members. (For example, Amazon pays an 8.5% commission to most websites who refer customers, and has cut deals for even larger percentages. The bigger the AGLOCO community, the better commission we can negotiate for our Members.)

Software distribution: Numerous software companies pay websites to encourage the download of new software releases (for example, Adobe’s Flash and Acrobat Reader software), and trial versions of new programs. AGLOCO members not only get access to the latest and coolest software, they get paid for it.

Service distribution: Many online service providers will look to the AGLOCO community as a source of new and active users for their services. (For example, eBay, Skype, and PayPal, among others, all pay fees to people who help them recruit new active users to their services)

Product distribution: When Members agree to use a product, such as cell phones, high-tech gadgets, office supplies, new credit cards or financial services, AGLOCO can collect referral fees. Some companies even offer special rebate and cash-back programs.

There are so many areas to internet marketing that it is difficult to become an expert in all of them. Using a Link Building Service, Search Engine Optimization (SEO), Pay Per Click Marketing (PPC), media services, and just setting up an affiliate program for your business may all be more than you can handle.

Thankfully, there are people that have more experience, and more people with expertise in internet marketing, link building, PPC, and SEO, than any one person can possibly have. Especially if you have to spend time actually running your business! Places like Pepperjam, who perform full-service internet marketing services may be more in line with what you need to get your online presence optimized. Pepperjam is an industry leading full-service internet marketing agency recognized by Inc. Magazine for two consecutive years as one of the fastest growing privately-held businesses in the United States.

These companies have a good reputation, and have plenty of success stories to back up their internet marketing servies. By the time you can learn everything that they already know you probably missed out on a ton of money you could have already made. From experience, I know small-business owners are cheap, and prideful that they can learn and know everything, but something like SEO, link building, PPC marketing, etc. may be way over your head if you aren’t as computer literate as you believe you are. Focus on what you know. Let the experts do for you what they know, and do it right.

I don’t know how many of you have noticed this yet, but AGLOCO has disappeared off the face of the planet. No explanation. No warnings. If you try to go to their website it is a dead link. Even their blog was never updated again after October.

I’m sure most of you, like myself gave up on Agloco long ago. Their ridiculous explanations on their Viewbar. The delays after delays in getting it out. This company was pretty much BSing everyone that followed them. Most of us assumed they would never make it, and we were right.

There are a couple of things that I really found disturbing about them while they were around, however. First, was the fact that they never said a word to anyone when they shut it all down. They just killed their website and stopped updating the affiliates. The last e-mail i believe I received from Agloco was back in November and that e-mail went on to say something about how they couldn’t afford to pay out any dividends to the affiliates at this time. Just one month after they detailed how they were going to pay out affiliates, and saying that they were raising the payout per hour.

The most disturbing thing in Agloco’s short history had to do with a request that we received from the management team in I suppose was October 2007. This wasn’t publicly issued. This was sent to the affiliates via e-mail. In the e-mail the management team requested that we use the Viewbar to search through their main sponsor Ask.com. No big deal. Good idea. Well… if you kept reading that e-mail they went on to ask that once you did a search with Ask.com that you would CLICK ON THEIR SPONSORED ADS. Can you believe this? If anyone has ever been part of an ad program of any sort they know that this is the biggest no no there is. It is stealing money from the advertisers for personal gain, and will get you kicked out of every program almost instantly if you are caught.

My theory is that Ask.com dumped Agloco and they had no other option, but to fold. After getting that e-mail asking for clicks, I had no reason to think they would be around much longer anyways. That was a desperate measure. In fact that request was likely forwarded to ask.com by many who received it and they should have immediately dumped Agloco, and then sued them on top of it.

While working I tend to listen to a ton of different music. One thing I don’t have much time to do though is stay on top of what is new most of the time because I just can’t take time out of my day like I used to. I am not in school anymore or hitting the clubs so I need to get a quick update as to what is hot. I listen to virtually everything so finding music about hip hop artists that is new is great to have in one place. The new releases section is what I check out and just roll over and listen to a few tracks and see if I want to add it to my iTunes.

UPDATE: You shouldn’t join now, or ever. This program is a scam, and useless.

First, it costs nothing to Join and takes less than one minute.

Second, you can help build the AGLOCO community by recruiting new Members TODAY.

Right now, inviting your friends to join AGLOCO is as easy and productive as it will ever be – but you need to invite your friends before someone else beats you to them.

Remember, the bigger the AGLOCO community, the more attractive AGLOCO is to potential business partners and advertisers.

Recruit your friends and family by contacting them through email. (But remember we have a strict anti-spam policy.)

Use your blog and your existing social networks, such as MySpace and Facebook, to contact your friends and encourage them to join a new community that will actually let them earn money.