Is Plenty of Fish a LIE?

Just yesterday i made a short post on Markus Finch's of PlentyofFish.com Adsense profit, and, well, here's the post i've found at shoemoney.com (btw i'm going to make a post about Shoe's success story soon, too). Shoemoney claims all those PlentyofFish stats to be a fake.

Well… I can not believe so many people have bought into this whole plentyoffish scam. Actually I can. Social engineering totally amazes me.

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I remember when this guy was posting he was making 30$ a day from AdSense on webmasterworld. Then he solicited some people to scrape dating profiles of females from random sites so he could fill his dating website with female profiles.


Here, you can read his post and the discussion.

Well, what do you think about it all? IMO, Markus is marketing genius anyway, but if all those rumours about the way the profiles at his site are managed are true, his success story seems to be a bit discouraging

10 comments:

Mark Brooks said...

I have an agreement with Comscore Mediametrix, Nielsen//Netratings, Hitwise Competitive Intelligence. They send me the top online personals rankings each month to relist on onlinepersonalswatch.com.

Markus Frind's PlentyofFish.com is currently at...
#6 for Hitwise Internet Dating Site Rankings for USA in July 2006
#12 for Nielsen//Netratings Internet Dating Site Rankings for USA in July 2006
#16 for Comscore Mediametrix Internet Dating Site Rankings for USA in July 2006

When I look at the Hitwise top 100 and pull out the free sites, PlentyofFish is the top free-of-fees USA site. OKcupid and Matchdoctor are #2 and #3 (but they do charge nominal fees for IM and other features).

For Canada, PlentyofFish is ranked #2 by Comscore Mediametrix for June 2006.

PlentyofFish is #10 for the UK Hitwise Rankings for July 2006.

Mark Brooks
editor, onlinepersonalswatch.com
media relations, internetdatingconvention.com

hoho said...

Now he not a liar :D

http://www.shoemoney.com/2006/06/29/markus-frind-of-plentyoffishcom-on-net-income-episode-4-june-27-2006/

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