In my Earn Cash Yearly Review, you will see this is a program that has been around for a number of years under different names. Normally when a program changes name regularly or is known by different names it’s a sure sign of a scam. Let’s see what this make money with Google and Clickbank scheme is all about.
Product: Earn Cash Yearly
Overall Ranking: 0 out of 100 or 0/5 stars
Price: Trial $2.95 then your credit card will be charged $49.50 after a week and another $49.50 15 days later.
Owner: Jean Shonowo
Website: http://www.earncashyearly.com/
Background
Before getting started with the review, I think it’s worth looking at the many programs, that are very similar to this one, that Jean has been involved with. In fact, in the early days, the programs were promoted by a couple (mother and son apparently) Jean Shonowo and Randy Jett.
Here are a few of the programs:
- the7daytest.com
- 7daycashtest.com
- 7daycashmoney.com
- upgradeyourcash.com
- 3500weekly.com
- youwillgetpaid.com
- myhelpisfree.com
- bigchecksinthemail.com
- Internet Secrets
- withdrawlcash.com
- wemakeyoucash.com
- cbaffiliatesales.com
- paypalchecks.com
- and many others
Many of the sales pages from the above programs are an exact copy of the Earn Cash Yearly sales page, on others, just some of the dates of the fictitious earnings and a testimonial photo have been changed. There might be other slight differences on the sales pages, but basically, they’re all the same setup.
This has been going on for a number of years at least since 2008 and perhaps longer.
What is Earn Cash Yearly?
This is meant to be a training program that will teach you how to earn money from Google via Adsense and also from Clickbank. Jean says that now she knows how to make a good income from Google and Clickbank she wants to teach others. The icing on the cake, you will only have to work an hour a day just to check your statistics!
Who is this for?
They would have you believe you will make money from this program or should I say all these programs, so I could say this is for anyone that wants to earn money online. However, the truth about this program is that they are only after your money. You won’t learn anything, you will pay for a useless website.
How does this work?
Earn Cash Yearly say they show you how to earn money with Google Adsense and Clickbank. What you actually get if you decide to join the program is a website with over 300 pages. You will have to create an account with AdSense which is free to join. Your referral code for Google AdSense will then be embedded in the pages of the website and when someone clicks on one of the ads you will earn some money.
At the same time, you will also have banners from Clickbank on all the pages of the website. So you will also need a Clickbank account, to obtain your referral link. Your referral links will be included in the banners, so when someone clicks on the banners and continues to make a purchase you will receive a commission.
All you have to do with this system is open accounts with Google AdSense and Clickbank, the website is made for you with content already installed.
To make even a modest income, you will need many thousands of visitors per month because only a very few will click on the adverts. Although Jean tells you it’s possible to earn good money in a few months, judging from some of the complaints some people haven’t earned anything after a number of months.
What about the websites?
Even though it’s possible to earn money both with AdSense and Clickbank, the problem with Earn Cash Yearly (and all the other programs from Jean) is that the websites they build, will probably never be ranked in the search engines.
Why? Because there is a big problem with duplicate content. I checked a site made by them that is mentioned on their sales page (1expert-clicks-home.info) for plagiarism. This is a site that has supposedly been created recently, the result 0% of unique content. I also checked to see if it was indexed by Google and it wasn’t!
The site has probably been removed from the index for violation of Google webmaster guidelines. This is a site that is allegedly earning over $18,000 monthly.
If you join this program you’ll receive a site that has content copied from other websites. Perhaps all the sites they create for their clients are identical or perhaps they have a few different models, I don’t know. However, you should be aware that Google doesn’t appreciate duplicate content, it will affect your site’s ranking or might lead to your site being removed from Google’s index. You might also have your AdSense account suspended.
Seemingly you will not have to market your website because they have a secret linking strategy that links your web pages to hundreds of other sites. So you would expect the home page of the site I checked above to have many inbound links I found just 10.
Apart from that, the sites are very plain, mass-produced and the only way to navigate to the different pages of your domain is via the site map. The sites are hosted on Jean’s private servers, although this means you don’t have to pay for hosting, you don’t have control over your sites. They might decide to remove your site without notice or shut down their servers.
All this means that you may get your site with 300 pages but after that, you probably won’t receive any traffic. Your site may be indexed in the search engines for a very short time, nonetheless not in a position to have people clicking on your links. In other words, this is a big waste of money.
Pros and Cons
Pros
- 60 day Clickbank guarantee
- It is possible to make money from AdSense and Clickbank
Cons
- Lots of similar programs from the same people online
- Unclear pricing for trial offer
- Not clear who the owner is
- Duplicate content on websites
- Promised links don’t seem to be in place
- Web sites may not be indexed in search engines
- No traffic which means no revenue
The red flags in the sales page
If you haven’t already been put off this program here are a few more signs that this is a scam.
A claim that they were featured in the Small Business Opportunities Magazine, I searched the site but didn’t find any mention of Earn Cash Yearly.
The so-called earning proofs are completely false. In the 2 screenshots below you can see the Adsense earning reports for dates 2013 and 2015. Strange the same earnings to the nearest cent! If that’s not enough, the start button in the bottom left of the photos is the start button that was used Windows XP. Would they still be using XP in 2015?
They also show alleged Clickbank earnings which are also really very easy to falsify.
The photos used in the testimonials are all stock photos and they are used on all the different sites. This isn’t unusual for many of the low-quality sites that I review. I only mention it this time, as they say, they ask for a picture of their clients.
The wording in the testimonials never refers to any particular program but have general terms like: “thanks for the information”, “your package was unbelievable” or “thanks for changing my life”. Everything is kept unspecific so it can be used on multiple sites.
Price
Earn Cash Yearly has a special offer for a 7 day trial for $2.95. The truth is you pay $2.95 when you sign up and then 7 days later your credit card will be debited $49.50 and then 15 days later another $49.50.
This is a very misleading way to sell this program. Also, they have PayPal shown as an option for payment, but when you check out you have only one choice – credit card.
For 1 domain you will pay $101.95. If this was for a site with 300 pages of original content this wouldn’t be expensive, however, here you are paying for a site filled with duplicate content, in effect a worthless site.
The 7-day trial is a load of nonsense:
- Google AdSense may take a 1 – 5 days to approve new members (sometimes it can be as long as 2 weeks)
- Then you have to contact Earn Cash Yearly with your AdSense code
- They normally take 48 hours to reply to you
- Finally, it will take them 3 – 5 days to complete your site
If everything goes perfectly this will take 6 days, but then there are the weekends when apparently they don’t work. Therefore, you can see it’s more or less impossible to have any idea of what you’ll be getting in the 7 day trial period.
The other price option $185 is for 10 domains and more than 3000 pages.
As the product is brought through Clickbank there is always the 60-day Clickbank guarantee to fall back on, but after signing up, it will take a few days to receive your domain and then you will be told it will take a few months before you see any earnings. Of course, by this time your guarantee will have expired!
Complaints and customer feedback
Although I didn’t find any complaints about Earn Cash Yearly, there are complaints about many of the other programs that I mentioned at the beginning of the article. As these programs are exactly the same as Earn Cash Yearly you can expect the same problems.
As you can see the biggest problem is people just don’t make any money and when people complain they say they will relink the sites. The sites aren’t linked in the first place as promised and not after the customers complain. After a few months, the sites are probably no longer indexed by the search engines.
There are complaints about the different companies that Jean and Randy are involved with on Ripoff Report and BBB, these are links to just 2 complaints there are many more.
My final opinion
Earn Cash Yearly and all the other programs produced by Jean are scams and you should keep well away. You will be paying for sites that are filled with duplicate content that will be blacklisted by Google and the other search engines very rapidly.
Verdict: Scam
It is possible to earn money with AdSense and by promoting products from Clickbank. To be successful, you will need to build a site with unique content that will attract visitors. This is something that takes time and effort. You must forget these get rich quick schemes, they never work.
These programs aren’t out to help you or to teach you anything they are just after your money. If you want to be taught how to build a legitimate business, I suggest you look at my #1 recommendation.
They taught me how to build an affiliate marketing business and if you have the desire and dedication you can do it too. You can check it out for free you don’t even need your credit card!
Below is a chart that shows you all Wealthy Affiliate has to offer compared to Earn Cash Yearly.
Have you had experience with any of Jean’s programs? If so I would love to hear if you made any money or about the problems you may have encountered. Any question or comments let me know below.
Thanks,
Peter
Thank you,
Help me…
before going to purchase EARN CASH YEARLY, I made a google search about review. I found your site. Please help that, is there any legit programs which makes money to people.
Please tell me.
Waiting.
Hi Muralidhar,
I am very pleased you avoided this program, you did the right thing in searching for reviews. My favorite way to make money online is through affiliate marketing and there are training programs that will teach you how to build an online business. The only problem this will take time and hard work.
Another way to earn some extra money every month, if you speak good English is usability testing. You won’t earn a fortune but it can earn you $20 -$100 per month. You can read my review on UserTesting.com here
There are a few other sites where you can earn a few dollars a month for example, Clixsense or Swagbucks for doing things like clicking ads or completing surveys. The trouble with these sites is that you will probably spend a lot of time for very little income.
There is no quick and easy way to earn money online, don’t believe any program that says there is. It’s probably a scam!
Best of luck,
Peter
Earn Cash Yearly is an expensive way to learn how to fail at internet marketing. Clearly, with all the name changes for the program, it quickly destroys its reputation and must relaunch. What a lousy business model.
I’m also suspicious that Earn Cash Yearly does not accept PayPal. This might be because it is easy to cancel a membership with PayPal and that is the last thing they want their members to do.
Also, the claim that you can profit from this program with only an hour’s work each day is laughable.
You’re right Gary, this could be a very expensive mistake. Their reputation is obviously very bad if you bother to check but unfortunately, most people want to believe it’s possible to make money this easily and don’t bother to search for reviews. Good point about PayPal, Earn Cash Yearly certainly would want to make it easy for people to cancel.
We both know that to make money online takes time and a lot of work but many still believe in this type of easy money schemes.
Cheers,
Peter
06-01-2017
Hello, Peter!
Thanks so much for your article, I intended to buy from Jean after reading through the sales page. I even wrote a letter to Jean saying she is an amazing woman with a big heart ready to help people have a better life. Getting older I need to find work at home to support the family.
I came across Jean’s sales page and was happy to find a way to make money online. I believed what she said was true and I thought she is a moral woman. I see Jean as the lifeline to help me not to drown. I sent an email to Jean presenting my situation of poverty.
As I haven’t much money I ask to buy just 1 domain at $2.90, earning $ 500 – $ 1000 per month, is good enough for me. Jean replies 25 domains for $ 97 within 48 hours. I reply, I can not afford this much, I can only afford $ 3. This time, Jean replies $ 25 for 5 domains within 48 hours. So I’m trying to earn $ 25 to go pay. Before the transfer, I went online to find out more about the website: earncashyearly.com. To see the whether it’s a true or scam program.
This is what I see Earn $ 12.500 to $ 25.000 Monthly!
Accepting Only 3 More People!
I then found the analysis of Peter and his friends on forums. I saw the real Jean is an imposter and immoral., They write good things to hide their ugliness. They criticize the bad sites but deceive themselves, they are accomplices with bad guys. Thanks, Peter you have unmasked them for many people with knowledge and precautions. Thanks, Peter so much, I almost lost my money to them. Oh, thank God!
2017 New Year wish Peter and his family much happiness, success with the site letsworkonline.net to stop those fraudulent Websites from defrauding people.
Hi Phuoc Loc,
Many thanks for your comment and your New Year wishes. I’m very glad you didn’t pay Jean this money, it’s a good job you checked for some reviews before paying your money. You should never pay any money to these make money online programs before reading some reviews. Please be careful in the future!
I wish you a great New Year and hope you can find some way to support your family.
Peter
Oh dear, it seems as if Jean has got a bit of a history that is following her around. This can lead to only one thing – systems set up for short term profits only…and that means scams. It’s such a shame that a majority of the people online will not know about her past when they come to her new offer. Hopefully this article will help them out…
Hi Chris,
Yes, Jean has a certain reputation online. As you say most people won’t do an in-depth search to find this information, they will believe everything they read, invest and lose their money. Such a shame there are people like this around, it makes it absolutely necessary to search for online reviews before paying for any make money online program. If a program doesn’t state that making money online, is like any other job, and takes time and effort then it’s probably a scam.
Thanks for your visit,
Peter
Thanks for the confirmation. I paid between $200 and $300+, for their 10 Domains and other by products or services. I followed the exact instructions. The domains were uploaded and working with my specific ID’s. However, after waiting for months for some measure of results (profit), the only result was the removal of my ID’s to be replaced with theirs. This change was made after the Clickbank expiration date was reached. And, a few months after expiration date, all of the 10 Domains were disconnected. It has been close to a year and a half. I have sent countless email request for a refund and/or performance. Absolutely nothing, no results! And, last year I purchased their SCAM product under the name of ‘FatChecksMonthly’. I have all emails, receipts and confirmations as proof.
JRoberts
Hi James,
Sorry you were scammed by these people. All you say doesn’t surprise me at all. Perhaps you could try reporting Earn Cash Yearly to your state’s Attorney General, the FTC or the Better Business Bureau. They may not take any action but it may help others avoid this scam. Even your action of posting your experience here could help others. Thanks for your comment and keep me posted if you do report them.
Peter
Hi Peter, thanks for the heads up with your Earn Cash Yearly review, nicely done.
I’ve tried some of this direct linking or using a landing page and then paid for Google Ads and was pretty disappointed about the amount of clicks that I paid for with very poor conversions.
I highly don’t recommend this approach unless you have a product along with a landing page that converts really high for email opt ins or as a lead generation tool.
But I don’t think direct sales occur unless your site or posts really touch your niche audience and create a need to buy.
Interesting product and I’m sure it suckers a lot of inexperienced marketers trying to make money online.
Thanks,
Todd
Hi Todd,
As always these sorts of products will always attract the unsuspecting newbies trying to make money online perhaps for the first time. To earn money using this system you will need a lot of visitors to your site and then getting people to click on the links will be hard. So as you say, even with a great site that attracts a lot of traffic, getting clicks on the ads will be hard with a site made up with duplicate content that doesn’t rank in the search engines this will be almost impossible.
Good point about posts that concern your audience, this is another reason why it will be very difficult to get clicks, these sites don’t contain any unique articles. Their content is just old articles that have been posted in many different places.
Thanks for your feedback Todd,
Peter
Hi Peter!
If you ask me these people should be in jail. If this is not crime/fraud, then I do not know what is. Unfortunately, I have been caught in similar things long time ago but it was not expensive as this one. $100 for a worthless website is really bold.
You are doing a great service to people informing them about these scams, very honorable! Keep up the good work and God bless!
Igor!
Hi Igor,
I totally agree, after all these years and lots of sites that go by different names, they’re allowed to continue. Paying for a site like this sounds good until you realise it’s filled with duplicate content, so will never rank in the search engines. Hopefully, this might help a few people to avoid this scam.
All the best,
Peter
One of the thing s I always find amazing about these scam sites its however the same people have set up numerous similar businesses and as soon as one is hut down/isn’t making money then they move onto another.
The fact that people are allowed to continue to do this is exactly why we need sites like yours to help us avoid these con men. Keep up the good work.
Hi Paul,
These people have so many different sites, sites with different names but exactly the same product. Worthless sites that won’t even rank in the search engines. I am always surprised that programs like this can keep going for so long. This means they are still managing to find new members. Hopefully, review sites like mine will save a few people from these scams.
Thanks for your visit,
Peter
There are so many scams online that it’s hard to deduce what is real and what is fake cause theres so many of them. From the over dramatic promises of making so much money, its not hard to believe why so many people get trapped and fall victim to these types of scams. Earn cash yearly is another one of them
I know it’s often difficult to tell what is a legitimate program and what is a scam. However, this program promises $3,500 to $25,000 monthly and all you have to do is spend 1 day setting the system up. Well, I know we all like to dream, but systems like this don’t exist. Anyone who wants to earn money online needs to put in the work, there are no get rich quick schemes that work. Don’t be fooled by the empty promises.
Thanks for your feedback,
Peter
Hi Pete,
I visited your website “letsworkonline” and found it very informative. Your analytical approach of online business opportunities speaks volume. It will take time, effort and persistence before some real success can be achieved. However, it may come quicker for some, and later for others. As a new member of WA, even though I have nothing to show off, I am still convinced of its truthful approach to building a successful online business. This is a good insight of business opportunities in general and of WA, in particular.
Elliot
Hi Elliot,
Thanks, glad you found the site useful. Building your own business does take time and much hard work. I think it’s more helpful to tell people the truth when they start. As opposed to programs like Earn Cash Yearly, that give you the impression that earning money online is the matter of a day’s work and then you will start earning $1000s of dollars per month. Wealthy Affiliate teach you the correct way to build a business and if you’re willing to put in the work, and never give up you will succeed.
Best of luck in building your business,
Peter
Hey your website is a great resource for anyone looking to make money online.
Places like earn cash yearly seem like the biggest scams on earth. The only problem is if people aren’t knowledgeable at what to look for, they can fall prey. This Jean lady seems like a really sleazy and immoral person. I really like your recommendation of Wealthy Affiliate though, that seems like a very legit place.
Thanks for your help.
Hi Dylan,
Yeah, once you know what to look out for you shouldn’t be scammed, although many people seemed to get ripped off several times before they learn. They get taken in by the promises of easy money, which unfortunately doesn’t exist. Jean must be an immoral person to carry on with this system for a number of years, selling people useless websites that won’t rank, let alone earn some money.
Wealthy Affiliate is a completely different story, you receive awesome step by step training, all the tools you need and some great support. They don’t make any promises that you will earn money because it all depends on you. Work hard with determination and persistence and you will be successful.
Thanks for your visit,
Peter