Dupedbyyos
I bought my own store from YOS Bright Light Media back in March of this year, it cost me £5,400 and to be quite honest I wish I had never heard of them. I was told I could expect to earn £47k a year and was realistic to know that would not happen over night and would take time and a great deal of effort on my part. I did expect to start to recover most of my outlay within six months.in 8 Months I have fully followed their training modules and videos. I have built up over 1600 likes on my Facebook Fan Page, my site is fully optermised and has been for many months. I have tweeted over 3000 times, sent hundreds / thousands of other messages and blogs through Digg, Pinterest, Linked In, Google, Posterous, Stumble Upon, Facebook and many more. During that time I have made one sale with commission of £80 which is a lot more than many of my fellow store owners have made whom I have been in contact with. I started to build up reasonable Google rankings on 8 of my 10 categories and the traffic to my site remained constant a miserable 20-40 per day. Now since Google has brought in major changes to their algorithms my Google rankings vanished over night several weeks ago and never reappeared, my traffic has dwindled to less that 10 a day.
I have worked tireless on my site since I bought it, not just a few hours a week or day as YOS proclaim is sufficient but sometimes as many as 5-6 hours each and every day. YOS tell me I need to do more, more backlink building and blogging etc the same response it would appear they make to all store owners who eventually wake up and start asking awkward questions to them.
In recent months its become impossible to talk to YOS staff by phone as they have changed their phone options, now you can only send in tickets with problems you might have.
I must confess the staff were always at the end of the phone to help with problems most of which were sorted out. I fully believe when they sold my site to me that they were fully aware of the Google shake up which has rendered our stores totally unworkable and useless as without Google rankings we can make no sales. I very much doubt I will ever get a refund from them as they have all the get out clauses built in to their contracts which none of us that Im aware actually signed.
At the current rate of sales and commission it will take me 50 years to recoup my outlay. I really wanted this to work as I have put all my savings in to this and would love to be proven wrong by YOS as I had great faith in them and found the staff very helpful but so far we have heard nothing from them about how they are going to resolve this issue with Google, Their silence is deafening.instead they are working to promote new get rich schemes not for customers as the only ones who seem to be making any money out of YOS stores are YOS. Take my advice stay away from YOS and Bright Light Media products. I fully expect this company to soon up sticks and disappear leaving us with no websites or any chance of getting our money back.
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