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About an hour after you start looking for an Internet based business, you start clicking every banner or link that shows up and run down every bunny trail that you can find. Inevitably, you will find SpiderWeb Marketing sooner or later in your search. Should you pass and try another route, or see where the trail leads?

The first thing you will find out about the SpiderWeb system is that it is free. This can be both good news and bad news. The fact that it is free means it will attract tons of tire-kickers, those who will sign up and then do nothing, but it also means some top performer may take a look at it as a source of added income.

I went through the SpiderWeb system as a producer looking to add to an existing Internet income. I found the process and tutorials very easy to use and set up. For each affiliate program– 22 as of this writing– there is a video that walks you through the process. Most of the affiliate programs are free, but a few are paid programs. You gather the ones you want to use, and pass on the others. For the programs you pass on, your upline’s affiliate link will be credited if someone elects that program.

Two of the programs they suggest for generating traffic are the social networking sites Yuwie and Direct Matches. You are asked some questions about yourself and even gives you some cut and paste Shout Page copy. SpiderWeb even produces an automated blog posting tool that you can set on autopilot and watch the blogs magically appear on your page. Sounds great so far, right?

Not so fast, my friend. I went to Direct Matches right after signing up, just to see how the system worked. I searched for people “looking for business associates,” which is what SpiderWeb had me do. The results come up ten to a page. I looked at 70 profiles (seven full pages), and of the 70, there were 59 Spiders. Two pages scored a perfect ten out of ten. To my amazement, 37 of the 70 had “been involved in Internet marketing for 10 years” (including me.) What a coincidence. Some of them were in grade school ten years ago. I got pretty much the same numbers searching groups or blogs, both on Direct Matches and on Yuwie.

So, is the SpiderWeb system good for most people? I would say yes for “some” and no for “most.” Yes for the fact that it provide instructions on how to get involved in 22 affiliate programs. That might have taken you days to do on your own. It gets a no for the fact that their marketing strategies and advertising point to “SpiderWeb,” and not to your own business. I suggest you give it a pass.