The Glenn Canady Gorilla Website Marketing Course Review

After busting a gut over Xmas 2003 / New Year 2004 trying to get Zeus to get up to the 100 minimum keywords that are needed for it to be trained properly (according to Cyber Robotics, the people who wrote it) I got the following email from Vicky at Advanced Business Development.

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Chris,

Even though you are not as far as we would like, go ahead and run your Zeus
to find 50 themesites. Let’s see the response before we continue, now that
you trained him a bit more.

Let me know if you have questions.

Vicky @ AB Development
GorillaWebMarketing

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Now bear in mind that it was Vicky’s job to mentor me. It was her job to make sure that I was being given the right information and doing things the right way. Cyber-Robotics have coded into Zeus all sorts of warnings that you NEED to train it with a minimum of 100 web sites for Zeus to operate properly. I’d already explained to Vicky that I had 67 and was finding it impossible to progress the way she was asking me to, and that the ’smartness’ indicator kept resetting itself, making the task I’d been assigned impossible !

To my mind, there were problems from day 1 with Glenn Canady’s Gorilla Web Site Marketing Course, and the way in which Advanced Business Development (mis)handled it. But the advice I was being given here flew in the face of logic. I had agreed before I started this course that I would do everything they said, and do it exactly as they said to do it. I’m a man of my word, and that is exactly what I did. I had been determined that should any problems or failure arise from the course then it would not be as a result of me.

No, I haven’t got bored and given up on this blog. I’ve been busy typing up my complaint regarding Glenn Canady’s Gorilla Website Marketing Course and ABDevelopment. It takes a LOT longer than you would imagine, and even then I had to cut it VERY short. When you have spent a year of your life trying solidly to make something work then there is a lot to tell. Unfortunately for Glenn Canady and ABDevelopment it is not good.

BTW - I see Glenn Canady no longer seems to link to his Gorilla Website Marketing Course from his original Gorilla Website Marketing site. It is now on a different site where he sings the praises of Vicky, the lady who did the ‘advanced’ mentoring on my course. His courses are now being pushed through gorilla-internet-marketing.com .

Glenn Canady offers to ‘a few select companies’ that he will do all the online marketing for them for ONLY ‘80% of website sales‘. This mans generosity knows no bounds ! It’s just a shame that he can’t seem to accept responsibility for the failure that his course ended in after I paid $8000 to do it, and doesn’t seem to be able to admit that Glenn Canady’s Gorilla Website Marketing Course actually DOES have something to do with him.

My updates continue starting from tomorrow.

Picking up from where I left off, I was still slogging away at Zeus, just trying to get it to perform in a logical manner and get it to the magical figure of 100 keywords. I was having no luck.

I’d scoured the Zeus forums for help and applied just about all the tips that I could. I was still getting nowhere. I’d tried clearing it out and restarting from scratch, in fact I had tried just about everything and I was at the point of tearing my hair out with frustration.

It seemed to me that ABDevelopment had dragged things out on Glenn Canady’s Gorilla Website Marketing Course and I was now worried that despite all the extreme hours and hard work that I was putting in, it felt for the first time that I was the one that was the one that was the bottleneck on progress.

It was now the 30th December 2003 and I fired off another email to Vicky :

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Hi Vicky,

I have cleared out the database, taken a copy of all the settings prior to this, and started again. I’ve gone through Zeus and got about 18 key word phrases before it couldn’t find any more. I then changed the keyword phrase in the EZ Keyword Trainer and have found that while it has kept the original 18 keyword phrases in the ‘very unique’ category, the ‘Keyword Smartness Rating’ is now back down at zero. It shows 0 single words, and 0 phrases. How am I supposed to get this up to 2/3rds when it does stuff like this ? I haven’t shut it down or made any other changes.

Chris O’Connor

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From what I could see the so-called ’smartness rating’ was actually pretty dumb. There seemed to be no logic behind the way it was behaving and I could see no way that I could achieve what I had been asked to achieve in the way in which I had been asked to do it. I had been at it and at it over and over and this indicator just kept going up and then going back down again !

Vicky replied :

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Chris,

Be patient, what you wrote below is normal. Keywords you type in manually,
you must also type them into the EZ keyword training section to increase the
smartness rating. They do not read off of each other, and that is why it
says 0 in the smartness rating but 18 in very unique category on the bottom.
This is probably why you’ve been confused. Think of them as two completely
separate stages in the training. That is how the program is worked enter
them in manually, then EZ, but keep in mind once he is trained you don’t
need to do this step again.

Hang in there, you are doing great!

Vicky

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Now Vicky was a nice lady, but I really don’t appreciate being treated like I’m some sort of dummy !

If I point out that the thing I’m supposed to be getting up to at least 2/3rd’s is going up and then plummeting back down to zero for no good reason then I expect a sensible reply.

And if I ask what, if any, the relationship is between the keyword tally and the smartness indicator then again I expect a decent reply.

I never did get a decent reply as to why it was behaving like this. What got me was that she described the way Zeus was behaving as ‘normal behaviour’. Yeah, right !

I fired this off in response to Vicky’s email :

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But Vicky, I *am* typing these into the EZ Keyword training section. Like I said, I cleared out the database and have started again. I am*only* entering stuff through the EZ Keyword trainer.

There are *no*keywords that have neen entered via the manual keyword trainer.

Chris
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As you can probably tell, my patience was starting to wear a little thin by this point.

Vicky also fired off this to me :

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Chris,

Use this for some help in between our sessions.

http://www.cyber-robotics.com/Seminars/index.htm

It is the link to the teleseminars that are daily put on by the Zeus programmers.

Vicky

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Now I know that Vicky was doing everything she could to be helpful, but I am not the sort of person who tries something and then goes running for help at the first opportunity. I had tried and tried with Zeus. I had followed the instructions to the letter. And, I had already signed up to the Zeus forums weeks before so that I could pick up tips and get answers to problem I was experiencing. So Vicky’s email added nothing of value.

So here I was. New Years Eve and I was still slogging away trying to get Zeus to do what it was supposed to do in the way I had been told to do it. Any chance I might have had of getting a break before I went back to work had long since evaporated. It had been 2 weeks of solid grind, working 15 hours+ a day. It was demoralising and depressing. I’d paid $8000 for this and it just did not seem to be working. I was doing what I had been told to do, but still it did not work.

I then received another email from Vicky :

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try some of these words.

home remedies
herbs for women
supplements for women
hormone
estrogen
women’s sexual health
fertility
life changes
menstrual cycle
hormone balancing
fertility supplements

also try changing the order of the words, and mix them up a bit.

Let me know how it goes.

Vicky

Happy New Year!

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I was desperately hoping that Vicky had done a bit of research and come up with words that were going to kick Zeus into action. That these words were going to be the end of all my problems. Although I felt sure that I’d already used some of them.

Here was my last email to Vicky in 2003 :

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Hi Vicky,

thanks for the keywords. I’ve been using these and managed to get up to
67 words. Two things bother me. First, I really feel that I am picking
words which are not particularly ‘on topic’ and are way too wide scoping
for my site. I feel I’m having to do this because otherwise I am never
going to get anywhere near the 2/3rds to genius level. I am concerned
that the further I go through this the more the words are drifting off
topic. Every time I click on the button to get it to bring up new words
I see the message saying that I should only be choosing words that could
only be found on the sites that I am looking for. More and more I feel
I am drifting away from this.

Secondly, even though I have only got up to 67 words Zeus has now
brought up a message saying training is finished and has not returned
any more words. I’m very concerned that if I click on the EZ Keyword
Training button it is going to lose the lot, and another day of my time.

I have attached a screen print for you to see for yourself.

Your advice would be appreciated.

Thanks

Chris
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PS. I hope I’m not ruining your New Year with all my problems.

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So that was how I ended 2003, still slaving away trying to get Zeus to work properly. I’d been told to keep my keywords very tightly focused, and that was exactly what I was trying to do. The results were rubbish. Christmas ruined, and now New Year. All thanks to Glenn Canady’s Gorilla Website Marketing Course and ABDevelopment.