Pearse Donnelly (MoBrabus) threatens BehindMLM with “negative SEO”
Today’s slice of life in the MLM underbelly is brought to you by Pearse Donnelly.
Donnelly is the admin behind MoBrabus, an adpack Ponzi scheme launched early last year.
When MoBrabus began to slow down a few months ago, Traffic Powerline was announced.
Instead of adpacks, Traffic Powerline’s investments are attached to “traffic packs”. The flow of funds within Traffic Powerline however is the same: new affiliates invest and those funds are used to pay off existing investors.
Symptomatic of Traffic Powerline’s launch perhaps not going as well as envisioned, last night I received an email from Donnelly himself.
In what appears to be an attempt to claim copyright on two reviews he did not write, Donnelly (right) titled his email “Copyright Take Down Notice”.
The content of Donnelly’s email otherwise speaks for itself, so I’ll just step out of the way for a bit and let you read…
OK MR OZ BASED IN TAIWAN PAY FUCKING ATTENTION THIS TIME, IF YOU POST THIS ON BEHIND MLM I WILL WHAT I AM STATING IN THIS MESSAGE RIGHT AWAY WEATHER YOU TAKE IT DOWN OR NOT AND I WILL GO AFTER YOUR TOP LEVEL DOMAIN.
I notice you have published a page giving my platform a negative review, now I am all for fair use and reviews but when they are for commercial gain they do not fall under the fair use policy and are infringement of copyright law.
Yeah I know, I said I’d step away… but I have to address this point.
First and foremost, Fair Use applies to both commercial and non-profit applications. Seeing as BehindMLM doesn’t sell anything, no content on the site itself is used in a commercial sense.
We don’t sell content to anyone and we don’t charge our readership. BehindMLM’s content is accessible by anyone with an internet connection at no charge.
That’s not the same as “commercial gain”, which legally has no bearing on determination of Fair Use (but might influence whether alleged Fair Use is challenged by a plaintiff).
Bit of a moot point again, seeing as BehindMLM doesn’t sell anything or directly profit from published content.
With that clarification out of the way, as you were Donnelly;
Now as I am sure you can appreciate I need to do what is within my power to protect my brand and reputation as a business owner online so I am sending you this friendly request for you to take down the negative reviews of Mo Brabus and Traffic Power Line located here https://behindmlm.com/mlm-reviews/mo-brabus-review-5-ad-pack-ponzi-investment-scheme/ and here https://behindmlm.com/mlm-reviews/traffic-powerline-review-18-traffic-pack-ponzi-scheme/
Should you Fail to take down this page within 72 hours I will assume you have ignored my request and I will have to do what is required to protect my brand.
It is cheaper for me to perform negative SEO on your site than it is to find you and take you to court so negative SEO on your site will be my first course of action.
I want you to know that this is not a threat of any kind, I asking nicely for you to take down the page and if you do then I will take no further action.
However if you fail to take down the page in 72 hours I will begin a negative SEO campaign first on the page using my brand and then on your top level domain.
This will include following…
The use of SGA, Xrummer, Scrape BoX, SeNuke and other SEO tools at our disposal or from service providers to create thousands of low PR, PBN, PN, Porn, Link Farms and Malware site backlinks to your site along with teen-girl 10% free sex online 9% harmful for your computer 8% do not open this link 8% porn 8% adult content harmful 8% computer virus 8% dangerous 8%.
We have now formed an alliance with top provider of these services to combat fuckers like you using our brand for commercial gain that have a negative effect on our brand and business moving forward.
You have 72 hours to remove the page or our campaign to protect our brand and prevent your hijacking of our traffic will commence. If the negative SEO campaign does not have the desired effect then we will commence legal proceedings against you.
I am fucking serious OZ do not fuck with me take down the fucking pages or I will make it my little project to fuck your site up.
Kind Regards
Pearse Donnelly
Co Director
Mo Brabus Ltd.
What a charming little man. I bet Donnelly makes a great business partner too. Very professional.
And did you spot precisely what Donnelly objected to in our reviews, or the part where he corrected anything I might have gotten wrong?
Yeah, me neither…
What a total f’ing moron this little man is! When you have “blondie” (MMG Ponzi pimp) as your main pimp, you know your scam is doomed!
LOL, what a lovely fellow.
“Friendly request”, “not a threat of any kind”.
Right. Too funny.
Must have too much time on his hands with his “businesses” tanking.
Unfortunately for him, NSEO can’t kill basic math, which is the downfall of all ponzis/pyramids eventually.
Better be careful, or he may just leave a bad review on Yelp too.
hey, this is not fair. it seems that if someone [a competitor or any pissed off person] directs low quality or spam links to YOUR website, google will punish YOU by lowering your page rank.
so, anybody can hire some negative SEO services and attack your website and get you punished by google?
on the other hand, if negative SEO was so ‘easy’, big brands would be at it day and night, pulling each others sites down in rankings.
so, i don’t know if donelly is bluffing or not with his threats of a negative SEO campaign against behindmlm.
i don’t understand the ‘tech’, but you need to keep an eye on your sites ‘backlinks’ for a while, and remove/block any low quality spam links to your site oz.
i believe there are ‘tools’ available which will inform you by email whenever there are any weak spammy links directed to your site.
Negative SEO is a contentious issue in SEO circles but it’s nothing new.
General consensus is that Google discounts negative SEO on legitimate sites as a net-negative (without revealing their criteria for a legitimate site for good reason). They’re far more focused on negating “positive” black hat SEO.
Anyway I’ve been running BehindMLM for almost a decade now (props to OG readers). Offsite SEO on a legitimate website isn’t really something to worry about on an established domain.
Optimised onsite SEO + content of value has worked out pretty well so far, although I wish Google would hurry up and run Penguin again (it’s practically a year overdue).
We got hit back in Oct 2013 I think it was (due to the old not so optimized theme) and haven’t fully recovered in the general search index.
That and there’s only so many hours in the day.
‘brand and reputation as a business owner’ indeed!!
pearse donelly is just a serial ponzi scammer. mo brabus crashed and he just migrated his participants into traffic powerline. TPL is just a reboot of MB.
this is [a portion] of an email sent to mo brabus participants in july 2016:
this^^ kind of reboot is typical of ponzi scam artists, and its downright funny that pearse donelly is standing around claiming his ‘brand and reputation’ have been hurt.
ponzi brands don’t get good reviews from non participants pearse donelly, so stop throwing tantrums about it!
His own comments makes him look like a low life scammer cry baby!
i have noticed though, that sites such as mlmnewsblog.com [and a few others i cant recall immediately], beat behindmlm in rankings even though they just copy paste your articles and provide a link to your site.
though these sites are not ‘adversarial’ this is a kind of negative SEO on behindmlm:
sites such as mlmnewsblog should create their own content and then also link to the relevant article on behindmlm, if they want. but they seem to be engaged in ‘parasitic’ behavior pulling behindmlm’s rank down unfairly in the process.
That’s fallout on this domain from Penguin, coupled with new(ish) domains that haven’t been penalized for duplicate content yet.
Sorts itself out eventually over time (we’ve had this conversation before about other domains that have since been penalized).
Penguin was last officially updated back in 2014 and as far as is publicly known, hasn’t been refreshed since then (Google have been talking about an update for over a year).
We got hit in the October 2013 update which prompted me to think about a redesign and optimization of the blog theme. I think I didn’t get around to that though till after the 2014 refresh.
We recovered somewhat in the 2014 refresh (I did some onsite SEO prior to recoding the theme entirely) but still have a lingering penalty in Google’s general index (as far as I can tell).
BehindMLM articles are typically indexed within seconds of publication so there’s no question as to who the original source is on their side.
We’re pretty well known at this point, with the format of our reviews familiar to anyone who’s come across the site. Vulture marketers like Jesse Singh aren’t fooling anyone with their lazy ass re-writes.
after a long silence about the status of the penguin 4 launch, in june 2016, john mueller of google said:
though vague, this statement at least indicates penguin 4 should be in force within this year.
when penguin 4 is in action, let us know how it affects the google ranking of your site oz. it will be interesting to know!
They’ve been going on about the Penguin update release since early last year!
@Pearse Donnelly,
Your bizarre bloviating that you’re going to use to use SEO to f*** BehindMLM reminds me of when KlearGear tried to fine a couple $3,500 for posting a negative review. KlearGear ended up getting sued by Public Citizen.
I suggest you read up on the case.
While you’re at it, I notice your TrafficPowerline site is on the Ponzi boards and is viewable from the United States. Better read up on TrafficMonsoon, too.
What are you doing to assure tainted cash from TraficMonsoon and other “programs” isn’t flowing to TPL?
The TPL thread-starter at the MoneyMakerGroup Ponzi forum has more than 4,700 posts there. That could mean the financial equivalent of radioactive waste is already poisoning your receipts.
Side note: Better hope you never encounter trouble with a TPL participant in California, especially given some of the lines in your Terms and Conditions.
Someone might sue you under Section 1670.8 of California’s Civil Code — in addition to accusing you of selling unregistered securities as investment contracts to residents of California and other U.S. states.
And yet you claim you’re not making a threat.
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Thanks for the marketing OZ, What you fail to realize is most of your subscribers are in MLM so that blast to your list that you done? Thanks.
And for your information Negative SEO can have an impact on any site including one that has been online for ten years.
Anyway All the best buddy.
Someone’s sold you a bridge mate, but who am I to get in the way.
Riiiiiiiight, that’s why you’re clearly upset.
Doesn’t profit from the content ? you site is loaded in google ads that you earn revenue from, i think that is about as direct as it gets. Your reviews are surrounded by money making ads.
Anyway I am done I have stuff to do.
I’m confused, in one breath you are saying this is good publicity, in the next you are threatening to use negative SEO to try and hide away this good publicity. Is this typical of the logic in running your “schemes”?
@Pearse
Right, the ads not the content itself.
I’m not paid per article, nor does BehindMLM sell content or charge for access.
Best of luck with the scamming.
Thanks OZ,
Thank you for clarifying that your reviews are “for” commercial gain!
You write reviews on this site about up and coming MLM businesses because of the traffic they can generate ( Traffic Hijacking) and that traffic generates you advertising revenue.
Commercial!
Anyway I just got off the phone to go-daddy to make sure you are domain is hosted with them they told me what I already knew.
I have to get my legal team to contact their legal team to start the process of having your personal details made available to us to start legal proceedings.
If you do happen to be offshore then we will incorporate where you are and get the ball rolling.
Lets see how confident you really are about your site legality.
I hope you make plenty of money on this site before you are going to need it.
What a mundane existence that would truly be.
Take it from someone who’s done it. You can’t write about a topic almost daily for seven years and not be passionate about it.
And shouldn’t you, y’know, be saving and stashing the money you’ve stolen offshore or something?
You’d think Ponzi scammers with dying Ponzi schemes getting into legal battles would be fruitless.
Remember, truth is the ultimate defense. Which any good lawyer would have been quick to tell you (you obviously haven’t spoken to one based in the US).
Anyway rather than continue to huff and puff (I’ll be marking any further legal threats as spam), go take a look at the recent SEC lawsuit against Traffic Monsoon. Your scams MoBrabus and Traffic Powerline use the exact same Ponzi business model.
Traffic Powerline does not use the same Model, that is my whole point you!!!
You posted a review based on Pre Marketing videos that did not in anyway divulge the business model and a website with a landing page only. You call that writing good reviews? your content is garbage man face it.
You are right Monsoon will probably be confirmed to be a ponzi and you are right revenue share programs are not sustainable this is why we are moving away from that business model, the main motivation came with the news of traffic monsoon.
This is why myself and my team have worked hard to come up with something different, we have worked to remove the negatives that can and do make them unsustainable. TPL is totally different but you do not care about facts do you?
You just spout the usual PONZI PONZI PONZI CRAP because that is what pays your bills.
I hope when our site is live that will will at least update this review we do not even have a revenue sharing script.
(Ozedit: Offtopic derail attempts removed)
I based the review on the Traffic Powerline business model.
$54 in, >100% ROI out over 100 days. The ROI is paid out of subsequently invested funds, making Traffic Powerline a Ponzi scheme.
Whatever else you attach to that is irrelevant, it’s still a Ponzi scheme the same as Traffic Monsoon.
Will you come clean and admit MoBrabus is a Ponzi scheme then?
So why does Traffic Powerline still use newly invested funds to pay off existing investors?
If I am reading all this correctly, Pearse is saying that he will no longer run any new ponzie schemes but is going legit?
I wouldn’t go that far until he confirms Traffic Powerline isn’t using newly invested funds to pay off existing investors.
so, when your site is live come back here and show that it does not have any profit sharing model like traffic monsoon and mo brabus. you cannot blame behindmlm for writing a review about how traffic powwrline is currently being sold.
for now, you got some free publicity from the TPL review here as you claim, so go away happy and don’t cry about it.
Traffic Powerline is clearly using Newly invested funds to pay off existing Pack Owners.
This Pearse guy is an ADULT in DIAPERS!! I have never witnessed/read/etc. someone so stupid and half ignorant with his comments.
Mobrabus was a Ponzi Scheme….but he will never admit it…
TPL… please explain Pierce Bronson why your new SCAM is not usind new funds to pay existing.
The facts will always remain the same. NO INVESTMENT can ever sustain a 10% earning every 3 months.
The facts will remain the same…NO INVESTMENT can sustain a 10% net gain every 6 months…
Furthermore…. there is a reason why you only earn 1% a year (if lucky) by keeping your money in a Savings Account.
Oh…poor Pitiful Peare.
LOL OMG Stirling Wirth did you really just say this “Furthermore…. there is a reason why you only earn 1% a year (if lucky) by keeping your money in a Savings Account.”
LMAO YOU ABSOLUTE Sheep, you think the bank only make 2% and pay you 1% when every bank trades the foreign exchange markets among other things, so you only get 1% because thats all they can make but the bankers all earn 6 figure incomes?
go back to being a good little follower of the BS you are being fed you my friend are the pitiful one if you believe all the crap you are fed.
OK when I am not so busy I will come back and explain everything in detail.
Oh by the way I agree that some of our distributors are out there using non compliant advertising that was not supposed to be shared and this will all be removed next week or their distributors accounts will be suspended.
You’ll be doing them a favour. If their account is suspended, at least they won’t be able to lose any more money.
Here’s a tip for ya, Pearse, when you have time, look up the “Streisand effect”.
Good luck getting anyone to support your silly little scam, now you’ve drawn attention to it and yourself.
Ponzi scammers self destructing = always fun to watch.
donelly keeps charging in here to threaten[!] or educate everyone about the ebil banks[!] or go LOL or LMAO, but what he wont do is say how his TPL is not a ponzi scheme!
sheesh.
Last comment, now for real, but as you wish… Traffic Pow*er Line is Not a Pon*zi Scheme Anjali, happy now?
Time will prove this! None of you know the facts of the business model or its structure. I just hope when we do that OZ will be fair and update this review.
But I know he wont because controversy creates traffic. Opinions are like belly buttons everyone has one. Let us just wait and see eh ?
All the best folks. Bye Bye.
* ADDED SO AS NOT TO CONTRIBUTE TO YOUR RELEVANT CONTENT IN SEARCH ENGINES.
Hey Littleroundman, he said we have yet to see that this isn’t a ponzi.
If he can reinvent the mousetrap and create something which hasn’t been done yet out of zillions of such schemes then he’s a genius. quite simple really – don’t pay people from new money.
My mission is to find something that even Lynndel and Oz will join. so near yet so far.
My guess is he will never launch then.
As the moment he does the site will be revealed as still a ponzi like the last one.
He can’t hide the truth for long.
Hey, you want a joke?
I just searched for “Pearse Donnelly”.
First two results were for “Pearse Donnelly Profiles | Facebook” and “Pearse Donnelly | Facebook”.
Number three was….
lol
But isn’t your onslaught of negative SEO going to bring this site to it’s knees?
So much for your “little project” I guess…
Judging on his performance so far, he’s certainly not the sharpest crayon in the box, so I wouldn’t hold my breath waiting for Traffic Powerline to get off the ground, much less last more than a few weeks.
Especially not when it’s just another of a squillion other similar schemes and he’s frightened off serious ponzi players by drawing attention to himself.
It’s not hard to imagine an excess of recreational chemicals are to blame for Donnellys’ self destructive brain farts.
Just lol.
The long and the short of it is if Traffic Powerine didn’t use newly invested funds to pay off existing investors, Donnelly would have just said so.
It has nothing to do with “time”, “opinions”, “controversy” or “traffic”. This is just stalling.
Distributors or recruiters? What non compliant advertising are they using?
So if he calls it a revshare using $18 spends, doesn’t that make it some sort of ponzi from the jump?
Yeah his comp plan for traffic powerline is fully explained online.
From what I see he is just has managed to balance shuffling invested funds to members where as they are keeping money in the system to pay themselves.
New funds are managed as they come in – yet the problem is there will become a time where ‘fresh’ funds will not be coming into the system.
You can only shuffle the same funds for so long before members need to withdraw. same fate of all revshare systems.
I guess economics isn’t your strong point. According to the FDIC figures for June covering Q2 of 2016 the average return on assets for banks they insure was 1.06%.
So if you assumed (and you’d be wrong to assume) the full quantity of assets the banks holds are savers deposits and they pay out 1% evenly to everyone, and assuming they entail no costs in doing that, then yes they are making a further 1.06% beyond that, so 2% may not be too bad a guess.
In 2015 Deutsche bank apparently had about 101,000 staff and paid them 13.2 billion euros, so about 130,000 EUR on average (though as we know there would be some earning significantly big numbers so it’s very much likely that the Median pay was less than 6 figures).
On the other hand they also made a loss of getting on for 7 billion euros.
What you fail to realize, laddie boy, is that selling ad packs or whatever you want to call them has put a lot of people in prison.
What really fascinates me is that people think they have come up with a new concept on how to separate people from their money, one they can get away with, but they are summarily proven wrong. Ask Andy Bowdoin.
Poor old Pearse the ponzi pimp could soon find himself behind bars. Such a tool. Pog mo thoin Pearse.
so, pearse donnely’s final answer is :
– TPL is NOT a ponzi scheme!!!
– you don’t know NOTHING!!!
– TIME will tell!!!
if this was an examination donelly would Fail spectacularly because he did not even address the question of WHY TPL is not a ponzi scheme.
with brain power like this^^ wonder if donnely has the ‘acumen’ to set up and run a ponzi scheme all by himself.
so donnely, did you make mobrabus and TPL yourself, or did mommy help you with your homework?
I’ll have an article up in a few hours explaining why Donnelly is now claiming nobody knows Traffic Powerline’s business model.
It has everything to do with the Traffic Monsoon bust.
So he is going to open up another revenue sharing and then duplicate his own mistake?????
You simply CAN NOT offer a rate that is guaranteed each day,month, etc.?? period..
It needs to vary as revenue comes in..
But no…. STUPID PUNK DONNELY has a 8th grade education and it is very obvious… go launch your TPL site with more errors…
Personally I don’t consider revshare, ponzi or scam mlm owners to actually be legitimate to business owners and it always makes me laugh when they refer to themselves as entrepreneurs!
I spoke to this guy a while back and even then having a conversation with him about the difference between a legitimate business and a clear scam (conversation in relation to Mo Brabus) was difficult and like all cultists it ended in a lot of denial and hostility.
It’s good to see that like politics and the world we live in people are finally beginning to wake up to these obvious attempts at fraud. 🙂
hey oz, penguin 4 was rolled out on sept 23rd:
behindmlm’s alexa ranking has sharply increased since around that time. is this due to penguin or a normal variation?
i guess your copy cats like jesse singh etc will get their asses kicked by google now!
Yeah we’ve recovered pretty well. Combination of both the algo and annual variation.
Panda deals with duplicate content, it’s supposed to be running live now but takes a while to penalize sites that don’t 1:1 copy.
Anyway give it time. Doesn’t bother me as anyone with half a brain recognizes my style of review.
Here we go again. This crook is back and starting to pimp his next “rev-share” scam. Here is a copy of his email:
So why are they going to share it with scammers like Donnelly?
My exact thought Oz. Donnelly up to his old scamming tricks!
Here is this scammers latest email message. Let’s get this Facebook group shut down before people get harmed by this crook!
Looks like his deal with the traders fell through because they want to remain lawful abiding citizens and told him where to go with his ponzi antics.
His new platform is in beta testing and suggests that because he’s a genius, he’s found a way for a revshare to make profit rather than loss. A profit of 700% without outside revenue as well.
Amazed at his ability to make $10 turn into $13 and also create all that extra profit just by putting money into his company account.
Must be the fact that the adpacks are not the same as regular adpacks. These come with a binary system, binary blocks and binary block keys.
You even get paid if new investment….. sorry…. new company sales stop. They just keep on paying you.
WOW it’s going to change the world.
When will they lock up scammers like this?
His new Ponzi is CAPs.
Crazy Ad Profits
Looking at the FAQ he’s admitting there is no external revenue, so all member investment for ad packs is the only revenue which obviously as we all know can’t make profit because Money does not magically appear from nowhere.
However, once established he will look at some options for outside revenue.
I can’t understand how somebody is allowed to launch a business that knows 100% that it’s creating debt from day 1 with the idea that revenue would be looked at later.
He is allowed to launch as many things as he wants.
It is called being creative with his downline of followers to dupe them into spending more money into HIS WALLET!!
He is basically pushing founders positions at $200 a pop!!
Selling the dream!!