Finally, A Secure Viral Tell-A-Friend Script!

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RSS FeedI’m sure you’ve seen the many Viral Tell-A-Friend scripts that became the ‘big thing’ about a year ago. Nearly everyone in the Internet Marketing realm were using one or promoting one, or both.

It’s my understanding that the Viral Tell-A-Friend scripts came into existence after marketers (and the coders who made the scripts) noticed the effectiveness of sites like Facebook, and other social media sites, that allow you to invite friends to join. This works by accessing your email account of choice, Gmail etc, and then the site pulls in contacts from your address book.

Just think, the average Gmail address book has, at least, a few contacts that can be invited to join a website, with some people having a few hundred contacts (or more); you can see the viral capabilities of this are amazing.

So, of course, Internet marketers see something that works and jump on board to create a similar product that they can use and sell. But not all Tell-A-Friend scripts are created equal and some major vulnerabilities have been exposed. The major vulnerability that was heavily bounced around is Internet was the level of security, or rather, I should say lack of security.

You see, hackers and spammers look for the smallest vulnerability in a anything new and getting access to your address book would allow them to send email, in your name, to all your contacts. They’d probably send a load of spam junk or worse, malware or spyware; and guess who your contacts would thank, YOU!

With this in mind, I came across a secure Viral Tell-A-Friend script being used by the Stomper Net guys.

You can be sure if the biggest guys in the World of Internet Marketing are using anything in their business and websites then take note, it will be good. The guys at Stomper Net would not risk their reputation on using a flimsy insecure script. The Viral Tell-A-Friend script that the Stomper Net guys are using is Octazen’s.

Octazen have a few versions so you can be sure there will be one to fit your needs; they even have a Wordpress plugin. Visit the Octazen website and take a look at the demo to see if this is something your website can benefit from.

Be sure to read my previous post about why you should not use free viral tell-a-friend scripts

To your success,

Karl Foxley

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