He talks a good talk, but that’s all it is…talk.

Mike Hancock puts out a weekly webmaster newsletter, which includes some great fresh promotional materials. At the top of each mailing is a rather lengthy solicitation for suggestions on how he can improve things for webmasters, so they can make better sales. Here are a couple of notable clips from that solicitation…

“…what else would help Mike Hancock stand out above the crowd and generate additional sales?”

“We would love to take Mike Hancock to the next level with a banner on every blog and directory, and we ! want to know what it’s going to take to get us there.”

Well Mike…how about removing all your traffic leaks?

At the bottom of every page, in his site tour, is a prominent banner linking to his self serving links directory, hosted on a separate domain. He also has links to his My Space blog, and video store, in the top menu bar of the tour. The only leaks he hasn’t thought to include are multiple processors and a mailing list!

On top of that, he has the following statement on his affiliate recruitment page…

No pop-ups.
Your traffic will never be redirected to another website. All traffic you send to Mike Hancock will stay here, so you earn a commission.

True…he does not use pop-ups. Other than that, this statement to potential affiliate webmasters is completely false!

Mike can’t play dumb, claiming he was unaware of these issues. Several months ago I had a lengthy Email discussion with him about it. Yet nothing has changed.