Recently, there's been a lot of sound fury in the Internet marketing world about Google "Sidewiki."

Before I give my solution (and Sidewiki is a problem for ALL people market online), let me explain what it is real quick.

Here is the low down:

Sidewiki is basically a "frame" Google puts around any website (if you're logged into Google) so it LOOKS like you're on a particular site. But, in reality, it's Google, which lets readers do fun things like say nasty stuff about your product (or you), plug affiliate links and do all kinds of hip "social" stuff like that on the side right next to your content.

Some say it's like the Internet equivalent of graffiti.

Because, just like with graffiti, people can contaminate your "property" (your website) and, at the time, there is not much you can really do about it.

Anyway, so that's the problem in a nutshell.

Now, what is the solution?

Drum roll please...

Email.

Yes... plain old 1990's "retro" email.

As far as I can tell, Sidewiki can't touch your private emails.

Which means, if you start learning how to do most of your selling by email (and not relying mostly on websites) you'll be WAY less effected.

I'm not saying Sidewiki is still okay or a good thing.

And I'm not saying email is the end-all-be-all, either.

But when you use email so it does most of the "heavy lifting" for you, it blunts the effect of all these cyber punks spraying graffiti on your websites.