The problem with these guides too is that they often tend to be useless because most of them are just either scams, investing in scams (HYIPS) or just plainly over saturated methods that could possibly earn but not really. So, I guess people should just avoid it. I've seen plenty of them and not really anyone of them works. Why would anyone want to share a money making guide anyway, if they are profiting from it?
Yes, people do create these kind of guides not with the intention of helping people but to advertise their referral/affiliate links. Or they are getting paid to post some examples in their guides. Every guide will be having some real time scenarios there they will be using paid contents and most of the time they will be having some ranking system of available services, for maintaining higher rank they are getting paid.
I have personally tried few money making guides, after long analysis I have concluded those authers must be getting paid for maintaining those guides.
That is the one of the biggest issues we sometimes have on the bitcointalk.org, people are not really helpful to others, they just look for yet another opportunity to help their wallet balance and to become more wealthy through exploiting the other users which is an awful habit.
For some reason, many people at bitcoin world prefer to use the naivety of the other users instead of climbing to the top through the hard way, by they own while being fair with others.
I really think that there is nothing that is more harmful to the
BTC opinion on the world, that all these scams,ponzis and fake coins or exchanges. Some people want to stay away from it, because every day they hear about some people that had issues while using BTC.