Easy Affiliate Marketing Days are over

Posted on July 23, 2008 in Affiliate Tips, PPC  

Just as the post states easy affiliate marketing days are over. Now that doesn’t mean you won’t make money or that you can’t make GREAT money. It more so just means the days of starting up a campaign and going from zero to the penthouse is much harder. The system was easier to game and manipulate. Yes you still can manipulate the system and can get by with things, but to combat this google is updating their Quality Score more oftern.  I read many posts about the latest Google slap. I remained untouched due to it but that is only more so all my sites have moved to more legit sites and not the one page wonders that could make a killing of the past. 

As an Affiliate Marketer you need to:

1. Rake in the money while you can. If you have a hot offer milk it while you can. Can you do the same with a similar offer? Then do it!

2. Change and evolve… What worked last year doesn’t work… well at times things that worked 3 months ago don’t work.

3. Have a game plan and a end goal. Don’t just pile the money in and blow it on things that will depreciate. I mean we all want to do nothing at some point in our lives.

4. Test Tweak Test Tweak…  A/B test, ad test, copy test, site test…. the testing never stops.

With that said there is still a TON of money to be made in affiliate marketing but it takes more work.



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5 Responses to “Easy Affiliate Marketing Days are over”

  1. Robert Norton on July 23rd, 2008 2:30 pm

    Exactly, the holes are just less apparent now. But I think it’s good honestly in one way or another, helps the market evolve.

  2. James Hayward on July 23rd, 2008 3:14 pm

    In some ways it’s much nicer that its harder and the easy affiliate marketing days are over. It Means that people will place some thought and work on the game as a business not just a hobbies. From the merchants perspective its probably work in their favour as well, in regards to ensuring their brands are being marketed closer to the their own game plans.
    Cheers James

  3. Alex on July 24th, 2008 8:00 am

    Though G says that your site natural rankings play no pole for PPC - i think it is not true. my ppc promoted sites started back in 2005 are doing fine. and a few projects started in 2008 (and they meet all G announced quality guides - 10’s pages of uniques content regularly updated, incoming links, etc) get slapped within a few days.

  4. goombastomp on August 26th, 2008 4:14 pm

    The Sky Is Falling, Again…

    I always want to rant about how annoying it is when people complain about how it isn’t like the good ‘ol days. On any given forum someone will tell you how in 1999 you could throw up a banner to anything and make 6 grand before dinner… It’s true…

  5. rob on August 26th, 2008 4:16 pm

    Very true. Separating the hobbyists from the full timers is a good thing… It’s not as if people have stopped shopping online.

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