subject: Is Affiliate Advertising Nonetheless a Good Move? [print this page] Responding to mail this week I received some requests for research that needed to be fulfilled, and I thought that the question asked by this subscriber might have broader appeal, thus this article. But is it actually valid?
For those of you which are brand new, basically affiliate advertising and marketing is any kind of resale of other people's goods. All that said, is it nonetheless a excellent move to be looking at this as valid? Here is the doom and gloom (a setup for the sunshine). The "big G" (you all know who I imply) has become stricter and stricter both in terms in the ability to utilize research engine advertising (otherwise known as direct linking), so the days of grabbing a link from a merchant or affiliate network, pushing visitors via compensated investigation, and checking your PayPal for commissions on Friday, are over.
Now the affiliate has to add worth. How so? Normally within the form of domain expertise. You should truly bring value towards the marketplace with your web site. The web site can no longer be a bridge page (clearly spelled out in most investigation engine terms of service), or you'll run into troubles, particularly with compensated search. What's this mean? Trouble, in case you try to end run the search engines.
There is greater than a single source of visitors (read, more than a single lookup engine)
You will discover more than one particular affiliate network (sometimes a person of your search engines has a particular axe to grind with a single of your affiliate networks)
The sunshine: It is usually done, and isn't it a joy to know that you're adding value towards the marketplace and being paid for that value? Once you do it right, there is nothing far more gratifying. Whenever you do it wrong, prepare for stormy weather.
