The Death Of Afilliate Marketing

I just got freakin started with Adwords... X(

Just because one traffic source goes away, doesnt mean it is the end of affiliate marketing. There are still a whole lot of Paid traffic sources that are as good as adwords or better (for targeting). I wouldnt get caught up in this.

This is one of those rare moments where a major change happens and you can position yourself to be at the forefront of a revolutionary new method or idea.

Didn't the death of affiliate marketing happen already?

Google MAY lose huge market share if this doesnt work; their plan is basically to run advertising on a CPA basis for themselves.

Adsense folks still get pennied and dimed though.

The risk here, is that they dont make as much money from CPA as from Adwords revenue.


I think they will though- We've been doing something similiar on our webmaster network for about 6 months so far. The difference is that we give the lions share of the profits to the webmaster running our ads.


Anyways, its a risk. But google IS a business, and occasionally risk is necessary to increase profits.

1) Perry just released a book about Adwords again.

2) It's all just pre-sell for some overpriced product that won't help anybody.

'nuff said.

Agreed. I hate this kind of hyperbole. Pure link-bait, and an irritant to boot.

Why the thread title? Nobody said affiliate marketing was dead.

I guess it is just incentive to stick to my New Years resolution to create a product.

funny- Just told hubby about the article and he says, "there's more to life than google" ha so true

Yeah, adwords affiliate marketing may die but blog affiliate marketing still in great growth.

Gary Vaynerchuk's book made me think that affiliate marketing is getting rocked more than Google's changes.

Doesn't it make sense for the thin pages that aren't offering any substance to start dying out when you have like no entry barrier to people who are nuts about their topics, and then find out they can make money with it to?!?

Seriously, with all of the free content publishing platforms and the number of people moving online to talk about their passions it's just a matter of time until the big advertising dollars (an affiliate is just another advertiser) follow.

But I really don't think affiliate marketing is dead. Just shifting. The sales letters are getting more and more "horizontal."

It's not dead, it's a scam!! No honestly, it is neither. Fact is most people who first started with adwords, were pioneers and likely made a killing. Some people never change their techniques, that's the problem. Do you always drive at the same speed? If you do, you're not very bright.

Same goes for adwords marketing. If you always do the same things your asking for trouble. Online marketing is something that changes daily. If you like Google adwords, thre are TONS of free information on the web (go check out the special offer section).

Marketing, either it is online or offline is pretty much in constant change. What works today, probably won't work in a few months from now. That's the same as tradespeople who need to go take quick courses on new stuff that comes out that you need to keep working.

It's like all the hype about 2012, only God truly knows the end time - nobody else.

As far as I can see, there is little problem. As Perry's article say's as long as you have your own product to promote then your fine.

Just create your own product.

We must figure out how to drive a stake in affiliate marketing's heart .

I have saw the report of it's demise at least 10 times last year .

Shoot , I went to it's funeral... twice .

I think we are going to need to shoot the sucker that keeps selling affiliate marketing the shovel to keep digging back out with.

Allen himself once mentioned that creating your own network is what you should do as a long term strategy. An example of this is WarriorForum itself.

Many people visit certain blogs on a regular basis and do buy through affiliate links (even if they know it's an affiliate link). It's because of the great content these blogs provide.

What do we learn? Just like you add opt-in to your landing pages so that you no longer require "traffic" to communicate to your target audience, you should pull in the traffic you get through quality content. A time will come when Google will not play a "big" role in bringing traffic to your site, it'd rather be the people who like your site and spread the word.

Anyone interested in this kind of thinking can read up stuff written by Seth Godin. I like his ideas, maybe you will too?

Regards,
Revolves.

Yay for another Sky is Falling article... if only I had a nickel for every time I saw one of those...

The day affiliate marketing dies is the day
when all sales people cease to exist.

Nah.

The "death" of anything is really just a
marketing attempt to profit on fears...

Quoted for truth.

Asher

I think it would be silly if they banned any affiliate but um, I dunno I could totally be wrong.

I believe that Affiliate Marketing will not die at all. Its a great money making opportunity, and smart marketers WILL find a way to utilize affiliates. No doubt about it. Well thats what I believe.

No, to me this does not seem to be the death of affiliate marketing.... far from it actually..... instead i hope a new era of quality content sites instead of one landing page full of marketing and promotional talking with email optin forms is going to be started soon.

we need to adopt the changes. good luck to every affiliate marketer for the future challenges

Fact: 1.3% of Google Adwords customers pay 98% of Adwords gross income
Fact: If Google banned 98% of adwords customers, their gross Adwords income would go down 1%
Fact: If they banned 98% of their customers, their overhead would be reduced by billions.
Fact: if they banned 98% of their customers, their net would go up by billions.

Why would they not ban 98% of their customers in the course of the next 24 months?

They are not idiots. It is a smart business move. AND it returns dividends to stock holders. IF they don't ban 98% of their current customers, whoever makes that decision should be fired based on having a lack of sound business practices. It ain't rocket science. Simple math. Get rid of dead weight. And in this case they have more dead weight than most. (It's the 80/20 rule on steroids!) If you are spending under 7 figures a month with them, you might cost too much to keep. (Unless you don't test and your QS sucks and so pay too much per click.)

And as has been said, if all your eggs are in that basket, you are doing something wrong. You need to have a marketing model that relies on no single entity, Google or anyone else. If they go under or decline your business, you get to start over.

The title of the post was to make a point, especially to his readers who focus on Adwords. The biggest point is the paragraph above^. Diversify, you never know when a resource you use will crash and burn or sink your battleship. Lol.

I think he wants to kill competition.

this is really nothing new, i say for some time already that affiliate marketing especially with ADWORDS does *rarely* work, not for the majority of those typical Clickbank $25/sale 1:85 conversion affiliates. This does NOT take rocket science.

The fact that Google started to actively drop those affiliates...well it's just the nail in the coffin when it comes to affilliate marketing + Adwords. But, there are better ways to market anyway, eg. SEO, article marketing. Haven't shed a tear since i stopped adwords..in fact i am making more money with CB than ever before.

The super-affiliates are using media buys or other ways, they do NOT advertise weight-loss using weight-loss keywords on adwords.

I think Google "unwillingly" helps MANY newbie/intermediate affiliate marketers which otherwise would lose big time...and people who got dropped should take it as an opportunity (really!) rather than crying that they were banned from adwords.

This is fantastic. The true visionaries of affiliate marketing will rise to the top and the filth will sink to the bottom.

Great read, thanks for the link!

More hype and exaggeration. Life goes on, the internet goes on, affiliate marketing goes on, hyping before launching a new prodcut goes on. C'est la vie!

Google will do what Google will do and as someone above said, they are not the only game in town. Adapt and flourish.

What's really annoying is that they don't even tell you what you've done wrong or why your account is suddenly getting zero clicks anymore. So no chance to fix it. Your account just stops working.

Customer relations experts they aint, as we all know.

Reminds me of Darwin quotation of adaptation

"It is not the strongest of the species survives, nor the most intelligent. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change"
Charles Darwin