Is PPC dead for Affiliates?

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No.. Nothing ever dies, you just have to take new approaches.

Bidding on "Sports Tickets" and promoting stub hub is always a bad idea; think outside the box or PPC is your worst nightmare.

ooookaaayyyy........phew...re GCD, thankfully just found a thread all about Google cash Detective (can't post link here as I'm new, but if you search for it you'll find it)

Huge thread about the product, but also useful comments about nature of ppc campaigns these days.

As long as PPC is available, I can't see how it is dead for affiliates.

I use PPC as one of many sources to build my business and I have mainly been an affiliate promoting other people's stuff until a few months ago.

I still use it because it is an awesome way to get traffic fast!

Here's the deal:

1. As an affiliate, you should be running a business.
2. If you own a business, then search engines want your business.
3. If you are smart, you should follow the rules.
4. Think outside the box!

My advice is to build content rich sites to send traffic with PPC and build a list. Then, cultivate that list to make it responsive to you. Making it responsive is easy when you add value. People are not stupid.

Too many affiliates are too lazy to do the work necessary to add value to the consumer. That is why affiliate marketing is getting a bad rap.

If you really think about it, all the guys that have huge lists are just affiliates themselves because they are always promoting other people's stuff.

Use PPC as one of your marketing channels to gain new customers and leverage its power to build your business.

At the end of the day, it's all about running an ethical business and providing value. If you do those two things, PPC will never die for your affiliate business.

My two cents

Tommie

PPC is tough, I have had a ton of success with other methods, (mostly free ones for some reason!?) But then PPC makes me crazy! haha

There is a large risk involved with PPC, if your not willing to invest money ($100-400/per campaign test), then you might as well move on to something else, bare in mind it can take 5-10 attempts before finding a profitable niche, that's $500-4,000 just on finding a profitable niche, bare in mind you'll probably make money off each campaign, you may not always be profitable though.

Affiliates site have not good advantage for using PPC .

Any PPC requires trafic.How do you spend to generate trafic ? Afterall you want to earn from PPC ,so learn before you earn.

PPC is not dead after all, this is how google makes "most" of it's money from. These days you have to have your own website to be accepted by PPC and even if you do you might still get flaged, I stopped using ppc on my first day when I started IM when I lost 200 bucks in one day, I was like oh crap now what haha, since then I haven't touched ppc and just used seo and other free methods.

Anything affiliate-related I try with Adwords - optins, surveys, product comparisons, you name it, gets slapped with a LQS. I gave up. Maybe the PPC gurus have a different experience, I can't be bothered with it anymore.