Forever Affiliate By Andrew Hansen?

I'd like to know if anyone bought it too. Wonder if it's the same old same old.

Hey all,I just purchased and haven't even got a chance to go through it yet ,but FYI he gives you the option to try it out for $1.00 for five days and then 2 payments of $33.00 after 5 days if you decide to keep it.that option appears when you go to leave the page.

All the best,

Jerry

I can't use paypal due to my account has not been resolved yet can I use another way to purchase?

Or can I make the purchase with no paypal account with my credit card?

I just talked to paypal it seems like I got my account back .

Going to check it out for $1... let me see if Andrew has anything new to share.

I'm probably going to buy the $67.00 option. Does anyone know if the $497 coaching still available after you have checked out the $67 product? Or is it a "one time offer" type thing?

Highrider21 -

I can't be sure, but I think the offer disappears for good after you decline it. I bought the program but didn't take the coaching.

Unlike a WSO confirmation email that allows you to navigate back to OTOs, this confirmation does not point to the coaching offer. I've done some looking for you but I can't find that page.

I bought it,but decided to pass on the upsells.

It's a bit early to give a real review-the course just launched today, and I'm only on the second "theory" video.

With that said, I suspect (based on what I've seen so far) it will be similar to Andrew's last course in overall strategy, although some of the technical stuff will be updated. It also looks like he is focused more on a mix of authority and minisites as a long term business philosophy-something I agree with.

He seems to be focusing more and more on building an online business, versus just an income stream.

As much as I'm hesitant to say much until I've gone through the entire course, and taken action on it, I will say that this is not the first time I've purchased Andrew's materials. He is very detail oriented, explains things well without sacrificing depth, and his info is always top notch.

I have no doubt that this purchase will be worth it.

I have done a full video review (I had early access, which is a good job as there are over 50 videos.
- here with no affiliate link: http://vimeo.com/60070190

Here is a full written review:
What is FOREVER AFFILIATE?

Forever Affiliate is a training program, from Andrew Hansen, that will teach you how to build a genuine long term and sustainable online business from affiliate marketing, where you can get to a position where you are earning a genuine PASSIVE Income – i.e. earning while you sleep. But you need to get there first.

Andrew Hansen has been around some time, and his previous training course from a few years ago was UNSTOPPABLE AFFILIATE was highly regarded (in fact one of my top recommendations).
HOWEVER, Forever Affiliate is NOT just a re-hash of old stuff!!! This is ALL Brand new training, developed for all aspiring affiliate marketers NOW. Many courses I review, even new ones, tend to be just re-hashes of old techniques. BUT Forever Affiliate is ALL NEW. And this is important to understand.

You see last year GOOGLE made some major changes to the way its search engine algorithms work. Any existing affiliate marketers out there will be acutely aware of these. These were the so called Google Penguin, Panda and EMD updates – and it had a MAJOR impact on many affiliate marketers – even me! Those old techniques – just don’t work effectively anymore, and over utilise them and you will get GOOGLE slapped.

That is why, for me, FOREVER AFFILIATE is so exciting – it is the first new training that is based on this new post-Panda, Penguin and EMD era.

Upfront I want to establish a few things about Forever Affiliate:
If you think that just buying the product and sitting there doing nothing your problems will be solved – this is not for you
If you think buying this means you will be earning £100 per day by tomorrow, this is not for you.
If you are looking for a “push button” magic bullet solution – this is not for you.

Make no mistake ….
Forever Affiliate DOES require an investment of YOUR time. There are nearly 50 videos here, and you need to go through each one. Each video ranges anywhere 5 to 20 mins long.
BUT THIS IS GOOD. THIS IS WHAT YOU NEED. It is because the training is SO detailed and thorough *(a trademark of Andrew Hansen’s previous courses). And why I like Andrew Hansen’s training. Even for an old hack like me, there is always so much NEW stuff I didn’t know about.
But it is all about QUALITY not QUANTITY – and the content in here is all QUALITY, believe me.
Right, now I have that off my chest …. Let’s get started and go to the members Area….

MEMBERS AREA
Members Area is pretty standard, but I like the simple layout. I have seen some membership areas that are just too confusing. This is very straightforward and perfect for beginners as well as old hacks like me.

Simple MENU navigation across the top, and the main training is split into 3 Key areas of “Phases”.
But here is the THEORY – now it really pays to sit through this, and really understand WHAT it is you are trying to achieve and HOW you are going to achieve it. This helps when you come to the main part of the course.

PHASE 1 – Is all about research, creating the framework for testing whether affiliate offers are worth pursuing, and also How to find great affiliate offers.
There are 15 videos
PHASE 2 – Testing, and setting up your blog, using Wordpress, what plugins you should use, Initial On Page optimisation
About 20 videos
PHASE 3 – off page SEO, SEO for 2013 an onwards, i.e HOW to avoid the nightmare of Google Penguin, Panda . This is not old re-hashed stuff using techniques developed before GOOGLE introduced its Penguin and Panda updates. This is all NEW SEO, and how to succeed and get ranking and traffic in 2013.
About 10 videos
In all the videos Andrew sets up what it is you will be learning, then he shows you how to do it, with “over the shoulder” (i.e. screen capture) view, then sums up the key points at the end in a slide. So all very easy to follow.

PHASE 1
Phase 1: Goes into real depth on two key areas
All about Creating an Analysis Funnel - basically a bench mark, or criteria to dramatically increase the chances of success when promoting a product.

This is what you use to test whether promoting a product is going to be worth your while.

This is what makes Forever Affiliate so effective. Many courses, just tell you how to find keywords that can rank easily, and have little competition - and then leave it at that.

But just because you find a great keyword - that meet is the search and competition criteria - does not mean you will make any money from this.

Forever Affiliate goes into much more detail in its "Analysis Funnel”. After all, if you are going to spend time creating site, or writing articles – you want to know that all that effort will be worth it. Or, if you are going to pay someone to do all that – again, you want to know that you will get a return on your investment.

This is why finding whether it is worth pursuing an idea is CRUCIAL – and what sets Forever Affiliate head and shoulders over anything else I have seen.

But, as they say, there is MORE. So you know how to analysis whether a product or service is worth promoting …. HOW DO YOU FIND what products or services to promote? Again, another area overlooked by so many courses.

Not this. The second part of Phase 1 is called “Putting Stuff Into The Funnel” – it is all about finding those PROFITABLE affiliate offers you can analyse. This section taught me so many techniques and ideas in finding great affiliate offers, (that aren’t just about tired all competitive products from Clickbank). There is NO ONE else teaching how to find great affiliate offers to promote – in this kind of detail.

Believe me if you have been around the block a few times with affiliate marketing, and put in all the effort only for a site to not make sales, or for all the best affiliate offers to be too competitive – I can understand your disillusionment. I know a lot of people struggle trying to find niche markets and affiliate offers to exploit – well, the training deals with this.

But the training in this part is so much more effective and so much more detailed than anything I have ever seen before. Really powerful stuff. You will discover loads of amazing affiliate offers to promote – that so many affiliate marketers do not know about – so low competition. If you take affiliate marketing seriously – this stuff is gold. You won’t be chasing after the same old tired and competitive affiliate offers everyone else is! My eyes have been truly opened to a whole new world of accessing affiliate offers I would never of come across.

I cannot recommend the training in this section enough. And it is worth going through all the training videos first, before going back and watching them again and then apply the techniques. Finding product and niche ideas – that are profitable is absolutely KEY to success as an affiliate marketer. And you get the training in shed loads here….

It is so worth spending time finding lots of products, putting then through the Analysis Funnel to see if they are worth it. When you have a handful – you then have a set of real potential affiliate offers to start building your sites.

Phase 2:
Testing - i.e. setting up your initial sites to see what works
This whole section includes, finding a hosting company, buying domain names, and installing Wordpress - and what the best Wordpress theme to use is - with both a paid (THESIS) and free theme that is recommended.

Andrew Hansen shows you what the essential Wordpress plugins are, how to install them, and where necessary configure them.

One Wordpress plugin - the All In One plugin- has its own video - explaining, in the clearest way I have ever seen, how to set it up. Even for an old hack like me I had an “a-ha!” moment.
Phase 3 also covers, the real importance and setting up of Google analytics - so you can optimise your earnings, and how you go about it.

Next part of this section, Andrew Hansen explains the difference between a mini site - and authority site - and how to lay them out accordingly.

There is a lot of focus on Creating content for 2013 onwards in this course - and it is VERY important. This is ignored by so many courses, or just plain out of date. It is all about providing quality content that is NOT over optimised or too short - which is a big mistake post Panda/Penguin.

But, it doesn’t leave you hanging there - there is a video that goes into great detail on how to actually WRITE an article, the style, tone and flow. Then how to layout and optimise the post for both the readers and the search engines accordingly.

NB: IF YOU CAN’T BE BOTHERED WITH ALL THIS you can get it all done for you !
For $15 you can get the Wordpress site all set up, plugins installed and optimised as explained, and for just $10 you can get “Forever Affiliate” style article written for you.
You just say how many you want, pay the money, and off you go. Simples!

Finally this section starts the traffic generation and link building process. Special focus paid attention what to do RIGHT, and what to AVOID in 2013 onwards. Really important stuff, in the light of GOOGLE’s changes last year. So all about avoiding “red flags” to Google. i.e
Rule 1 - Build links “slowly” and gently and only with NO use of anchor text links in the first 4 to 6 weeks. Initially just 50 of these unique high quality backlinks in the first 4 to 6 weeks. All very Google friendly. And more importantly - dead easy to do.

PHASE 3:
All about building on the now proven success of the mini sites tested in Phase 2. Driving traffic and building on what you now know are money earning sites. These are your “assets”, and it is all about maximising those assets.

Again, all post Google Panda/Penguin/EMD update friendly off page SEO methods.

Conclusion:
This course is very detailed – and there is a lot of it. It took me a few sittings to go through it. But it is all quality, and at a level of detail that means you will find success if you follow the training. What I like is how Andrew sums up each video with the main points at the end.

If you are new to Affiliate marketing - then it may seem overwhelming at first. But I say - stick with it. Go through it ALL once, then go back and start applying what he teaches step by step. Don’t just jump in at the beginning.

The SEO and training is ALL NEW, not re-hashed old techniques that are less effective nowadays. This is all about succeeding in a post Google Panda, Penguin, EMD era – but more than this. It is future proof, and gives you a robust approach to if Google change the goal posts again.

Great for beginners and people new to affiliate marketing, but just as valuable to people who are more experiences, as will find a raft of products to promote you didn’t even know existed. This is so much more than just promoting the same old Clickbank products that EVERYBODY seems to promote. In addition, the techniques to rank, and drive traffic are geared for a post Panda/Penguin world.

If you are looking to build a genuine, long term online business, with a firm base, that will earn you a passive income of thousands a month, then this IS the course. It is not going to happen overnight.
BUT, If you are prepared to put the work in and follow the videos very carefully, stay focused, have the commitment then YOU will succeed. This is why I think this is the most exciting affiliate training I have seen– AND WILL get results, and get you to a place, where YES, you are earning thousands a month, doing nothing.

I can’t recommend it enough.

Well, lordkensal, that was one of the best reviews I've read in a long time!

I bought and it looks good.

I wish he would have been a little more honest about expenses in setting these sites up. He says om sales lettter the only expense is the domain name.

What about the content?

Obviously we need original content. Can't be using PLR material!

That costs money to have someone write articles for you!

Hey there i tried it ITS CRAP! lol not worth your time :-)

Excuse my language, but HOLY SHIT I love this course !

lordkensal,

I read reviews from other site, we can only access Andrew's team if we paid for the upsell ($497 I believe). Is that true? I wish I have enough money to buy the upsell and outsourcing to Andrew's team.

thanks

Does anyone know name of the affiliate network which shows up on sales page video?

For the off-site SEO, are there any tools that need to be purchased?

sheikh352

Can we access the team without buying the upsell?
I'm thinking about outsourcing though.

I recommend anything Andrew puts out, he is the real deal. I have proof of income over at my blog and also bonuses for this course if anyone is interest. I have used his strategies and can assist anyone get results with his teachings combined with mine.

I can truly vouch for him as a successful student of his.

Thanks,

Chris

what about the tools? everyone say about the course. do we need any software to start with?

Is there real value in this course at the basic level ($67) ???
I can't swing $497.

I bought the main FA course and when presented with the $497 OTO,
I passed on it and got the second downsell OTO which is the same as
the $497 one except I don't get personal consultation and don't get on
the live training. The second OTO is $297

I still can get support and help with the course but not personally with
Andrew.
I still get the training, but not live, I get the replay videos. For me it was
worth saving $200 and just go for normal support and replay videos.

Hey foxtrot3,

I'm certain the coaching program is valuable but there's a lot of information in the $67 package. The coaching might speed things up - depending on your available time and work habits - but I think the basic product will provide everything you need.

It's really a very complete course. I'm still only on the first few videos and I get more impressed with every one.

Well said wingman, but what would be the story if they were all negative? You have to accept that there is some decent content in this thread that does carry weight.

As well, the people Andrew associates with in the sales letter, and the person who put me onto this offer are as solid as the rock of Gibralta - there is no bull shit here I can tell you.

Like anybody Andrew has a business to run, and if he can sell a system that has made him money that people will buy, then good luck to him. He has been around for a while and in this business your reputation is key. I don't see any negative comments about poor performance in this thread?

But it's your decision - perhaps "read between the lines" mate.

I bought this two days ago, and as I was going throught the videos, it all seemed like very sound information, and I did learn a thing or two.

When I started implementing the steps in phase 1, my research came to a screeching halt. The tool recommended for competitive backlink research costs $79 per month and upwards.
pretty pricey if you ask me. I did send a ticket to the support desk asking if a cheaper alternative was recommended, so I will reserve judgement and wait for a reply. I know there are other tools out there, but at first glance, none of them seem to do the same job that the recommended tool does. So I spent a few hours going down that rabbit hole, which was disappointing.

I will update when I hear back from the support desk. I would appreciate any suggestions from other warriors for a backlink research tool while I wait. My research is DITW as of now.

Thanks,
BJ

RuggeroSB, thanks for your recommendation. I will certainly give SEO spyglass a look. I did get a response from the help desk at FA, but it was basically, "There's a lot of backlink analyzer tools out there. Here is a link you might find helpful." Not a specific recommendation.

Thanks again!
BJ

Yeah, Andrew is very professional - this is a great course. My recommendation is Buy it now

If you want to check out competitor's link network, another option is Market Samurai. I've use Link-Assist tools, just couldn't get on with them.

One options is American Article Writers, Freelance Article Writing Service - Articlez.com, although speaking as someone that on occasion does write for others (mostly for myself, as I enjoy it), don't be too cheap, remember those people, just like you, need to make a living.

I think it might be wise for us to put less weight on Page Rank these days.

This from Google Webmaster Central's FAQ:

Q: My site's PageRank has gone up / gone down / not changed in months!
A: Don't worry. In fact, don't bother thinking about it. We only update the PageRank displayed in Google Toolbar a few times a year; this is our respectful hint for you to worry less about PageRank, which is just one of over 200 signals that can affect how your site is crawled, indexed and ranked. PageRank is an easy metric to focus on, but just because it's easy doesn't mean it's useful for you as a site owner. If you're looking for metrics, we'd encourage you to check out Analytics, think about conversion rates, ROI (return on investment), relevancy, or other metrics that actually correlate to meaningful gains for your website or business.

Through out the course I have used a few techniques to find profitable affiliate offers and I have only came up with one and he says 5 would be good to start out with. I have been looking in the health niche to find some potential affiliate offers, but most of them don't meet the first criteria on the analysis funnel he has shared with us in his training.

Today for me was dissapointing I looked for so many brand name keywords mostly in the health niche and I have only came across a few niches with product names that meet the first criteria bur the competition was hard to beat. I could have done maybe a few mistakes but im considering going ahead and start that first affiliate offer and hold off on finding the other 4.

I am really trying though! I really am!

I agree lovebostons. I have probably put 40-50 products in the funnel he mentions and been unable to find anything that fits the criteria yet. Not used every method he mentions yet but most. Been looking mainly in health niche. I think embarrassing niches may be the way to go. This maybe what he means by weird?! Not a nice niche to be in but they are only mini sites.

I can relate to finding weird niche with his criteria and I have only found one product in particular that does meet his criteria. But you can't give up now on his teachings. He recommend that you find 5 good affiliate offers with keywords to start out with then go to phase 2 with those 5 affiliate offers/keywords together. Then start testing with them. If I can't find the other 4 weird niche offers. I will test with one and see if I can get the ball rolling. I think the reason why we can't find the weird niches is because we are probably not looking hard enough for those weird niches.

Is it anything like Google Sniper?

JerryGP - I just used the 'Search this thread' button at the top of the comments.

Check post 57.

This has turned into an active little thread. Thanks everyone for your contributions. So I took the advice here and picked up SEO Spyglass to do my backlink research to help me find my markets. I have what is probably a newb question - keep in mind I am a newb when it comes to affiliate marketing. I have only worked in local and offline stuff, which is way less competitive.

When I go to look at the backlinks of my competition, do I look at the backlinks to just the page that is ranking - or do I look at the backlinks coming in to the whole site? I have some competing sites that have just a handful of backlinks to the ranking page - but thousands of backlinks to other pages on their site. Can I beat competition like this?

Thanks,
BJ

That does help. Thanks James!

OK. So I bought the OTO for the coaching materials, and I thought I would get some help with finding niches there. So I went to the outsourcing area and paid for their outsourcers to find 5 niches for me - just to help me get a jump start. After I sent them $60 via Paypal and didn't hear back for several days, I tried to send their support an email - bam - invalid email address. LOL.

So I submitted a ticket to Andrew's help desk to see what the problem is. Hope they get this sorted out. I would really like to get their help with my niches.

In the meantime, I will continue trying on my own. I think I might have found 2-3 niches now that may work. I probably can't get the #1 spot in any of them, but the 2-4 spots look pretty good. Hardly any backlinks. We will see.

I have his previous course Unstoppable Affiliate.

What I like to know is how different is Forever Affiliate from it?

Forever affiliate is really good of a course, if you bought UA I would recommend buying forever affilaite!

To me, the best part he discusses is niche research and ways to find new niches!

Still no response from the person i paid to find niches for me. I am so disappointed. But i will wait and hope.

Hey everyone, just want to know what benefits I have getting this course Can someone please let me know if its something I should go for.
Thanks

I need help putting the banner ad and google analytics on the simplo theme that he suggests as a free alternative.

Finally heard back from the niche provider today. Not sure what happened there, but hopefully I will be provided with some great niches within the next 7 days. My plan is build sites for those niches plus a couple that I found on my own and see how they do. I will check back in on this thread and update those who have asked on my progress.

@Inglourious Basterd
I'm still watching phase 1 of FA so I haven't seen the videos that mention content yet. But at the bottom of the phase 2 page he has links to outsource the content and for the second one (Writer "R") the price is $96.95 for 10 800 word articles. Writer "D" is not taking orders right now because of such the high volume of orders they have been getting. So for one minisite it sounds like it will cost about $100 for the content. Plus, I'm sure we will have to invest some money for backlinks too. But I don't know if you need to create all 5 of the minisites at once. And for the authority site I wouldn't think you would create/outsource all that content at once either. Plus, you also have to take into account how much each minisite will earn you. In the first few videos I have watched so far it sounds like it isn't unreasonable to make $500-$1,000 per month from one minisite, and that should be passive income for at least 6 months I would hope.

But I understand what you are saying, I don't have a huge budget either, I can maybe afford $500 max until I see some profit. If it costs more than $500 to start seeing some revenue I think I might try PPC instead. Or it might be better to just try ranking some youtube videos for the keywords instead of creating an entire site to get some revenue coming in first.

It seems we need to spend lots of time and money to create these sites. Even then I'm not convinced it's going to be easy to make money - ranking number 1 in any niche is not as easy as Andrew has been suggesting -- you just need to look at his example site to know how hard it must be to rank on page 1 of Google never mind getting to number 1 -- !!!

Don't we mugs think if it was that easy to make $1000-$2000 per month Andrew would have gone ahead to make some backlinks for his "pregnancyhelper" site - if it was that easy why will he not create 10 or 20 or even 100 of these mini sites for himself and earn a six figure sum per month which would continue earning him for the rest of his life?! Surely, that would be a far better business model than what he's doing now! At least IMO.

Having said that, if anyone, honestly, can come back after having used this method and managed to earn a living from it, "no one" would love it more than myself....... I persoanlly, do not have the budget to create 5 or 6 sites just for the sake of finding out which one can be profitable. For those who can, I wish them lots of luck.

@MartinP,

Can I ask how many backlinks your money making mini sites have roughly?