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A question for affiliate marketers

by atomAnt
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I need some advice from Warriors who are experienced affiliate marketers. A website I have in a health niche made it to Google page 1 a few weeks ago for a highly competitive keyword. I put in a lot of work to bring targeted keywords up from page 23 to page 1, along with some to page 2 and 3, with credit to Warrior Forum info and WSOs.

I received an email from an affililiate manager asking me to tell which keyword I am having this success with. I don't want to be overly suspicious, but I remember seeing someone comment somewhere that affiliate managers can "steal" a good keyword from an affiliate marketer. I do not know what this means, but it doesn't sound good.

I wouldn't mind disclosing my strategies, but of course I also don't want to throw away months of late nights and early mornings creating and submitting articles, pages, learning RSS and the myriad other aspects of making a site work just because an Aff Mgr was fishing around and I did not know any better.

I am not doing any PPC, just pure organic traffic through adding a lot of original content and implementing SEO such as RSS, optimizing pages, and some topical backlinks. Can anyone offer some advice or insight about this? I appreciate your help.
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  • Profile picture of the author InternetMarketingIQ
    It's none of their business. What do you possibly have to gain by telling them anything?

    They either want your business or they don't.

    You tell them "I don't know" and then forget it.
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    • Profile picture of the author ArnelRicafranca
      I would not give your strategy away. But if they give you trouble, just re-assure them that strategy is completely legit.
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      • Profile picture of the author atomAnt
        Thanks ArnelRicafranca. I guess obtaining page 1 on both Google and Yahoo triggered the request to know my keywords. I disclosed that the website had obtained this ranking despite great competition from extremely well established sites, and they wanted to know what my exact keywords are.

        Someone a while back said something about affiliate managers stealing keywords from successful affiliates so I thought I'd run it by Warrior Forum IM's
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    • Profile picture of the author atomAnt
      InternetMarketingIQ, Thank you for your advice. I should clarify also that the affiliate program not the merchant direct, it is an affiliate management provider. You are right in that I have nothing to gain by disclosing my keywords except continued goodwill with the affiliate manager.
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  • Profile picture of the author deertrail
    It's none of their business.

    Ideally, you only want to be doing business with vendors / networks who know the value of a good affiliate and treat you like gold.

    If anyone should be giving tips, it should be the vendor helping YOU out.

    Originally Posted by atomAnt View Post

    I need some advice from Warriors who are experienced affiliate marketers. A website I have in a health niche made it to Google page 1 a few weeks ago for a highly competitive keyword. I put in a lot of work to bring targeted keywords up from page 23 to page 1, along with some to page 2 and 3, with credit to Warrior Forum info and WSOs.

    I received an email from an affililiate manager asking me to tell which keyword I am having this success with. I don't want to be overly suspicious, but I remember seeing someone comment somewhere that affiliate managers can "steal" a good keyword from an affiliate marketer. I do not know what this means, but it doesn't sound good.

    I wouldn't mind disclosing my strategies, but of course I also don't want to throw away months of late nights and early mornings creating and submitting articles, pages, learning RSS and the myriad other aspects of making a site work just because an Aff Mgr was fishing around and I did not know any better.

    I am not doing any PPC, just pure organic traffic through adding a lot of original content and implementing SEO such as RSS, optimizing pages, and some topical backlinks. Can anyone offer some advice or insight about this? I appreciate your help.
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    • Profile picture of the author atomAnt
      deertrail, I agree 100% and I appreciate your thoughts on this. I am still unsure what it means when someone says an affililate manager can steal a great keyword from an affiliate they are managing. Maybe that was just an offhand remark that is inaccurate. I have heard it a few times so wanted to check WF
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      • Profile picture of the author thobbs31
        Don't give him anything. If he threatens to cancel your account, don't give him anything. My guess would be that this is some black hatter that is trying to steal your thunder. You should contact the product owner via email or phone immediately and verify.
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