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Are they going to kill the goose again?

by Scott Ames
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Back when Adsense came out people discovered they could create hundreds of sites known as Made for Adsense sites and make thousands of dollars per month or even hundreds of thousands per month. Some were raking in the dough quietly without letting anyone know. It seems to me that after all the courses , templates, etc. came out and everyone started doing the adsense grab, Google picked up on it and killed that avenue of easy money.

People are making lots of money with PPC affiliate sales and all the buzz right now are the product launches touting ways to make it easier and faster for the average guy to make a buck. Are they going to kill the goose again? Is Joe going to pour his hard earned money into some high priced product, try some campaigns, maybe even make a small amount, and get clobbered once again?

Someone once said, and a paraphrase from memory:" When the average guy on the street is hot to invest, its time to get out" That was before the crash of 1929.

If someone knows the exact quote and who said it that would be wonderful.

Before the real estate crash people were buying homes in Las Vegas, Phoenix, etc. and selling them quickly for $50K profit. Many started doing it. Many started flipping homes based on the easy profits and success of others. We all know what happened there.

During the internet surge of the 90's people made easy money starting and investing in little internet companies. Everyone had a startup or money in a startup, we all know what happened there too.

Now it seems to me it Affiliate marketing via PPC that is the hot topic. Is that immune or are people like lemmings being lead over the cliff?
#goose #kill
  • Profile picture of the author David Wilding
    It was Joseph Kennedy Sr. who may have said, he knew it was time to get out of the market when he received stock tips from a shoe-shine boy.

    I think you are onto something here. The easy money is usually made by the first few in front of any technique or stategy. The other best way is to offer what fills a basic human need.

    My father looking to make some money in Jr. High and High School (during the great depression) asked my grandfather what he thought of the idea. He told my dad sure just make certain you are filling a basic human need like food (my grandfather was a meat saleman for Swift Premium Co., so he had his bias).

    My dad built some coops on a little land of his dad and raised chickens to sell. He had a thriving business selling chickens and eggs. He was the only kid in Jr. High with money in his pocket and was the only kid in his high school who owned his own car (fully paid).

    Fast forward to now. There are still many new people coming online each day. We are already here we can do both: Be first (relatively) and supply a basic need (info on how to do anything). Choose your niches wisely (food-chickens) put in the work (build the coops) find your customers (scour the neighborhood) give them what they want/need.

    The techniques may change (just try to sell a live chicken now...they wouldn't know what to do with it) but the idea is the same.
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    • Profile picture of the author Scott Ames
      Bingo.. Joseph Kennedy Sr.. Thanks for that..

      "Kennedy later claimed he knew the rampant stock speculation of the late 1920s would lead to a crash. It is said that he knew it was time to get out of the market when he received stock tips from a shoe-shine boy:"
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  • Profile picture of the author Scott Ames
    Originally Posted by ProductCreator View Post

    But I don't see the similarities.

    Made for Adsense sites offer no value whatsoever. Affiliate landing pages are merely a pre-sell for an affiliate product.

    Or are you talking about Adsense arbitrage sites?

    PS I dig the avatar, is that COD, MOH?
    Cam on for the kudos on the avatar...

    You are right, and I thought about that point when I made the post, but didn't elaborate. The made for adsense sites were junk, but so is what some are advocating. Direct linking, flimsy affiliate squeeze pages, etc. I'm sure Google will kill those fast.

    The other point I didn't get to. If everyone is doing PPC and looking for the hot markets, then stealing each others research and hotly converting ads, costs will go up and profits will disappear. Perhaps.
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  • Profile picture of the author LB
    The peak of PPC--->affiliate programs was during the initial run of "Google Cash". It was amazing back then. You could literally dump 100 keywords into a campaign and make sales.

    The "crash" has already happened...it's called quality score.
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      Originally Posted by LB View Post

      The peak of PPC--->affiliate programs was during the initial run of "Google Cash". It was amazing back then. You could literally dump 100 keywords into a campaign and make sales.

      The "crash" has already happened...it's called quality score.
      That's also why Google has implemented the no double serving rule. So many people from Google Cash 1 were just flooding the system with the same affiliate links that all the ads for a given keyword would be for the same product. With the no double serving rule, Google has essentially eliminated the laziest of affiliates that don't know how to compete or get around the rule.

      Google has made it so that you need to know what you're doing in order to be successful with affiliate marketing via PPC now. Direct linking still works because there are so many different products being sold by affiliate marketing out there. Direct linking will always work well if you're the first in line. The one's that use the latest tools are going to be able to find profitable campaigns and niches much easier, but they'll still need to know how to compete in the marketplace in order to survive.

      Like so much else in the internet marketing game, it's not the number or quality of tools available, but the willingness of people to put in the effort that makes the difference. That's why there will always be those who succeed on line and the other 95% who fail.
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    • Profile picture of the author Scott Ames
      Originally Posted by LB View Post

      The peak of PPC--->affiliate programs was during the initial run of "Google Cash". It was amazing back then. You could literally dump 100 keywords into a campaign and make sales.

      The "crash" has already happened...it's called quality score.
      So true. The Quality Score has changed the game. Still some boast they direct link. I wonder how they get away with it?
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