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Is article marketing through torrents a good idea for physical products?

by vivo
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Like if you do a report on a miracle vitamin, and have affiliate links in it, would that be a good idea?
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  • Profile picture of the author vivo
    What I am saying is have a report on some miracle "cure", then link to amazon associate through it.
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  • Profile picture of the author Corey Geer
    Well, I can tell you that the majority of torrent sites (there really aren't a lot of popular ones left) don't allow you to include affiliate links anywhere inside of an upload. This even includes on pictures. I used to spam these sites back in 2006 when it was incredibly easy and traffic flowed like a river from them.

    However, since the majority of these sites are dead and are filled with people looking to get free things rather than paying for them, I don't think you're going to find an effective target market here.

    Plus not to mention the majority of the stuff uploaded on them are illegal.
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  • Profile picture of the author Dontrell Lyons
    It's not a good to me, imho because people who are downloading torrents are freebie seekers, so you won't get many buyers... unless you're looking to get a lot of traffic for an adsense site.
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  • Profile picture of the author Jaysmyne
    It may have worked wonders a few years ago but not so much anymore - torrent sites no longer allow affiliate links and things have changed...
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    • Profile picture of the author Alexa Smith
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      Originally Posted by Jaysmyne View Post

      It may have worked wonders a few years ago but not so much anymore - torrent sites no longer allow affiliate links and things have changed...
      Ah, I see. This makes complete sense. I do remember that about 3-4 years ago, you used to see people saying this was worth trying, uploading a version of your own PDF including affiliate links, to these dodgy sites and making it look like an "illicit download copy", but I haven't seen anyone commenting on it at all for ages, now. Maybe too many people tried it and even the torrent sites "put their foot down with a firm hand"?!
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