direct link to the merchant on shareasale !!

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Hi All,

Is direct linking through facebook pages at shareasale ?...

I will use Facebook page and I will put direct link , Is this allowed ?
#pay per click/search engine marketing (ppc/sem) #direct #link #merchant #shareasale
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    It doesn't actually matter whether it's "allowed", because it would be such a bad idea anyway.

    It can't make much sense to pay for PPC traffic and not even try to retain any of it, can it? That would be like trying to fill the bathtub by opening the taps fully and paying for the water, but without remembering to put the plug in the hole first. You'd lose almost everything, almost immediately.

    If it were possible to promote affiliate products successfully that way, don't you think vendors would be doing that rather than paying affiliates up-to-75% commissions just for sending the traffic?

    Here's the thing: to earn significant money from affiliate marketing, you need to do three things ...

    (i) Keep your potential customers returning to the sales page (because almost nobody buys anthing much at their first visit to a sales page!);

    (ii) Make increasing sales (ideally at progressively higher prices) to the same "captive audience" who regularly rely on and trust your recommendations;

    (iii) Establish the credibility and trust necessary to do both the above by earning's people respect as a provider of niche-related information.

    Without building lists, of course, you can't do any of the three and you'd just be throwing away almost all the traffic you ever generate that doesn't buy anything immediately. What kind of way to run a business would that be?

    For most people, most of the time, it's just about as simple as that, overall.

    These three threads are more informative ...

    Is it a good idea to spend some time on building a mailing list ?

    Without Building a List, How Consistent is Your Income from Affiliate Marketing

    Does anyone even make money online without an email list?


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    • Thank you, I respect your opinion, but I know some promote for the same offers by direct link and facebook page and made Great profits $$$$ ..




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  • You know, Alexa, at some point you just have to let these guys post their direct links so they can come back to WF with something else to complain about (no sales).

    Although, I know it's your personal crusade to teach new marketers that "post 1,000 direct links, even if only 1 in 100 buys that's still 10 sales" is a fool's mentality.

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      I hear ya'.

      I sometimes worry that if they carry on "promoting" like this, (a) we'll all get a bad reputation for it, (b) there'll be fewer and fewer places allowing "affiliate marketing" at all (in other words, we'll all pay for it, even those of us who generate traffic sensibly), and (c) that in the long run, it even increases the chances of more and more "regulations" being imposed on us, collectively, by more and more external regulators with bigger teeth, which can only eventually be bad for all of us.

      But these are "advanced concepts" and the simple reality is that it carries more impact when you just point out to people as politely as you can that "it's a silly thing to do and doesn't usually work anyway" (which is equally true, after all).


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