Comments on: Soon We Will Have To Actually Offer Something Of Value

By: Passion in our online work and everything we do « cougarmark

Passion in our online work and everything we do « cougarmark — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 17:52:27 +0000

[...] know any better and end up clicking on the ads. As a super affiliate recently pointed out – you may have to provide value soon. Might as well do it now based on passion. Passion to earn money – that’s a great reason to [...]

By: One Year Millionaire

One Year Millionaire — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 10:26:05 +0000

the future of affiliate marketing… i think its going to move in a direction that will be both beneficial to publishers, advertisers and consumers… (hopefully ) lol

By: m.dinesh

m.dinesh — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 08:54:21 +0000

Thank you for the great tips jonathn,

I dint know what affiliate marketing is till I visited your website.

I know that people are making good money out of affiliate marketing, but I was a big zero in the affiliate marketing concepts.

You are really giving great tips.

I have a question for you, If we advertise our product in google adwords or any advertising network.

What percentage of chance is there, that they buy our products.

Thank you.– Just learning the basics.

By: Tyler Dewitt

Tyler Dewitt — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 15:52:50 +0000

Yea I agree I'm still trying to figure out why my affiliate page got slapped well I'm pretty sure I know why it got slapped, but now I'm trying to get it back to normal. I could always just change the domains and re-upload the index.html on another website, but I'm not going to do all that. Instead I added a navigation bar that has Home, About Us, Contact Us, Education Center, Resources, and etc.

I'm hoping that will get things back to normal, so I can get things back on the roll .

By: wisdom

wisdom — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 22:55:05 +0000

Thanks for pointing this out, I was not aware this was the direction things are going in.

By: Slayer

Slayer — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 11:49:11 +0000

I have seen a few ringtone sites turn this way – I recently noticed one – http://www.mobayou.com in the natural serps. Seems to be exactly what you are talking about.

By: Mark Olsen

Mark Olsen — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 09:29:09 +0000

I got my start in this business on sites that were not as valuable as I would have liked. The result was that over time each merchant would call me tell me to up the quality or else.

Like it or not merchants are always watching quality. This is especially visible when doing PPL programs. If the paid for leads don’t convert – its just money down the drain. On the PPC side – same thing – the merchants total up the numbers and if the clicks don’t add up to a good cpl – not good. CPM buys – one of two things here. If the buy is for branding value only – the merchant wants to brand in the right places (audience). If it is just another method of getting a click, lead and sale – same process as above.

To really add value in this world of online marketing you have to create a valuable – content based site. It shouldn't take a Google Slap to tell us that. In the end there is not a written law on what valuable means – that’s up to the customers, and the numbers to decide.

I believe there’s some value in everything – a pass through landing page does serve its purpose but my belief is that the more value you provide the better for many reasons.

Am I off my rocker here?

(I am currently both an affiliate on a small scale and a Manager – in the past I was a lead generator/affiliate working on a very large scale)

By: Dave Fitzpatrick

Dave Fitzpatrick — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 07:46:06 +0000

At least Yahoo isn't doing this. I am just starting out and I am direct linking and still getting good quality scores. I haven't ventured into Adwords yet.

By: Jason

Jason — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 23:11:05 +0000

I know exactly what you mean jon. But (Godaddy) I don't think it has anything to do with users getting smarter- it is Google changing the playing field. They want to create a better search. How do they do that?- By bringing value to the market place in the form of highly relevant and valuable search results.

From an affiliate perspective it is another challenge to exceed Google's req. But from a searcher's/user's perspective it is a good thing.

By: Nicholas Chase

Nicholas Chase — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 18:40:05 +0000

Jonathan, Great post! I'm just in the process of creating my first ads, having joined PepperJam Network and Market Leverage just accepted me this morning. I also joined ClickBank and Kontera last night. I understand that if I create landing pages with rich content and information relevant to the 'searches' keywords or phrases, that the likelyhood of a Google-slap can be somewhat minimized. Respectfully, Nicholas Chase – future Super Affiliate.