Acai Flogs – Crackin’ Down

If you're just hearing about what a Flog is, chances are, you've just got onto the internet or have adblocker plus on.

A flog is the coined term used to represent a "fake blog" - Flog. These flogs were all the rampage during the height of Acai and made many people millions of dollars. Basically you say you're a woman and give a long story of how you lost weight using acai or . For a while, you couldn't turn left or right without seeing these acai blogs advertised on a website!

The reason that these flogs become popular (literally over night) is because they converted and converted well. This goes to show that real life success stories sell.

Over at the blog, 5 Star Affiliate Programs, Linda posted about an upcoming smackdown with these Acai flogs and the industry as a whole.

This smack down includes the Center for Science in the Public Interest, along with Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal. They blasted Acai websites in general and Acai flogs in particular saying they’ll likely sue the people behind them for consumer fraud and try to recover damages and restitution for those who felt misled. Wow!

While this may suck for certain affiliates, there is always something that can be learned and taken from these Flog systems. See, while these flogs are virtually unaccepted is most major pay per click networks now (Google, yahoo, Msn), you can at least learn that testimonials truly sell and sell well. So integrating that into your marketing campaigns really should have an impact on your sales.

I guess it goes to show why all those infomercials have person after person saying, "You're going to be saying sham- WOW!" and "I never need to buy paper towels again!!" etc.

So while this may be the demise of one method of marketing, your job as an affiliate is to learn the ups and down of those styles and adapt the good for your use...