Comments on: Why Affiliate Marketing Will Save Free Online Content

By: Amir

Amir — Thu, 07 Jul 2011 20:28:57 +0000

Simon, I’m one of your grateful New students and as I see it you and Brian are 100% correct! I’m a Traditional Naturopathy student turned Natural Health & Wellness Publisher (needed a way to pay for schooling).

“When you add value for users, they don’t see it as advertising. They see it as something beneficial, whether it’s information or entertainment.” (at least I do) and I’m hoping that this will work for me. And I would have to believe that authority/credibility will be my keys to success (along with GREAT Content )!

Thanks for the great content that you all share for free!

By: affiliate

affiliate — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 07:09:06 +0000

I have looked at many sites and not come across such a site as yours that tells you what you really need to know about affiliate marketing.

By: Timothy Horrigan

Timothy Horrigan — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 21:07:03 +0000

I have drifted away from recommending specific products on my web site, because it doesn’t seem cost effective. It is very very hard to get people to click on any paying links, even relevant ones. They don’t even like to click on non-paying links.

I am baffled as to why Google AdSense/AdWords ads do so poorly, because it costs nothing for a user to clock on them.

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By: Darwin

Darwin — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 02:35:01 +0000

Brian, As always I appreciate the quality content that has a valid point and a lesson to learn. Your voice is being heard and those of us who fail to listen and heed will be left as the owners of ghostsites. Thanks

By: Caleb

Caleb — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 15:26:49 +0000

Hope: This is why having some form of affiliate disclosure is now becoming “standard operating procedure”.

Also, when a reader is searching info especially on affiliate/internet marketing its expected that there will be links to other sites. There’s nothing wrong with affiliate links as long as the info contained therein is helpful to that particular reader.

Of course,it never hurts to make your aff links more transparent using white-hat masking/cloaking techniques along with some type of visible disclosure statement saying you’re compensated for certain recommendations and that you’d NEVER reccomend garbage.

By: Hope

Hope — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 02:45:07 +0000

Thanks for the thought provoking post! I think you’ve gotten a lot of good points to address from the comments above, and I’d just like to add to the voices regarding clarifying a good balance to strike in keeping the trust of your readers. Because I blog in a very ethics-driven area I’m aware of the fact that affiliate links are considered a “bad word” by some. Examples of wordings for affiliate disclosures would be a great add, and something I’m planning on researching myself as well.

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Wed, 23 Apr 2008 17:51:47 +0000

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