Quote: (12-06-2016 03:10 PM)Tayo Wrote:
I am currently working on affiliate marketing for a year now (on and off), I have only made around $90 and I have spent more than that on hosting and email autoresponder fees. I am trying to make it work.
I started getting into affiliate marketing over a year ago as well, but only just started to really ramp things up in the latter half of this year and expand my efforts. I've finally started to see a bit of success ($ & web traffic) and get myself out of the negative returns situation you seem to be in at this point.
I'm by no means a Growth Hacking Expert™, so take my view as you want, but from my perception of things it seems the whole industry has changed since the turn of the decade. With changes to Google's search and the explosion of actually good affiliate marketers, it seems to me that the old model is mostly dead. The days of creating a de facto, one-dimensional landing page in a niche or product line and monetizing seems to be long gone. At least for newbies just starting out in the past year or so, as I'm sure long time incumbent sites are still doing well or at least okay.
Now it's so content driven and you really need be producing things of value that stretch beyond the web and into real life. The people I see who are most successful now are those who've got their faces/names front and center. Clearly users and the market (Google) want the real deal, not the basic copy-written WordPress shit. There are so many things to consider now that are next level than this.
So man, I'd just say take stock of what you are doing to ensure you aren't only following the old model. Do you have active and engaging Social Media? Are you creating content that people find valuable and want to share? Furthermore from the content standpoint, are you reaching out to high traffic sites to pitch them your valuable content to get backlinks and promotion? Are you buying the products and documenting the use of them for your users? These aspects are the directions I've moved in and it's been more fruitful.
I've also come to learn that there are a lot of shit affiliate programs out there so choose wisely. I've moved beyond just using Amazon and have starting to get more innovative and use programs like Kickbooster, which have some very eye-catching and marketable products.
Additionally, I started experimenting with site platforms. I did the old school WordPress thing, but I moved one of my sites to Squarespace to test some things and I've liked it a lot so far. So far the positives are better Mobile optimization, more intuitive and enjoyable dashboard interface, easier to create sexy looking sites. There are also negatives as well, which include the rigid nature of the Squarespace templates. WordPress is more flexible in that manner and there are much better plugins in the WP platform.
I'm not sure if this post will be helpful or not, but hopefully it'll be food for thought at the very least. Best of luck.
