Affiliate Marketing

[PlanetEarth]

I understand Antony Barlow writes books on Affiliate Marketing as he has a very successful affiliate site. I cannot find his site however.
Can anyone help?
Alternatively, can anyone point me to an affiliate site that is doing well?

 

[LuckySticksHarry]

I have a few which is doing pretty well but if you would like to watch one grow from scratch why not follow the one in my signature?

 

[alex richardson]

I make my entire living online from a certain form of affiliate marketing - going into affiliate marketing was the best move I ever made for my bank and lifestyle hahaha

 

[Vistatico]

I understand Antony Barlow writes books on Affiliate Marketing as he has a very successful affiliate site. I cannot find his site however.
Can anyone help?
Alternatively, can anyone point me to an affiliate site that is doing well?

I don't think anyone would actually share their sites here, since affiliate marketing is all about competition and generating your own ideas of how to be better than others and make Google love you

 

[mary2222]

Search up "best survival knife" in Google - that's an affiliate site that is doing extremely well for itself (I've read the owner's blog somewhere and he was making hundreds within his first month). Just about any blog or website you go on to that sells eBooks or Amazon products is an example of an affiliate site as well.

In the Affilorama forums we've got a lot of guys and gals who post their own sites for critiquing as well as earnings reports (affilorama.com/forum)

Also consider checking out Pat Flynn's Smart Passive Income site as well.

 

[PPC_Matt]

Also, be a bit a bit wary. A lot of the people will overstate the earnings potential - in real life it's pretty difficult to make a ton of money through something like PPC on some of the products they want you to sell.

 

[lynxus]

One thing to note with affiliate marketing is that you already need some form of audience.

If you don't have a website etc that has no visitors then you wont sell anything and make zero money.

You first need a platform to sell from.

 

[Webtistic]

One thing to note with affiliate marketing is that you already need some form of audience.

If you don't have a website etc that has no visitors then you wont sell anything and make zero money.

You first need a platform to sell from.

Actually, this isn't necessarily the case at all.

Many affiliates make good money through 'affiliate brokering' - buying traffic from many different traffic sources and sending that traffic to landing pages and/or directly to the advertiser/merchant.

The idea being that the cost of the traffic is less than the affiliate commission generated.

 

[PPC_Matt]

Actually, this isn't necessarily the case at all.

Many affiliates make good money through 'affiliate brokering' - buying traffic from many different traffic sources and sending that traffic to landing pages and/or directly to the advertiser/merchant.

The idea being that the cost of the traffic is less than the affiliate commission generated.

And this is why there's so the internet is riddled with terrible content. People trying to make a fast buck by redirecting you through lots of hoops until you finally get the content you were looking for originally!

 

[simplyq]

GoCompare.com
MoneySupermarket.com
CompareTheMarket.com
LastMinute.com

All affiliates... they just took it to the next level

Rob

 

[lynxus]

And this is why there's so the internet is riddled with terrible content. People trying to make a fast buck by redirecting you through lots of hoops until you finally get the content you were looking for originally!

Wait what....

You actually managed to get to the content you wanted?

 

[PPC_Matt]

Yeup, they are - but they all launched in the 'Golden' age when it was a lot easier to do. Now the market is saturated with competition and CPCs in the paid space are £10+... to be able to compete you're going to need a big budget.

If anything now, these 'super affiliates' now own a lot of this space, and even huge companies like Aviva and Direct Line struggle to compete. Oh, and even Google are chipping in with their comparison ads as well... Either way, if someone comes to you to say "you could make thousands a month from running an affiliate compaign for life insurance" I'd be a bit wary.

It used to be an easy money source for some people, but Google's hitting hard at a lot of these poorly built affiliate sites in the natural space, and the paid space is expensive.

 

[rechal]

Affiliate marketing is hands down the best way to make money on the internet. As affiliate marketers, we are building a bridge between the customers and the producers.

 

[mightyone]

I think the above user should be banned for just that comment alone.

It pains my eyes to see such things. AM is on it's way downhill unless your name is mr cashback or mr voucher code.

Anyone in the industry will soon know this unless they already know it.

 

[PPC_Matt]

I think they might be another one of our 'overseas' friends posting meaningless crap again. I think 80% of this forum is based off this kind of crap information, or stupid questions such as "what is ppc?"...

 

[SillyJokes]

Affiliates can make a lot of money, for instance those promoting payday loans have made a fortune. Also those promoting gambling sites. I assume many do both.

 

[mosdef]

Affiliate marketing can be very profitable if you do it right. Much more profitable than putting adwords on your site, obviously. Just make sure you negotiate the deal directly with the company that sells the product. You can lose a lot of money doing it through another middle-man company or not negotiating.

 

[Thomas Smith SEO]

I think they might be another one of our 'overseas' friends posting meaningless crap again. I think 80% of this forum is based off this kind of crap information, or stupid questions such as "what is ppc?"...

You, my friend, deserve a medal for your comment.