The internet is an ever changing-beast and there have been a number of Google updates this year already.
Is there still a future for the internet marketer? A number of established sites saw their market share drop almost overnight and some marketers so the stories go lost considerable amounts of income.
A lot of scare-mongers whipped up the news around Google's panda update to frenzied levels and some have said that the future for the affiliate marketer is not bright.
That may be true for a percentage and anyone who has tried to build links to move up the search engines will be aware of the amount of scamming that goes on.
No one in their right mind would build a money blog and allow comments on it.
It would be awash with "nice post" and "I like your blog" before you had logged off your internet connection for the night.
Affiliate marketing is just not what it used to be.
Things that worked a couple of years ago (when many of the older gurus made their money) just don't seem to work anymore.
Slamming up little sites and doing a bit of link building, scraping content to keep the blog updated, just submitting articles to numerous directories and expecting to clamber up the ranking overnight, just won't work.
The days of grabbing a ClickBank product, slapping up a little site and being one of few in the market are well and truly gone.
Added to that is the problem of merchants coming and going, after you have built a site around their product and spent energy promoting it.
Copy some of the links of the more established players in your niche and see if you climb to number one.
You won't.
Some of them have got there before with a few articles on unrelated subjects with links back to their money site in a completely different niche.
That doesn't appear to work now, but some of those sites are still at number one.
So whilst Google has tried to weed out some of the more useless content, its process is not entirely fair and a number of affiliates have been beaten up by Google over the last twelve months.
But there are still millions of affiliate sites ranking in the search engines.
There is some stiff competition out there but if you can grasp the fact that you have to mix up what you do rather than going after one model of affiliate marketing, you stand a better chance of surviving any future Google updates.
There is an old saying: if you carry on doing what you have always done, you will get what you always got, or something along those lines.
That could not be further from the truth these days.
You have to be alive to the competition and you have to keep up to date.
You have to make yourself impervious to Google devastations by looking at new models of marketing and linking.
Is there still a future for the internet marketer? A number of established sites saw their market share drop almost overnight and some marketers so the stories go lost considerable amounts of income.
A lot of scare-mongers whipped up the news around Google's panda update to frenzied levels and some have said that the future for the affiliate marketer is not bright.
That may be true for a percentage and anyone who has tried to build links to move up the search engines will be aware of the amount of scamming that goes on.
No one in their right mind would build a money blog and allow comments on it.
It would be awash with "nice post" and "I like your blog" before you had logged off your internet connection for the night.
Affiliate marketing is just not what it used to be.
Things that worked a couple of years ago (when many of the older gurus made their money) just don't seem to work anymore.
Slamming up little sites and doing a bit of link building, scraping content to keep the blog updated, just submitting articles to numerous directories and expecting to clamber up the ranking overnight, just won't work.
The days of grabbing a ClickBank product, slapping up a little site and being one of few in the market are well and truly gone.
Added to that is the problem of merchants coming and going, after you have built a site around their product and spent energy promoting it.
Copy some of the links of the more established players in your niche and see if you climb to number one.
You won't.
Some of them have got there before with a few articles on unrelated subjects with links back to their money site in a completely different niche.
That doesn't appear to work now, but some of those sites are still at number one.
So whilst Google has tried to weed out some of the more useless content, its process is not entirely fair and a number of affiliates have been beaten up by Google over the last twelve months.
But there are still millions of affiliate sites ranking in the search engines.
There is some stiff competition out there but if you can grasp the fact that you have to mix up what you do rather than going after one model of affiliate marketing, you stand a better chance of surviving any future Google updates.
There is an old saying: if you carry on doing what you have always done, you will get what you always got, or something along those lines.
That could not be further from the truth these days.
You have to be alive to the competition and you have to keep up to date.
You have to make yourself impervious to Google devastations by looking at new models of marketing and linking.
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