The future of Affiliate Marketing. Is Affiliate Marketing becoming a history?
Affiliate Marketing is becoming more and more difficult business to make a living from.
And why?
Here are some reasons:
1. The competition level is getting really high. Hundreds of people began internet marketing career everyday. Nowadays 9 out of 10 “make money online” ebooks deal with affiliate marketing. 95% of people who try to become marketers fail, but still this 5% is going to fight with you over commissions and sales.
2. More and more people are aware of affiliate links and they hardly click on them. Something between 20-40% of affiliate sales are lost because of people simply copying and pasting direct links in their browser.
3. Internet is a global thing now. People from all over the world can start their marketing careers and nothing will stop them. They are going to compete with you. And if some affiliates from North America or Europe will not be happy with $1000 in monthly commission, third world marketers will. And they are going to work much harder for this money.
4. Black Hat Methods. Nowadays BH marketers take in 70% of affiliate sales. And it is going to be more in the future. So if you don’t do black hat you will lose out. If you don’t know how to write a cloaking script, you will have no chances for beating these guys. You will spend half of the day writing your article or adding links to your sites, and they will create 10k of google optimized websites with a click of the mouse.
I didn’t write this post to put you off. There is still a lot of money to be made by you as an affiliate. These are just things I have noticed and I decided to share with you.
David Kowalsky
