Affiliate Marketing Scams
By
Rosalind Gardner,
Penticton, BC, Canada
author
of the best-selling "Super
Affiliate Handbook:
How I Made $436,797 in One Year Selling Other
People's Stuff Online".
To learn how you too can suceed in Internet and affiliate
marketing, go to:
http://NetProfitsToday.com
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 What
could be better than an opportunity to make money
using the power of affiliate marketing, while avoiding
the hassle of having to build a site or pay to host
your domain?
Wouldn't
it also be wonderful to have someone else do the work
of sending traffic to your site?
Basically,
you just sit back and wait for those huge commission
checks to roll in.
Sound
too good to be true? Good, because you guessed it.
If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is.
I'm
referring to affiliate 'links' opportunity sites that
are becoming increasingly popular. 'All' you have
to do is promote the site.
In
these schemes, you are given a free site into which
you insert your affiliate link. That link becomes
the 'featured link' on your site. Featured link? Picture
a site like Yahoo!, then try to pick out one link
as being featured. Can't do it, can you?
As
the owner of a fr*ee site, you also earn a paltry
commission when you sell one of these sites to someone
else. Earning a commission on the sale of a product
or service from which no one benefits sounds like
ML*M to me.
Now
here's the good part. For a 'small fee' the company
promises to do 'all the work' of building masses of
traffic to your affiliate site.
Oh
wait.
Before
you can earn commissions from those links, you'll
have to JOIN all those programs first. Until then,
the links belong to the person who gave you the fr*ee
site, and any sales made from those links will be
credited to him, not you.
Considering
those sites typically consist of hundreds, and sometimes
thousands, of links to various affiliate programs,
it's starting to look like you're going to have to
do some work, doesn't it?
Do
you really want to pay the 'small fee' of fifty or
sixty dollars a month for the privilege of generating
commissions for someone else?
Instead,
you could buy a web site template for twenty bucks
that looks a hundred times nicer than the affiliate
links site design. Then you pay ten bucks a month
to host your own site and join all the same affiliate
programs.
Actually,
you probably wouldn't want to join all the same programs.
Many of these affiliate links lead to sites and products
that you wouldn't want to buy yourself. Do you want
to risk your business reputation by offering them
to your site's visitors?
Don't
forget that the same offer is made to thousands of
people every day, each of them looking for the same
magic bullet - the quick and easy business opportunity.
That means that there are copies of 'your' site all
over the web, and more coming online everyday. So
much for being unique.
Not
having a niche has another disadvantage.
How
many surfers will find your flea market affiliate
link site when they are searching for 'handheld computer'
or 'treadmills'? Approximately none. Niche sites get
ranked by the search engines while flea markets don't
get found.
All
in all, these 'opportunities' are a waste of time
and money, and benefit only the scheme's originator.
Real
affiliate marketing opportunities abound, and many
have excellent potential for earning serious income.
Thousands of affiliate marketers enjoy very large
incomes by promoting merchant programs and products.
While
they avoid the hassles of carrying inventory, order
processing and customer service - super affiliates
do not avoid effort.
They
know that success comes from investing time, effort
and the forging of one's own path.
In
other words, do the work, reap the rewards.
Author's
Resource:
Article by Rosalind Gardner, author of the best-selling
"Super
Affiliate Handbook: How I Made $436,797 in One Year
Selling Other People's Stuff Online".
To learn how you too can succeed in Internet and affiliate
marketing, please visit http://NetProfitsToday.com
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