The Rebirth of Affiliate Marketing
Last week Perry Marshall hosted a teleconference with Super-Affiliate Amit Mehta. Perry and Amit discussed how Google recently banned dozens of affiliate marketers from using Adwords.
Perry titled the call: The Death of Affiliate Marketing on Google and you can find the corresponding blog post here.
Amit stated that in some industries the number of advertisers has [...]
Hey Ben,
Great post and rebuttal against Perry’s position. Well done.
Does Google allow you to create an Adwords ad that points you directly to the affiliate company’s site with your affiliate link?
If I’m selling Zappos shoes can I create an ad for Zappos and just send traffic there with my unique URL? If that’s allowed, what are the big reasons you’d suggest against this?
Just starting to explore the affiliate world after working with clients on Adwords for a while. Appreciate the feedback and thoughts.
Thanks, Mike
Glad Ken mentioned your name on some of his posts or else I may not have ever discovered your blog.
I myself am more interested building and monetizing on content driven sites as opposed to just trying to direct traffic. Good to know my thinking is in line with what you’re thoughts are on this as well.
Darren