Are Affiliate Marketing E-Books Wrong?
Friday, 28 August 2009 18:09 | 
Written by Yasir Y Khan |
Everyone knows that affiliate marketing works, but statistics suggest that only a handful of people are making money in this cut-throat market. The mass majority of people earn NOTHING when it comes to affiliate marketing.
Everyone knows that affiliate marketing works, but statistics suggest that only a handful of people are making money in this cut-throat market. The mass majority of people earn NOTHING when it comes to affiliate marketing.
It is also worthwhile noting that there have been hundreds of e-books written on affiliate marketing. Even though these books provide unique and measurable methods to make money online, most internet marketers still find it impossible to make any money.
I have taken the time to check many affiliate products and they have a lot of things in common: Their sales page has images of insanely expensive cars and houses, an unbelievable proof of earnings such as checks showing 5-figures and they show an easy e-book that you need to follow in order to get rich. Because greed is a powerful motivator, this makes affiliate book authors a lot of money.
The author of the affiliate marketing books always try to teach people the right methods. The problem however is that the methods mentioned in the e-book can never be complete. There is no affiliate marketing ebook which tells its readers how to quickly and efficiently get a lot of high-converting traffic to their website. This area of negligence makes it impossible for the reader to make money online.
A lot of affiliate marketing e-books mention try to get quality traffic or your best bet is to get relevant, quality traffic. They just tell you to buy traffic from Adwords, try to rank high in Google or submit your content to social bookmarking websites. But because they cannot pinpoint the exact methods for getting traffic, the whole affiliate marketing method fails!
For these reasons, anyone who is new to affiliate marketing will definitely lose a lot of time and money by following the e-books blindly. You can have a fabulous affiliate website but if you have no traffic, you will make no money.
This article is not written to lash out at the affiliate marketing e-book authors. It is simply written to let you know that there is a huge fault or misinformation in these ebooks.That said, you can make a lot of money online through your affiliate website if you simply understand how and where to get quality traffic to your website.
Everyone knows that affiliate marketing works, but statistics suggest that only a handful of people are making money in this cut-throat market. The mass majority of people earn NOTHING when it comes to affiliate marketing.
It is also worthwhile noting that there have been hundreds of e-books written on affiliate marketing. Even though these books provide unique and measurable methods to make money online, most internet marketers still find it impossible to make any money.
I have taken the time to check many affiliate products and they have a lot of things in common: Their sales page has images of insanely expensive cars and houses, an unbelievable proof of earnings such as checks showing 5-figures and they show an easy e-book that you need to follow in order to get rich. Because greed is a powerful motivator, this makes affiliate book authors a lot of money.
The author of the affiliate marketing books always try to teach people the right methods. The problem however is that the methods mentioned in the e-book can never be complete. There is no affiliate marketing ebook which tells its readers how to quickly and efficiently get a lot of high-converting traffic to their website. This area of negligence makes it impossible for the reader to make money online.
A lot of affiliate marketing e-books mention try to get quality traffic or your best bet is to get relevant, quality traffic. They just tell you to buy traffic from Adwords, try to rank high in Google or submit your content to social bookmarking websites. But because they cannot pinpoint the exact methods for getting traffic, the whole affiliate marketing method fails!
For these reasons, anyone who is new to affiliate marketing will definitely lose a lot of time and money by following the e-books blindly. You can have a fabulous affiliate website but if you have no traffic, you will make no money.
This article is not written to lash out at the affiliate marketing e-book authors. It is simply written to let you know that there is a huge fault or misinformation in these ebooks.That said, you can make a lot of money online through your affiliate website if you simply understand how and where to get quality traffic to your website.
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