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Anyone else support my recommendation? Judging from the "crack cocain affiliates" thread, it seems there is some real interest.
It's definitely a subject that needs discussion because there are so many issues involved with doing them right; there's a lot to learn and a lot of potential with them if they're done right, according to a lot of people.
Think of affiliate marketing as getting the right merchants on one hand, getting good reports on the other hand, getting traffic from the search engines on another hand, getting traffic from other sources on another hand, making web pages that help sell on another hand. Now we're up to five hands, so you see the business is really a unique beast in it's own right.
Anyway, including the word 'affiliate' in the forum title should help provide a watering hole for weary affiliate marketeers to hang out.
Thanks.
I see them as being two facets of the same beast, really, and with the recent decline in banner ad performance, I'll bet affiliate site owners could probably execute a pretty smooth takeover of the advertising forum anyhow, once Brett changes the title and description. ;)
>watering hole for weary affiliate marketeers to hang out
As long as the marketeers aren't so weary they "drop" their URLs, which has been known to happen. Could turn into a new syndrom called STF - Second Tier Fatigue. :)
>affiliate site owners could probably execute a pretty smooth takeover of the advertising forum
Good point mivox. From the Terms of Service:
Please don't drop promotional urls (we do not allow sig file urls). Signing your name is fine, however commercialized posts will be edited. We tend to err on the side of caution to protect the integrity of the system by reducing flippant commercialized posts. Affiliate based URLs are not allowed any where on the system.The forums are not a venue for advertisements in any way. It will be the sole discretion of Webmaster World and it's moderators as to what constitutes an advertisement.
Some people miss seeing that, but I suppose clarity in the title and description will make it more easily visible.
A lot of the factors are parallel with topics in other forums, but there are certain issues that are unique. Basic design is the same, but the handling of image links and integrating the text links well are two that can raise some questions.
I haven't actually done anything yet except a bit of leisure time fiddling with some design, but I've looked at some I like a lot and have a list of possibles made up. Being a relative newbie in these specifics, I'll have plenty of questions when the time comes.
It's definitely a subject that needs discussion because there are so many issues involved with doing them right; there's a lot to learn and a lot of potential with them if they're done right, according to a lot of people.
I wholeheartedly agee.
A lot of the factors are parallel with topics in other forums, but there are certain issues that are unique. Basic design is the same, but the handling of image links and integrating the text links well are two that can raise some questions.
I believe that this list of unique factors could be greatly expounded but as I'm only on my first cup of coffee I'll just leave it at that. :)
I appreciate the thoughts consideration and have faith that whatever webmasterworld decides to do will be great as usual,
Greektomi
Well, that's not quite what I meant. What I meant is that with fewer and fewer sites relying on banner advertising for revenue, affiliate program owners could quickly outnumber the banner/advertising-related questions in that forum... effectively turning it INTO the affiliate forum.
The hassle of affiliate URLs was something I wasn't intending to go near. ;)
Respectfully Yours,
Greektomi
