Where Have All the Affiliate Marketers Gone?

Why is this subforum so quiet?

[berto]

Compared to other subfora at Webmaster World, especially the Adsense subforum, this Advertising Sales and Affiliate Programs subforum is so inactive.

Is there not much to discuss? Do AMers hang out elsewhere? Is affiliate marketing a no-brainer? Inherently boring? Are people afraid to share secrets? Is there much less money to be made with AM? Is this not where the action is? Is AM dead?

[antoine]

I dont know about most affiliate marketers, but most of the ones I know hang out at industry specific affiliate forums. So for casinos it would be a casino affiliate forum, pharmacies a pharmacy affiliate forum, and so on.

[WebEqualizer]

yes, lately has been very quiet on this forum, who knows why, maybe they are taking a vacation or something :)

[dave741]

I guess that all of them drink Bourbon here:
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[berto]

I would be surprised if there are forums focused on my specific site niches.

I do check the Amazon.com forum occasionally, but although fairly active, its signal-to-noise ratio is low.

This particular forum is just disappointingly quiet and uninteresting. Too bad, especially in view of the other lively and informative fora around Webmaster World.

[MovingOnUp]

I think most of us are busy preparing for Christmas 2005.

[antoine]

' I would be surprised if there are forums focused on my specific site niches.'

It depends on how large the niche is. Gambling for example has 2 very active affiliate forums, pharmacy has 1 fairly active, adult has dozens of very active forums. Then there's the other affiliate specific forums of which i cant list here because of posting rules.

[1Lit]

Most of the serious big-hitters won't waste time on a forum which seems to have the same kind of posts every few days such as "how much money are you earning?" and "CJ sucks". Gets tedious reading the same kind of posts time and time again. If somebody's CJ check does not arrive, they should take up the matter with CJ, not post here.

Still, WW is one of my favourite forums out there :)

[berto]

Then there are the times when you post a serious question, or raise an important issue, and receive mostly or exclusively flippant or irrelevant responses--indicating to me that the respondents (a) didn't read the original post carefully and/or (b) didn't think before responding and/or (c) are just airheads and blowhards.

The more I do this, the less tolerance I have for low signal-to-noise message threads. Fortunately, I'm getting better at filtering out the noise. I'm also spending more time applying what I've learned, doing real work, and less time just hanging out at WW to no useful purpose.