3. Affiliates will not have to identify their status as an affiliate. (You must manually change your ads to reflect the change, Google won't just remove the aff/affil from the ad).
I know that many people hated having to identify themselves as an affiliate. However I will kind of miss this. For me it was a way of personalising my ads and meant that I could easily spot my ads amongst all the others. I used a neat little (aff).
Besied that, the (aff) never meant a thing to Joe Public.
Will you miss it?
maybe me being paranoid as always
but u think Google might have done this to force ALL ADS to be rewritten, and in effect starting their CTR from scratch, and therefore knocking out all the early adapters from top spots?
so rather than alert everyone to that effect, it instead is welcomed by the masses but has a hidden meaning ;)
just thinking out loud, as that's what I would have been aiming at if I was head of this project?
Shak
I also have a company name called "Official Affiliates".
patient2all
You mean they would be doing this to start everyone from scratch and give no unfair advantage? Not such a stretch I guess...
agreed
as mentioned above, just thinking out aloud :)
I did offer my services to them in the past, maybe if I pay them, they'll let me work there
Shak
and in effect starting their CTR from scratch
Just to reiterate a point - it's the keyword CTR that matters in AdRank - not the ad's CTR.
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But there aren't enough people to keep the affilite scheme going so 99.9% of affiliate marketers fail.Who is gonna click on an affiate ad when they can jsut go ion the website?
See but if you do a google search for 'google affiliate', you will see there are about 10^121 results so you can immagine that the supply far exceeds the demand. you have millions of fools thinking that they can work at home and make 100K a year after buying an ebook on afflilate marketing and running adwords.
The only ones who make money off adwords are those who sell ebooks on how to make money with adwords.
Wait im gonna get 20 replies from people saying
'I have had great results ummum I make 20000 an hour and 200000000000 a year with my affiliate ads 1!1!11'
I'm nowhere near getting infomercial-level sales from Affiliate marketing, but it's certainly not a ponzi scheme. As long as you know what you're doing, it's not difficult to make 20 to 50% returns on your money. After all, you can wholly control the CPC you send to Amazon. Once you get a good idea of how well each product converts and how much they average per click, all you need to do is spend less than that and you make money. I think that if you apply sound principles and cut your losses, it's a fairly nice way to make money. :-)
EDIT: I'm sure there's probably more money to be made in selling eBooks about Amazon Affiliates than there is actually being one, though. When my eBook comes out, I'll let you know. ;-)
