The Troubles with Affiliate Marketing
It must have been almost five years now when I decided to leave my job and work for myself. My first experience with working for myself was "Affiliate Marketing" and it was my cousin who had got me involved. When I look back on it, my first sites were so nasty, I basically made up a webpage on Burberry put some pictures on it linked them to searches on eBay and also stuffed a load of keywords down the side, these also linked to eBay.
Then I needed to get my site with one page into the search engine and that is where Inktomi came in. I just paid them a small amount and within three days my site was now in MSN, and I earned good money right away. So with what I thought was success, I then went onto make another 30 sites just like that, all be it on different subjects.
I was young and foolish at the time as I really thought I had myself a good business going. But how stupid was I? The first sign of this not being the correct way of building a website was when Google Adsense got in touch with me and told me that I was in breach of their terms and conditions, and that I had to change the site or remove the Adsense from the site. I went on to remove the adsense from a few of the sites as I was still earning plenty from eBay.
As time went on I now had about 70 sites like this and I was earning about $7,000 a month, but then I was about to get hurt in the way of a Google algorithm change, the first of many I might add.
Well my money went down by about 75 percent. Things were bad, so I now looked for something different to earn my money, and that is where the eBay API came in. I had got the code from them and made a bunch of new sites, within three weeks I was earning money from them, nothing like what I used to earn, but money all the same.
It continued for about a year and they all got hit by another algorithm change but this time from all the search engines. Ok, so I was a bit naive as I kept thinking why does this keep happening? So I thought about it and said if I was on the internet and came across one of my sites would I like it? Well my answer was no. The second thing that I thought about was where is all my promotion for my sites. It would just be like opening up a new store and not telling anybody.
So that is when I decided to do things right from the start and that was to think basics. What is the internet all about? And the answer is information, so I decided to build just a couple of websites so I could concentrate and focus just on two which I feel is the key.
I then said to myself, I need to make sure that I am always promoting my website to many places, always make sure that the content is fresh and that people would want to come back to the site.
This article has been written by P Chubb Source: http://ezinearticles.com/
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