While I’m not exactly new to Affiliate marketing, I do often create new sites. Sometimes it may be for a niche that I just discovered and want to jump into to test the waters. Well… Along with this you need to sign up for those programs. Problem is, your new site has zero traffic and your application is declined. It’s happened to me a million times.

I know the site I have are relevant to the product, I have no offensive material on them so the last reason (which they usually lest out the possibilities in their denial email) is lack of visitors. My site is 48 hours old!

Today I got an email from a company for whom I am an affiliate but got jabbed again!

“Many of you operate coupon or discount code oriented sites. If you have a strong visitor audience, we are happy to create a special discount code for you, along with creative targeted for your site. You have only to request it.”

For the site in question I do get visitors. Not a lot but I’m working on it. It’s only 3 weeks old! And don’t you think that having an exclusive deal that isn’t on 4 million other sites would help get more visitors? I do.

Oh well, I’ll keep plugging along I guess. My plan is that one day, These guys will be coming to me asking me to join their program. I’ll save a copy of the generic rejection letter so I have something to send them in reply when they do.

On one of the forums I frequent I came across this post. Apparently Google is taking away account managers from affiliates.

While I certainly don’t spend enough to warrant one anyway, It’s still a little disturbing to me. With the “leaked” ranking guide and now this, it seems Google really has it in for affiliates.

Here is the gist of the post…

“This afternoon I got a rather disturbing phone call from my team manager at Google. As from April the 1st Google is changing their Account manager policies, and affiliates are not longer entitled to an account manager. Google is pulling back their account managers from all affiliate accounts. Doesn’t matter if you do direct linking or through comparison.

My team was in Dublin (Ireland) and I am spending about 20k USD a day.”

I don’t really use AdWords all that much. I spend a little but that’s it. It’s just a little scary to think that the Google has declared war on affiliates.

Guess it’s time to start concentrating on Yahoo!

I may have found my niche. This is the first time, after many failed campaigns that I’ve gotten this kind of score. It’s cheap and has a pretty good search volume which kind of surprised me considering it’s in the “fashion” niche.

Is it original, compelling content if you’re writing about the same thing as everyone else?
Sure you have your take but really. I think if I see one more blog post about ebay dumping Commission Junction, I’m gonna fucking puke!

There are really only a few blogs I read, since the so called “Supper Affiliate” blogs pretty much just make me sick. But like a few weeks ago, they were all posting about Jason Calacanis. Who the fuck is he anyway? Should I know? Well, I didn’t, don’t and still don’t care. He say’s I’m a spammer? Well I think he’s an asshole. Does that make it true? No!

Every day I go to these few blogs and when they have an update, it’s always on the same subject. Way to be original guys!

Oh, and thanks for all the helpful information too.

• Find a niche, blah blah blah.
• Get a domain, blah blah blah.
• Keyword research, blah blah blah.
• Post original content, blah blah blah.
• SEO, blah blah blah.

Here’s a little analysis piece on one of the sites I visit….

Error: No description meta tag was found. The description meta tag is used by many search engines. Consider adding a description meta tag.

Warning: No keywords were found. The keyword meta tag is still used by some search engines. Consider adding a keyword meta tag to this page.

And you want to tell me how to SEO my site? No Thanks. I’d rather take singing lessons from Paris Hilton.

Does this post make any sense? Probably not. I’m tired and aggravated and sick of seeing the same crap over and over and over again.

Oh well ,I’m tired and going to bed, Good night, and stay tuned for more incoherent rantings.

– Jon

I’ve been getting a lot of email lately from people asking where they can download my Wordpress Affiliate Shop themes. The answer at the time was, you can’t.
I’ve been sending them out as people email me asking for them but that’s not something I want to have to do every day.

So here is the page you can download them.
Wordpress Affiliate Shop Downloads

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