thief in the night: stealing from the super affiliates
Author: glend
Or… how to steal from the super affiliates
There are plenty of affiliates who will brag about the fact that they are making $300-400 per day, or more. These same guys will often post on forms regularly, and have some of the sites they are promoting in their signatures.
If you ever see a thread in a forum entitled “how much do you make per day?” (a regular theme in many money-making forums), have a browse through and look for affiliates claiming to make $100/day and up. As I always say, the product you choose to promote is the most important aspect of any given promotion.
So, what we are going to do here is try and find out where this guy’s $100 per day is coming from. We then clone his promotions and take a cut for ourselves. The best capitalists are very often the least inventive.
The way we do this is by heading to Google and typing in his or her hoplink plus “clickbank” or “hop” – this will show us any articles or websites that have this affiliate’s hoplink in e.g.
“awmiracle hop” or “awmiracle clickbank”
Please note that product vendor account names can be used as hoplink, and this will make it tough to filter out what the guy is promoting as an affiliate, and what are his vendor links (with affiliates promoting him).
That said, in most cases, the affiliates we target will not be product vendors and/or they will use a different hoplink for their affiliate promotions anyway. Also, note that this method isn’t exhaustive – it won’t pull up every promotion the affiliate is doing – but it will bring up quite a few.
Surprisingly, most affiliates will have one Clickbank account for all their promotions, or at least a couple – and you will see a lot of what the affiliate is promoting.
We can build a short list of 5-50 super affiliates who we spy on, and let them do the product research – then we just check back in every few weeks, and see what they are pushing recently.
Then we copy their products and promotions and share in the spoils. I have successfully cloned ten or twenty such affiliates over the last few months, generating me a sizeable additional income (and saving me hundreds of hours of product research).
This technique works especially well with affiliates who promote heavily via article sites such as Ezine-Articles or USFreeAds - for the simple reason that Google loves these sites and will index their pages very quickly. If you notice that an affiliate has three or four articles on the same product, then he is very probably making money from them – so, guess what…
We copy what he is doing and start promoting the same product. You may want to do some research on the product in question and consider promoting it via articles (targeting similar keywords to our super affiliate, why reinvent the wheel?), or possibly on Adwords (you can run an ad on the keyword that the affiliate has targeted with his article and see how well it converts, if you get sales, you can then write an article, and possibly even leave your ad running if the conversions hold up).
Look at the keywords he is our targeting with his ads, and see how many views the article has received (this will be displayed somewhere for pretty much every article site).
If you want to promote the product on Adwords (if you see our affiliate is up there, or just like the look of the market), I suggest you use the Copy the Best part 2 methods, which is coming up now.
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November 18th, 2008 at 10:11 pm
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