Originally Posted by $5 submissions

If this is the case, the affiliate model isn't going anywhere. You would have become a collaborator in adding real value to the Internet instead of one in millions trying to hatch ways of diverting some of that yummy traffic through blog farms/autoblogs/cookiecutter tube CJ sites and many other common methods that are now facing the wrath of the Panda and its upgrades.

The bottomline is quality will always win out. I remember in 2001 a big brouhaha here over Traffic versus Content. Now we're back to content If you think Social media marketing is the Magic Bullet out of this conundrum, think again - retweets on Twitter and viral explosions on Facebook are propelled in part by QUALITY CONTENT.