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Originally Posted by ruff
Not quite sure what an ordinary affiliate is. I'm certainly not a "super-affliliate" whatever that is.
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The great majority of 'ordinary affiliates' sent a tiny fraction of sales, required constant hand-holding and relied almost exclusively on sponsor-supplied tools. Most did little more than make carbon copies of sites that worked (or at least what they thought were carbon copies) and then wondered why they didn't suddenly perform as well as the sites they copied.
I can't even begin to tell you how many affiliate review sites were launched that ripped ideas from mine, copied code (which was easy to detect since it was all custom coded to begin with), spintaxed original reviews published to my sites and so on... then tried to push the same programs. At one point I even had a guy who ripped my content email me to ask why his clone wasn't converting for him
Affiliates are supposed to bring something to the table. An ability to generate traffic, an innovative way of pushing sales... something, anything, that the sponsors they push aren't already providing for themselves. That has gotten much harder now that so many sponsors are building their own traffic networks.
The one thing that has remained simple all along is that it is very easy to figure out exactly how much each sponsor is paying you per click.
