If You’re Using This Method, Stop NOW

I’ve thought about writing this post for a while now but today a threshold was crossed, and I simply couldn’t NOT post it any longer.

There’s a method of making money with affiliate marketing and free traffic that has been and continues to be peddled as an amazing way to generate easy cash. People KEEP talking about it. It’s been rehashed in at least 5 different products that I’ve seen over the past maybe year and a half now..

I want to tell you why it’s NOT cool, and why if you’re working hard at it you might want to reconsider.

The method I’m talking about is where you “capitalize” on the launches of IM products, by setting up a site in advance of a launch for the sole purpose of getting it to rank on the front page by the launch date, hence picking up traffic from people searching for the product’s name on phrases like “product” or “product review” in particular.

It’s so smart, the traffic is super targeted, conversions generally high, easy ranking for phrases that may have literally zero competition to begin with…

But it’s also the among the stupidest business models you could conceive of.

Here’s why:

1. Let’s take the best case scenario. Let’s say you get your site to the front page just in time for launch. You clean up, pull some good commissions and you’re happy. A week after the launch hype dies down and no one’s searching for that product any more, of what value is your site? How much traffic will you get? How much is all that work you did worth?

A: Nothing. The site productnamereview.com has no value anymore, no one’s going to be finding it, you’re not making any money.

What do you do about this? Easy, you find another product launch and do it again!

In other words, you’re trading your time for a fixed amount of money. If you stop working on it, your income dies. You may as well get a job. Which isn’t bad in itself, but I know it’s not personally why I started online marketing.

2. Let’s take a much more likely scenario. It’s two weeks out from launch, you’re working hard on your SEO to get that all important ranking. The date moves closer but you’re still not quite there yet. You’re madly building links in the most unnatural way possible because of the time pressure, waving your big red flags in Google’s face begging them to put you on the front page.

A: What happens if by launch date, for one of many reasons, you don’t get that ranking. The launch passes and your site never made it.

Again, waste of time. Whereas with a normal SEO campaign where you can continually build your ranking for a term to reach the front page and no matter how long it takes you, it will have value… with this method, it’s fruitless. You get the timing wrong, it’s worthless.

3. Back to the best scneario. You get front page ranking by launch day.

Realize that the people who are coming to the SEARCH ENGINES before purchasing an “IM” product, are those that have likely read the sales page already, are interested but likely skeptical, and are informed enough to be able to search out further information on the product before they buy.

A: Why’s that significant? Because there’s a good chance your crappy, biased review from the perspective of someone who HASN’T used the product, is not going to impress them. Surely not enough for them to buy through your link.

Furthermore, there’s a strong chance this group of people is going to notice something’s up when they see a front page in Google that’s full of URL’s like

product-name-review.com

productnamereview.org

productnamereviewSITE.com

productnamereviewS.com

And the more people use this method, the more those smart searchers are going to get clued in to what’s happening and the more it’s going to erode you’re already dwindling profits.

4. You thought we were done? Oh no…

This is the MOST IMPORTANT REASON of all…

Answer me this…

Why would you use this method above…

When there are THOUSANDS of products outside the IM niche, that get searched for by name, and by name review, that get THOUSANDS more searches… EVERY DAY… That will never have 100 new people jumping on to compete against you in a day…And will still be getting searched every day in 1, 2, maybe even 5 years time, that would build you a REAL passive income business and maximize every last piece of effort or cent of your money that were spent on them???

If you don’t know what I’m talking about, it might be time to take a step back in time and review my Niche Marketing On Crack report.

Finally, an exception to the rule.

If the product that’s launching is a recurring membership… If they plan to have an ongoing marketing campaign… Or if it’s something people ARE still going to be searching for a year or two years from now… THEN promoting it is a smarter decision.

AND if you’re a real user of one of these products, it’s a smarter decision again.

Please, if you’re working hard on this method, I apologize, but I hope you can see what I mean and consider a change of strategy.