DISQUS

vinnyohare · 4 months ago

I believe that Twitter has taken up a lot of the slack for affiliate blogs that have gone bye bye. I also think there is less controversial things happening in affiliate marketing that need a post about it where a Tweet will just due.

Sam Harrelson · 4 months ago

Yeah, agreed there. I do think we'll see more folks blogging as things such as state tax laws continue to change the affiliate landscape, though.

Mike Buechele · 4 months ago

Thanks for the mention Sam. I tried before with my previous blog to write more about Affiliate Marketing, but I just didn’t have the drive to write every day about it - I like working in it more than writing about it. For the past few months I’ve been missing it, and missing creating video, so this time around I'll have more fun and I’m not going to try to force it. It will be rolling just in time for Affiliate Summit.

I think Trisha Lyn and Stephanie Lichtenstein do a great job blogging. Not the make money online type (not that there’s anything wrong with that) but more of a perspective of someone in the trenches and will rise to be a thought leader in the future.

Joe Sousa · 4 months ago

I try to blog about some affiliate stuff from time to time on my blog but the problem I run it to is I end up thinking either what I have to share isn't important or useful to anyone else or I have already seen it covered in many other places whether they be blogs, twitter, forums, etc.

Is there some particular aspect of affiliate marketing you would like to see more blogs talking about? Niches? How to build an affiliate site? The basics of affiliate marketing?

Tim_Jones · 4 months ago

Thanks for the mention, Sam! Like Mike said, I'm trying to really re-focus on it, too -- hopefully, some good content coming up -- not to mention, coverage of the upcoming Affiliate Summit -- you know, the one you're missing. Slacker. :)

Shawn Collins · 4 months ago

See pages 25-29 of the latest AffStat report - quite a few affiliate blogs listed there: http://www.scribd.com/doc/16411991/2009-Affilia...

Sam Harrelson · 4 months ago

thanks, Shawn.

Geno Prussakov · 4 months ago

Thanks for the mention, Sam. I highly appreciate it.

See you this weekend.

Geno

TrishaLyn · 4 months ago

I've really got to get someone to help set me up with some Yahoo Pipes or something because my Google Alerts are freakin' failing me and I just saw this.

D'oh! Glad to see you back.

Mike Buechele · 4 months ago

I'm having a lot of fun with Y! Pipes right now, and got some great ideas from Wil Reynold's session (when does he not drop gems on us). I think I got Jen Goode into using pipes too.

Sam Harrelson · 4 months ago

Not to brag, but I introduced Wil to Pipe's usefulness :)

Andrew Wee · 4 months ago

@Sam

As one who gets his updates equally between blogs and twitter, i think the affiliate-related blogosphere is still thriving, as evidenced by the number of blogs at AffBuzz.com.

What may have happened is that the bloggers you've mentioned have moved on to new projects, the new gen of affiliate bloggers tend to be more CPA and PPC focused, and may be moving in a different circle?

Even as Twitter or whichever micro-blogging platform du jour stakes its airtime on late night talk shows, newspapers, mags or tech news blogs, they're often used as a redirect to a blog or other content publishing CMS.

As people blogging less? Maybe, because twitter is taking up more of their free available time.

Will it go away? Not by a long shot.