Learning how to Affiliate Profitably Post Penguin and Panda

Learning how to affiliate profitably post Penguin and Panda has been made much more difficult since the recent Penguin and Panda updates by Google.

Many well-known and familiar names in the affiliate world have been downgraded by Google to the extent that some of their websites are no longer on the first page of a Google search. This has caused them a huge loss of income and in some instances, has wiped out their affiliate marketing businesses.

Losing one’s income is a huge emotional blow as well as a financial loss and the extreme hardship this may cause to those who were barely making an income online through affiliate marketing, is causing them to have a massive strategy rethink about their future in Internet marketing.

In fact, many Internet marketers will now decide that the effort and constant algorithm changes that Google makes, simply isn’t worth the uncertainty of income and work effort that gets wiped out overnight.  Building a website takes time, thought and planning. To see it disappear off the first page of Google search results and into the realms of obscurity through technical ignorance is disheartening.  

Mind you, I agree with the clean-up that Google is doing because there are way too many technically capable “shonks” who game the system and spoil it for all the not-so-technically capable but often more honest webmasters who simply like a product enough to want to sell it to others.There will always be people who do the wrong thing but this doesn’t, nor will it ever, make it right. As the old saying goes “Just because you can doesn’t mean that you should”. 

While I agree with Google’s clean-out of scummy and useless websites in their search results, I believe that the time will come when a computer science degree will be required to make a living as an affiliate marketer.  

Google has indicated numerous times on various platforms that they don’t like affiliate marketers.

 Aside from the legitimacy of these assertions and even overlooking the fact that it is these very affiliate marketers who have driven Google through their Adwords system to become the leading search engine on the Internet; they still don’t like them using their search engine to market products that can easily be found on the originator website. 

So to learn how to affiliate profitably post penguin and panda means that you really need to pay more attention to detail and unique content to actually add value to the product or service via informative reviews that can only be found on your website and you need to make these reviews totally unique by adding better “how-to” or “another way to” use the product or service.