I just thought this might interest people in the general Affiliate market segment... Forums and Affiliate Marketing It's all relatively easy information, but it does remind me of some important facts. Point 5 makes the most useful point in the whole article - nothing makes me lose respect for a poster than general bad spelling. I don't have anything personal against them, but it is hard to trust in someone's opinion and suggestions when they can't even spell properly. Right or wrong, it is important! What do the rest of you think?
I would add some stuff to your site you just linked too. As far as trusting people's suggestions and opinions. Especially affiliate marketing and forums. The most successful forums don't allow posters to have affiliate links in their posts since that attracts a lot of the spamming type of affiliates that just offer suggestions and advice only if those suggestions and advice have an affiliate program.
Agreed - Recently I was given an infraction for placing affiliate links in one of my posts. It was a valid recommendation on my part, and I recommend the programs no less, even though I got in sh*t for the affiliate links, While I was quite pissed at first, since the recommendation was not just to sell the product, I can understand why they do it - this forum would be spammed to heck. While resources I post will occasionally have affiliate links in them, I will very much refrain from posting affiliate links in the forum! P.S. I catch your sarcasm. If I was a real asshole, that page would redirect to a slimy landing page to sell an adwords e-book. I did not do that. There is a real aticle there, with good suggestions, and yes, while there are 2 affiliate links in the whole article, people can see them if they look, and in no way need to click them.
Goode artikle. Thanks yoo verry mush! Eye do'nt lik missspellings ether, but I useually tri 2 figur uot iff da persen iz jus lazzy orr iz a farener. Da webb iz globil an mani peoples do'nt hav a grate cammand of da inglish langwage butt r honist biznuss peoples. Gim
Good point. On the other hand, it could be argued that english is the common language of the web, and a fluency in it is almost to be expected. Not necessarily that I agree with that viewpoint - I'm just playing the devil's advocate!
Yes, English may be the common language of the web, but not all non-english-speaking-people are always fluent. I do agree that if someone is just using sloppy, incorrect or poor spelling when it is obvious they are english speakers..............I stay away from their site. Jim
Alright - I'll grant you that. But often, I've found that there are many non-english speakers with grammer etc. which would put most native english speakers to shame. I think it all depends on how well *they* want to come across...
Translating ideas into other languages might be a way to make a killing. I am sure there are many people doing it already online.
It definately is - on one of my sites, the niche is very crowded in the English-speaking markets, but I have been getting a translator to translate some of my articles and whatnot into languages where the niche is considerably less crowded, such as German, Dutch or Italian. I get about 4x as much traffic from *each* of these languages as I do from my english articles....
Hi this is Lilly, On the other hand, it could be argued that english is the common language of the web, and a fluency in it is almost to be expected. ______________________________________________________________________ Want to get-on Google's first page and loads of traffic to your website? Hire a SEO Specialist from Ocean Groups