Affiliate Marketing is Dead?

Honestly, in my opinion, affiliate marketing has become extremely oversaturated. Everywhere you look, someone is sharing links, posting product reviews, or creating content promoting the exact same items. With so many people trying to do the same thing, it naturally becomes harder for any individual affiliate to stand out and actually make consistent sales.

I’ve been doing affiliate marketing since 2019, and over the years I’ve noticed a lot of changes—some good, some not so great. One of the biggest issues I’ve seen recently is the way certain companies handle discount codes. Many sites give their affiliates exclusive codes, but then turn around and create their own codes with even better discounts or higher commission rates. When they promote those instead, it completely undercuts the affiliates who are trying to earn.

This shift makes it more challenging for small affiliates who rely on fair opportunities and honest structures. The landscape is definitely changing, and not always in a way that benefits the people doing the work behind the scenes.

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Marketing third party

 
One of the hardest platforms to affiliate market for is Amazon and Commission junction. I say this because it is hard trying to figure out things to market and a lot of people are marketing them so its competition trying to make sure you are being seen. Commission Junction is a third party platform where you can apply to stores and sites and become an affiliate marketer with them if you are chosen. 

This is the easy part. The hard part is trying to share the links because they do not show up as in the store. Commission junction has their own tracker ID's on them and it makes it harder to sale because people are not going to look at it as a real site.

 They are going to think it is a scam site so you have to go out of you way making a short link for it using some kind of short link maker and hope it keeps your tracker in it. I personally write blog post and hyper link the links into it that way no one can tell that its from a third party site or from whatever I am trying to market. This also allows people to know where to get one and makes it nice and neat. 

For an example, here is my review blog! 

Here is my gaming blog