You know, there’s a lot of affiliate out there telling people that direct linking no longer works, and that they shouldn’t waste their time with it.
I was one of these affiliate.
But in the paste several months I’ve come full circle.
Here’s some success stories :
- I meet two guys at Yanik’s Underground. One guy is NETTING $50k/month with all direct linking campaigns. Another guy is making $100k in revenues a month with direct linking (with HIGH ROI).
- One of my students is netting $1000-$1300/day profit from just 3 direct linking campaigns he launched. He used the strategies I taught him combined with some genius insight into what markets to promote.
- Another one of my students is netting $500/day profit – her first big success, following the EXACT strategies I laid out in my coaching program and in this post.
Also, I’ve just recently launched a direct linking campaign, it’s already profitable, and continues to quickly grow as I split test my ads and add more keywords.
The biggest advantage of direct linking is that it allows you to quickly test a market without a huge invest of your time. No matter how much market research you do, quickly testing lots of affiliate offers is really the best way to find the big winners.
So if you’re struggling to make landing pages, I recommend that you FIRST do direct linking and get 10-20 campaigns going.
You can easily launch 5-10 campaigns a week if you’re focus and disciplined.
Once you find a big winner, reinvest your profits into hiring a decent web designer and writer to build you a site. Once you have a real site up, your traffic will go WAAAY UP!
And so will your profits! 
The biggest drawback to direct linking is that you’ll only get about 20% impression share (in most cases), however, this problem is easily solved with your own site.
Many of you have been asking for case studies, I’ll be doing several case studies in the beginning of May showing some concrete examples, so stay tuned!
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That’s right, impression share is the percent of time your ad actually shows up when competing with other ad with the same destination URL.
Yes, sometimes you’ll get slapped the minute you put a campaign up and with direct linking you should count on the fact that a percentage of the sites you launch will get slapped.
If you focus promoting merchants that have substantial sites, then your changes of getting slapped go way down.
Actually I’m just starting with PPC and my first direct linking campaign doesn’t seem to be a success. I think I will re-read your blog before starting the next one.
SO if the site is slapped, do you just drop that campaign or direct linking to that advertiser?
OK, but Google has a new URL policy that makes it virtually impossible to direct link to websites, especially if the URL looks like http://www.emjcd.com…SO, how do we work around that?
Thanks.
What do you mean with the impression share 20 %? As far as I know the advertiser with best QS will get almost 100% of the impressions and others none.
I have a question: Lets say 2 ads in different accounts have the same display URL – which one will be shown? The one that pays more per click?
I have the same question as Hyder: how do you work around google´s new URL policy?
I have been looking in to doing redirects but since I´m just getting started in PPC I don´t know how to go about it.
Do you make a basic landing page at the beggining of the campaign so google approves your ads and URLs and keeps a decent QS and then redirect?
Hi amit,
do you do article marketing as well to drive traffic to your site?
I heard direct linking works well with Google Content Site…
How true is that Amit?
Regards,
Ivan Ong
http://ivan-ong.com
An Affiliate Blog
“The biggest drawback to direct linking is that you’ll only get about 20% impression share (in most cases), however, this problem is easily solved with your own site”
Hi Amir,
I don’t get what you meant when you said “…this problem is easily solved with your own site”
I thought you were talking about Direct Linking, which doesn’t involve any in-between webpages whatsoever?
Why then did you talk about getting your own site up, which I would assume would be the landing page?
Appreciate lots if u could be a little bit more specific
Thanks Amir!
Unless you are talking about setting up a “redirect” but Google has banned that on 1st April already am I right?