Useless Affiliate

I was browsing through my favorite affiliate marketer’s pages such has many of the super affiliates. I found a survey that gave affiliate stats. I give shoemoney credit for finding this.

www.shoemoney.com/2009/06/15/affstat-releases-key-affiliate-numbers/

I found some surprising numbers. There was a pie graph of a piece that was saying “I have been an affilaite since..” Being myself as useless affiliate, I started around 2004 just barely making money online. 2007, which was 2 years ago was when I started geting into the business then, 2008 was when I was actually more aware.  2007 was the year that had 15% on the pie graph. It was the biggest slice of the pie. So what does this mean? It means that a lot of people started back in 2007. It means the market will get more saturated soon.

I get this a lot from people and we get into a conversation that leads no where. There are some things that I always get confronted with

Affiliate Marketing is Illegal!

Hold on for a second.  First of all I dont’ want to repeat the question again asking you how you found out its illegal. Let me explain the legal issues. There is a catergory called, BlackHatSEO. This one is the illegal way to earn revenue. Most of it is bending the rules and hiding it and some are just wrong. There are some affiliate that do this but not a lot. There is whitehatseo which is purely legal. The way you are suppose to. Is adding a link with a banner and your affiliate link illegal? There are millions of sites that do this and no it is NOT illegal.