Acai affiliates, you suck � Glowleaf

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Acai affiliates, you suck

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Yes, really, you do.

Why? Because you are doing it wrong. For those who are unfamiliar with the acai berry niche, 90% of affiliates do the following:

Go to http://www.laurasweightloss.com/
Register a girlsnameweightloss.com domain
Set up a blog with the exact same pictures and exact same layout as laura’s
Fire up a keyword tool, get approximately the same list as every other affiliate
Set up prosper202 and,
Fire up their adwords campaign
Optimize the keyword list and bids.

What is wrong with that, one might ask. Well, if it happens 10, 12, 30, even 40 times its ok. When every single fucking acai berry affiliate does the exact same thing, then guess what? The niche gets saturated! And then all those affiliates whine about their profit loss, no sales days and google slaps. (update: as this post is written, there has been a report on wickedfire that an adwords account got deleted for promoting acai berries)

“Ok then you smartass, how would you do it?”

How would I dive in an oversaturated niche? Why, with a different angle of approach of course!

First of all, I would find a way to use Oprah’s name in my campaign. There is a guy who is already doing that, and the others call him an idiot. He is not, unless he gets caught. By using Russian dont-see-dont-care servers and fake whois (you dont need an amazing domain, even oprah-acai-berry-official.info will work) you can abuse this for a month or two, and then rotate everything to avoid getting caught. This is a downright scam, so newbies should not even attempt it (newbies in fraud, not IM). I did warn you.

Second idea. I would resurrect the whole damn history of weight loss supplements, and set up a blog with articles on why acai berry is better than each one. Why? Because I would create a keyword list for every old weight loss niche as if I were to promote it today. (it took me less than a minute to find 5 names http://www.philkaplan.com/thefitnesstruth/update.htm)

Why do that? Because, when you have the keyword lists of OLD weightloss niches, you can set your adgroups on each one, and write ads that say something like “Natural fat burners are a scam. Find out here”.

I would hire a good copywriter to make me articles debunking the INSERT OLD SCAMMY OFFER HERE, and gradually sell acai berry as the new “safe” offer. Rinse and repeat on every old niche. Cheap targetted clicks.

“People don’t look for old products!”

Yes they do.

Third idea. Hug and cuddle all the victims of the other acai berry affiliates. People got scammed, and the internet is full of scam reports and complaints and whatnot. Set up a site pointing out the scammy acai berry offers, and subtly suggest the “safe” acai offers. These visitors are interested in weightloss as well, they are just a bit more clever than the rest. If you can convince them, you can sell.

Visitors looking for acai scams can also get foraged for their emails by giving out free pdf reports. You can set up a forum on the site for repeat visits, you can tell them which phone numbers to call for credit cancellations, you can have instant non stop testimonials. You can also “rat out” the sites that are scammy from other affiliates, but of course you will not “rat out” the real ones. Simply ask for slapped abandoned acai blogs in #cakes and you got like a dozen to rat out every month. Make it look like a victory in your site “Another acai scammer taken down by ASR”.

Just play the good guy, find the least scammy acai berry offer, and point the visitors to it. “ASR approved” badge on the banner. (Acai Scam Revealed)

This is not just about acai berry niche, you should use your imagination on everything. This post will either rekindle the whole acai niche or rain a world of hatred on me. Maybe both.

The precious few will get the hint.

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written by Glowleaf �� \\ tags: acai berry, weight loss scam

21 Responses to “Acai affiliates, you suck”

john Says:
December 20th, 2008 at 9:55 pm
the first thing i noticed when i visited your blog was the ultracool header,frickin amazing.Love your posts too.Keep up the good work.
Monty's Mega Marketing Says:
December 21st, 2008 at 9:35 am
I briefly tried the “so-and-so’sweightloss.com” thing. I looked in my stats and one search term that was used to find my page was “Why is every acai weight loss story the same?” That’s when I realized it was time to try something else.
Glowleaf Says:
December 21st, 2008 at 9:40 am
Another amazing lesson courtesy of the Googlebot.
xentech Says:
December 21st, 2008 at 9:45 am
Engaging post.
Stringer Says:
December 22nd, 2008 at 11:37 pm
Very insightful post Glowleaf

Creativity is definitely lacking amongst affiliates. The whole xyzweightloststory got out of hand. I hate google just as much as the nextaffiliate, but I can’t blame them for cracking down.
Health Reporter Plus Says:
January 4th, 2009 at 9:50 am
Hi

Acai is all the rage at the moment but some unscrupulous companies are scamming people for hidden costs in their free trials. When these free trials are taken out you are also signed up for membership and on going supplies.

Be careful

Sandra
http://www.healthreporterplus.com
Vinny Lingo Says:
February 3rd, 2009 at 2:41 pm
GL, your blog is excellent. I really should stop by more often.
James Says:
February 6th, 2009 at 12:13 pm
Great article. And if you check out post number 6 you will see Sandra is taking your advice. We should ask her how it’s going for her.

Thanks for all the posts.
Glowleaf Says:
February 6th, 2009 at 12:24 pm
That is exactly why I did not delete the bitch’s spam comment
Is Googe Shutting Down Acai Adwords Accounts? | MMM Says:
February 22nd, 2009 at 9:12 am
[...] social networking platforms is for Acai and features the same dozen pictures and the same “weight loss story“, it’s time to move [...]
Josh Says:
March 13th, 2009 at 12:04 pm
i’m guilty, i’m guilty.

i figured i’d dive right into internet marketing and see if i could screw up enough times to learn how to do it right.

after reading your post, i realize i have already done things the wrong way. i am guilty of just about everything you listed.

yikes.
Josh Says:
March 14th, 2009 at 11:03 am
so, as i try to reshape my idea of how to go about internet marketing i have found that one tool in particular is very helpful. and i have this website to thank for making me aware of it: prosper202.

this tool is great. thanks.
Edwin Says:
June 19th, 2009 at 3:49 am
yeah… this is I am looking for. I just launched my Acai Berry product and got this information from you and very useful. thanks.
David Says:
July 2nd, 2009 at 8:54 am
good good�this post deserves nothing �hahaha just joking �nice post
marc Says:
October 10th, 2009 at 4:39 am
well, this won’t work:
“By using Russian dont-see-dont-care servers and fake whois (you dont need an amazing domain, even oprah-acai-berry-official.info will work) you can abuse this for a month or two, and then rotate everything to avoid getting caught.”

Doesn’t really matter what server or whois you use since your affiliate links still go over your affiliate network and if someone really wants to get you then they will, rest assured your network will give out your details at some point before they jump over the cliff.
Steven Says:
October 15th, 2009 at 9:56 am
The internet is still the wild west, but I see the early signs of settlement activity. The soldiers will come, and shoot all of the Indians. I imagine some of the smarter blackhat SEOs will continue to evade capture, but not many. All of this sounds good, but to be honest, it mostly scares me. I see a lot of other scary things in the future.
In the far future, I see a single country, a lot like China is today. They have cameras monitoring all of the public internet connections, get Cisco to put in special routers, and all sorts of other stuff. The are not very good at what they are doing right now, but then again the Indians were fairly effective against the white invaders, at least at first….
One suggestion; everyone that abuses the freedom of the internet, increases the public demands for less freedom. If you value your freedom, don’t abuse it.
WARLOCK Says:
October 19th, 2009 at 12:14 pm
Можно и подискутировать по этому поводу …
PortoPaderto Says:
January 11th, 2010 at 5:37 pm
Потрясающе! Вот не ожидал…)
Vladimir Says:
February 1st, 2010 at 7:37 pm
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Vladimir Says:
February 1st, 2010 at 9:15 pm
kraki
Vladimir2 Says:
February 3rd, 2010 at 10:48 pm
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