DISQUS

Shawn Collins · 1 year ago

Maybe it is the Twitter effect? I didn't let up on my posting volume, but maybe some people shifted fulltime over there.

Pranav Chavda · 1 year ago

I could partly be the twitter effect. I used to blog 3-4 posts a day on finaltag, Now it's hardly one per week or less. If I have a thought, opinion or something to share, I post an "aside" (which is a feature for microposts with the theme I use) on the blog or simply send out a tweet.

maybe some affiliate bloggers have just become lazy, I know I have. :). Hopefully, as some of us start blogging less, there will be new affiliates starting new blogs and blogging fresh thoughts and ideas.

Vlad Zablotskyy · 1 year ago

Pranav, I am with you as far as twitter is concerned.

I have not posted on my blog in 20 days.... Hopefully will try podcasting tomorrow. At least wen talking to no one I need not to worry about spelling nor grammar :)

5starAffiliatePrograms · 1 year ago

Hi Sam, thanks for mentioning the 5 Star blog.

I'm feeling the same way you are. It used to be exciting to check my feedreader every morning and now it just seems dead out there. Lots of good blogs are gone or seldom updated. For awhile there were several new PPC/CPA affiliate blogs that were blowing me away with the info they were giving away. Now they seem to have petered out and the content is not nearly as dynamic.

It's hard to keep blogging, it really is. Many days I feel like just giving up. I mean, I love it BUT I have a more than full time business to run as well and sometimes blogging just eats way more time than I can justify.

I think lots of people just get tired of trying to constantly come up with blog ideas or new angles to news stories - others probably just get busy with their primary business and some just burn out in general.

I don't think it's Twitter as much as it is the fact that blogging for awhile was the hot, in thing to do. Then people found out how much work it is to do it right, on an ongoing basis and just started refocusing on whatever their primary income generator is or moved onto something new.

Jim Kukral TheBizWebCoach · 1 year ago

Same thing happened to ReveNews.

Kevin Webster · 1 year ago

I just started again myself. To me, it was a case of so much work for so little real effect. Similar to posting at ABW as much as I do. At the end of the day, for all we've said and done, can we show tangible results in the industry?

Maybe a few... and perhaps a bloggers job is just to point out and educate, but I'd still like to see a bigger impact. Perhaps Brook's post on a "governing body" is an important one.

While we can't police the industry, per se, at least having a coalition might further get the point of what affiliate marketing should and shouldn't be more centralized, and accepted.

TrishaLyn · 1 year ago

Thanks for the nod there Sam.

I agree pretty much with what's been said, but it's hard to keep up so much content with a full time "real job" too. Maybe affiliate marketing is just waiting for it's next class of successful affiliates to make the leap to full time blogging.

Andrew Wee · 1 year ago

The Honeymoon effect is over?

Typically all new products and services have an initial bump due to the product launch effect (just like when Mickie D's launches a new sundae flavor and I'm first in line...) or when a new tech co. launches on the Nasdaq.

It's what happens after month 12 that will give you a better picture of its long term prospects.

Sam Harrelson · 1 year ago

Given that blogging has been around for a decade, I don't think it's the honeymoon effect, Andrew.

Perhaps people who got into it to make a quick buck (like the "make money bloggers") realized blogging for bucks isn't as easy as it seems, but that still doesn't address the lack of new blogs from more mainstream affiliates.

Andrew Wee · 1 year ago

I was refering to BumpZee, not so much blogging.
I've noticed that people online tend to flicker from one service to another, with the net effect that stickiness for quality services can be transitional at times.

If you look at the traffic graphs for Bumpzee, and compare it against others like Sphinn and the other ones like PlugIM (which i don't personally use), the traffic flow from one to the other can be seen.

Then again, you're probably right that as the marketers with the 'quick cash' mindset flit from blogger then to WP, then Squidoo, Hubpages, and now seemingly Twitter, you have the guys who're there for the day, and the ones who're there for the long term.

I personally feel it's quite tiring to do 'quick cash' stuff, because there's too much running to chase the next "tip" or "trick".

Long term always wins out in my book...

Sam Harrelson · 1 year ago

Ah, gotcha.

Yep, BUMPzee was a catalyst for a lot of the growth in the affiliate blogging space last year. It's been on seeming auto-pilot the last 12 months or so (have to ask Jangro about that).

I'm with you on the long term thing. Definitely the better way to play!

Andrew Wee · 1 year ago

If anything, I've always lived and do business by the mantra "the cream always rises to the top".

In my book, quality always wins out over quantity, so if there're fewer blogs, but there're of better quality, it could be one of the indicators of a maturing industry?

You should know that, Mr Affiliate Blogger of the Year dude!