Affiliate Marketing As a Competitive SEO means!

Affiliate Marketing has become a hot topic in recent years and many have quit their day jobs to try their fortune in the affiliate marketing world. Advertisers have also become more aware of techniques to strengthen their sales through Affiliate marketing. Successful affiliate marketers act as an extension for the advertisers marketing teams. While affiliate marketers are focused on increasing their revenues, the successful ones achieve that by thinking and acting an external part of advertisers. Many SEOs would tell you that affiliate links do not give you any SEO juice. That is true especially with the redirect links that you get from LinkShare and CJ. However, companies that maintain huge affiliate networks have the opportunity to offer incentives to affiliates who are willing to give them a direct link. Now think about that for a second. If you have a network of 5000 affiliates and you get only 20% of them to give you a link, you are certainly increasing your opportunity to get ranked higher on search engines. Why companies don’t try this is beyond my comprehension (though it could be the tough contracts that some of them have signed with LinkShare and CJ). But I am willing to bet that they will start doing so soon!