I bet, the world is changing.

[Lihongjun]

Yahoo always said that they can not get money from their links, it is only right and proper that links is submitted to search engine for free.

but, if the link make a deal, it is also only right and proper that advertiser pay to publisher.

thank affiliate programs.

2020, all website will be added affiliate tools, either software or 3rd party affiliate tracking company.

I have a directory the same with yahoo style, even more functions, I hope that, 2020, tons of affiliate links could make me rich.

but currently, affiliate technique is not perfect, it is testing.

hope everything better, please give me some idea.

[ratestar]

I'm not following this one bit.

[aardvark]

LoL me neither.

[Logus]

huh>?

[Lihongjun]

why did sb. just say one or two words? Can you give me more idea? thank you

[aspen]

No one understands your post.

I realize that english is not your native language and you're definitely losing quite a bit of what you're trying to say in the translation.

[ratestar]

I second that motion.

[Lihongjun]

Sorry for my english, my 1st language is Chinese.

I mean if I build a directory same with Yahoo, but all links are affiliate programs, is it possible to success?

Maybe, after 3 years, all links in Yahoo will be affiliate programs.

Please give me comments.

Thank you.

[aardvark]

No I don't think it will be possible to succeed. The internet is already saturated with sites of that genre anyway.

[Lihongjun]

So how can we earn cash through affiliate programs? You mean this affiliate technique is useless?

[ratestar]

You won't succeed with such a project for one simple reason: People are smart enough to figure out that the links on your site are affiliate links.

Even if you allow them to submit their own links, and just slip an affiliate link in between them, you still wont succeed. Your competition is just to large.

You have to compete and provide more functionality, and a better, bigger, more advanced directory than Yahoo, Dmoz, Altavista, etc...

Regards,
Dan

[aspen]

You would succeed if you could get the user base.

However you could really only be an online store directory. Most content sites dont have affiliate programs.

The hard part would be getting the users. You'd be going up against huge websites, it'd be very hard.