Affiliate Phenom is kind of rare in terms of internet marketing products in that it’s been written by people who are actually still currently practicing what it teaches. Which means that it’s not some piece of junk that worked a while back but is now burned out.
It was originally written by Zach Booker and then it’s been given a thorough “going over” by Jeremy Kelsall and Don Van Fossen. Chances are that you’ve come across posts by some or all of these on both the Warrior Forum and also Don & Jeremy’s Market Crush forum.
So, what makes Affiliate Phenom worth buying?
For a start, it’s real world, which means that the three authors are actually making money from doing this exact same process.
Next up, it’s well explained. If you’ve bought any internet marketing products before, you’ll know that the usual ploy is to fill them up with stuff that you either already know or could find out in minutes – how to click a couple of times to install a WordPress blog becomes umpteen pages of screen shots.
Not so here.
You’re given that kind of information but it’s not the meat of the product.
Instead, you’re given a start-to-finish process to complete one or more of the sites that Affiliate Phenom shows you how to create.
Starting with choosing a product to promote – the book goes into detail on the pros and cons of Clickbank and CPA products but you can apply the process to anything else you want to promote.
Then there’s the research stage, using the regular Google Keywords tool and some searches to check that you’re not competing against pages and pages of people who spend more in an hour than you earn in the year. This bit of advice is useful as it’s pointless making a great site if you’re on page 200 of the results forever.
After that, the usual domain name finding. Together with some help on what to do when it seems like the whole world has grabbed every possible variant of your chosen name.
Then setting up your site. Standard stuff but with enough twists to get your brain moving. Follow these instructions and you’ll have a decent looking site that Google enjoys crawling and which gets visitors clicking without being too “in your face”. You won’t be putting Adsense on it as that would defeat the object and would reduce your income.
Getting your site indexed is the next place where a lot of guides let you down. Affiliate Phenom has several tricks here. I’ve noticed in the past that Google is actually pretty keen to crawl my sites but less keen to actually index them. Typically I’ve ended up with just the index page showing and only the very first “I haven’t really got to it yet” version at that.
Using the methods from the book, my first site had 3 pages properly indexed within about a day.
Next there’s some detail on keeping Google interested in your site – basically don’t abandon it if you want a long lived site.
Then it’s the process of getting traffic. Another place where most of the competition will say just that – “get traffic to your site” and maybe suggest that you get a few links, put up a few ads, maybe comment on a blog or two.
Again, Affiliate Phenom is different because the authors realize that without traffic your site is dead in the water. I won’t go into detail on their “secret sauce” but suffice to say it works and I’d be very surprised if you’re using all the tips they suggest.
OK, what are the cons?
Well, you won’t get anything out of it if you just read the book. You’ll have to put some work in. Probably about 2 hours a site initially and then a bit more over time. Nothing too strenuous but certainly not the internet dream of millions in your Clickbank account by lunchtime.
Next up there is a very small footprint if you don’t take a couple of minutes to reword the example sites. So my first three sites can be found if you’ve bought this book along with quite a few other sites who are following the method. You’re less likely to find my other sites as I’ve reworded them enough to stop a simple phrase search finding them. As footprints go, not big. And since we’re talking WordPress blogs the main “footprint” is shared by millions of sites in millions of niches and couldn’t be targeted by Google unless they decide all WordPress blogs are no longer welcome.
Affiliate Phenom is a refreshing change. It’s well explained, doesn’t leave anything out of the process and stands every chance of working so long as you put in a little bit of effort.