Real quick:
I’m aiming to launch Affiliate Genie on Wednesday, Dec 2nd.
What’s Affiliate Genie?
How much does it cost?
What can it really do?
All your questions are answered here…
http://www.affgenie.com/affiliate-genie.php
As you can see, this ain’t your typical product launch.
My goal with AG is to essentially create the “Wordpress” of affiliate marketing. And I think that this is going to end up helping a lot of people.
Questions?
Leave a comment and I’ll try to get to it ASAP
Cheers,
-Chris
P.S. If you’re interested in promoting Affiliate Genie, check out the details on that here
90 responses so far ↓
1 admin // Nov 26, 2009 at 9:13 pm
I know, the inner pages of AffGenie.com aren’t yet live (FAQ, Demos, etc.)
They will be soon…
Cheers,
-Chris
2 Ian Cheow // Nov 27, 2009 at 7:51 am
Hi Chris,
Really anticipating it… I think this is what most affiliate marketers are looking for.
Cheow
3 Mike // Nov 27, 2009 at 9:17 am
Hey Chris,
One of the things that really holds me back is the time sucking exercise of building sites like these from scratch. If this is as easy as it looks I think it’ll get me back on track.
Looking forward to the 2nd.
Mike
4 Jeremy1st // Nov 27, 2009 at 10:01 am
What has stopped me from using CMS is the installation, if all we do is just upload to our webspace. Amazing.
Definitely will get Affil Genie.
thank you for creating this Chris.
5 Daniel // Nov 27, 2009 at 10:05 am
Chris,
Affiliate Genie looks awesome! I currently have a few templates that I use from your VIP Essentials Pack as well as a few similar ones I’ve made myself, but it’s still a chore to make changes to them whenever I do a new site.
AG looks like a real time-saver. That last part of the sales letter, the “Internet Lifestyle” bit really spoke to me. In fact, while I was getting my haircut the other day, I bumped into my Geography teacher from college who asked me what I did now. It was a little awkward for me, especially as I cannot stand small talk
I rattled off a bunch of stuff, and was actually surprised at the questions he asked. He obviously understood what I was going on about…
Might not get AG just yet, but once I’ve figured out the “process”, then AG will simply enable me to save time and duplicate that process much faster, so I will be getting it in future.
- Daniel
6 How to Speak Japanese // Nov 27, 2009 at 10:43 am
Again something wher I can just say: “Amazing Salesletter!”
Just reading the salesletter gave me a few good ideas/pointers on how to improve my sites.
Thanks and good luck with the roll-out!
Yamato
7 Chuck Swope // Nov 27, 2009 at 3:52 pm
I’ve never uploaded anything. Is it relatively easy?
8 admin // Nov 27, 2009 at 3:55 pm
Hi Chuck,
Yes, absolutely.
You simply use your FTP program (or even a web-based file transfer system used by some cpanel’s) to upload the Aff Genie files to your webspace.
Then you just go to the admin page, login, set your password, site name, etc and start adding content.
E-A-S-Y
And powerful
-Chris
9 Hamida // Nov 27, 2009 at 3:58 pm
Will we have the rights to sell sites created with AG?
10 Manx SEO // Nov 27, 2009 at 3:59 pm
Does it produce clean html which can be edited/opened with dreamweaver so the sites can be zipped up and flipped once profitable?
11 admin // Nov 27, 2009 at 4:01 pm
Hamida,
Yes - and in fact we’ll be including a transferable license doc that you can pass to the buyer when or if you decide to sell an AG-powered site.
The buyer will have a limited license to use the AG application on whichever domain they purchase from you, and only on that domain.
As the seller, though, you don’t lose license in the process.
Perhaps we may lose a small amount of sales this way, but the fact is a lot of people need to be able to sell their sites, and AG will accomodate this.
Thanks
-Chris
12 admin // Nov 27, 2009 at 4:02 pm
Manx - yes, AG essentially uses PHP to write HTML files that can be downloaded, zipped and transferred with ease.
-Chris
13 Jesus // Nov 27, 2009 at 4:04 pm
Chris, I haven’t been this excited about a CMS launch in a while. I’m eagerly awaiting the final product with affiliate eyes wide open. It looks like you nailed it.
14 Jesus // Nov 27, 2009 at 4:07 pm
Chris, after looking things over, there appears to be one vital feature missing: “Redirect Links”. It would be nice to create my own redirect links using this software and track their clicks in the admin area. It would be even sweeter if the software could automatically convert certain keywords to redirected affiliate links.
15 Daniel Brock // Nov 27, 2009 at 4:16 pm
Beat me to the punch, Chris!
I had an idea for a similar CMS that I had scheduled in my long list of products I am currently working on.
Looks like I’ll be promoting this to my list once it goes live!
-Daniel
16 Steve Bagasao // Nov 27, 2009 at 4:19 pm
Hey Chris,
No question…I just wanted to say that between you and Dave Kelly, I’ve learned such a better and more common sense approach to internet marketing than from any one else. I appreciate your and Dave’s straight-forward-no-nonsense way of teaching. My current business plan is based on Profit Loophole and I think AG will be a great tool for that. Looking forward to it. Thanks!
17 susan // Nov 27, 2009 at 4:28 pm
Average time to build a 5 page website?
I dont need to know how to FTP, correct?
18 Get Your Ex Back Stategy // Nov 27, 2009 at 4:29 pm
Hey Chris,
Glad the day is almost here! Is there ANY way you could move that date up one day so it could be released on Tuesday. That would enable us starving affiliate marketers to get paid a week earlier for day one sales and have the money before Christmas. It would mean SOOOO much if your could make that happen! Thanks.
19 ris // Nov 27, 2009 at 4:30 pm
Hi Chris,
I am kind of loving the demo of this software, but does it have any kind of footprint, that google can penalize?
20 admin // Nov 27, 2009 at 4:34 pm
@ Jesus - redir links will be one of the first patches. I don’t know if we’ll have time to implement that prior to launch, but it WILL be included shortly.
@ Steve & Daniel… thanks guys. Really appreciate it
@ Susan - You will need to be able to upload Aff Genie to your webspace. This is not difficult, and we’ve included videos of how to do just this in our training area.
Also, to build a 5-page site, it really depends on what you’re doing. If you already know what you want to “say”, it’s just going to be the article-writing time, because setup and config are literally under one minute.
If you have 5 articles/reviews pre-written, for example, it would take about:
2 - 5 minutes to initially upload Aff Genie to your server
1 - 2 minutes to configure the site as you’d like (adding your Analytics code, etc.)
About 1 to 3 minutes per article, including formatting time
And about probably 5 minutes to set up a wicked top-fold promo to run across your preferred categories.
So TOTAL realistic setup time for a 5-page site (not including content creation, which is irrelevant for this example), is approx:
9 to 15 minutes to set up a 5 page site with existing content.
Cheers
-Chris
21 Jack // Nov 27, 2009 at 4:40 pm
Chris, it looks like a real winner. Congrats on putting together something we can all use effectively.
22 admin // Nov 27, 2009 at 4:41 pm
@ris - First things first and most importantly - Google only penalizes sites that are exploitative or violate their guidelines.
Affiliate Genie is neither. In contrast, its entire purpose is to produce GOOD sites with GOOD content and a GOOD user experience.
The only sites Google wants to penalize are those that cloak, scrape, and in general provide very little value or relevance to the user.
Otherwise, it’s all about content. They WANT your content to be indexed if it’s relevant and good. More results = happier search users.
(Every wordpress blog, joomla site and whatever else have “footprints” as well… but the GOOD ones rank just fine. It’s not about footprints. It’s about content and quality.)
And in addition, we’re not going to be encrypting the application, so if you’re really freaked out about it, you can always just totally customize any part of the site(s) anyway…
Cheers,
-Chris
23 Jeff // Nov 27, 2009 at 4:46 pm
Chris,
Will this work if I use DirectAdmin for hosting?
24 Greg // Nov 27, 2009 at 5:00 pm
I see that your clickbank earnings are from 2007. Do you have more recent earnings that you could share with us?
25 Fred // Nov 27, 2009 at 5:03 pm
Hi Chris,
Can you give a little insight as to the cost of fully implementing the methods in “Big League
TRAFFIC”? I’m sure LinkVana is a major part of the plan, but can we get started for less until we can afford to join LinkVana?
26 admin // Nov 27, 2009 at 5:10 pm
Greg - scroll down to the traffic section
I’ve spread out my affiliate promotions among various networks and in house programs since 07.
So my solely affiliate-based CB earnings these days are slightly lower than that screenshot (due to sites fading over time, some of my better merchants switching to in-house, and unloading a few sites, etc.)
But in combination with my CPA, in-house and non-CB network earnings, it’s about 2 times more than it was in 2007.
Fred - Big League is segmented into 2 sections. Free and Paid.
In general, using my Big-League methods, even if you outsource absolutely EVERYTHING, you’re looking at spending an absolute maximum of $500 - $700 per site.
A more realistic figure is about $400 per site.
But you can always trade that for elbow grease… and bring it down to about $100 per site.
Or just use the free stuff. Takes a little longer, but still works great.
27 Bill // Nov 27, 2009 at 5:27 pm
Chris looks like he hit another homerun with this one!
28 Tom // Nov 27, 2009 at 5:52 pm
I notice that AG also includes “A disclosure statement”. Won’t disclosure totally destroy the credibility of “reviews” when you admit your being compensated for the sales of the products reviewed? This really has me worried about affiliate review sites.
29 admin // Nov 27, 2009 at 6:03 pm
Tom - this is a part of being FTC compliant and up front with your users.
It won’t destroy credibility.
It will actually build trust, because it’s true.
-Chris
30 Harlem // Nov 27, 2009 at 6:15 pm
Hey Chris,
If you want your AG to be the wordpress of the affiliate marketer, you have more chance to launch it as open-source !!!
Anyway, it’s a good idea for newbies !
31 Linda // Nov 27, 2009 at 6:32 pm
Chris, this sounds like a great tool! I currently use Wordpress for these kinds of sites, but the setup can be really tedious. This sounds like a much better system. Plus, I would bet the sites load a lot quicker than WP. Thanks for keeping the price affordable!
32 Rick // Nov 27, 2009 at 6:36 pm
I rate you as a “real” marketer.
My question(s):
1 week+3..(so far!) programs released/introduced to give us numbskulls half a chance to earn money!
How does your program compare?
Here they are..in no particular order:
Wordpress Mage…$1297!
Site Profit Bot…$67+upgrade to Pro version+monthly outlay.
Auto Profit Launcher…still waiting on the price (one off…hooray!) ((Dunno how much though?))
I posted a comment/question on SPB site…but it was removed!Hmmmm?
I did not slam their product,I just wanted an honest response.Guess,I got it!
Here is a copy of what I posted on APl’s site:
(I did not think they would allow it,after my experience with SPB!I do think that somehow it got missed and made it by the skin of its teeth!)
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How does your program compare to:Wordpress Mage…and…Site Profit Bot?
I posed a similar question on site profit bots page yesterday asking for some honest feedback concerning how their program compares to Wordpress Mage.It is amazing that within the space of 1 week I have received emails getting me to jump on the latest greatest 1 click super site creator!Wordpress Mage seems great,but,at $1297 is way to expensive!Site Profit Bot is $67…but,if ya wanna have their Pro version,it is gonna cost more,as well as tying you into yet another monthly expense.At least you are only asking for a one off payment!My two main concerns are these:Charles Swope mentioned in his post (88) about the possibility of moneytising the sites via Adsense,Clickbank,Ebay,Amazon,Overstock,etc.The second concern I have about all these site creation tools is this:Footprint.There is absolutely no point in spending our time and hard earned money doing all this stuff if Google gives our sites bad ranking,or worse still,slaps us silly!Thereby rendering all our effort/time/money void!Times are changing..the search engines are getting ever clever in spotting,and shutting down auto created sites.ANY developer of these programs needs to be extremely savvy in order to keep one step ahead.Most of the comments left on this page are from people who are sick and tired of being promised the earth…only to be let down badly,time and time again!This post may come accross as being negative.It is not.All I ask is that you do not remove this post within a few minutes of it being posted like what happened when I made a post on Site Bots site!They will not be getting my custom!This is a great opportunity for your company to extol the virtues of using your program/approach.The two questions I posed are crucial in being a success in this game as I,and many others see it.So it would be nice to get a constructive response to the questions posed.Thanks.
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Sorry if this is a bit long winded!
I think you are an honest marketer,and I would value your thoughts with regard to these issues.
33 David // Nov 27, 2009 at 6:42 pm
Chris - Got a couple questions but first I would like to express some gratitude. I’ve bought most of your stuff - and thanks for being the transparent and honest person that you are. And your devotion to KISS (Keep It Simple Stupid) is appreciated.
About AG - Looks great and KISS (straight to the money) is there. For SEO traffic - are we looking at “continuous work” - adding content & link building for each site? Is there a “set & forget” time and method for these sites? If not, we can only handle so many sites. I have no plans on dealing with out-sourcing hassles.
I’m feeling like - just buy the traffic but take whatever I can get from SEO. In either event, AG looks great. But I’m not the type to keep working on the same sites.
Some input would be appreciated.
34 Terrence H // Nov 27, 2009 at 6:43 pm
I looked at the video. The Affiliate Genie building web looks quite interesting. Building sites looks quite easy and fast. Like anything you will have to get used of it. But I have been looking for a web builder that wouldn’t take much of my time. A site builder that is quick but looks quite good in appearance. Building webpages that get results is what I need as well. I would like to be able to make it online financially. I’m sure that is pretty well why we all are online. There are other reasons I guess. But I am always fascinated by how others are able to create software that work quick and easy. Maybe this would be a good gift for someone you care about. Bye…signing off!
35 Ken // Nov 27, 2009 at 6:45 pm
demo link returns 404
36 Mandy // Nov 27, 2009 at 7:10 pm
Chris, looks good!
I noticed that all your ‘comments’ (hmm… hmm!) have the same date - and that date will be pretty recent each time we make the site. How can the dates be back-dated? I don’t think you covered that anywhere… or did I miss it??
All the best to you on roll-out
37 Tom // Nov 27, 2009 at 7:17 pm
Chris is there any chance this could be released on Monday or Tuesday so we could have our money a full week earlier. It would really help me and my family out with Christmas expenses. Thanks
38 Dave // Nov 27, 2009 at 7:19 pm
Everything looks good as long as this is not going to be a bunch of copied sites from all your purchasers for this product. It seems like it will be unique each time.
But I didnt see anything that would help in building a list . Did i miss it?
39 Golf Swing Guru // Nov 27, 2009 at 7:21 pm
Hi Chris,
This looks exactly what I am looking for as I have tried several different affiliate models, mostly on WP but also the conduit method, but I have not made much progress.
I like the built in affiliate disclosure on each page as I know that the FTC will soon start cracking down. I also was thinking about buying AutoWebLaw or a similar generator for my disclosure, privacy, terms of use, etc. pages.
Question: Does Affiliate Genie make it easy to add in all the right policy pages and does it include examples of them that will stand up to the new regulations from the FTC?
Thanks,
Great Job Chris,
Mick
40 Stephen Bolin // Nov 27, 2009 at 7:31 pm
Hi Chris,
This looks fantastic. I have always appreciated you sticking to white hat in most everything. Giving Google what they want is a win-win strategy.
My article writing mentor Jeff Herring says: “an article a day keeps recession away.”
I believe it.
With your new product, writing an article per day will mean building about 2 new sites per month. Yes you can outsource, but once you write 20 -30 articles, you start liking it!
Cheers!
Stephen
41 admin // Nov 27, 2009 at 8:25 pm
@ Rick - Very simply, Aff Genie is NOT an “auto site builder”.
It’s a Content Management System. Therefore it doesn’t scrape, pull or otherwise “get” content from anywhere.
It’s ALL user-created.
Which means that your sites will actually stand the test of time.
And it also means that “footprint” doesn’t apply. That’s like worrying about a speeding ticket when you’re not speeding.
@ David - This actually depends on the quality of your content and how you promote it initially. I still have sites that I’ve created YEARS ago that get decent traffic and decent conversions to this day.
If you do minimal linking work, then your site will pop up and then fade off.
If you spend a bit of time on each site, then your life cycle will be substantially longer. Years instead of months.
There is a trade-off for everything.
@ Mandy - the comments have those date stamps because I added a bunch at the same time to showcase how the average rating thing worked.
The idea here is for your USERS to add comments. Not you… so changing timestamps is a non issue.
I do NOT condone faking comments. That’s what the FTC classifies as misleading advertising.
Something you definitely don’t wanna do…
@Tom, I will see what I can do. Can’t make any promises, because we’ve had some new developments arise as of today. We should still be on track for Wednesday, though.
@Dave, re: copied sites… um, no. Affiliate Genie is a profitable framework for building your OWN content.
So if someone is swiping your content, then that’s copyright infringement and you can file a DMCA complaint against them and their host.
Also, you can easily add opt-in forms to any page on your AG sites. Just click the “HTML” button in your WYSIWYG editor and copy in the code from Aweber, or whatever your AR provider may be.
@ Mick - Absolutely. You can add your own additional pages if necessary, but we have a mandatory Privacy Policy and Disclaimer page that you can customize to suit your situation and legal jurisdiction.
@Stephen - thanks! Yep, AG is something that serious affiliates who produce GOOD content will benefit from a lot…
Cheers
-Chris
42 Domains at Retail // Nov 27, 2009 at 8:33 pm
I don’t think I’ll ever like article writing even though I do more of it now..
I find wordpress easy to setup so was on the fence on this.. For $97 I will probably give it a try just to see how fast it is and if I can use it to build a quick CMS for my web clients even
The fact that the code will not be encrypted is great as we can then customize it to our needs? I’m guessing no restrictions on that
Will the theme be able to get changed via a couple of include files? Like wp
Do we get templates for the top sales banner? Either psd files or editable text?
Also, for patches /upgrade how easy will that be? (for ex the redirect URL’s patch you mentioned) As simple as reupload and then publish in the backend? Will themes be easy to select like this in the backend?
Will there also be a way to do quick backups at intervals? Or if you hit publish and it fails to update the html? Will there be a recovery mechanism? I guess backup is as easy as download everything
I just like the wp plugin that auto backs up and emails me the db backup at set intervals
43 Ian // Nov 27, 2009 at 8:59 pm
Hi Chris, perfect timing I’m currently going into a new niche and was on the lookout for a wordpress template when I saw your email.
Quick question about the templates. Can you switch off the sidebar so you can limit the distractions and use it for ppc landing pages?
44 Celeb Gossip // Nov 27, 2009 at 9:43 pm
Amazing , this is such a time saver for most of us that like to put out at least 4 or 5 new niche sites monthly. I use XSP 2 and also Wordpress for some of the blogs and the awesome features they offer this is a must have for my business and sure it will be for many other Online business folks.
45 Mandy // Nov 27, 2009 at 9:51 pm
Thanks for the heads-up - not very comfortable with things like that
46 Mandy // Nov 27, 2009 at 9:52 pm
Chris, btw, do you have a members forum for your paid products?
47 Golf Swing Guru // Nov 27, 2009 at 10:09 pm
Hi Chris,
Another question: I was looking at one of your sample sites and I want to know if the url structure will be the same on the release version, i.e.
http://www.guitarbeagle.com/index.php?p=articles/gutair_tutorials/guitar_playing_tips_and_forming_good_habits
I am not sure if the - index.php?p=articles - is good for SEO purposes. Does this have to be the structure of our sites?
Also, the use of the (_) underscore instead of the (-) dash - Can that be changed?
And finally, the home page URL is:
http://www.guitarbeagle.com/index.php?p=pages/home
Is it possible to be just: http://www.guitarbeagle.com
Thanks,
Mick
48 Gail Fernley // Nov 27, 2009 at 11:03 pm
Hi Chris,
Love the look of AG and the price can’t be beat… But I, too, echo the sentiments of Ian just a couple posts above: Can you somehow use the AG for squeeze type pages or ppc landing pages or, perhaps for longer sales pages as some other WP themes are capable of doing?
Thanks,
Gail
49 Golf Swing Guru // Nov 27, 2009 at 11:18 pm
Hi Chris,
Sorry, another question:
If I create 4 categories, for example, will I be able to specify a top ad for each category?
In other words, if I have the following categories - blue widgets, red widgets, green widgets and yellow widgets, will I be able to show a relevant ad for each category and each article in that category? Like the green widget ad shows for every article and review in the green widget category and the red widget ad shows for each article and review in the red widget category?
This would be important for building larger sites with related but not specifically similar categories: i.e. loans, debt, credit, taxes.
Thanks,
Mick
50 Chuck Swope // Nov 28, 2009 at 1:49 am
What hapened to the video? I couldn’t play it earlier because i had laptop in a public place, I saved the e-mail and came back and video is not here?
51 Chuck Swope // Nov 28, 2009 at 2:07 am
I found the demo video, again.
If one doesn’t want to write articles can they rewrite PLR articles and use those for content?
52 Ken // Nov 28, 2009 at 2:37 am
Hi Chris,
Just to double-check -
can Amazon, eBay, and CPA offers be added to AG?
(Without breaking “it”.
Thanks
53 Ken // Nov 28, 2009 at 3:22 am
Hi Rick,
Re Your Questions:
“How does your program compare?
Here they are..in no particular order:
Wordpress Mage…$1297!
Site Profit Bot…$67+upgrade to Pro version+monthly outlay.
Auto Profit Launcher…still waiting on the price (one off…hooray!) ((Dunno how much though?))…”
Maybe this will help -
WPMage - is well presented, and I’d advise taking the 2 month free trial (the non-automated version), as there is some good material in there.
As far as the Pricing!?
I wrote Jack Humphrey (a big promoter) words to the effect that -
Pricing is totally out of touch with the realities of the economy and his target audience.
He might be going for a quick million, but sales have yet to get close to their goals.
(Reading between the lines here…)
Site Profit Bot…$67+ ($47 per month after free 30-days).
In one sense its darn cheap (ignoring the insane amount of upselling by “JP”), and if you really want to own 1000 sites (I’d advise testing with .info domains, and then buying “good” domains for the winners) it might be the way to go.
(I’m trying it out right now.)
The problem is this (and I might be a tad more sophisticated than the average “consumer”) -
to me at least they are very obviously scraper sites, that contain snippets of text, and many (annoying) blinking/flashing adverts.
With only 3 templates (to start with), and 1000s if not 10s of thousands being built, these thing are going to leave a footprint the size of Godzilla’s. imho
Also, the blog doesn’t appear to be a real blog, but only articles that you have to ftp up.
Also, you can only enter one keyword -
it generates all the rest.
Apparently part of the “plan” is to increase visitor stay time, by opening up all non-affiliate links (that go back to scarped content-source) in light-boxes. Slow to load (and to me annoying).
On the bright-side?
Its got a profile builder (to clone sites), and an article research / plagiarism checker thingie which are pretty neat.
The basic idea appears to be get that sucker to click on something/anything before they flee!
Re: Auto Profit Launcher
No idea…
Hope this helps!
54 Ken // Nov 28, 2009 at 3:35 am
Re: Auto Profit Launcher
(Just watched videos.)
Sure sounds like a lot of hyped up you know what.
The thing I like about the AG concept, is its “just” a tool that you are free to use as you want.
55 Chirag // Nov 28, 2009 at 4:32 am
Hi Chris,
Is there any easy way to create nice looking comparison table automatically for all products which you are reviewing on your niche site? I know there are few WP plugins which are capable of doing that but is it easy to do with AG?
Thanks
Chirag
56 Robertino // Nov 28, 2009 at 4:53 am
Hi Chris,
This wait is worse than seeing my country lose the World Cup Soccer finals.
Will you be including some thrustworthy sources to buy real and quality reviews from ?
I remember that Dave sent out a mailing once for Articlez, but they don’t specifically mention reviews.
I tried a writer from eLance once for reviews, and about a month later saw 2 very similar reviews at another site. I guessed that they were about 60/70% the same content. The conclusion was word for word exactly the same. Problem is that the other site’s reviews were about 2 weeks older. They must have spun the reviews and passed them on to me.
These reviews were $15 a piece, but I let it slide. In the spirit of “learned a lesson”.
Good luck with the launch. B-)
57 Erik // Nov 28, 2009 at 6:36 am
Looks fantastic Chris. I can see how it has everything Google rates well, and you have full control over the site to make it unique and content rich.
One thing that I see noted in another comment but not fixed: The demo option seems disabled. it gives error 404. A temporary glitch no doubt.
58 JOE // Nov 28, 2009 at 7:52 am
HI CHRIS.
Congratulations, looks like a fantastic product. I think it will help me to take some real action. Just one question, Will it work on a Mac? Here” hoping. THANKS.
Slainte
JOE
59 John Stewart // Nov 28, 2009 at 9:23 am
Hi Chris
Well you have done it again, damn you lo,l only joking. Fab Fab product let me buy it and let me sell it for you good luck with the launch no brainer really is it! best of luck the genie is out of the bottle!!!!!
John
60 Roger // Nov 28, 2009 at 9:31 am
Hi Chris,
How does Affiliate Genie compare to Site Profit Bot which is being heavily promoted at the moment.
Is one superior to the other or are they very different beasts, taking a differnt approach to marketing online.
Your thoughts would be appreciated.
Roger
61 pinewinds8 // Nov 28, 2009 at 11:35 am
Hey Chris,
Let me say right off the bat that I have a LOT of respect for your knowledge on EVERYTHING that has to do with affiliate marketing. I have been impressed with all of your products and services you roll out, and especially with your “no b.s.” approach and honesty with all your members.
Because of this I have purchased several of your products: “Confessions of a Lazy Super Affilitate, the Conduit Method, and most recently the AffIntel. And not it looks like I will be buying this AffGenie product. It does look very useful.
Now, I must say that even though I have purchased many of your products in an effort to become a serious affiliate marketer, I am very far from being successful. Here’s how I think why………LACK OF LINKS, and LACK OF GOOD CONTENT.
Call me cheap but I have never been able to justify buying into LinkVana for $150/month. I have done the article marketing, applied all yours and everybody else’s SEO tactics, used the niche categories you have suggested, and have NOT been paralysed into inaction. I have tried a 3-way link service (you were a huge proponent of one of them once) but now all I hear is that those are poor quality links. So, EVERYTHING of yours I have bought and applied is basically moot because I can’t justify the high monthly cost of BUYING LINKS.
CONTENT. This is another weak link and is not because of anything you haven’t offered. The Conduit Method requires A LOT of research and digging. Then it requires a real SKILL in sorting out and organizing the information into concise recaps for the potential buyer. If you have these skills (like you), then yeah, you CAN put together a good site in a few days. For me and probobly the rest of us it can take a long time. The AffGenie should help in the time factor because it is a template that you just plug the content into. But that CONTENT is what you and your products have no control over. It’s US who have to find it (TIME). It’s US who have to edit it (TIME & SKILL). Now if this content is on the weak side, there is nothing the AffGenie template can do to make the content better. A chain is only as strong as its weakest link.
So please, share your thoughts on these two issues: LINKS & CONTENT.
As a skeptic, I often wonder if you are the only one benefiting here. Rolling out these tools (and in a clever incremental pattern) for us to buy certainly helps your bottom line, but I truly wonder how many of your members have substantially increased their income using them.
Lastly, I know the AffIntel involves millions of keywords, but it sure would be nice if you got the web-based platform out to all of us. The static one we have now is not very useful.
PCD
PS…you still have my highest respect as a businessman and innovator. You are in an envious position.
62 Rick // Nov 28, 2009 at 12:49 pm
Hi Ken,
Thanks for taking the time to give me some additional info on these programs.The more I think about these scraper site builders,the more I feel that they are at best,just a diversion to doing things that are going to last.And,if they were as effective as they say they are,why are they going to all the time and trouble to develope them?My bet is that they were working well at one time,but due to their very nature,they eventually become less effective,and so they end up flogging their systems to us muppets!Cynical…moi?I am glad to say that admin did not delete my earlier post.In fact,they posted a response which cleared a few things up in my mind.
63 SEAN-DANIEL (UK) // Nov 28, 2009 at 3:02 pm
The last comments demonstrating concerns about Link Strategy Costs and Content have some merit.
However the key question is whether Chris is correct at a STRATEGY level, in so far as AG is designed to CONDITION the Motivated buyer at a specific stage of the sales cycle for Bigger Ticket sales. It is not a mini-site Strategy displaying multiple revenue streams including Adsense, which when you LOOK critically at the sites types ( inc all those nice new releases ), create a Visitor frustration and/or random INTERUPTED flow. CONTENT has to have an element of creativity albeit sales creativity- you just can’t get away from it ! Time invested translates into quality of Motivated BUYER experience.
As for Link Strategy Costs- Chris you must be putting some volume through LinkVana now and in the future, and are close enough to leverage a better deal which really you should co-opt or even white label in some way as AG is married to linking for Organic traffic. As a slightly semi-automatic method, people could also look to my Belorussian cousins for SEO PowerSuite / Link Assistant which is the ‘dogs bollocks’ for approx $250; and for CONTENT for one of the versions of Jonathon Ledgers Instant Article Wizard which is a proven quality method.
64 Jeremy // Nov 28, 2009 at 7:52 pm
@Pinewinds –
At some point, you as the marketer have to add some value in order to get paid. And in this area, that means producing high quality content, aimed at buyers (this is important–high quality content aimed at tire-kickers and lookie-loos won’t make any money), and getting the technical aspects right so you don’t get in your own way.
AG is about getting the technical aspects right so you can work on great content and links. Of course there’s work and you need to add value.
If AG could just “auto-populate” with good content, chris wouldn’t sell it for $97 or even $9,700–he’d just run the software on his own servers again and again and rake in the money. The reason he doesn’t is because it takes time and talent to create content, and he doesn’t have the time to hit every niche.
But you have time to find a niche or two and learn to write for it.
There’s got to be something you know about or are willing to learn. Read 5-10 books on the subject, and you’ll know more than 95% of the people in your niche and be an expert.
If you don’t want to learn a niche, then learn how to interview for a JOB
65 Phil de Fontenay // Nov 29, 2009 at 12:39 am
Hi Chris,
Will AG accept site written in other languages?
I need to set up sites using Chinese characters.
Thanks
Phil
66 Dan // Nov 29, 2009 at 2:39 am
I’d like to see a site made by AG, or a site that wasn’t made by AG but could have been, that is earning at least $100/month.
My hangup is finding good CPA offers to integrate into the site using text links, or banners, that have a chance of ranking in top 3 on Google under related keyphrases. Doesn’t matter if it’s long-tail or is a “buying” keyphrase. I’m finding that the parent company of the CPA offer is #1 or #2 on Google for the main keyword and variants of it. And the parent company is an authority site with aged domain and hundreds of backlinks that I have snowball’s chance in hell to knock off.
So, I understand the strategy of conduit system/profit loophole, but can somebody show me a site where it works? Where it beats the parent advertiser (which specific key phrases?). My experience is that Google is constantly refining their search algorithm and is listing the authority sites over the newer, affiliate coded sites even if they are highly optimized for long tail and purchasing keywords
67 admin // Nov 29, 2009 at 4:26 am
Dan,
You don’t have to “beat” anyone when you’re producing unique content.
50% of your search engine traffic will be long-tail derivatives when you employ the conduit menthodology.
The point is that if you think you “need” to rank for a certain keyword, then you’re not seeing the big picture.
You’re not going to be #1 for the “best” keywords, or even the product keywords. Hardly ever.
The key is to simply produce content ABOUT those products, along with helpful complimentary content, and then get your site spidered, indexed and build some linking foundation so that you become seen as relevant…. and authoritative in narrow vertical.
This results in a small but steady stream of highly targeted traffic.
Even in competitive niches.
You wanna see a site that’s earned over your monthly “requirement” for almost 2 years now?
It’s one that I built almost specifically to showcase my strategies in Confessions:
RegistryRemedies.com
(And that’s one of my lower-scale earners. Capped out at around $1k a month at prime).
I didn’t “optimize” that site for anything. I just produced content that was original and based on obvious product-related things that people were searching for.
You need to stop complicating the process and thinking that there’s limited rankings.
When you gain ACTUAL experience by seeing your own stats, you’ll see that unique, targeted content + links = traffic.
Whether you’re using AG, Wordpress, Dreamweaver - whatever. That’s the reality.
-Chris
68 admin // Nov 29, 2009 at 4:34 am
@Pinewinds…
Well, basically it’s ditto what Jeremy said.
And as for your comment about using Aff Intel… let’s ask Jason about how “useless” it is:
http://www.thelazymarketer.com/blog/2009/11/18/affiliate-intelligence-beta-tester-makes-23k-in-a-month/
-Chris
69 Charles // Nov 29, 2009 at 3:11 pm
I’m really excited about getting AG and start using it to save time producing conduit sites. However, I have a concern with the recent Google clamp down on review sites. How will this affect conduit sites?
70 pinewinds8 // Nov 29, 2009 at 4:16 pm
Sorry, Chris. That probably wasn’t the wisest choice of words on my part. Consider me a rookie goalie who is just yanked from the game for allowing too many goals. There is frustration and bummage, but he knows he can do better.
With every comment I read, with every affiliate site I attempt, and with all the advice I get from your posts, I keep getting better.
I’ll keep you posted how things go.
71 Day Trading for Beginners // Nov 29, 2009 at 11:16 pm
Your software looks good. The only thing I would like is some way of auto-posting content to it, saving the time and hassles of trying to get articles written on a regular basis.
Barry
72 Bobby // Nov 30, 2009 at 5:25 am
Hi Chris,
Thanks for all your “good stuff”! I’m a very frustrated “not-so-newbie” who’s made the grand total of $23.00 so far!
I’m slowly putting it together and hoping that I’m on the right track by integrating the Conduit Method with Aff. Intel and (soon) Aff. Genie. Is this correct?
One the you’ve mentioned recently is the FTC requirements. Looking at the RegistryRemedies.com site I can’t seem to see it. Is this because already-established sites don’t need it?
Thanks again.
Best wishes,
Bobby
73 Vitaly // Nov 30, 2009 at 6:38 am
In sales letter you stated: “Additionally, our user agreement makes it possible for the person who buys your ‘Genie sites to legally own a limited license of Affiliate Genie, exclusive to the site(s) purchased from you.”
What ere the limitations of license? How good AG for making sites for sell?
74 Jeremy1st // Nov 30, 2009 at 9:04 am
Looking forward to Wednesday.
Chris, is it possible to insert my own header.
thanks
75 Trend Trading System // Nov 30, 2009 at 10:39 am
I can attest to what Chris / Admin said above. If the overall theme of your conduit type site focused on “on the verge of buying” type visitors..you don’t need to rank #1 or even on page 1 of Google to get sales. That’s a relief.
Chris, do you have time right now to give a quick review of sites using your $67 service.
Thanks
76 The Passive Income Queen - Manon // Nov 30, 2009 at 6:24 pm
WOW this looks awesome, I mean I use Wordpress and I thought you were kidding when you said the same as…I can see how these sites can be the “arrival” of the buying process. I will get it for sure!
Great work.
77 alex sked // Nov 30, 2009 at 7:32 pm
Hi Chris, everything I have learned over the years has just clicked into place with my sight of affiliate genie, and its easy operation.This is next level stuff you have come up with!
Thanks friend, Alex Sked Scotland.
78 Daniel // Dec 1, 2009 at 9:47 am
Chris,
Just a brief question..
If I find 5 products in a niche that are obvious sellers, but I can only be an affiliate for some of them; if I build conduit-review style pages for all of them anyway and promote one affiliate offer as my top offer, that’d still be okay right?
It’d still be buyers I’m targeting, right?
-Daniel
79 Daniel // Dec 1, 2009 at 10:30 am
It’s okay, you’ve answered my question in the Conduit Method report already, and in a big blue important box too. Man, I’m such a dimwit…:)
- Daniel
80 fire70053 // Dec 1, 2009 at 1:25 pm
chris…im new at this WHOLE marketing…where can i start first? can you help?
-celeste
81 Mike // Dec 1, 2009 at 3:10 pm
fire70053 You can start by buying the lazy marketer confessions of a lazy superaffiliate - link is at the top of the page
82 Glen Rees // Dec 1, 2009 at 6:49 pm
I cannot see anywhere if the aff genie software provides a p0lace to enter your own pinglist.
Where is it CHRIS?
83 Robertino // Dec 2, 2009 at 8:57 am
Hi Chris,
Forget about me blabbering that Articlez does not specifically mentions reviews.
I went through the lnk at the top of the side bar.
I always missed the huge big red button with “Learn More”.
On the page that comes after clicking it, they mention product reviews twice.
Sure helps, because I do not have the products I would like to review.
Mea Culpa Maxima.
84 Paul // Dec 4, 2009 at 9:17 am
Did you launch this yet? Please send me an email if you get the chance to let me know. I think this will fit my plan right now. Just got done purchasing 50 domains over the past couple of weeks after finishing my keyword research. Your tool seems perfect.
85 Jeremy // Dec 4, 2009 at 10:53 am
For people that aren’t designers, I think this will be a hit.
Yes, you “can” do the the exact same thing in Wordpress, if you’re willing to purchase a theme and tweak it, or use far more than $97 worth of your time to make a theme from scratch.
As far as content goes, I think you need one of the following (if you have both, you’ll clean up to the tune of 5 or even 6 figures per month):
1. Absolutely perfect, spot on, niche selection.
2. Extremely knowledgeable, first hand experience in the niche that you can communicate.
Do you want to see an example of #2?
http://anarchangel.blogspot.com/2009/12/measure-for-measure.html
This is a 3,000+ word blog post on choosing a chronograph for a shooting. If I were the author of this blog, I’d turn this post into a full-fledged mini-review site to promote chronographs. Some re-arranging and cutting and pasting of the content, and you’d have a nice product focused site + well informed theory of how to choose a product.
Many affiliate review sites merely parrot the maker’s description of the product. That’s weak–every merchant with a feed does the same, without having to re-type it.
As an affiliate, you need to bring knowledge and experience to the table.
If you can’t afford to buy or borrow the product, or read a couple books about the topic, you’re going to have a hard time competitng.
Yes, if you pick the perfect niche (big demand, small supply, big commissions) and really just throw a bunch of mediocre content at it, you can probably make money.
But if you apply knowledge and experience, you can make decent money in a small niche.
Imagine if you made a mini-review site on chronographs with the type of information from the link above. Do you think a bunch of Warrior Forum wanna-bes and other amateur affiliates are going to compete with you in that market? You’ll own it. All the gun forums will link to your site as the most informed site on chronographs. You’ll get real, quality links, without manipulation.
If you wanted to, you could eventually expand the site into a full fledged authority site on chronographs. if the traffic got high enough, you could start taking orders yourself and dropship and really boost margins (commissions on hardgoods are usually in the single digit percentages, when you dropship you can usually double or triple that amount plus you get a customer on your list for added backend value).
86 Richard // Dec 7, 2009 at 4:23 pm
In your vid in the AG site you mention buiding a responsive list isn’t that easy. Even so (and maybe I missed it) isn’t there at least an option to add an opt-in?
Richard
87 Anthony // Dec 10, 2009 at 1:37 pm
Hi Chris,
Just have a basic question about this site we’re on now, I’m curious to know if it was built with the Affiliate Genie software?
All your products rock BTW.
-Anthony
Nashville, TN
88 Fred // Dec 10, 2009 at 3:29 pm
I use ArticleMarketingAutomation.com to drive traffic to my sites. It publishes my spun articles and expects me to post other peoples’ articles on my site. It’s a win-win because everyone gets links and everyone gets unique content (spinner built in to their system). They support WordPress, Drupal, etc. and any other site that has either an XML-RPC API or an Atom API. Does/will AG have this support?
89 Joan // Dec 14, 2009 at 10:31 am
re: top promo
Does AG run only one top promo across all pages of the site?
Or can one change the top promo on a page-by-page basis? I can think of review sites where I would definitely want to do this.
90 Tuan // Dec 14, 2009 at 6:45 pm
Okay so I purchased Affiliate Genie and everything about it is nicely laid and and very easy to navigate…
BUT….. The one thing Chris that I don’t know why you didn’t put this in AG was to have the ability to load up content and have it published on on a later date…
That’s one of the benefits of using Wordpress cause you can preload plenty of articles of content and spread it out to be published periodically without having to do it manually.
I think this is the only BIG FLAW I see with AG and I would love to see an update that has this feature!
Let me know what you think Chris!
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