Today was an interesting day. Originally I got my camera/mic setup to do a Thesis theme tutorial for Art of Blog when I found out someone had ripped a post that took several hours to compile and didn’t even drop an attribution link.
Don’t Miss the Point
Now I understand that this happens all the time. That is not what we are here to talk about today. Today I am challenging you affiliates to take a close look at the extractor model. For a long time this has been an amazing way of making money online with very little effort, however I predict that 2010 will be the year when the Affiliate Extractor model begins to die.
The Future of Extractors
The web is not a young naive place anymore. It is harder than ever to stay anonymous and slimy business models will being to be called out (like the ones I mentioned). Sure you will still be able to con unsuspecting users, but as users get more savvy these business models will begin to falter. Lets face it each and every user out there essentially has a Boom-mic thanks to Social Media and people are listening. Heck even Google and Bing are listening.
Left in the Dust
Lets face it, the web as we know it is changing. Are you going to get left in the dust?
To ensure that you don’t I challenge you to ask yourself this every day:
Am I adding value right now?
If the answer is no, then you can be quickly be cut out of the value chain and replaced by someone that does.
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Hear, hear!
I saw someone RTing about how to do multiple posts daily without having to write any. The only added value that has is hastening bandwidth overload.
Blogging becoming all about the blogger and his SEO and $$$,and nothingabout the quality of the content.
It won’t be the end of it, I remember posts like this a year ago and probably even before. Not to knock you though. I think a lot of it might be cut out with the interjection of a more social web, but inevitably the bh web will continue to evolve the exploitation of data.
Quality > quantity is an outlook and a very valid one, one that I think in the end will probably always profit and is always worth pursuing, we should be proud of the things we produce
My sentiments exactly, Woody!
%%robert