Bjorn Says

Review: The Affiliate Conspiracy by Eric Rockefeller

First things first, Eric did one thing I really like in this product. The main report itself is available at $0. Doesn’t cost a dime. Kudos for that. What he charges for is the two additional reports “AdWords Best Practices” on how to use AdWords better, and “Relationship Marketing” on how to better create a relationship with your lists, and the set of 26 instructional videos weighing in at around 2 1/2 hours tutorials of what’s discussed in the reports, both the free and the two additional ones.

The main report was good. Not great, but ok. Eric introduces what he calls his “Autopilot Money Machine“, which is more or less standard affiliate practice:

Find a market/niche that looks profitable

Examine the competition to find out what keywords and ads work best

Set up your landing pages on their own domains or on free blogging platforms

Set up your AdWords campaigns using the keywords and ads based on what works for the competition

Track, test and refine your keywords and ads to find out what works and what needs to be dropped

Rinse and repeat

Eric says he’s going to show us a market and exactly how he profits from it using his “Autopilot Money Machine” - and yeah, he shows a market. But that’s about it. There’s the basic overview of where to go to find niches, but nothing on how he chooses a “profitable” one.

Next there’s a chapter on examining the competition (find, spy, swipe) to find out what’s profitable using either Affiliate Elite or SpyFu, and finding keywords using Googles Suggestion Tool. Standard practice here too: use a broad phrase to find more targeted keywords and phrases. He also explains that you need a domain containing your main keyword or phrase, and how you shouldn’t have any ads or other distracting elements to make sure the visitor has only one action to take - clicking your affiliate link. Oh, really?

Eric explains the philosophy (ok, not quite but i like the word “philosophy”) behind creating review-type landing pages, using his own xbox 360 repair landing page (XBox360 Redlight Fix #1 and #2 ). Those two are very good examples. I like to put in one or two products I give negative reviews on as well, to add to the “honest guy getting ripped off”-image.

The Affiliate Conspiracy is pretty much Affiliate Marketing 101. The videos makes the package feel more solid than I’m used to with these types of products.

The free report surprised me by actually being more revealing than most other free reports. There’s no question as to whether the report is meant to sell the full package or not, but it still provides enough information and instructions to be considered good learning material if you’re new to affiliate marketing.

I like the two additional reports, especially the report on relationship marketing.

The instructional videos covers everything from a short presentation of ClickBank to installing your own blogs, from using spyfu to building lenses and hubpages. He also shows how to build a multiple-page landing system.

All in all I think it’s a pretty decent package, and I’m confident that you will find solid information and learn quite a bit if you’re either new to affiliate marketing, or have already dipped your toes for a while but still not grasping everything in full. If you’re a seasoned veteran, this is not for you…

If you’re not quite sure where on the scale you are, visit the site and sign up to get the free report. If you skim it through and realise there’s nothing new to you, consider yourself a seasoned veteran