Should affiliate marketers still consider ppc as viable

Should affiliate marketers still consider PPC as viable?

Is PPC still a viable affiliate marketing strategy? With the recent changes that Google has applied to their Adwords program, making money by using Adwords as your primary method for driving traffic to your site is becoming more and more difficult. There are alternatives worth considering.

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My introduction to affiliate marketing was through the Google Cash system that was selling through Clickbank. You could actually make money using only Google Adwords back then. You could easily purchase good keywords for what was then Google's minimum bid of .05 (five cents). I remember paying $1,000.00 a day for clicks at .05 a piece and doubling my money. Others did much better, I'm sure.

Man have times changed, and not for the better. Perhaps it would take a smarter person than me to understand, but the Google Adwords bidding system has become convoluted, illogical and just plain selfish.

Why is it that I can find a word with NO competitive ads and for which I use the keywords I'm bidding on in the ads title and Google won't even start displaying the ads until I've hit $1.00, $5.00 or more? This makes no sense to me what-so-ever.

Google talks about the bid price being determined by competition, relavency and other factors, but they ar

 

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