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Comment on Ask HN: Does anyone actually make any money from Affiliate Advertising?

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Depends what you're selling, and how you sell it. I make maybe $10 a month posting affiliate links to Twitter, but it's because I'm trying to share things with people, not trying to make cash.

You'd better believe that somebody is making money on all of those "flat tummy" ads you see all over the web. A few years ago, black hat SEO got a lot more competitive -- you've really got to do criminal things (like hack people's Wordpress installations) to rank of highly competitive terms.

A lot of the people who were doing black hat SEO switched over to pay-per-click promotion of landing pages that push affiliate offers... Some people make pretty good money that way, but you can easily blow $500-$5000 on advertising before you've got figured out a campaign that actually makes money...

I know of a guy who spent about $3k a day on ads and made $5k in revenue. You've got to watch it like a hawk because if something goes wrong, you can burn cash pretty quick

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