There were several excellent posts last week on closed-network communities like Webmasterworld regarding a possible OOP or Over-optimization penalty assessed on Dec 7th; if you lost an affiliate site recently to Google's ever-changing index, that might be why.
For this week though, I'm going to briefly cover the importance of education; I'm writing this post from the back row of the Elite Retreat conference.
No matter how good you think you are at affiliate marketing, search optimization, branding, etc...there's always a little more that you could know. Even if you find out how people are doing the wrong things, you'll have still learned something valuable. Everyone has a lesson to share, if you listen closely enough.
How are some ways you could continue on with your education? Read as many affiliate marketing blogs, forums, and newsletters that you can. Most will eventually contradict each other, in some form or fashion, and no one source should probably be taken as gospel. Instead, it is vital to gain multiple persepctives on what you believe will and will not work, and then put those perspectives to test.
Until next week!
JoeSinkwitz