There's probably a lot more affiliate marketing out there than you realize, it's just the obvious (and scammy) ones that you and most others view as being "affi

There's probably a lot more affiliate marketing out there than you realize, it's just the obvious (and scammy) ones that you and most others view as being "affiliate marketing". There's plenty of legitimate affiliate marketing out there, though. How many blogs have you seen with an Amazon widget? Chances are, if a reader buys something from Amazon after clicking that widget, they get a percentage kickback from that. It's just performance based advertising rather than click or view based. Then on the other side of the spectrum, you have the people making shell sites with sales pitches and shady offers crowding up the Google results, and forums of people trying to figure out how to make a quick buck without adding anything of value. But you get that with adsense and other types of advertising as well.