Affiliate SEO is NOT dead. It just evolved.
I recently joined Kasra Dash’s show to unpack why most SEOs have given up on affiliate marketing. Which is a massive mistake.
Here’s what we covered:
✅ Why Google’s Helpful Content Updates wrecked 90% of affiliate sites, and why that’s not the end but a reset
✅ How I pivoted from pure SEO into Google Ads + YouTube affiliate funnels and now run multiple profit-split ventures with top agencies
✅ The rise of Parasite SEO, semantic SEO, and “ecommerce mimicry” as winning affiliate strategies
✅ Why you don’t need to own the product, traffic or email list to build a wildly profitable affiliate engine
✅ How elite affiliates are leveraging other people’s traffic, sub-affiliate links, and exclusive commission deals to stay ahead
✅ Why I wrote The Payout Mafia to expose what’s actually working today, from parasite SEO to paid traffic arbitrage to blackhat “churn & burn” plays
✅ And why the affiliate world is splitting in two: audience-first vs algorithm-first operators. No more middle.
Most people quit affiliate SEO because they didn’t want to adapt.
If you want tactical insights from people who are still doing the work, check the podcast and grab the book – The Payout Mafia available here.
- The Book