If everyone buys Affiliate Elite that is doing affiliate marketing. And everyone is using it to spy on others doing affiliate marketing. Who exactly will be doing the work? If I am relying on the data from AE to give me the keywords that are working for someone else, and that someone else is also using AE, where exactly are the keywords going to be coming from to make them money?

Ok, I realize the question is a bit flip. Stupid even. Affiliate marketing is quite large. Tons of products being bid on with tons of keywords. But how many campaigns are going to be discovered by multiple AE users? Everybody is in the dog training niche. After buying AE, I bet 50% of the users clicked start with the intent of finding out about dog training campaigns. (Admit it. You know you did.) Great, now everybody knows what the one poor sap was using to make a sale a day with some Crapbank product.

I realize that I’m making it out to be more simplistic than it really is. But am I? PPC is the big thing these days. It’s too hard to get yourself ranked anymore in the search engines so you buy some popularity. All the big dogs are doing it. Do you not think they are slamming the servers all day trying to maximize their PPC campaigns? What happens when all the guberus are back engineering all these affiliate campaigns? My guess is the little affiliate guy is going to get crushed trying to compete.

Perhaps some software genius is going to come up with a program to combat this tool. Maybe even Google. People spend too much time working at their business simply to have a bunch of opportunists steal their work.