Hi Shantell, thank you for your kind comment - I'm always super excited to meet other programmers who also realize we are all in the marketing business! :D It's good to share the pain, lol.

Yes please, join discord anytime! I cannot constantly check WA, but my discord is always running. I've met many cool people on there in the game dev space, so I figured it could help in affiliate marketing too.

I remember back when I was creating my very first games... If I didn't have friends to show my progress, or simply a community to exchange ideas, I don't know if I could have fought through all the struggle and challenges. That's why I love WA so much, it has the community we all so desperately need to push through.

Whatever you need, feel free to reach out!

Talk again soon,
James

Hi Harry! I don't know how exactly the internet is handled in China. I only "hear" things about censorship and firewalls, preventing certain pages and content to be seen in China.

All I know is that Jerry Huang @JerryHuang here on WA is very successful and he recently started to blog specifically for Chinese people. So that seems to work!

From personal experience, it is hard for me to give reliable advice. Ask yourself maybe these questions:
- Can I write very good English?
- Can I actually get paid my commissions, if I'm living in China?
- Can everyone in the world access my website?

If the answer is "No" to one of the questions above, then I would probably stick to the Chinese market.

This is just my guess, how I would approach it - I'm really not suited to give reliable advice to your specific situation! Try to talk to Jerry maybe, or search online what other Chinese affiliate marketers say.

Hey, James, thank you for your reply, I will pay attention to Mr. Jerry Huang and seriously think about the three questions you raised.

Good luck Harry! And if you have other questions, you can always write me too :)

Hi Robert! Thank you for your kind welcome message. I've seen several of your posts here on WA and they were all full of value & secret tips - so of course I follow you :D Thank you for the follow back, it is much appreciated!

I'll gladly get back to you when I'm stuck somewhere. Thanks for your help, I hope we stay in touch!

Cheers,
James

No probs James and if/when you read my blogs make sure you choose the ones that will help you in conjunction with whatever training you are currently taking.

Have a great Friday and the weekend to come.
Robert
PS
Clicking the 'Like' next to Reply shows the WA algorithm that you are getting involved with the community and it does affect your rank within WA.

Many times when I want more info about a training, I use the search bar at the top - and there's usually a result with one of your blogs! With 500+ blog posts it's easy to come across your guides.

I didn't know that liking is part of the WA activity level! However, I liked your reply because it's truly helpful :D

Take care and I hope we talk again soon!
Cheers

No probs James and as far as I'm concerned its 100% ok not to bother what your rank is within WA.
You are here to learn and make money and that must take priority over anything else.

There are many members who after they join become fixated on what their rank is and become obsessed on becoming an Ambassador.
It takes a lot of work to become one and maintain that level and at the end of the day it wont make them any money.

9 times out of 10 their learning curve and therefore their possible income potential suffers and they leave.

You do what's important to you and you can't go wrong.
Have a good one.
Robert

Yes, I have also had my fair share of distractions in the past! But that feeling of "regret" is helping me stay focused now, more than ever.

Ever onwards and upwards James and never look back is my motto.
Now as the sun is out here in Edinburgh I'm off out for a couple of hours because I know it wont last lol.

Haha enjoy! :D

Hi Citronella! I've been told several times now to follow the training to the letter - I'm happy to hear this is a viable tactic. What's better than following a proven plan! :D

I hope too we'll stay in touch during this journey! Thank you for welcoming me to the team and your kind words.

Talk again soon!

Hi Jules, thank you for the welcome! I will follow your advice and train hard - and even if success comes slow, I'll keep training & training. Thanks for the encouragement and have a great day too!

Hi Tim, thanks for your kind message & support! Much appreciated! Focus & consistency are probably my biggest enemies for sure.

Hi Kudakwashe! I'm happy you've achieved all your dreams through WA! I hope I'll follow in your footsteps over the coming years and become a superaffiliate also :) What I like the most about WA is having a clear structure, the fact that I always know exactly what I have to do today. Now I can spend more time creating, and less time planning.

Hey Karin thanks a lot! So far I'm loving it also, the training is super clear and I always know what I have to do next, which feels great. Let's hope I'm doing it right and will get results in the future :D

Thank you Mickey! Much appreciated :D I hope your blog(s) are doing great meanwhile!

Thank you Snazzy, really cool of you to say that :D I hope I can model you guys & learn from you all!

You are welcome and you shall be a success :)

I hope we both will be :D

Hey Steven! Thanks for your comment & for checking out my websites :D

Yeah games is not really considered a profitable niche for affiliate marketers. It's pretty much pure entertainment, which is a whole different type of business - at least that's what I've been told. I think the more profitable angle is to make tutorials & guides for others to learn programming. You might have noticed I'm promoting Udemy courses on Mobile App development there, but so far my readers were not interested in that.

Fun games are cool to keep people engaged on a website, but it's also very hard to rank a game page because they have no text, meaning no content that helps your SEO. 90% of that site's traffic is going on my tutorial posts - my games get hardly any plays at all, not even by those who've read a tutorial.

On your profile it says you are on Twitch! That's so cool! What do you stream?

Yes the marketing related site is brand new. But there shouldn't be any 404's... The eBook & "How To" pages are empty, but the blog itself should be up and running with 1 blog post. Weird that you got a 404, I'll have to look into that.

Thanks for the follow, I hope we'll stay in touch!

Cheers

Gaming can definitely be affiliated, mostly the reviews on hardware, but there are also the affiliate programs that share commissions on game sales.

Getting traffic to a site with games is absolutely possible, but it requires you to either:
1) produce SEO rankable content on that site alongside the games, such as blogs.
2) or use other platforms and media to push traffic towards it. Be it advertising or just a very good use of social media, it is all possible. Most of it is relatively cheap, especially when you just utilize (and figure out) social media.
3) In your case, especially if you happen to have made games on steam, you could even push the games to influencers through platforms like keymailer or woovit. Streamers will pick it up for a try and stream it perhaps or create youtube reviews. In this latter, you could also just reach out to influencers in the field personally through DM's on insta or twitter.

As for tutorials, yes they do well on the internet, but that attracts a different crowd. You might want to split that off, or just make an own section on the website, so that you can separate the gamers from the wannabe developers.

On Twitch I have a very small appearance and following at the moment. I do hope to use it for programming teaching in the future or to reach out to my brand audience to answer questions. I stream (not all that regular) some games like Minecraft and Forager among others. It used to be every Tuesday and Thursday in the Oslo timezone, but I have gotten too busy with side-hustles, so it is more likely sometimes for now. Might stream a bit tomorrow.

I figured that you fixed that one little error I found - or it was a weird way of error on my end. Not sure. It was somewhere in the read-more I think. Works fine now.

Steven

Thank you for the insight, Steven!

You are spot on, the audience that plays games and the audience that wants to program them, are completely different! I think that's why the website ended up in such a weird spot: It was trying to serve both - and in the end nobody feels at home.

What I meant to say above is that getting traffic for a pure browser games website is super hard, for all the reasons you mentioned also.

So I think a blog with programming tutorials would have a much easier time ranking and generating traffic.

I understand your Twitch situation - it is very time consuming to stream! I've never played Minecraft (shame on me) but I had a quick look at the Forager demo when it was still in early development because I was following the developer on Twitter.

And hugeeeee thanks for confirming that the 404 errors are gone on my online marketing blog!! I really appreciate that.

Have a wonderful weekend!
James

Hi Wendy, thank you for the kind welcome :D Connecting with like-minded people was one of the major drivers why I finally joined WA premium! It's time to stop hiding in my room and share the learning experience openly with others :)

I hope you are already achieving your dreams! Keep in touch!

Hi Johan, thank you for the encouraging words! I really feel like I've come to the right place here :D If you want, check out my "New WA Member"-Post that I wrote earlier today.

I hope we'll stay in touch as I continue this incredible journey in online marketing!

Hey Art, much appreciated! Hope to hear more feedback from you while I'm going down this path :D

Thank you for being part of your network James. Being a game developer you are in the right path to be an affiliate marketer of WA and I'm pretty sure you will be making lots of sales on your game apps. Wishing you more success.