I'm Finding Out, in Public.

No paid advertising, no hype. I'm testing whether free traffic alone can build a real affiliate business, and sharing what I discover, good or bad.

There's Plenty of Advice About Making Money Online. But Does It Actually Work?

Everywhere you look, someone is promising to show you how to make money online.

But there's a question that rarely gets answered.

Where do you find the people who might actually want what you're offering?

You can have an excellent product, an attractive website and a carefully constructed marketing funnel.

But none of that matters if nobody visits.

That's why I started The Fish Test.

I'm investigating whether someone can still attract potential customers and build a genuine affiliate marketing business using free traffic rather than paid advertising.

And I'm sharing what happens along the way.

The Fish Are Out There. But Where?

I'm investigating five possible sources of free traffic

The experiment is about finding out where potential customers gather, what questions they're asking and whether useful contributions can attract visitors to a website.

More importantly, can those visitors become subscribers and eventually customers?

I'll report what works, what doesn't and what I learn.

I am Ian Ashbrook.

I've spent much of my working life dealing with business systems, technology and the practical problems of making things work.

I'm approaching online affiliate marketing with the same mindset.

Rather than accepting the claims made by online marketing experts, I want to investigate what actually happens when their ideas are put into practice.

I'm not promising anyone a particular income.

I'm conducting an experiment and inviting interested readers to follow it.

Can Free Traffic Really Build an Online Business?

That's what I'm trying to discover.

Follow the experiment and receive updates as I investigate different platforms, test approaches and report the results.

No hype. No income promises. Just a practical investigation.