With the end of the year coming, it has been a bit slow in the affiliate world. Aside from a kinda-sorta change in Google’s organic rankings (some reports say Google’s results are looking almost as bad as MSN’s in certain verticals *gasp*), this week has been, well, boring.

Never fear fair affiliators, the lull in excitement brings out the best in affiliate and online marketing bloggers…maybe not me, but other bloggers.

Want proof? Check out Randfish’s Cliches in the SEO World over at SEOmoz. A couple of my favorites are:

MSN/Yahoo!/Google/Ask Sucks

They usually “suck” because theyre not sending you traffic and then, when you finally get things right on your site, they suddenly “rule.”

And…

Ive Been Thinking of Going White Hat

One of your big sites got banned and suddenly youre thinking that hard work and unique content and hours of labor are more attractive than 3 hours at the computer every night on your $1K-per-day churn and burns… Why am I skeptical?

The full list is pretty funny, especially if you ever attended a search marketing conference, where you’ll hear at least two of these clich