3 Easy Traffic Generation Ideas For Free Affiliate Programs
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Remember the saying that nothing worth doing in life is free anymore? By and large I think it is true for the offline world. However, online things are still vastly different especially when you start talking about free affiliate programs.
What is an affiliate program?
It is a system that a vendor has put together whereby you make money by driving people to their website via display ads, sales letters and other creatives that they may or may not have developed for you to use.
All you have to do is pop their banner on your page, open your wallet and prepare for the onslaught of money to come pouring out of your computer. Right?
Not exactly, just because affiliate programs are free does not mean in any way that they are easy. However they can be profitable if you keep doing the right stuff long enough.
Here are 3 easy traffic generation ideas that will get you heading in the right direction.
*** Write. Right? Wrong! ***
You can write short articles that you place in strategic places on the web.
- EzineArticles.com
- Squidoo.com
- AssociatedContent.com
Are three locations to consider, because of Google’s love for them.
Tips for writing your articles include.
- Keep em short (300 – 500 words is best)
- Include your keyword in the title
- Also ad your keyword to the first and last paragraphs of your article.
- Use bullets and numbers to make scanning easy
- Write short paragraphs
Don’t miss writing bylines for your articles with at least one if not two links pointing back to your original content. And, if you are not a writer, consider creating videos, audios or other creatives to drive traffic to you instead.
*** Your Social Empire ***
Today’s Internet age is the age of social networks.
- Yahoo Answers
The list really is endless. Use them.
Writing your article and posting it out to a given location does not mean that you are done. Now start marketing the article, which leads back to your blog or Website with the affiliate add you are attempting to generate earnings for.
The more you can make your link pattern look like spokes on a wheel instead of just a single link from a single source the stronger presence you will take on the web.
That’s why I also use
- Ping.FM for social networking sites
- Onlywire.com for social bookmarking sites
*** Never Say Die ***
If you really want to break into the world of free affiliate programs then you must never quit. Only those who quit lose the game. As you become more proficient in your abilities you will begin making more moola.
If you’re strategically serious, tenaciously persistent and willing to learn alone the way you can be very successful in the affiliate marketing world.
Of course there are tools that can make your life a lot easier alone the way. One such tool opened the world of affiliate programs to me in a brand new and unexpected way. When I watched their brief video on how to promote affiliate products I knew it would be something I would want to share with others.
And so I did.
You can watch the Promote Affiliate Products video here.
===> Promoate Affiliate Products
Not only did I gain a lot from the video but I also became an affiliate for them because I recognize the value of what they are doing and wanted to turn it onto my own healthy chocolate project at BodyByChocolates.com.
My hope is that you gain as much value from the Promote Affiliate Products video as I did. When you stop by, be sure to sign up for my free Internet Marketing newsletter. You’ll be glad you did.
