By Marvin Tay
Just as when you have your own product, there are many different ways of promoting products as an affiliate. Everyone has their favorites, so we'll over the methods that most people actually use when starting out.
Get Free Targeted Traffic with Articles, writing articles is one of the best things that you can do to start getting free web traffic to your affiliate pages. You don't have to be a Pulitzer Prize winner.
If you go to an article directory such as EzineArticles.com or GoArticles.com and submit 300-600 word articles around the topic of your product, you will begin to see some web traffic.
You'll get web traffic three ways using this method. A) People are always looking for web content, so they'll see your article and use it on their website - leaving the resource box (where you put your URL) attached, and people will click through.
B) the search engines, including Google, love the two article directories I mentioned, so they'll quickly index your article into their search engine, if you've chosen the right keywords to base your article around, and that's a beautiful thing for you and your commissions.
And finally, C) People will run your article in the newsletter or eZine, giving you little surges of traffic occasionally. One quick word: EzineArticles.com does not allow affiliate links in then resource box.
What you can do then is set up a little simple website either reviewing the product you're promoting, or using a form to capture a person's email address to send them a free report or mini-course.
This method will build you a list as well. This is a system where it's best to keep writing fresh articles, but it pays off. Hire someone - a ghostwriter - to write articles for you if you don't feel confident enough to write them yourself.
Get Instant Web Traffic with Google AdWords. Google AdWords is the weapon of choice among many affiliates. The main reason being that it's fast, and also - if you do thing right - controlled. How many times would you pay a dollar to make $2.00? All day, right?
Use Your Competitors Traffic and Ezine Subscribers. What you're looking to do here is to find eZines and Newsletter in your niche, and send out ads in their ezines, to their list.
You usually have a choice between sending out a classified, sponsor, or solo ad. You'll want tos tart from the beginning with a couple of classifieds, see how those convert, and work your way up to a solo ad.
It will take a bit of practice to write a food one, but its well worth your time. Always make sure to subscribe first to the eZine to get a taste of what they offer.
Get Sneaky Web Traffic with Free Reports. It's not all that sneaky. You'll just write a free report (2-10 pages) and embed your affiliate link within it in the content. Just find a good angle to go with involves the product, write a report giving away some valuable free information (just don't give away the farm) and people will click the links inside, sending them to your affiliate page.
Note: After you write the report you can give it away to subscribers or submit it to eBook directories. This will create a viral effect. It will get passed all around the Internet, giving you much more exposure for your affiliate links.
Answer Questions in Forums. In most online forums, you'll be allowed to see a signature file, and as long as you're not deliberately spamming the forum, you should have no problem.
You'll want to ask and answer questions with as much valuable information as possible. People will begin to see you as an authority on your subject, and will click on the link in you sig. file to get further information. This tactic works well. People have built their careers and their fortunes by using Forum Marketing.
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