How to promote affiliate links?
Affiliate link is a link to a certain Internet resource, which contains a unique identifier of the partner (referral) who placed it.
Affiliate link must be placed on the site. If the user follows it to the advertiser’s website and make some targeted action there, you will receive a reward for this action.
Affiliate networks are one of the fastest and easiest ways to make money online..
When you decide to start making money with affiliate marketing, remember that your affiliate link plays a key role in the success of promoting any affiliate offers. Your primary task is to send your affiliate link to the target audience.
Let’s consider in more detail the methods of promoting affiliate links
All methods are divided into paid and free methods.
Features of earnings on affiliate programs
Affiliate network is a form of cooperation between the company-seller and its partners in the sale of goods or services. This method is beneficial for the seller, as it reduces advertising costs and allows partners to receive interest on attracting customers. To earn money with the program it is enough to leave a link on a social network, forum or website. For each customer who comes to the store on your link and makes a purchase (or other useful action), you will receive a reward.
How affiliate links work
The algorithm of working of affiliate links to attract targeted audience is as follows:
- Create email and wallets.
- Find an affiliate program, go through registration and get an affiliate link.
- Advertise an affiliate link and attract the target audience by all available methods.
Ways to promote affiliate links
Free forums
Posting ads with an affiliate link on a free basis can regularly lead a certain number of interested people to your link. The method is not very effective, but it can be used in combination with others.
It is incredibly difficult to leave a link on many visited sites. There are several options for solving this problem:
- Write to the site admin and agree on placement manually (for free). Emphasize that the URL will actually be useful to site visitors.
- Write about the importance of the link in the text of the comment. You can leave a comment like: “Here is useful text + URL. Please do not remove the link – this is not an advertisement.” On sites with manual comment moderation, this method works well.
- Mask the link so that it is not identified by the site engine as a URL. This method can be recommended only if all comments are published on the selected site without pre-moderation.
Blog comments
You can find several blogs and topics, which are often updated with new publications.
When filling out a comment on blogs, there is a form for filling in your contact information, there is a field for the website where you can insert an affiliate link.
Leaving comments, you get acquainted with a new post on a topic, leave a comment and leave a link to your affiliate offer. But it is important that the comment will be relevant and useful. Otherwise, your comment will not pass the moderation of the author of the blog.
You can also make a blog post with hidden affiliate links. Write a blog post about your story or some problem you have overcome. Describe a story about how things didn’t work out for you, as a solution, give a recommendation include an affiliate link on how you coped with your issue or difficult situation.
Forums
There is a separate forum for almost every topic of the affiliate product. You need to register on this forum, fill in information and insert an affiliate link in your signature.
Then you need to write as actively as possible, comment on entries and create new topics. Try to answer the question and leave your affiliate link, but so that it is not counted as spam, and you are not banned.
On many forums, it is possible to leave your affiliate link in the message signature. As a result, acquiring a certain authority, and regularly participating in communication on forums, you have the opportunity that users will click on your affiliate link and go to the page you need.
Please note that in most forums, your account must have at least some reputation in order to post a new post. So it’s not worth registering on the forum specifically for posting a link. Ideally, you should be an active member of the selected forum for more than a year.
Q&A Services
You are looking for a question that suits your subject, try to answer it, and, finally, leave a affiliate link leading to an affiliate network.
If you have really high-quality content, then this is a good, and most importantly, free way to attract an audience to your affiliate offer.
Social media networks
Today, there are many social networks. Social networks act as one of the most effective ways of advertising and attracting targeted traffic. You can independently create or join existing groups, find and add thousands of friends from all over the world, and send messages to the network with affiliate link, and tens of thousands of people will immediately see it.
Also in any social networks have targeting – it’s consists of a title, image or photo and text. It is not difficult to make it, the key points are the title and the text: the title should “catch” and make you read the text, and the text should contain an affiliate offer that will make you click on your affiliate link.
You can also promote affiliate link through the group about affiliate offer, add all the information about it and add an affiliate link. Then you can start promoting your group with free methods. For example, invite people (up to 100 people per day), leave comments in groups on related topics, etc.
Promoting affiliate links on email letters
If you have a large base of users, then you can easily attract targeted traffic for free. In order to turn your subscribers into customers, you only need to launch an e-mail newsletter advertising your affiliate offer. Here it will be important to write advertising texts.
YouTube
YouTube combines several ways. First, you can create your own channel with affiliate links. Secondly, you can leave links in the comments on videos that are suitable for your niche.
Contextual advertising and targeting
If you have adjusted the context at least once, it will not be difficult for you to place an affiliate link directly in the ad text. However, we are already talking about significant investments. In addition, a significant portion of affiliate programs restrict such traffic.
If you decide to promote your affiliate with targeted advertising, pay special attention to creativity. It should be as “useful” and attractive as possible.
Conclusions
A variety of sources allows the affiliate to decide how he will promote the link in arbitrage. You can pay and quickly get quality traffic, or be hard-working in getting free traffic. With help of all types of promoting, you can earn on affiliate networks and make a profit.
