Affiliate marketing is one of the best and easiest ways to start your passive income and side-hustle along with your regular job. You simply have to provide value to the audience through the products you are promoting in your affiliate links. And for that, you need to choose the right products and affiliate programs according to your niche.
Through affiliate marketing, you can earn up to six-figure paychecks. For that, you need to know the right ways to promote affiliate links, and ahead in this article, we’ve mentioned some best and unique affiliate marketing promotion methods that will make it easy for you.
For the stats, today, 81% of companies rely on affiliate programs to generate sales for their business, and affiliate programs account generates 15% of the revenue from digital media, which tends to grow in the coming years.
What Are Affiliate Links?
Before starting with the main topic you’ve come for, I want you to know what affiliate links mean.
Mainly, affiliate links are the personalized URLs generated by different affiliate programs, which later you can use to direct the audience to the product and service you are promoting. And if they make any purchase through your link, then you’ll be paid the relevant commission.
Here are the best ways to generate traffic for your affiliate programs you should know.
1) Affiliate Marketing Through Social Media.
Promoting affiliate links through social media is one of the fastest ways you can use to get a decent amount of traffic for your affiliate links and influence people to buy the products and services.
There are several social media platforms you can use to share the content and attach your affiliate links.
But, keep that in mind that gaining followers for your social media platform can be difficult, and the only way to fasten that is to share the valuable content with your niche audience.
And, of course, don’t start sharing your affiliate link straight away. First, start building community and gain trust.
a) Promoting Affiliate Links On Facebook.
Starting from Facebook is the first thing that comes to mind when we think about sharing anything on social media because of the popularity of this platform. One of the reasons you can share your affiliate links on Facebook because of the numbers it presents, as it has around 2.7 billion monthly active users worldwide.
Also, you can start sharing your links on your profile, but there is a problem that not everyone on your friend list is interested in your daily advertisements, and that’s the reason you might not be able to convert.
So, creating an individual page on Facebook will be great for your business. Through that page, you can share valuable content and reach your niche audience. Also, you can join different groups related to your niche and share the link. Remember to avoid spamming.
Growing your followers will take time. Stay active and keep replying to every comment or message you get.
b) Promoting Affiliate Links On Youtube.
Youtube is the second most used platform to earn revenue from affiliate marketing after blog posts. If you are not used to writing lengthy content and are confident to share your views in terms of videos, you can start your journey by creating a youtube channel of your own.
Youtube is the No.1 video-sharing platform.
Making a video on youtube builds trust faster than any other platform as people feel connected with you when you talk or show your face in the video. Even if you don’t want to show your face, you can attach some attractive images to grab attention.
You literally can make a video on any topic like a review of the product, recipes, fitness, tips, etc. Simply add the affiliate link of the product you reviewed in your video, or even you can add the link to the equipment you used in making the video.
C) Promoting Affiliate Links On Pinterest.
Pinterest is slowly becoming popular with affiliates in India as well as in the world as it is comparatively easy to share your affiliate links and website links on Pinterest.
You can add pins on Pinterest and save your pins separately(according to topic) by creating boards. Pinterest is like a search engine. Whatever you search it will show the best results.
One thing I like about Pinterest is that you can add clickable links directly to the image. It can be a blog link or an affiliate link.
For every social media platform, you need to be consistent to grow, and the same goes for Pinterest. The more you keep yourself online and post images, the more it will reach the audience.
D) Promoting Affiliate Links On Instagram.
Promoting affiliate links on Instagram is not as easy as it looks. Many people are earning millions using Instagram, and many are even struggling to gain followers to monetize their accounts.
To make money with an affiliate, you only can add the link in your bio, and to convert from there is very time-consuming.
To make things easy, you can drive your audience to your email list by giving them any valuable information, and from there, you can promote your affiliate links.
E) Promoting Affiliate Links On Twitter.
To promote affiliate links on Twitter, you need to be creative with your words, as you only have 280 characters to convince someone to buy from your link.
Twitter is known as a microblogging site where people can share their views on anything. It can help you to build trust with the audience around you. You can also create images or videos. Just try to be creative.
2) Landing Page.
Landing Pages are the most used method to collect leads for the product or service you offer. These are standalone pages different from your main website that has a single and focused purpose.
You can make an Advertisement related to your affiliate product with your affiliate link attached and promote the landing page using different methods. You can run Ads on social media or google and share them directly with your followers.
The chances of conversion are more on landing pages because of neatness, as there are no other distractive elements and are focused on a single product or service.
3) Email Marketing.
Email Marketing is a form of marketing done through emails. They are used aware your mail subscribers about the discounts and the newly launched services or products.
The best way to build an email list is to provide something for free.
An email list can be your affiliate partner for the long run, as they are the people who trusted you and signed up for your email list. The value you provided to them for free of cost can reward you in the future.
You can promote your affiliate products and services by writing emails on a topic you want your audience to know, and between these emails, you can add the offer link, which you think will be helpful for the readers.
4) Ebooks.
Ebooks are a digital form of books you can read on your mobile phones and PCs. It can be like multiple blogs written on a single topic.
Ebooks are one of the best ways to promote affiliate links and to build your email list.
Since Ebooks consume too much time to complete and are valuable for the right users, you can ask for emails or hide them behind a creative landing page and even sell them on the sites like Amazon.
Because Ebooks contains so much specific information about your niche, you can consider this as the perfect spot to attach your affiliate link and convince readers why these products or services are helpful to them.
5) Quora.
Quora is a question and answer site where you can ask questions about any topic or even answer the questions asked by others.
If you think you are an expert in your niche and want to help other people by answering the questions they’ve asked, then Quora is the right place for you.
Quora can be your affiliate partner but consider not to share the direct affiliate link to the products or services as it’s not allowed. Instead, you can add an affiliate link to blogs or landing pages and share those links.
Remember not to spam your link everywhere and try to provide value through your answers. Only attach the link if you think your affiliate products can solve their problem after answering their question.
6) Forums.
A forum is a place where like-minded people exchange and discuss their ideas. It’s one of the best places to create backlinks for your website, and you can learn many things about your niche.
You can also use the forum to earn revenue from affiliate marketing. Once you’ve decided your niche and found the product you want to sell, simply go to the internet and search for the forums where people are talking about the product you are promoting.
For example, if you are selling services related to digital marketing, you can search for the forum where people discuss digital marketing’s importance in the coming future.
Try not to spam your links, but take part in the discussion and provide valuable content.
7) Advertisement(PPC).
Advertising your affiliate links is another way to reach a large set of audience. You can make a landing page for free and promote your affiliate links through Google Ads, Facebook Ads, Instagram Ads, etc.
Keeping in mind that it’s not free and takes investment, you should know how it works to make sure you don’t end up spending a lot of money with zero profit.
If you are not sure about PPC techniques, do consider using other methods mentioned in this blog.
8) Resource Pages.
Resource pages are those where you provide the types of equipment, tools, and products used. It can be for a blog, youtube videos, Instagram posts, etc.
The idea is to let your viewers know about your favorite tools, equipment, and products. You can include your affiliate links to those services on your resource page. This way, you can earn some revenue through affiliates and also can provide value to your visitors.
9) Blogs.
Blogs are the most famous and most used technique to promote affiliate links. You can write a blog on any topic you like and present it to your audience.
While writing blogs, you may think that you can use affiliate links anywhere in the article, but that’s not true, try to place links only where they’re required and not make them look like a sales letter but a valuable blog.
Another way to promote affiliate products is to reply to the comments on your blog with your affiliate link according to the question asked. Again, try not to post links unnecessarily but to give the solution.
The more value you provide to your visitors, the more profit you’ll gain.
10) Affiliate Product Banners.
Using Affiliate Banners can be messy for your blog, and many bloggers don’t like to use that as well.
But in my opinion, if you share relevant banners which will help your visitors to get new information and tools to try, there is no bad thing in it.
So you can place a banner anywhere in your blog, also utilize the sidebar correctly. But make sure your website doesn’t look like an eCommerce store, where there are products everywhere. Post your Ads at relevant places only.
Keep yourself transparent about what your audience should buy and what they should not buy.
Round Up Of Where To Promote Affiliate Links.
- Affiliate Marketing Through Social Media.
- Landing Page.
- Email Marketing.
- Ebooks.
- Quora.
- Forums.
- Advertisement(PPC)
- Resource Pages.
- Blogs.
- Affiliate Product Banners.
Conclusion.
People often ask, “How to promote an affiliate link”?
What I think is, getting the affiliate link is easy, but promoting those links to earn revenue is pretty exhausting.
So to make things easy, I’ve written this blog and mentioned ten ways to promote affiliate links which you can use to get your first sale.
Remember not to spam your links, and also don’t send direct links as it looks like you are desperate to sell, which no one wants. Try to give solutions through the products and services you are promoting.
You can start with an audience you have and become successful in Affiliate marketing, even if you don’t have a website.
Just keep working hard towards your goal.
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