3 Simple Ways To Promote Digital Products As An Affiliate Marketer
Now that you have identified the niche that you want to go into (I believe that prior
to committing yourself to the niche you have already did the necessary research and made sure that the niche that you have decided to go into is a rabid one, with lots of people spending money in it), and have picked up a product which you want to promote as an affiliate.
The next step, especially if you are a newbie affiliate marketer, would be "How am I supposed to promote this product?"
There are, in fact, many different ways in which you can use to promote a product.
However, in this article, I am going keep things simple (and not to overload you with heaps of information) by sharing with you 3 simplest ways you can go about promoting the product which you have just selected (both free as well as paid methods) and start generating money in the shortest possible time.
1. Blogs / Websites
Whether or not you want to use a free blog (make sure that you do not use a free WordPress blog to promote a product as it is against their terms of use and you will get your account shut down if you do so), or get a domain name and hosting and create a self-hosted blog, I leave it up to you. But I would highly recommend that you use the latter option - As it would look more professional to have a.com name as your website (compared to a free blog name).
There are 2 ways which you can promote the product in your blogs / websites, and they are:
Product Review - You can promote a product by doing a full review of it. Information you can include in your product review can be a brief information of what the product is all about (in general), what it can do for your prospective customers (if he/she were to get it), along with the pros, as well as cons, of it.
Articles - You can write articles centered around the subject in which the product is about and post them onto your websites. And within the articles, you can sprinkle your affiliates links to the product you are promoting throughout the article (not too much though, just 3 to 5 at max, if your article is about 500 words in length).
2. Pay Per Click This is, in fact, the fastest way for you to get traffic to the product sales page via your affiliate link.
How this strategy works is that, you create ads to be displayed on search engines (under the sponsored listings column), and whenever someone clicks on your ad, you will pay a certain amount of advertising fee to these search engine (hence the name Pay Per Click - You pay only when someone clicks on your ad).
Most of the times, your ads will be approved within as little as 15 minutes (some even instantly) and shown to your targeted audiences (based on the keywords that you have selected), and if you target the right keywords, you can expect to get a product sales within as fast as the next 60 minutes.
However, if you intend to use this method to promote products, you need to equip yourself with the right Pay Per Click marketing strategies - Otherwise chances are you will end up spending lots of money (in advertising fees) and at the same time not getting a single sale.
3. Article Marketing
Similar to writing articles and post them on your websites, you write articles and submit them to the top article directories, such as Ezine Articles, Go Articles, and Articles Base.
The only thing is that, you are not allowed to sprinkle affiliate links throughout the article. In fact, you are not allowed to have links in the article itself.
You are only allowed to have an affiliate link in the author's bio, which is normally found below your article.
A word of caution here, some article directories do not allow you to put your affiliate link as it is. What you need to do here is that you need to get a domain name, and then make use of domain forwarding to redirect your readers to your affiliate link whenever they click on your domain name in the author's bio.
3 Simple Ways To Promote Digital Products As An Affiliate Marketer
By: Jun Yuan Lim
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