subject: Boosting Your Affiliate Commissions - Traffic Techniques [print this page] To make money with affiliate marketing, the bottom line is traffic. Without traffic you're dead in the water. So in this article, I'm going to show you some ways that you can get traffic to your affiliate promotion page even if you're a beginner. It doesn't matter if you're just starting out and you have no idea what to do. You too can have success with affiliate marketing and it just requires a little patience on your behalf but when it's set up, you'll have traffic for years to come. Here's the first tip for getting traffic to the affiliate product you're promoting.
1) Forums
Forums are a great way to learn from experts and also to drive traffic to your website. If you're not a member of a forum in your niche yet, then you should be. This is a great way to drive free traffic to your website all with the few minutes of your time. When posting in the forums, it's important not to spam your advertising message all over the place. This is how you get banned from the forums so you will want to reserve your website information to you signature line.
To find a good forum in your niche, simply go to Google and type in "[your niche] forum". So if you're a gardener, type in "gardening forum". If you're a basketball coach, type in "basketball forum". If you're an internet marketer, type in "internet marketing forum". All kinds of results will pop up, so there's no shortage of the forums that you can join. Here's another tip for getting traffic to your affiliate page.
2) Article marketing
Article marketing is a great way to get alot of traffic to the affiliate page that you're promoting. When doing article marketing, it's probably best to send the prospect to a squeeze page - unless the product that you're promoting is a low priced item. When doing article marketing, you will want to write 300-500 word articles and submit them to the major article directories. I have listed a few here for you to check out:
- EzineArticles.com
- goarticles.com
- ideamarketers.com
- articledashboard.com
- articlesbase.com
All of these sites rank well in the search engines and get alot of traffic to their website on a daily basis. You can benefit from this traffic as well by submitting your articles to them. To make article marketing work, you need to write alot of articles. And when I say alot, I mean ALOT. You will want to check your clickthrough rate and ensure that it is pretty good. Other than that, article marketing can drive alot of traffic to your website in a relatively short amount of time. Here's another traffic technique.
3) Video marketing
Video marketing sites such as You tube and Google Video are very popular, so you can benefit from the traffic that they receive. Making videos is a tedious task, but if you can stick with the technique, you can benefit from all of the traffic that they are receiving. When making your videos, you will want to start out with 2-4 minute long segments on topics related to your website. After you've done that, simply upload them to You tube, Google Video, or Metacafe. All of these sites are excellent video sites and can drive alot of traffic to your website.
Take these traffic methods and use them to boost your affiliate commission.
Good luck with your affiliate marketing campaigns.
Boosting Your Affiliate Commissions - Traffic Techniques
