How To Promote An Affiliate Product Links - Making Money Online
Make Money OnlineHow do I promote an affiliate link to make money online? This is one of the problems affiliate marketers in Ghana face a lot, that is the promotion of the products they find on affiliate programs.
After writing on the topic of How affiliate marketing works I wanted to go a little bit more in-depth on the ways in which you can promote your affiliate link.
Every affiliate marketer needs traffic otherwise you will never make any sales. If there are no human eyeballs on your offer, then the potential to earn an income from your affiliate marketing efforts will never materialise.
Of course, there are great ways to promote your affiliate links and then there are not so great ways.
ADVERTISEMENT - CONTINUE READING BELOW Blogging is probably one of the best ways to promote your affiliate link, but it is one of the most time-consuming ways that take time to develop traction. Why? Because you have to build a blog, add content to it and then start promoting that content. When you start promoting that content you have to build a presence online as an authoritative figure so it will take time for people to trust your brand. Whilst blogging has its downside, it is the best way because it is then easy to create a passive income stream from the blog. As they say, spend time doing the work once and then it pays for itself over and over again later. If you have not yet started a blog you can read my article on How to create a blog without coding using WordPress, where I take you through a step by step guide. You can start a blog for as little as $3.95 through Bluehost when you use my referral link. The key to promoting your affiliate links with a blog is to create content that is valuable and useful for the reader. ADVERTISEMENT - CONTINUE READING BELOW Also if you are not sure about the content that you are linking to, it is good practise to use the rel=”nofollow” tag at the end of your link, so that the authority from your website page, known as link juice to Google, will not pass to the website where the content is questionable.
You can also create a YouTube channel specifically for product reviews or as an educational platform where you recommend the affiliate product. Make sure to place the affiliate link within your description box and cloak the affiliate link as well using the cloaking tools I mentioned above. The most important step when creating product reviews on YouTube is to ensure that the content of your video is of high quality. Product reviews should be detailed and honest. These are two determining factors as to whether any viewer takes you seriously enough to buy your recommended product. The biggest mistake you can do is to go on YouTube simply with the purpose of selling your product. So for example, creating a video that highlights the product and merely asking for a sale is not good enough. I can almost guarantee that you will not get any visitors to your affiliate offers. ADVERTISEMENT - CONTINUE READING BELOW SEO, blogging and niche websites all go together. If you have a blog or website, your main goal should be to create content that is SEO friendly. That means that the search engines can find your website and rank it within the search results. This makes it easy for people to find, read your content and eventually click on your affiliate link. You should also make sure that there is a lot of search traffic for the product that you are promoting. These are the words that people are searching for in the search engines that will show your website in the search results. If your website is for the purpose of making money, then you should focus on buyer intent keywords. For example: ADVERTISEMENT - CONTINUE READING BELOW You should distinguish buyer intent related keywords from informational keywords. For example, some informational keywords where the searcher does not have a buying intent are: Google likes valuable content that is helpful and useful. The longer your content (some say more than 2000 words), the more authority Google attaches to your website. Therefore when writing content for SEO related affiliate websites, your goal should be to over-deliver on content. Try to also create unique content. Most websites touch on similar topics but to stand out from the rest you can take a piece of content that is great and either update it or add to it. This is the most important thing that you can do for your affiliate website to work for you. Backlinking is simply the process of having authoritative websites link to yours. There are many good ways that you can achieve this: ADVERTISEMENT - CONTINUE READING BELOW You do not want to sell products all the time to your list. No one likes to be sold to, so keep your emails more valuable then anything by following an 80/20 split. 80% more value 20% sales. You can even have subscribers that click on a certain link, opt in again in a special funnel. This tells you that these subscribers are more serious and therefore are more likely to buy your products. You will get more open rates when you do this. Some people may not resonate with one subject line, but will resonate with another. Don’t be afraid to test your subject lines. Sometimes a list might go cold. You may notice that your open rates are getting lower and lower. If that is the case it is time to clean your email list and get rid of those subscribers who no longer open your emails. The way I like to do it, is like this: It is a good idea to always keep your email list fresh because this affects your email account score and your ability to deliver emails to your subscriber’s inbox. It also keeps your email software cost down so you will only be paying to have quality email subscribers on your list. Email softwares do not like affiliate links. This is why it is important to cloak your affiliate links using link tracking software like Clickmagick or link shorteners like Goo.gl, Bit.ly or Tiny URL. The best way that you can cloak affiliate links for email marketing is by using the Clickmagick software as it gives you the ability to track which email converted into sales. ADVERTISEMENT - CONTINUE READING BELOW The biggest names in PPC (pay per click) advertising are Google Adwords, Bing Ads and Facebook Ads. With PPC you are only paying for the click to your link. How it works, is you bid a certain price for relevant keywords as with Google Adwords or Bing Ads and interests as with Facebook Ads. The keywords are all related to the product that you are selling. If you win the bid then your ad may show up in the search results as in the below examples. ADVERTISEMENT - CONTINUE READING BELOW Bottom Line Promoting products with these channels requires dedication, determination and commitment. If you keep doing it right you will make sales and earn your commisions
How To Use Blogging To Promote Your Affiliate Links
YouTube
Search Engine Optimization
What to consider when creating an SEO friendly niche website/blog:
1. Keywords
2. Content
3. Backlinks
PPC Advertising
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