Successful affiliate marketers use a variety of techniques to promote their affiliate links online.
While there isn’t one best way to promote your affiliate links, there are several effective methods you can use to drive more traffic and prospect leads into your sales funnel.
Here are 5 proven ways you can use to promote your affiliate links and drive more traffic, and leads into your sales funnel:
1. Use Content Marketing To Drive Traffic
Content marketing has exploded in recent years as a way to build authority, gain attention online, and get more eyeballs on your offers.
Many search engines have made it clear that they will be rewarding content-driven sites over those that pump out a lot of low-quality linkbait articles.
With the focus on original, interesting, and informative articles and reports online, it’s never been a better time to become an authority in your niche by using content marketing to promote your affiliate links.
2. Create Downloadable Reports and Resources
Offer your readers free downloadable reports that are full of helpful tips and resources related to your affiliate products/links.
It could be a report on starting an online business from home, marketing strategies, or several other subjects that are relevant to your audience.
Make it original and authentic – don’t just repackage existing material for the sake of creating a report.
The more useful the report is, the more likely people will be to download it and refer back to it in the future when they need information on that subject.
3. Write A Blog Post Related To Your Affiliate Link
Blogging is a great way to get your content out there for new visitors to discover and share online.
Blogs that are well-written, updated regularly, and respond to the needs of their audience grow in popularity every year.
The more popular your blog is, the more people will be referring visitors back to it over time as a source for information related to your niche.
If you have affiliate links or products related to your niche, it’s easy to link to them in your blog.
Getting links and mentions of you and your blog on other sites is the best way to drive traffic back to your affiliate links.
4. Use Videos To Promote Your Affiliate Links
Videos are popular across a wide range of content marketing strategies, for good reason – they’re just plain more interesting to watch!
If you can create a basic video tutorial related to your affiliate products, you might not only find it easier to explain things that way but also increase engagement with the viewers.
You can make videos as simple and short or as lengthy and detailed as you want them to be – whatever works best for you and your audience.
Video is becoming more and more popular as a search engine ranking factor, so it’s fairly certain that investing time into using video to promote your affiliate link will pay off in the future.
5. Make The Most Of Social Media And Groups
Your social media profiles are another great place to promote your affiliate links, as they allow you to share interesting and relevant content with your audience.
Depending on the social media platform you use, you can link back to affiliate products by including short links in status updates or profiles.
You probably already take advantage of some of these resources (e.g. Facebook Marketplace and Groups), so add a few more every month as part of your overall affiliate marketing plan – you’ll be glad you did, and more likely to get the results you’re looking for.
Conclusion:
As you can see, there are many ways to promote your affiliate links for traffic and leads.
Consider implementing several of these ideas over a month to see how you can get more progress from each link – for free.
What affiliate marketing strategies have worked the best for you? Let me know in the comments!
Ali is a digital marketing blogger and author who uses the power of words to inspire and impact others. He has written for leading publications like Business2Community, Inc. Magazine, and Marketing Profs. When not writing, he enjoys spending time with his family.