Affiliate marketing is a type of online business where you promote someone else’s service or product. You make money when your reader or viewer buys the product you are promoting through your affiliate link. There are many ways to promote an affiliate link and in this article, I will teach you How to Promote Affiliate Links.
More and more people are opting to start an online business to create additional source of income.
Thanks to the internet, online business is now a legit way to make a living.
There are a lot of types of business you can do over the internet. The list below is some of the online business you can do. Although the list is not exhaustive, I hope it will give you ideas on how to make money online.
- e-commerce
- Online course instructor
- Ads revenue via blog or vlog
- Online Freelancer
- Online Trading
- Micro – Task
- Affiliate Marketing
I’ve been trying and experimenting with almost all of them, and I would say any aspiring online entrepreneur should start with affiliate marketing.
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Why Try Affiliate Marketing First?
Did You Know?
Salary Estimate is based on Glassdoor
The average salary of Affiliate Marketers in the US is $54,268 and can go up as high as $84000.
I believe every aspiring online entrepreneur should start with affiliate marketing first because of the following:
- It is straight forward
- It can be done for free then scale it up through paid advertisement
- The marketing skill you will learn from affiliate marketing is applicable to any online business.
How To Do Affiliate Marketing?
If this is your first time hearing about affiliate marketing, then I suggest you take a FREE Crash Course offered by Wealthy Affiliate. It will teach you how affiliate marketing works.
To answer the question, doing affiliate marketing is pretty. All you need to do is create content to promote an affiliate product. Then, make a call to action to buy the affiliate product through your link. Finally, promote the content to relevant people.
If you want to learn more about How to Do Affiliate Marketing, you can go to my other blog (Inbound Link) where I explain this in more detail.
How to Promote Affiliate Links
Okay, enough with affiliate marketing intro and let’s go on to the main topic, How to Promote Affiliate Links.
Like what I’ve said earlier, you can promote your affiliate links either organically (free) or paid.
In this blog, I will focus on teaching you How to Promote Affiliate Links For Free.
There are lots of places to promote your affiliate links for free. The most common places people promote their affiliate links are on Facebook Groups, Craigslist, Classified Ads, Reddit, and Forums.
Of course, being free, the method is hit or miss and you will need to do extra effort to be successful on it.
Your goal is to do this method for a while, earn money and use that money to pay for advertisement.
Also, this is a perfect opportunity to learn who your audience is so when you are ready to purchase advertisements from social media and search engines, you already have an idea whom you will target.
How To Promote Affiliate Links Without Website
Below are instructions on how you can promote your affiliate links on different platforms. Note that this list is non-exhaustive. You can definitely go to other platforms and promote your affiliate links there.
The only boundary of this strategy is dependent on the platform’s terms and conditions. Before you post your affiliate link, make sure you double-check whether you are allowed to post or not, or else you will be banned.
Promoting Affiliate Links on Facebook Groups
- Register with an affiliate marketing network such as Clickbank, JVZoo, and ShareASale
- Choose an affiliate product to promote
- Find a Facebook Group that is related to your affiliate product.
- Add value to the group by answering questions or posting a short but informative post.
- Share the affiliate link and encourage members of the group to check it out.
- Disclose that the link is an affiliate link
Alternative Way
Creating a landing page is a great alternative to directly leaving your affiliate link to Facebook groups and disclosing that they are affiliate links because it is not too inviting to click.
You can always hire a freelancer to make your landing page if you don’t know how to create a landing page or don’t want to create one.
A great place to find freelancers is at Fivver.com.
Promoting Affiliate Links on Craigslist
- Register with an affiliate marketing network such as Clickbank, JVZoo, ShareASale,
- Choose an affiliate product to promote
- Find a category on Craigslist that is relevant to your affiliate product
- Click post found on the upper right of the page and fill the form
- Write a Copywrite/ short value-adding and convincing script
- Make a call-to-action to click your affiliate link
- Post the script
Craigslist Rule on Affiliate Marketing
You need to be patient and witty using this strategy. As per my research, there are some post that gets flagged/blocks almost instantly. Others work okay until someone flags the post.
Again be creative.
If you know what you are offering is legit, then create a post, leave an e-mail (doesn’t have to be your personal email), then ask them to contact you for more information.
Note: When leaving an email formation, use Craig’s list. Enter your e-mail address on the contact info and click the CL mail relay.
Also using a link shortener to hide your link will automatically going to get you to block. Craig’s list also has a list of prohibited things that you cannot do. Check them out here.
Tips:
- Try posting in different categories and see which category gets more clicks.
- Have different titles
- Have different scripts
- Mix and match titles, scripts, and categories and determine which combinations get more clicks.
Promoting Affiliate Links on Reddit, Quora and Forums
- Register with an affiliate marketing network such as Clickbank, JVZoo, ShareASale,
- Choose an affiliate product to promote
- Create a landing page that promotes your affiliate product
- Find a category on Reddit/ Quora/ forums that are relevant to your affiliate product and are active
- Add value to the forum by answering questions or by posting short informative post
- Share a link to your landing page and invite people to visit it to learn more
NOTE:
Reddit and many forums are strict on people posting their affiliate links and would immediately take it down. It is safer if you create a landing page.
I guess for short-term purposes, you can directly post your affiliate links (be sure to use Bitly to shorten it and make it pretty). If the thread that you are in is busy, you will be lucky to get a couple of dozen of clicks before it gets deleted.
Promoting Affiliate Links on Classified Ads
- Register with an affiliate marketing network such as Clickbank, JVZoo, ShareASale,
- Choose an affiliate product to promote
- Register to a free online classified Ad such as thefreeadforum.com, and free global classified ads
- Choose an Ad category that is relevant to your affiliate product
- Create an Ads
- Invite people to click your Ads to learn more
- Leave your email address and encourage them to ask you if they have further questions
- Post the Ads.
Tips:
Like what we talked about on the Craig’s List Section, you can do the following to increase your clicks.
- Try posting in different categories and see which category gets more clicks.
- Have different titles
- Have different scripts
- Mix and match titles, scripts, and categories and determine which combinations get more clicks.
What to Expect When Promoting Affiliate Links?
If one thing you should notice and remember, it should be realizing that the steps that I shared on How to Promote Affiliate
Links on different platform are similar.
Hopefully, you realize it is that simple!
Of course, you also need to understand that it is not going to be easy on your first try!
What? What? You might say.
It is simple yet it is not easy?!
What I meant by simple is it only takes 5-7 steps to promote an affiliate link. However, not because you did these steps means instant money!
It is not easy because it is like catching a fish in Pacific Ocean.
Yes, the fish is there, but where?
You will need to prior knowledge of where the fishes are and you might have to do a trial and error to pinpoint where they are.
In the world of affiliate marketing, there are people who will want the affiliate products you are promoting, but you will need to research where and who they are. After, you will have to do a couple of trial and error while optimizing your strategy every time so your strategy will become more efficient.
Summary: How to Promote Affiliate Links
Hi Wealth-Builders!
I hope you like this article and you find it very helpful.
Just a quick summary!
The places where you can post and promote your affiliate links for free are Facebook Groups, Online Classified Ads, and Forums.
Examples of Online Classified Ads are as Craig’s List, The Free Ad Forum, Free Global Classified Ads.
Examples of Forums are Quora and Reddit.
Now, before you post content on these platforms, you must first have an affiliate product to promote. Affiliate Marketing Networks such as Clickbank, JVZoo, ShareASale are great places to find these products.
Remember to always check the terms and conditions of each platform to ensure that your post will not gonna be taken down.
Finally, it is best if you can make a landing page where you further explain the affiliate product and post your affiliate link there. You then share the URL of your landing page with the forums and groups!