Even if you have your own products for sale, it's a fantastic idea to promote affiliate products that you've used in the past, and that you know will help solve a problem for your blog's readers.
Again, you are struck with few questions in your mind – how you can promote Affiliate Products? Is it easy to promote them? Will you be able to earn commission?
We all know that internet marketing can be complicated, and when Google is rolling out different search algorithms every month, its really hard to land on the first page of Google search results! So in this post, I'll share with you 5 proven strategies to promote awesome Affiliate Products.
Promoting Affiliate Products Like A Pro
1. Paid Advertising – You must have heard about Google AdWords which offers you cost per click advertising. You can set-up advertising campaigns via text, banner and rich-media ads.
But let me clear up one thing about Google AdWords. I'm not recommending that you use it for promotion of affiliate products. I only mentioned Google AdWords just to demonstrate what paid advertising is all about.
For promoting affiliate products with paid advertising, you can go with a site like Buy Sell Ads. You can start with a very low investment and also every thing is done under your budget. All you have to choose a site to your affiliate product's niche offering Buy Sell Ads.
Contact the site owner and ask for the monthly traffic report. After getting the traffic report, you can create a banner that looks quite attractive and you are ready to place the banner on your site. Now, you can wait for the sales to start coming in.
There are many sites that can help you in getting targeted traffic – SiteScout, LeadImpact or MediaTraffic. These 3 networks are pretty good to start with and the conversion rate is quite brilliant. Play it safe, as you might lose all your money. But do it right and you can earn 200% more than your daily investment. 🙂
2. YouTube videos – YouTube Videos are awesome! YouTube videos are well suited for the some of the top selling products available from the ClickBank marketplace!
If you are new to ClickBank, then you should read my previous guest posts here about how to make money with ClickBank. After setting up your ClickBank account and choosing the right product, next you can ask the product owner for a sample for a review. Or you can buy that product to get more knowledge and gain insights about how to use it.
You can review the product in a blog post. For example there is one I did for – IM John Chow, and another excellent example from Ms. Ileane for SEOPressor. After you spend some time getting to know the ins and outs of the product, you can share your ClickBank reviews and express exactly how you feel – Is it worth buying or is it just a waste?
Create a YouTube Video telling other people about the particular product. You can build links to that YouTube video. All you have to do is put an affiliate link in the YouTube video description. And, after ranking well on search engines, you can see the money flowing in your account. 🙂
3. Niche Site – Another way to promote your affiliate product is by creating a micro niche site for that product only. All you have to do is to ask for a review copy from the Author of that product or buy it. Its a similar to creating YouTube Video or a micro niche site. You can build your blog, write related articles to the product telling other people about its review, do some link building, social media sharing etc. You can follow the Spencer Haw's Method to rank a niche site on Google and start making money daily. 🙂
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4. Email Marketing – This is another method which is followed by so many internet marketers. I have seen so many bloggers who are making more than half of their monthly income from email marketing. What you have to do is? You can do this by, sending traffic to your squeeze page so that you can gain new subscribers daily.
Then you can use an email service provider like AWeber, MailChimp, Infusionsoft and many others to set up an autoresponder sequence. Use the autoresponder to build a connection with your subscribers so that they will have confidence when you recommend that they buy the affiliate products you choose to promote.
And yes, you will be able to convert many of those subscribers into buyers. You need to motivate your subscribers by showing proof of your achievements. If any of your subscribers are facing problems and they get their solution just be sitting at home and reading your email, then that person will surely be looking forward to buying through your link. Be sure to put your affiliate product link in the email sequence so that you can get credit and earn the sales commission. 🙂
5. Forum Marketing – There are lots of forums available on internet for promoting the best affiliate products. Whether you're in the make money online niche, fitness niche, website design niche you name it you can always find a good forum.
Warrior Forum and Digital Point are well known and popular among internet marketers for promoting affiliate products. One of my friends posted his advertisement on Digital Point forum showing his logo designs and the service he is providing which is much cheaper than most. And now, he is earning more than 100 US Dollars a day by just designing logos for different clients worldwide.
Similarly, you can tell people about the product you are promoting with some advantages, features and also disadvantage (if any).. People love to know about the positive effects as well as negative effects of a particular product in which they are interested in buying.
There are even 100 more ways to promote affiliate products. But, I hope these are good and are quite efficient 🙂
These 5 tips for getting the top affiliate products to promote
You can share your favorite tips for promoting affiliate products in the comments below. Also, if you have any doubt, don't hesitate to ask a question in your comment 🙂
Thank you for showing your experience in affiliate marketing, it helps. Affiliate marketing through YouTube videos is the best one. 🙂
Nice post with some noteworthy tips. I haven’t jumped into the YouTube pool yet, but am learning more about it everyday. Thanks for sharing your insight and knowledge. Have a great day!
Great tips, one of the most effective to promote is have an email list or friends in social media networking sites and warriorforum is the best to promote affiliate product as well.
guest post can also be a good option but then you will have to write like a pro only then it will be accepted like you did . All the options are good and worth handy too.
I think podcast is another good source to promote your affiliate products but where do you place it is much important; firsly it can be placed as an audio message on YouTube apart from other digital media sites and forums.
For review you need to be so much careful and you must be an authority blogger to sell the affiliate products like a pro; otherwise your review would be just like another post on your blog and will not bring any revenue.
Except YouTube promotion, I have done all these and having very good results too. Thanks a lot for this article and for sharing your experience in this field. Cheers. 🙂
Good article!
I do all of this, expect paid advertising like AdWords…
I mean, I do solo mail ads, which are requiring money, but they make good ROI, and recommend anyone who has a mailing list or trying to build one, or simply get affiliate sales, use solo advertising.
I may try Facebook sponsor ads as I’ve been reading some case studies with folks getting a 700%+ ROI, which is insane, is it?
Cheers!
Hi John,
Can you tell us which types of products work good for you on Facebook?
Thanks!
These are very well informative tips specially for newbie affiliate marketers. In my experience, niche site + youtube + major social media sites is the way to go.
And spend some time in link building specially if you are promoting a product that is already being promoted by many others.
Hi Dhruv
nice tips i really want to start affiliate marketing. i totally agree with your points email marketing and form marketing are great way increase traffic and increase sales. thanks for sharing.
Very informative article , well affiliate is a better and necessary option for any blog. By this, anyone can generate a decent amount . Thanks for sharing.
regards
Ritul gangwar
Promoting affiliate links on forums? Really? Do it on Warrior Forum only if you want to be banned. It’s against the rules and that’s very usual for any serious forum. So… you may want to remove the last item “5. Forum Marketing”, especially that you used it in conjunction with “Like a Pro”. That’s a joke, right? It should be “like a pro spammer” 😉
Hi Adrian,
You need to request for becoming an affiliate for individual product and it’s on the discretion of WSO owner to approve or reject your application. Though, I never seen any issues with approval of becoming an affiliate.
Thanks!
Hi Dhruv, what are you talking about? Becoming an affiliate for the products sold on the classified ads section of the Warrior Forum and then promoting your affiliate link somewhere else (on your blog, etc) is NOT forum marketing. If you promote that affiliate link on Warrior Forum itself, that would be forum marketing but… you’ll get banned quickly. Read the rules – “No Affiliate Links Allowed”.
Here is a classic example of what forum marketing is: join a forum, put your website’s link in your signature line and make valuable contributions to the community (ie HELP don’t spam). That is forum marketing. Because most of the serious forums won’t let you promote your affiliate link I suggested that you remove the last “tip” (#5) from your article. Or at least remove Warrior Forum. Promoting affiliate links on Warrior Forum is considered SPAM. Do you recommend to your readers to spam? At least don’t suggest that the pros are doing it. They don’t do it! Only the pro spammers try to do it but don’t succeed 😉
Adrian
P.S. Actually, even your example posted under the sub-headline Forum Marketing (“One of my friends posted his advertisement on Digital Point forum showing his logo designs and the service he is providing”) shows that you’re talking about something else. Posting an ad for your own services is NOT affiliate marketing. Did you forget that your article is about affiliate marketing?
I have tried selling a product on BodyBuilding forum with a discount link.. I earn some commission too! And I can show you so many in Warrior Forum too!
Hey mate,
That are some sweet tips you got there. Youtube marketing…something I had just recently joined.
When it comes to affiliate sales, it is best where you know what your readers are looking for. A simple question (or checking on Google Webmaster Tool) can review lots of information for you 🙂
Let’s see how it works out and thanks for sharing!
Building a niche site id the best method to me. Because thats the one i have successfully used and got results.
Thanks also for the link to nichepursuit.com. It was helpful.
very helpful and nice post…smart techniques to affiliate a product ..I dont know much about you tube advertising and as per my opinion I think youtube is not that much good platform for Affiliate market
Thanks for sharing
You don’t know about Youtube marketing thats why you’re saying this otherwise i think Youtube is the best way for Affiliate marketing. You can easily keep your link in discription. It’ll increase your traffic and costomers as well as it will increase your Blog’s SEO.
Hi dhruv,
Your are right, affiliate is very good option. If anybody want to earn decent money, then it is very helpful. Thanks for sharing your views.
Want to try paid advertising but don’t know where to start.. hope to see some tips on your next post..
Nhick
Hello Dhruv. Affiliate marketing is the best way to earn money online. You can monetize your blog with affiliates easily. Many pro blogger recommend affiliate over traditional money making like adsense or other publisher ways.
Everything you mentioned is really nice. I believe in building E-mail list rather then building social media followers. Both are important but whenever you publish content E-mail list are the one who will notice it first and return to your blog.
Hey Dhruv,
I have seen that many bloggers are earning awesome from Affiliate marketing and we know that Affiliate marketing is not a cup of Tea for everyone. Now-a-days I’m learning about affiliate so thanks for this well explained tutorial and i think this is also good for those who just want to start Affilite marketing.
Thanks for sharing Dhruv Bhagat 🙂
Hey, All those 5 strategy is most effective for promoting affiliate products. Unfortunately I tried to make cash from clickbank. They are not support my country. I’m from Bangladesh.
By the way, Thanks for your great article.
Promoting affiliate products involve the tricky tactics and some of these are mentioned here. I found them helpful and would say thanks for sharing.
Thanks for sharing a nice information about the Promotion of Affiliate Products.
I like YouTube way to promote my Affiliate Product. I want to know should we use Affiliate Products Link while blog commenting ? Tell me, Is it the best way or worst way to Promote Affiliate Product?
For affiliate marketing niche site is best way to earn revenue but it’s difficult to find a perfect niche.
Yes, Paid advertising is the good method to promote affiliate niche site. I want to use it now.
Great suggestions, have been doing some and have produced good results. Can’t wait to try out the others like you tube and forum marketing.
Great post.
All the marketing tips are great but its also depend on you how you convey your users to buy that product. thank you for sharing..
Email marketing is one of the traditional online marketing techniques yet still powerful!
I’ve been using affiliate marketing on my website and things are paying me well 😉
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Hey dhruv, all the strategies are great but they only work if your webpage rank well in the search engine and in case of forum marketing the forum you pick must be poplar among the people of your niche.
Another great article , Dhruv. I completely agree with you. From my own experience, Social media is the (only) most important way to promote a website now. I understand website content is the key, however, without effective way to promote the website. The outcome might be way far from your expectation.
Thanks for sharing this wonderful article.
Hi Dhruv,
Thanks for the tips. Youtube (video marketing) and forum marketing is what i use and now struggling in email marketing via collecting targeted leads.
Hello druv,
Well all the mentioned tips are really helpful and interesting. I was thinking to jump into aff marketing.
thanks for the tips.
hey
Dhruv
nice article I think affiliate marketing is also one of the best way to earn so thanks for the tips.
Affiliate Marketing is becoming hard to start these days. It was a time when people easily can start it & make bucks easily. Now it requires a lot strategic planning, efforts & unique ideas to be successful with it. Creative work of anyone will work as a long term model of this kind business.. For short term anyone can go with paid advertising, social media promotions.
Youtube vidoes and Niche sites are the best ways to make money as an affiliate. Of course an email list too is a good thing but still going with the former 2 ways can give you some good amount of sales and commissions.
There are also many ways to promote affiliate products. You can do it through having your own website. You can launch and email marketing campaign to sell the affiliate products. You can use article marketing to advertise the product. You can buy ads through Google or Facebook, as a pay-per-click advertising campaign. This is where you are charged a set amount for each person that clicks on your ad. These ads show up on search engine pages or Facebook pages (although there are several other pay-per-click options as well). You can use a Twitter account to advertise, or place an ‘pin’ on Pinterest. You can even do mobile advertising for people who like to use their iPad or cell phones.
That was some great info. Currently promoting affiliate products via Amazon gets some extra earning.. Youtube Videos works great too..
Thanks for sharing…
These are some of the great tips. The best way to promote a product is through emails or through social networking sites. Thanks for throwing light on the best of the tips through this post.
Great post!
the post above is very usefull for the many of the bloggers out there. this really a nice and helpful post. that was really awesome and enjoyed reading it and gained some new thing from your blogs thanks for this blog
and keeping sharing some more new things like it.
Hi Dhruv,
I am new to affiliate marketing world and I find what you say extremely interesting. I think that somebody who wants to do affiliate marketing needs to start slowly and carefully, studying the market, the products, the affiliate programs and trying all kind of things until he succeeds.
Even better, I think that you must find and follow an affiliate marketing expert and learn from him (or her). Otherwise you may easily fall into the trap you mentioned and: “you might lose all your money.”
Thank you for this very useful post. I think it provides a good starting point for somebody who wants to become an affiliate marketer.
Have a beautiful day
Hy Dhruv,
Indeed a debatable and a great discussion board topic you have written on. Knowing about the affiliate marketing is a different thing than making that thing work actually for your blog. Affiliate is seen to be one of the best techniques if you are into implementation of monetization techniques.
Thank you so much for making such a great share.
Regards
Let me start by thanking you for this post. I am an affiliate promoter with two website for i never promoted them the way you explained here. I will try your methods. But can one use some emails search on the net?
I was just researching how to promote affiliate links on a blog and came across your site. I had just watched a HOA you did on google plus this Friday. Lots of good info. Thanks.
Excellent article. This is really an informative article. Promoting affiliate products is crucial for every online marketer. We have different options to promote our affiliate products such as writing review, email marketing, forum marketing, video marketing and more. I think Forum marketing, Email marketing, and Video marketing can be your best choice.
Thanks a lot for your interesting article.