As an
affiliate,
you'll know how hard it can become to continually raise your traffic
levels and ultimately your sales.
This is partly due to the fact that very few people are usually seeking
out your small mini site that is designed to presell a product.
Once of the best ways to get around this constant uphill struggle is to
leverage other people and their hard work.
This is done by jumping on the bandwagon of new products and services,
and on the general gravy train of well known brands and people.
Here’s a few ways to do that...
1. When a new product is launched online, there will always be a period
of huge search volumes. These searches come from people using all sorts
of
keywords to find the products and
does their buyer research before handing over their cash.
As an
affiliate,
this is a great opportunity to get in front of these people as the new
products are released to the market, and this works particularly well
as
keywords relating to new products
have less competition in the
search
engines (making it easier for you as an
affiliate
to get found).
2. Secondly, you can siphon money off other successful marketers
indirectly. This is done by looking at how they are
making
money and modeling their system.
For example, you could monitor a set of PPC adverts for a specific set
of
keywords. You would see over a
period of time if these people continue to advertise with these
keywords and if they do, you can
be pretty sure that they are making a profit from their system.
All you need to do is examine how they are making money and model your
own business around a similar process (do not copy other people's work
however, as this could land you in court).
3. Post comments and add content to big sites. Spreading your content
around the web is one of the most effective ways to get more traffic,
but to truly take advantage of the success of others, your aim to get
your content found on the big traffic sites where your target audience
hangs out.
This is really easy and there's plenty of ways to do this...
- Join some forums and leave your website link in your signature box,
then start making some useful posts.
- Add comments on social sites such as Myspace, Youtube or Yahoo
Answers.
- Or post comments on high traffic, on topic blogs in your niche.
- Or better still, create some high quality content that is totally
exclusive and original, then offer that content to a big player in your
market for them to post on their website or blog (in exchange for a
link back to your website).
As you can see, with so many websites popping up daily allowing you to
add your own content (and links) to, there's an increasing amount of
opportunities to get traffic to your website. The key is to get in
front of the right people. Do this by leveraging the big players in the
same market as you and getting your links seen by THEIR visitors.
If you make the effort with just a few of these techniques, you'll soon
be piggybacking the rich and start seeing your own
affiliate
cheques rolling in.