How to promote an affiliate site in 2015?

Think social.

Something very big is coming in the social sphere. Game changer big.

GRM

Just started using Bing ads the other day & try to keep everybody updated on my results

Been getting my clicks for about .09 a piece right now, so looks pretty good to me.

These days you've got to offer very specific, niche information on your blog/ websites in order to get decent traffic. If you're not an expert in that topic, you can forget about it because those who search for this information cannot be fooled by PLR material or generic crap. An example would be a site about plantar fasciitis treatment.

I would put a lot more focus on generating that specific, niche content instead of SEO. Then, try some Facebook Ads targeted to your market to build you list. You can also try TrueView ads by YouTube; they are currently pretty inexpensive. You goal will be to get the opt ins, then send them great info about twice a week.

The same way I always have done in the past.

The Penguin and Panda updates seem, collectively, gradually to have made it easier to rank sites highly through content syndication, because "site relevance" seems to be increasingly rewarded, these days, and "being the site from which initially-indexed content has been extensively syndicated to relevant sites" seems to many people to be increasingly recognized by Google as conferring some sort of "authority status", but search-engine traffic has such low value to me (in terms of opt-in, responsiveness and especially buying potential) that I don't really care anyway.

If Google de-indexed all my sites tomorrow morning, I think it would take away 20% of my traffic but probably only 2% of my income.

I have virtually no CPA experience. I've found PPC pretty profitable at various times (albeit typically not nearly as "scalable" or "passive" as some of its great proponents proclaim!). It certainly compares very favorably, for me, with "organic traffic" but still very unfavorably with the type of pre-targeted, pre-qualified traffic one typically generates from article marketing.

Not sure if it helps/interests you at all, but this is what I do, and it really does seem gradually to get a little easier and more profitable, year by year.

Some of the thoughts in this thread may also help you: http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ml#post8659398


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I think Facebook advertising its probably the best bet as long as you have funnel optimized. The only thing with facebook are some specific niches that are not welcome by facebook, so will be tricky.

Neatly phrased question.

In the mid-2000s it was enough to focus on SEO, game the system a bit. Nowadays, I think we're dealing with a more sophisticated class of internet user.

Think about it. A decade ago, if you had a query, you threw your trust in Google. But today we rely on recommendations we receive from friends, family, followers, and peers. When I started on Twitter a few years ago, I followed perhaps 20 accounts. Today that is closer to 250, thanks to retweets of interesting accounts from my original group.

I think as a microcosm it represents where we're at as marketers: you have to put out the kind of content/service that earns recommendations/retweets/word-of-mouth. That's why I'd urge against anybody putting up a traditional affiliate site - it may still get some mileage out of shrinking SEO loopholes or whatever, but it's ignoring where the 'net has taken us.

So: if you have a website you can stand behind, just get involved in your niche community. Contribute substantively and regularly. Fill out your profiles. Memorable avatars. Links placed wherever they are allowed. Engage and respond. Stick at it...

Same as in 2014, social media. Try Pinterest, Facebook and Google +. Depends on your target group. Maybe Instagram too.

Buy advertising space.

well , I being using my social media account to earn some pocket money by sharing link on daily basis since I got limited time to spare

Well, basically we have two main options :

Paid Advertising or SEO

Since OP have a trouble in ranking, why not trying out PPC instead?

You can try Bing PPC.
http://www.warriorforum.com/pay-per-...-roi-bing.html

Interesting contents always attract attention to readers and maybe your page will be shared by users. it always pay to have a well written content and that you can make users do something after reading.

I think SMO really work 2015.because you can target your niche with SMO.

I recommend you follow Alexa Smith's advice.

To your success,
-Terrance

What about forum marketing? It is free method and still converting.

Content Is Still King- Even in 2015

& also social media marketing

you surely need niche content- highly informative articles, 700-1000 words with a highly enticing title and a catchy first paragraph. article to have subsections with subtitles. bulleted and numbered lists also to be found in the article. also, include some wise niche related quotes in your article.

Remember, most people do not read articles from top to bottom, they simply scan, that is why you article has to be optimized with subsections, bulleted lists and quotes that can easily be grabbed by the reader who is simply scanning.

this is the kind of content i specialize in producing.

social media marketing

using facebook and linkedin is the best way to promote the great content you have created.

I would never depend on SEO for my income.. I would try to learn paid traffic asap.

Thinking of those alternative traffic sources, but search engine traffic still seems the best source.

I am trying social media, but that too is hard to achieve without going through the search engines first.

Basically, I am focusing on Twitter and Facebook. Attracting fans, tweeting and posting Facebook. The traffic is weak, it is not propagating.

And slowly, people are probably getting sick to read all the "junk" appearing on those platforms.

Instead of building an "affiliate" site, why don't you build a site around a topic which also sells affiliate products?
Write a bunch of articles on topics that people in the niche you're targeting would be interested in and then promote relevant affiliate offers in the text. This seems to work pretty well, even without having to do social promotion.

Having been active in IM for over a decade, what I have found is the following:

1. I still earn the vast majority from my own products where I get partners/affiliates to help build my customer base - I realize this is not directly affiliate marketing, but once I have customers on my email list and/or customer list, we then market affiliate products to them with very high conversion rate (since they already trust us enough to buy our own products). By far, this converts highest as affiliate marketing strategy

2. SEO/Content still works (always has been relatively low conversion rates) - the key here is to be highly effective at funneling traffic into very related front-end offers (either give-away's or even low-cost, front-end products - mind-maps, work sheets, reports, mini video trainings, etc...) I have had recent success improving conversions from high traffic blogs to both email subscribers and buyers - more than in the past for sure, but it has taken a LOT of testing and work - I just couldn't ignore the low conversion rates anymore spending most of this year focused on improving these with good success (will continue on this into next year)

3. FB Ads to specific offers - did *some* of this with positive results this year, actually very pleased with the conversions - you really have to know your numbers here and have a good sales funnel in place to ensure you are not just paying for leads, but that you are converting them into sales for positive ROI. So far we have mainly used FB ads for our own products where ROI is proven, then we can "back-end" affiliate offers to customers with established trust

4. Social - continue to build on Twitter to the point of seeing some return this year, key here is engaging rather than just tweeting - really not many people are doing this STILL even after everyone has been told this is the key to social. See sales and leads coming through this year, so things are very encouraging, we are on the right track for sure

I use SEO and Solo Ads

Affiliate Marketing requires a lot of promotion. You can promote your product in many ways, especially in 2014/5, now that the technology is more advanced than it was 4-5 years ago.

For example, you can create your own website (landing page) to promote an affiliate product (e.g. from Clickbank). In order to gain better rankings on search engines (SEO), you will have to take almost every other promotion method into your account.

What does it mean? It means that you have to use a combination of promotional methods. Those methods will have a great (positive or negative) impact on your ranking wherever it is promoted on. Suppose you have an Fitness affiliate product and the competition is very high for those specific keywords.

What you can do is try to dominate the market by starting new threads on specific forums, creating videos or paying some other people (e.g. from Fiverr) to create videos about your advertised product (testimonials), ask your friends on Social Media to promote the product website and maybe offer an incentive (bonus).

However, before you proceed with advertising your affiliate product, you must dedicate a day or two on making a research about the product. In the end of the day you must know what group of people is targeted, where do they usually look for a solution (your product) etc.

Always looking around for an alternative to Google's hegemony thus freeing oneself from the tyranny of SEO in a variable, extremely competitive and unpredictable marketplace. And there are alternatives such as low-cost PPC with Bingads, along with tools developed to do an 'end around' Google but not to game them...completely 'WhiteHat'. These tools exist.

To live and do business in the Google world is risky at best and fleeting for many who once thought they finally found the secret to Google's capricious and arbitrary nature.

I mean, don't get me wrong, there is and should be a proper balance to participating in a Google dominated online business world but, to solely do business with them while making and changing the rules on you is like playing roulette. I personally do not know a 'Wizard of Odds' that has conquered Google.

You gotta realize and do business knowing that there is life after Google.

That's my soapbox and I hope I gave you enough provocation to look beyond Google. It's a big world online and Google is not the only major player.

Im a little new to affililate marketing but I just put up a site .. can I get a review? How to cure Plantar Fasciitis .. I think making money in 2015 is going to be focused on cpc

I do hours of research online, and in order to survive in such a brutally competitive market the trick would be to focus on gaining very targeted traffic. So let's think where would your likely ideal audience be at??? Most likely they would be wanting reviews of the affiliate products your selling. So perhaps look into launching a review website of your affiliate products and scale the heck out of it.

I say this in the most sweetest way, lol, but so many people have ideas on which way to promote, but the only real way to know is to just get up and try something!!! If your going to do something you got to give it 120% all of the time, not sometimes and stick to it!

Try using Facebook Ads, it seems to be very popular with internet marketers in recent times

What's wrong with generating a lead and leading them to your affiliate site? Is this not working anymore for people?

Seo has always been my preferred method but I have been using faceache to drive traffic to my sites and I have to say it's been pretty good...

Build up the page likes... pages with 10k plus have been the best and I do this using faceache own tools and then just keep scheduling posts up that point to my sites. ..

Works for me

Besides the usual backlinking, you might consider social media as well.

Like Facebook, Pinterest and Youtube.

For Facebook, you can set up fanpages, groups and even ads related to your niche if you don't mind setting aside at least $5 per day.

For Pinterest, everything is self-explanatory. You create a board and put up pin posts and images related to your affiliate site.

And for Youtube, you can create or get someone to create for you videos related to your niche. Ranking Youtube videos is much faster than conventional sites.

Last but not least there is another social networking site you might want to check out.

It is called Meetup.com whereby you can either join groups of people meeting up in your local area and talking about a common interest or problem or you can set up one yourself if you can't find any related to your interest.

You can also check forums and blogs related to your niche just like this one and post valuable content be it posts and blog comments.

Hope that answers your questions.

I still believe original content = king

So many ways to promote affiliates programs but best and genuine way for same is huge traffic generating websites. You can also promote by pay per click services in google and bing too.

Want to promote affiliate links and get paid?????
Go to warrior plus (nothing to do with warrior forum) it's similar to jvzoo. Learn how to create a WSO and post it in the warrior forum. You will make plenty of money if done right. Need more help just ask me.

I think Facebook Fan pages are the way to go, you don't even have to sell anything on your page to generate income.

Do SEO and social media marketing.