What Do You Think Is the Best Way to Promote Digital Products for Free?

In my opinion, the problem is that (as you can see from your question) you are always told that XY or XYZ is the best way.

But the truth is that you have to find the best way for YOURSELF.

What's the point if someone tells you that Tiktok is the best way, but you have no interest in shooting, editing and creating videos, for example? Let alone have any ideas about it. Or if you prefer not to show yourself in front of the camera at all? In these cases, tiktok is certainly not the best way to go, you know?

Apart from that, it also depends a lot on what you want to sell. Is there the right market for the product on platform xy?

For example, it will probably be a little harder to sell drilling machines on tiktok than any kind of personal development product.

Long story short, the right platform to be successful is A the one that fits your strengths and which you can execute with discipline in the long term and B the one that provides the right market (target group) for your product.

There isn't a 'best way,' but the question is what is working. Everything is working if done correctly. Look at what other people are doing, and simply copy them. Data shows everything. For example, if they are running a successful blog website, do the same. Extract keywords from competitors and build your site. If that niche is working on youtube, then do youtube. Look at the data.

Are you an affiliate...or are these your own products?

The answer I would give depends on my above question

I agree that there is BS on YouTube, but there is valuable
information also, you need to discern the difference, and
I think that you limit yourself if you have not tried certain
methods before decrying them.

There are several places besides the major social media
platforms where you can promote whatever you have.

If you have digital download products, for example, you
can find suitable smaller marketplaces to sell them on.

Whichever platform you use for whatever you plan to do,
it is going to require effort before it becomes passive.

Also, everything isn't always going to be free. If you are
serious about your marketing, you will eventually pay an
upfront listing fee or split your profits.

Let's say you have a course that consists of PDFs and
videos, and there are several platforms that you could
host and sell the course on, but they all charge fees.

If you want to avoid those fees you can host the course
on your own website, put it on a Shopify or some other
shopping cart/payment processor, promote it all over
the place, and hope for the best.

You will be better off selling your course on one of the
established platforms, rather than trying to avoid fees
because most people will not buy from somebody's
random website.

It takes money to make money, and when you're sure
you have something sellable, you won't mind the fees.

TikTok,Youtube,Etc.

as usual is via email list.

The best way to promote anything you sell is to your e-mail list.

The second best way to promote is to someone else's e-mail list, assuming their list was built with people who look like your customers. They promote your offer to their list, in exchange for you promoting their offer to your list.

Everything else is a very distant third.

for me the best way to promote digital product is instagram.

I agree. Instagram is by far the most selling platform. But it is extremely difficult to become noticeable there. It's a whole science

If you by "best" you mean FREE, I suggest answering questions on QUORA and promoting your BRAND

What is brand promo on Quora? Answer the question in such a way that it plays up the UNIQUE SELLING POINT of the service or product you are promoting BUT... don't leave a LINK.

Links on quora (nowadays) will lead to your posts getting deleted

Instead, mention your brand or better yet mention a unique domain name you rank #1 for

This is a very powerful way to market on Quora since you market by SHOWING how your solution can benefit your target audience

Buyers are also pretty SELF-SELECTING

Youtube is the best source of high-quality free traffic. Youtube traffic converts very well for my businesses. However, I recently received the best ROI from the TikTok audience for a client.

well on here giving value, just made a $100 sale here today

in my opinion, the best way to promote a digital product for free is through digital marketing using social media platforms. You can use social media platforms to promote your digital product but keep in mind to work hard and be creative.

OP, Another way to get FREE traffic to your offers is through building an optin list using free email communities

Again, it's all about sharing content and having interested/self-filtered users requesting to join your own list

This is not quick or easy because you have to gain trust by posting high quality content and actually solving people's problems

As a marketer selling digital products for 30+ years, outside of my own lists or the lists of others...one of the best ways to get a lot of traffic, which if you are any good, you can convert to buyers is:

The Warrior Forum SIGNATURE, a one time fee of 5 dollars, and participation here...will generate gobs of free traffic to your digital product, which is free and within the free digital product you have offers for PAID digital products.

Participation is the free way to success...that is, if you have anything of value to actually contribute to the conversation.

Anywhere you can have a signature file, is a place to participate and contribute and your buyers will find you. But hey, that's only worked for 29 of the 30 years, so there is that.

GordonJ

Prolly there are a zillion digital products for free ain't nevah gonna be seen.

Bcs Intrinsic Mleh, "I so Bombarded By Freebies I Cain't Pee Straight", an' that deal whereya search so hard you find a zillion an' one options to fuel your indecisiveness till'n you DIE.

So here's my Wisdom Sleckshin' from outta what you mighta read so far.

What links these togethah as a myootchly significant POV?

Prolly the simplest woid springs to mind is BRANDIN'.

A signature ... an' a list to which you might wanna subscribe.

Two halves of the very same process.

Digital XYZ made flesh.

You go where your audience hangs out. TikTok has a totally different audience than Twitter or LinkedIn.

Also, it's not free. Publishing a high quality video takes A LOT of time that's worth something to you.

Horizontally scaling organic social traffic is one of the best methods I've seen implemented so far. Long form video --> cut down to shorts --> distribute across 10 social accounts on the big 4 (Youtube, tiktok, instagram, snapchat). 40 accounts total, 3 videos per day per account. 120 videos per day total.

Research where your target audience hangs out.
Do demo video and show the benefit.
Launch on sites like Appsumo where someone is ready to try.
Youtube/TikTok with keywords/hashtag.

promote it through youtube by reviewing it and also by running adds in instagram and facebook

If you have facebook followers, that is the best way to promote any offer. I promote offers on facebook on my fanpage and facebook groups every 60 minutes. If your facebook account is not new, you can post to 3 groups per hour. anything more than that you will get blocked by facebook