Is forum signature useful for promoting affiliate products

14 years ago

It's against the forum rules to put affiliate links in your signature. If you want to use your sig to sell affiliate products you need to create a website and put the links on your website.

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Darni

14 years ago

Originally Posted by rosetrees

It's against the forum rules to put affiliate links in your signature. If you want to use your sig to sell affiliate products you need to create a website and put the links on your website.

Hope that helps.

There are other forums which allow pepople to use affiliate links as their signagure.Is that really useful? I ask that because I'm new to the affiliate marketing.The way I mainly use now is article marketing.And I'm sure it works because I've already made some sales of it.PPC is too expensive to me, so I haven't use it so far.I'm just wondering that whether signature is useful.Thanks for your help.

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Odhinn

14 years ago

I think that if you're referring to other forums, it can, but it's better to drive people to a preselling page, like an article where you talk about the product, and then sell them from there.

However, even if you do it the other way, it works. I put my WSOs in my sig and I've had 4 sales on that for a WSO that's been hidden for 2 months.

And like rosetrees said, it's against the rules here, but it would work in most other niche forums out there.

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sbucciarel

Banned 14 years ago

No affiliate links in your signature, but of course, if you are promoting your own products or your own sites, and the offer looks interesting, people are going to take a peek.

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ilove

14 years ago

I think it's not a good idea to promove affiliate links through your signature, but some products/services you have advertised on this forum.

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GeorgR. 14 years ago

Originally Posted by ilove

I think it's not a good idea to promove affiliate links through your signature, but some products/services you have advertised on this forum.

its not only "not a good idea", its actually not allowed on most forums to simply put afflinks in your signature-

But otherwise forum marketing can be *substantial*. It really depends on your activity and reputation also.
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Joe Benjamin

14 years ago

I personally don't use Signatures to promote direct linking, It just
doesn't sit well with moderators...besides, it's better to have a
landing page or presell page before you sell a product anyway.

They absolutely do work depending on the forums traffic, and they
do drive sales and leads - consistently

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kevinfahey

14 years ago

sig links work 100%.. I use them in DP to promote my membership and get messages each week... saying I clicked your sig link in DP and followed the instructions etc... and these people contacting me ... there is probably a lot more traffic coming from it.

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TheJedi

14 years ago

I've been selling a product of mine for almost 10 years now using nothing but forum signatures to generate the traffic, so it definitely does work. Be sure to read the forum's rules before posting it, however, as it is frowned upon in many places. To get people to really pay attention to the sig, though, you really need to make a lot of useful posts, setting yourself up as a sort of expert on your particular topic.

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dawdaw

14 years ago

Originally Posted by TheJedi

I've been selling a product of mine for almost 10 years now using nothing but forum signatures to generate the traffic, so it definitely does work. Be sure to read the forum's rules before posting it, however, as it is frowned upon in many places. To get people to really pay attention to the sig, though, you really need to make a lot of useful posts, setting yourself up as a sort of expert on your particular topic.

why dont you use a link signature?

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DarioMontesdeOca

14 years ago

Hey Darni,

To answer your question, yes, signatures on forums are a useful strategy for promoting affiliate products. Not only that but you can promote just about any website in your signature as long as you abide by forum rules.

Different forums have different rules applying to signatures so it's best to read the forums' guidelines before promoting anything.

I've generated many leads and sales through my signatures alone. I know this because I have done several promotions of different products just through forum signatures.

Best of luck.

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david carr

14 years ago

forum sigs are good but I would have them going to one of your websites and not direct linking, most forums won't allow affiliate links in sigs.

It's a great way to get started in IM

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Jeff Henshaw

14 years ago

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Originally Posted by TheJedi

I've been selling a product of mine for almost 10 years now using nothing but forum signatures to generate the traffic, so it definitely does work. Be sure to read the forum's rules before posting it, however, as it is frowned upon in many places. To get people to really pay attention to the sig, though, you really need to make a lot of useful posts, setting yourself up as a sort of expert on your particular topic.

why dont you use a link signature?

I would tend to agree with the above post.

You can bet your sweet life that a legitimate signature in this forum is more valuable than one placed in many others. IMHO.

I am assuming of course, that your product is relevant to this forum - if not, just ignore my post - you won't be the first

Jeff.

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Alexa Smith

Banned 14 years ago

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Darni

14 years ago

Originally Posted by Alexa Smith

Neither. I generally use them to generate targeted traffic to one of my websites, from which I promote products.

(In this forum I don't do that because I use my real name here and I don't disclose my niches).

Indirectly, many. To people who have clicked on my link, gone to one of my websites, and from there to a Clickbank sales page. I wouldn't try it by "direct-linking", though (with an affiliate-link actually in a sig-file), because I think it would be very hard indeed to make any sales that way, just as it is with article marketing - and I wouldn't be able to build a list, either. (And in this forum affiliate-links are not allowed in sig-files, anyway).

I still can't understand why it's better to build a landing page than directly link to the vendor's the page.I built a landing page before becasue affiliate link was not allowed to use.I would use direct affiliate links if I could.Can some one tell me why I should build a landing page first?

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tommen

14 years ago

Originally Posted by Darni

I still can't understand why it's better to build a landing page than directly link to the vendor's the page.I built a landing page before becasue affiliate link was not allowed to use.I would use direct affiliate links if I could.Can some one tell me why I should build a landing page first?

Hey Darni, the point of having a landing page is to collect peoples names and email addresses first.This way you can contact them again in the future with your offers.If you refer them to a affiliate page directly and they will not sign up /buy, you will lose them forever. (Statistically it takes 7 visits to a website before a sale is made.) It is easier to contact 1 person 7 times than it is to get 7 brand new visitors to your website.

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Akin Alabi 14 years ago

They work in niche forums. When I started out, I made quite a few sales with them. I'm not too sure about the IM niche though.
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Darni

14 years ago

Originally Posted by tommen

Hey Darni, the point of having a landing page is to collect peoples names and email addresses first.This way you can contact them again in the future with your offers.If you refer them to a affiliate page directly and they will not sign up /buy, you will lose them forever. (Statistically it takes 7 visits to a website before a sale is made.) It is easier to contact 1 person 7 times than it is to get 7 brand new visitors to your website.

I think I get the idea.Thanks,Tommen.

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f4ll3rs

14 years ago

read this thread to learn more... to do a forum marketing, you must be a reputable forum member first... i learn it the hard way...

hope that it helps.. good luck with the affiliate..

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biz4bucks 14 years ago

DreamTeamMoney Forum seems to love Affiliate Links and won't allow you to
promote Personal Websites ------ Just the Opposite ---- Go figure

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- Glenn Leader 14 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by synthman
  
  DreamTeamMoney Forum seems to love Affiliate Links and won't allow you to
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Glenn Leader

14 years ago

I absolutely agree with just two comments in this
thread. Everything you do should be designed to
build a list. Once you have there details, you can
pass them onto your offer. I'd use a rotate script
to drive people to different offers, and drop the
ones that don't convert.

HTH

Glenn

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Dr Dan

14 years ago

I like posting on forums but I keep getting banned for having a link in my signature. Not even an affiliate link? Hard to find forums that allow links that point outside the forum.

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Dennis Gaskill

14 years ago

Forum signatures work, but...

They work best when you contribute quality content to the forum. If anyone thinks they are going post "me too" and "I agree" and "thank you" posts and drive traffic to their site, well, they're likely going to be disappointed. I don't even look at signatures until I've seen enough posts by someone that I associate them with being a contributor of quality comments to the forum.

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forumer147

14 years ago

I think it is not allowed to place affiliate links in promoting affiliate products. Blog articles where more useful I guess

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