How to promote a diet affiliate site on forums and blogs without spamming

Hmmm.......tough niche to crack. You're playing in a very competitive space. I have no experience in what you're calling forum marketing (signature marketing, etc) but blogging works well with almost any niche/offer but it can take forever. Do you have any money (even a small budget) to throw at it? Direct media buys and ad space on related sites would work well, I'm sure. I'm playing with a CB diet offer right now, as well. I've had decent results with social media but not in a conventional way. I've created a couple FB pages and focused (spare time) on growing the fans/likes to build a social audience. Keep in touch and hopefully I'll have a success blueprint for you Hope this helps - Best of luck!

blogging with the content and long tail keywords while going to fiverr to get some backlinks can get you some top rankings for long tail right away.

Maybe you can do same paid advertising. Go to fiverr and find some seller who are doing advertising on their website. Find suitable website to promote your site.

Share unique content on diet forums. Write it specifically for key conversations on the forum. You're still advertising but you're advertising the IDEA of your product instead of doing a hard sell.

Awesome tip with the Google Alerts, thanks.
I guess using a signature really is the best way to be able to give answers and not really seeming like you do it to advertise for forums. Yahoo answers actually is something I haven't thought of. Thinking outside of the box might really just be what is needed..

Yeah Jamescanz, you are definitely right. I think it's also kind of my problem that I always look at things through my perspective, and I should realize that even if facts like that are dead obvious to me (which is, I guess, why I'm not fat, haha), they might not be for others.

I must say, you have chosen good niche because people often search for diet plans and weight loss. I think it is most selling affiliate product.

I would suggest you to do article marketing…guest blogging and do social media marketing plus PPC marketing.

If you are looking at long term steady success - time and effort commitment to build an authority site on the special diet niche, and good old natural manual seo.

If you are looking to create an instant buzz to get you started : Paid Press Release and Media Buys.

As for me, I do both! Both long term success that can hold you steady, and short term success that you can hold on to and steady the weather until calmer waters arrive are important - atleast in my book

I've personally done really well in this niche. There are so many amazing authors out there that can write about dieting, healthy eating, ect so there is a ton of room for growth and sales. Here's how I go about driving traffic.

-Find a minimum of 3 articles per week to add to my site from directories (like you've done)
-Write a minimum of 2 articles per week myself or hired
-Put my articles in the directories for other people to use
-Guest blog on related blogs
-Talk daily on forums whether it is answering questions, making suggestions, or a clip of your article.

These few things if you stick to a routine will easily start boosting your SEO rankings since your doing keyword research as well as provide a stable free way of driving traffic to your site.

Last thing I would do is start building a list, promote something like 3 free 10 min & under recipes a week this will give you the opportunity to say "hey if you liked yesterdays dinner idea, here's a 500 more on discount from amazon grab it today" ... you get the idea I hope

One other great thing that worked for me but had some cost is going to fiverr and hire someone to do a video or preparing a dinner or something.

Hopefully, this gives you a good idea of where to start.

If you are going to add your affiliate link to your signature in some forums, this is not allowed.

This forum will not allow you to do this if your signature is an affiliate link. If it is your own website and domain name and you are reviewing a product on that page, then that is allowed.

Every forum that you visit and are thinking about adding your own website, read their forum rules first to see what is allowed and what isn't.

I am using my website as link, not the affiliate product. This way I can provide info, link to the affiliate product and offer them to subscribe.

Awesome, thank you so much. I read your other thread on the advice for your friend, and actually followed your steps to select and build up to where I am now! A detailed question: how do you use the articles? Ezinearticles mentions that you can not change any info, so you'd have to add in an affiliate link the author added, and it will be clear that you didn't write anything. I suppose, if you keep the author credit there and also submit original content, people will value your site more than if you would just put articles from directories.

I built a list with Aweber (first time, so I guess it's not optimal yet) offering a premium list of "winter recipes" as a reward for signing up. I suppose I should just try to add recipes weekly, but how do you add them? You can not simply copy other peoples recipes, can you?

Hi Paul, thanks for your insight! You certainly have a valid point, this will be something to look into in the near future. Thank you for your insight!

Before jumping into the methods of promoting your website, reevaluate yourself with the questions below.

1 Does my website have quality contents or services that might be useful to people?
2 Does my website look professional and tidy?
3 Does my website have membership features where users can sign-up to create an account, log-in anytime later, and have access to exclusive website features?
4 Does my website have features where I can hook my visiting users to create communities and allow them to post their thoughts about or related to my website's theme?

How to promote your affiliate site

I think this link will help you to some extent.

You can build your signature in this giant health niche forum: Steady Health. Probably the rare gem in the health niche, so do treat with care!

You'll need 100 posts before you can hyperlink your signature links, but hey, I think it's worth the effort for 100 backlinks in a site full of real prospects. Good luck.

First thing you need to create is a Blog where you create top quality content around your niche

Having a blog online within your niche gives you a massive advantage over your competition

Create a blog and add at least 1 new top quality article each week especially if it's a new blog and then you can taper off when things are going well, then link to your squeeze page from your blog. You can also include an opt in form on your blog and sprinkle your squeeze page link in and around your content with text links

Your blog will be the back bone of your entire business, from here you are:

building your list
building traffic to your blog
branding yourself
building authority within your niche

When you have a blog online it's way easier to build traffic because you can leave blog comments, participate in forums and send your subscribers back to your blog for more information and content

It's easier having a blog because sometimes when you leave links to your squeeze page they don't always get approved

Once you have a blog you can generate lots more traffic by:

Sending your subscribers back to your blog posts helping to share your content with more people
Leave blog comments
Guest posting
Add videos to your blog

I think you get the idea

Having a blog online gives you the opportunity to generate tonnes more exposure, traffic and subscribers into your business

This is not theory, this is what I do but in the IM niche ;-)

Paul

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Hope this helps

If you have not used the diet you will have difficulty answering questions that you would get in forums and Facebook.

Personally I try whenever possible to promote programs I have experience with and am therefore able to give my personal opinion before the potential customer visits the sales page.

I think most top internet marketers do not know much about their niche to start with. They got to become an expert with time as they researched, learn and help others. So, you do not really need to know much, just your interest and willingness to educated yourself and with the help of other people you also can become an expert in your chosen niche with time.

you could always just buy a banner on the forum you want to target, I have made tens of thousands of dollars adverting on forums. It will cost some money but with a good conversion funnel that's quite alright.

Also just to add. I have seen some people that do not have a clue about the niche and all they did was team up with someone that knew about the topic and before they knew it they were even selling their own product with results off course. So,I think it depends on how you present yourself and who you team up with.