Affiliate Marketing 103
This is the third and final post my Affiliate Marketing series for beginners that I’ve been discussing. In review there are three basic steps to becoming a successful Affiliate Marketer. These are:
1. Find great stuff to promote.
2. Set up the technical stuff.
3. Drive traffic to your affiliate links.
In this third post I’m going to reveal an underground method to driving traffic to your affiliate links.
Forum Marketing. Here’s what you can do if you don’t have a lot of time to hang out in the forums yourself:
1. Use Google to find four or five forums related to the topic of the product you are promoting. Make sure they are active forums, with tons of posts and threads. Make sure there is a link that you can use to list all the current members. Make sure there are at least 20 forum members with a thousand or more posts.
2. Create an account at the first forum on your list.
3. Post a thread in the “Introductions” area if there is one… and introduce yourself.
4. Post two or three helpful answers or posts about your topic. No need for more than that.
5. Use the “List Members” feature to find those top posters again… and select 1-3 people that have over a thousand posts BUT ARE NOT moderators or administrators. Then find people that have a ton of posts but NOTHING in their signature.
6. Send them each the following private message through the forum:
Hi (Name)
You seem to be quite active (and respected) on these forums… so I wanted to send you a private message and introduce myself, and also offer you a proposition:)
(Put something here about the topic of the forum, your interest in it, etc. etc.)
Would you be interested in placing one of my links in your signature? I would be willing to pay you to do so…
And of course, you are welcome to review the link to make sure you are comfortable with my ethics and the information I share.
Anyways, nice to meet you and please let me know.
Cheers!
(Your Name)
(Your Email Address)
7. Repeat these steps for all of the forums on your list.
Many of them will respond. A few may be ticked off, but most of them will be really interested… After all, this is space that they never considered could make them money before!
Work out deals with those that get back in touch with you. A fair amount you might consider paying for this space could be around $50 per month, but even that is totally negotiable.
This is a very quick method to have your link appear at the bottom of thousands of posts on highly targeted forums with very little work.
So forget about having to worry about “being helpful and gaining trust and credibility” when you can just piggy-back off the trust and credibility that someone else has already built!
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Until next time, this is Casey Peacock of the AffiliReview Blog.
