The most important skill that any online marketer should have
regardless of whether they are affiliate marketers or product creators,
is the ability to drive traffic to their products and websites.
For affiliate marketers this is especially important.
Affiliate marketers drive traffic to their landing pages
or directly to the affiliate products that they are promoting.
They do not need to create products, salepages or handle customer support.
Driving traffic is their main job and it must be targeted traffic.
If you wish to be a successful affiliate marketer, you absolutely must master traffic generation.
You don’t need to master all of the many traffic methods
but you must know at least a few to generate a steady amount of traffic.
The more traffic you get, the more conversions you can make.
It is a numbers game.
One of the best methods of driving free traffic is forum marketing.
This is highly targeted traffic. You need to join the different forums related to your niche.
If you’re in the hydroponics niche, you should join the hydroponics forums
and observe what is going on in there.
Learn what problems the people in the forum are experiencing.
Then try to be as helpful as possible. The key is adding value.
The more value you add, the better a member you will be
and other members will be glad to have you around.
Now you should make sure that you have a catchy forum signature
with a link back to your landing page.
Do not go out of your way to call attention to it.
If you contribute enough value,
people will automatically be curious to see who you are
and go click on your link. This is human nature.
If they then see a good offer on your landing page,
you will start to get some sales.
Another excellent traffic generation method is Facebook groups.
These are similar to forums. The only difference is that it’s on Facebook.
The same rules apply. Adding value being the main one.
After a while, you can contact the Facebook group owner
and ask if they will allow you to post a link back to your landing page.
It would be a good idea to customize the landing page
to make it look compatible with the group.
In this way the owner of the group will feel they have something special
to offer the group and they will be much more inclined to help you.
A third method of traffic generation is article marketing… with a twist.
You will not be submitting your articles to directories.
Instead, you will be offering high quality articles
to websites in your niche that have high traffic.
If you can’t write well, you can always outsource this task.
It will be an expense but you should look at it as an investment.
Once you have a few good articles, approach the owners of the sites
and offer the articles to them for free
and just ask for a link back to your site from the article.
Do not use affiliate links in your article. Make it look like you’re offering value…
and the truth is you are. Most websites are looking for fresh, good content.
You will be an asset for them. And it’s free. Who could resist.
These three methods if well-executed,
can drive massive amounts of traffic to your site or products.
You do not need to know a hundred different methods.
You just need to know a few good ones.
The three mentioned above are excellent.
So go out and practise these methods and watch your affiliate commissions flood in.
