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Tips to bring huge amount of traffic and earn money as an affiliate
Making money from an affiliate program demands more than just displaying a link on your site and earning money from it. In such a competitive market, if you don’t learn the art, you will not make any money. It is necessary to pick up a good affiliate program that pays nice commissions but if you are unable to drive traffic, it won’t serve any purpose. Let’s see four traffic tips that are absolutely free and can bring great amount of traffic to your sites.
Article Marketing – If your writing skills are at least average and you can provide some useful information, you can get at least a few visitors to your site each week per article. The amount a traffic an article brings is dependent on:
* The demand in that niche - more demand means more number of people interested in a product
* The supply to that niche - it determines the competition, if there are already a lot of products serving that niche, it would be difficult to sell your product
* The way you supply information in your article – crisp, helpful and to the point information keeps the interest of the readers
So, after writing an article, submit it to the most popular article directories like Ezine articles, GoArticles, Article Dashboard, etc. Each submission can bring you at least 10 visitors a week and if you write 10 articles per week and submit to just 5 article directories, you will get around 2000 targeted visitors to your site each month. And these are quite conservative estimates. These article directories receive thousands of visitors per day and you can easily get 5000 uniques per month with a little bit of work.
If you consider the case of 2000 visitors and if these visitors convert at the rate of just 1%, you can sell 20 products. If you receive a commission of $15 per sale, you can make $300 per month and this is just the minimum that you can make. This is a completely free source of traffic as you don’t need to spend any money to bring those visitors to your site. You just need to spend a few minutes each day writing average quality articles and you can easily make around $500 to $1000 with this method.
Video Marketing – You must be aware of the popularity of videos these days and the fame of video-sharing sites. If you have a webcam, it is one of the easiest methods to make money. You just need to keep the videos to around 2-3 minutes and only provide useful information. It involves the same 3 factors - demand, supply and quality, discussed above. During the video at some point, you can disclose your link and why it should be visited. You should also add the link in the description box.
Keyword research is as important for videos as it is for articles and almost everything on the net. Youtube is the most popular site for this. Watch some videos on youtube. You cannot easily find any optimized video with less than 10k views. If luck favors you and your video goes viral, you can register thousands of visitors to your site. Think of the potential earnings that these site visitors can bring!
Social bookmarking – It involves sharing web pages with members of similar interest on social bookmarking sites like Digg, Stumbleupon, etc. Members of these bookmarking sites vote for a web page and the votes decide the popularity of a link. If your link hits the front page in a particular category, it can bring thousands of visitors to your web pages as these sites are hugely popular nowadays. They are also a source of valuable backlinks as a lot of members have a PR (Page Rank) for their profiles and backlinks from these profiles can do wonders for your site in the long run. Search engines also love these sites and they can bring in a constant stream of visitors even when you are not doing any effort to share your links on these sites.
Search Engine Optimization – This is one of the most important ways to bring traffic to your site and it involves a lot of skills and hardwork. If your site is optimized, you can receive a lot of organic traffic (from search engines). The most important factors involving SEO are:
* Fresh and unique content with keyword targeting
* Building a lot of backlinks
If you are able to rank well in search engines for even a couple of keywords, you can get thousands of visitors to your site each month.
All the above methods have a great potential to bring a lot of targeted traffic to your site and such traffic can in turn result in commissions of thousands of dollars every month.