Hands-down one of the most common questions
I get in regards to affiliate marketing is
'how do you actually get traffic?'
So in today's video,
I'm going to be sharing with you guys three ways
that I personally use for driving traffic
to an affiliate marketing website.
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In today's video, we're going to be talking about a hot topic
and a staple of affiliate marketing and that is traffic.
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So without further ado
let's get right into the value in this video,
with three ways that I personally use for driving traffic
to an affiliate marketing website.
So the first two things that we all need to understand
and I'll go through this very quickly
but this is just to make sure we're on the same page to use these three tips.
And the first thing is what is affiliate marketing
and why are we driving this type of traffic?
So in a nutshell, affiliate marketing is just referring someone
to a product or service.
This has been a business model for literally longer than I've been alive
and it's been happening in the real world.
Someone asks, 'Hey, who's your barber?' 'Who cuts your hair?'
You refer them to the barber.
And then if the barber gives you a couple dollars as a thank you
that's the commission from the barber for referring them a new client.
This is all affiliate marketing is
but it's evolved a little bit with the internet.
With the internet, these companies can sell their products online
and they have to get traffic to get their products
and services in front of people to buy them.
So if you can be that person that's referring someone
who's interested in the product to the company
and the person makes a purchase,
the company then gives you a commission.
And the reason this works so well is
because once you know how to do this online,
you can scale it.
The more traffic you bring in front of those products and services,
the more people are going to buy
and the more commission you're going to make.
So that should have us all on the same page of what affiliate marketing is
and how it works with traffic.
Now we need to talk about what
the best way to do affiliate marketing online is.
So there are a ton of different ways to do affiliate marketing online,
but the gold standard is
creating a niche specific affiliate marketing website.
Now you guys have probably gone to Google typed in a question
and read an article on a website that gave you an answer
and you didn't even realize that that article
is on a niche affiliate marketing website.
So what these sites are is basically you pick a topic
or a specific niche
and you write all kinds of helpful content in blog articles
or just post format giving people value in answers.
Now the way that we make money from these sites is
throughout those posts where we're giving a valuable answer
we can link to an affiliate product
or some type of product that will help with their solution
and as they're reading the article they may just click on that link
and see the product and say hey that'll solve my problem
or that's a good review of that product.
I like it and I want it, they'll click your link,
they make the purchase, you get the Commission for referring that traffic.
Now secondly, icing on the cake,
another way that you make money from these websites
and reason that they're so good is because
you can put what's called Google Adsense on your website
and basically, all that is is Google will then have advertisers
who are relevant to that niche putting little ads throughout your website.
So whenever someone goes and reads your articles,
they're seeing these ads
and then Google pays you just for people seeing those ads.
They don't even have to purchase anything.
So now we should all be on the same page about
what affiliate marketing is
and how we're going to be doing affiliate marketing online.
So now we need to talk about the traffic.
So here are the three methods that I use
for driving traffic to an affiliate marketing website.
Number one, this is posting on Facebook
and then boosting that post in front of the people
who are relevant to your niche.
This is going to be the only way that includes paid advertising.
So if you do have a budget to spend on this,
this can work really well for you.
Now essentially, all you have to do here is actually pretty simple.
So you go over to Facebook, you create a new page and it's a business page.
It can be a brand, company,
anyway, that's just a separate page, than yourself.
And you create this for your niche affiiate marketing website.
So the name of the page is the name of your website
and then every article that you write for your actual website.
You then create a post on your Facebook page with the title
and a link to that article
and an image that you're using for that article
just to make a nice looking post.
And then you boost it in front of people who are relevant to that niche.
Now if you haven't boosted a Facebook post before it's actually very simple.
You'll have the option of a little Boost button
and you can click that
and then it's basically a very simplified version of Facebook ads,
the only three things you really have to do for boosted posts is
pick who the audience is going to be,
how long you want that ad to run
and how much money you want to spend.
And all of these are actually very simple.
For the audience, you don't have to overthink it.
Just think about who the actual niche website
or the affiliate product that's in that article is relevant to.
If that specific article
that you're boosting has an affiliate product in it,
that's only relevant to people in the United States,
you want to make sure that your audience
that you're targeting is that niche
and then only United States.
You don't want to do worldwide.
If it's a product or service that can be bought worldwide,
then you target the niche and then worldwide.
And if the product is specific to a certain age group
or male or female then you can target that as well.
And then for length of the ad and budget, this is up to you.
But what I personally recommend is
whenever I'm putting something on a Facebook page,
I'll do five days $5 or ten days $10. Just $1 a day
and then run it four or five days or ten days.
And that's guaranteed to get a lot of traffic over
to that article and clicks on your affiliate links.
So that is number one, that is using boosted Facebook posts
on a business Facebook page.
Number two, this is posting your articles
from your niche affiliate marketing
website as responses to people asking questions
in niche specific Facebook groups.
Now this is basically the free version of one.
What you do is you join these niche specific Facebook groups,
there's a ton of them out there for every niche
and you join them as your personal Facebook page
not the business page that we created in one but actually your personal one.
Now the reason we do this is because when we're in that group,
we're going to be interacting as a person
and what you want to do is go through the group
and look for posts of people asking questions,
that you have an article that actually answers.
Now all you have to do here is very simple.
You just copy the URL or the link to your article
that answers their question
and then paste it as a response and enter that comment.
That's it.
You don't have to write anything special,
you just post that article as a response
that gives an answer to the question that the person's asking.
My only piece of advice here is make sure that
you're not getting spamming with this
and you're actually putting articles that answer people's questions
and matching them up and not just putting these articles everywhere.
So with that said there are a ton of niche specific Facebook groups
that you can join and then you can just spend some time doing this.
It is a free way.
So it's going to take a little bit of your time
and patience going through and finding these questions
that you can match up with your articles,
but if you don't have a budget,
this is a completely free way to get traffic.
Number three, this is going to quora.com
Now, if you haven't been to Quora before,
you can basically either ask questions or you can answer questions.
This is just like the second strategy that we're talking about
and you want to go with the same approach slightly different
and I'll explain in a second here.
but you just want to look for questions that you have answers to in articles
and then write a response to that person's question
and link your article for more detail.
Now the big difference between method 2
with the niche specific Facebook groups
and method 3 on Quora is that on Quora,
you want to actually write out a custom,
very detailed answer and then link to your article for more information.
A lot of people get kicked off of Quora for just linking their articles
and you can tell exactly what they're trying to do is that
just get traffic to their articles.
So if you write a pretty good custom answer
to that person answering their question
and then referring to your article for more information
that is the way to do it and you'll get free traffic from Quora.
Now the best parts to Method 2 and Method 3 are of course,
they're free to do but your answers stay up there forever.
So as you start doing this and you're putting more seeds out there
people are going to continue to see that
whenever they have that question and be referred over to your article.
However there's something really important that you guys need to know.
What this is is after your first niche affiliate marketing website
when you move on to the others,
you're likely not even going to be using these three methods.
Now let me explain that, for people who are experienced
with affiliate marketing and creating these websites
or someone who is seasoned with this and done it a couple times.
You know that when you create the new niche affiliate marketing website,
you try to write at least 30 posts on that website
and then you let Google just basically do the rest.
These three methods that I just talked about
will get traffic to your site very early on.
However, if you don't even want to worry about that,
you can write 30 really good articles and then just let Google do the rest.
It typically takes about 35 weeks from when you write that article
and post it on your site until Google has properly ranked it on Google
and once that happens,
you will just be getting organic traffic to your site
so you don't actually have to do anything.
So with that said a lot of the times
people will see this happen on the first site
and they won't even worry about marketing
or getting traffic to their site
because they know in 35 weeks after they write that article
they are going to be getting plenty of organic traffic.
So if you don't have extra time or you've done this before
then you can just write the articles
and then move on to the next site and write those articles
and just know that Google will rank them in time.
The most important thing to know is
when you create these niche affiliate marketing websites the bulk
and I'm saying the vast majority of the traffic
that comes to your site is going to be coming from free organic traffic
from your articles ranking on Google.
Now before you guys go there's something
that's really exciting that I started to mention
in the beginning of this video
and that's something I've been working on for you guys for over a month now.
As you guys know,
when you create these niche affiliate marketing websites,
you kind of have to make it by hand or customize a template,
you can use either WordPress or Wix.
WordPress is going to be cheaper
but it is definitely a heavy learning curve
and you can mess up your site pretty quickly.
Or you can use Wix which is a little bit more expensive.
However, it's super easy to use.
So over the years, I've started to use Wix for every single site
just because you can create a really good template,
you can duplicate it and it's basically plug-and-play
for all your affiliate marketing websites down the road.
Writing new articles, switching out text,
switching out images is very easy on Wix
and that's why I use it because I know in time
that site is going to be generating enough income
to cover all the extra hosting fees as opposed to WordPress.
So with that said, as you guys know
I have another video on YouTube on how to create the templates
that I've been using but I've been working on a drag-and-drop,
just plug-and-play template for you guys
that I can transfer from my Wix account to your Wix account
and then you can just fill in the images.
Fill in the text and customize your niche
and then for every site, you make down the road you can copy/paste it,
copy/paste it and just customize it, makes it so easy.
It'll be optimized for desktop tablet and mobile,
but I want to make sure it's perfect before I release it for you guys.
So it's almost there
and once it is I'll link it down in the description to this video.
And I'm sure we'll make more videos about this.
So if you can't tell I'm really excited about this
because I think this really will change the game
and for a lot of you guys.
It's going to make it so much easier to get started
so that will be coming soon.
Keep an eye down in the description once it's ready
and I know it's perfect,
then I'll link to it
and you guys can just basically have a
plug-and-play affiliate marketing template on Wix.
This will be so perfect and no one has done this on Wix before
so I'm very excited for you guys.
And I'm only going to be talking about this on YouTube
So you guys will be the only ones to have this.
So guys that's it for today's video.
I hope you enjoyed it and got some value from it.
If you have any questions, feel free to let me know
and I will get you some answers back in the comments.
Keep an eye down in the description.
Once that's ready, I will let you guys know.
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Alright guys, that's it for today.
I will be seeing you guys in the next video.