In this video, I'll show you the top 5 Free traffic sources I use for affiliate
marketing. If you don't use these traffic sources, you are leaving money on the table.
I've seen results like this with about 70k
of visitors to my website from just one traffic source and like this from another
All these traffic sources are what I personally use. They are all affiliate marketing-friendly
and I'll show you first those that are less competitive and easier for you to start.
#1. Is Pinterest
If you never heard about affiliate marketing on Pinterest,
you are in the right place because I have a whole Playlist that will help you grow
on this platform, I'll give you a link to my playlist in the description below.
But you just need to know that Pinterest is still less competitive than many other
platforms and the types of content you need for Pinterest are in my
opinion much easier to create than for other social media networks.
And I am actually getting more Pinterest traffic to my blog than I get from Google.
And on top of it, Pinterest doesn't require nearly as much work and time as Google SEO.
All you need for Pinterest is this - either vertical
images like these on my account or very short videos - about 5-10 seconds long.
And to create these images and short videos in a matter of minutes I use
this free online app called Canva. You can also get a forever free account
using my link anastasiablogger.com/canva. And you see I just have a ton of free templates.
All I need to do is use my blog post title and change the words or the background photo. Canva
has a huge library of stock photos by the way. It takes about a minute to create a new pin.
Then I hop on Pinterest, I upload the image, add a title and description and
the link can be either to a post on my site with affiliate offers.
Or it can even be linked to a landing page or even directly to affiliate products.
If you add the actual affiliate link in the destination URL, make sure you added an affilaite
disclosure in the pin description. It's enough to just add a hashtag #promotion or #affiliate.
But if you want to know all the details about affiliate marketing on Pinterest,
I have an in-depth video, I'll link in the description below.
I also love posting on Pinterest because it's a search engine. And this means you create a
passive traffic source over time. Your pins if done correctly and if you included the right
keywords in the titles and descriptions, and saved them to the relevant boards,
your pins have a chance to bring you traffic for many months if not years.
This is what search engines can do for you and Pinterest is the easiest search engine
to rank in especially compared to Google. To learn more about Pinterest SEO watch my
free masterclass, I'll give you a link to it up there and in the description below.
The next great free traffic source #2. Quora and Reddit
Both sites are content rating and discussion websites with huge audiences. Quora has over
300 million monthly active users and Reddit has more than 1.5 billion registered users,
of which 430 million users are active monthly.
But keep in mind that you cannot add a direct affiliate link in your posts on
neither Reddit nor Quora, you can even get your account banned for this. Instead of
adding your affiliate links directly in the answers, you can add the affiliate
links to your blog posts or landing pages. Reply to a dozen questions a week or so,
and you will start receiving free traffic in no time. That’s it. Go do it!
Next traffic source is #3. Youtube
Let me guess, you are about to say: Oh no, Youtube is too difficult!
And I will be honest with you, it IS a lot of work and the space is getting more crowded every year.
But THAT's where the audience goes. YOU are watching this video to learn something right?
You could be reading a blog post but you chose to watch a video. And I do the same,
and many other people go to Youtube to do some research or to find reviews on products they
are planning to buy. For example, here is my video that shows up for the search query "best
online course platforms" in Youtube search results. In the video description I have
all the links to the platforms I reviewed and I have an affiliate disclaimer here.
So IT IS a great place to promote affiliate links. And Youtube is a very friendly place
for affiliate marketing, you are allowed to add your links to video descriptions.
As many links as you need but I recommend you to add the most important links closer
to the beginning of the video description, this way more people will see the link.
You could create videos dedicated to a specific product and even use the
keyword "reviews" in the title. This way, you are targeting people who are ready to
buy and just want the last confirmation that this product is worth the money.
This method is easy even for beginners because If you are camera-shy you could do screen share
for software reviews with your voice only. For physical products you could
just record your hands unwrapping the products and without showing your face.
You don't have to be entertaining because what people are looking for
in those videos is just to get an honest review of a product.
The good thing about affiliate marketing on Youtube is that you can add all your
affiliate links in the video description so you can make money with it even if you
don't have your own website or landing pages where you could send traffic to.
Keep in mind that with these Youtube reviews you can not only get traffic
from Youtube search but you can also enjoy additional search traffic from Google.
Why? Well because Youtube belongs to Google and so Google will often show Youtube videos
on the first page of search results for many keywords. It's very common for queries that
start with "how to…" which assumes some kind of tutorial and also for reviews because Google
knows how people love to watch video reviews. This is how you can get prime spots on the first
page of Google search results without paying a dime for ads. Personally, I learned this
method from Paul Murphy, I'll give you a link to his free training in the description below.
#4. Google SEO
Google is the biggest search engine. It's more competitive than other platforms and
it takes more time to grow your authority with an affiliate marketing website.
And as promised, I started this video with the platforms that are more beginner-friendly
but now let's have a look at how it works with Google search engine optimization.
SEO is the biggest source of free traffic for affiliate marketing. People who search on Google
usually have higher purchase intent, especially if they are searching for product reviews.
But competition in Google is huge. If you want to compete against large and old websites,
you should be very strategic about the types of products and the types of
content you will write for search engines. Here are a few methods that should help you
breakthrough in this competitive SEO environment: Create a narrowly niched site about a product
that’s hot right now (you can find those products on large networks like Clickbank, Impact,
Partnerstack, and other affiliate networks). It should be something new but with a growing
popularity, something where you can establish your expertise even with a new website because
the big ones didn't write much about this topic yet. And keep in mind if you are going to create
a whole niched website for this product, it has to be something in the hundreds or thousands of
dollars in price so that your potential affiliate commission could be also hundreds per sale.
I know it's hard to believe programs like this exist but if you do a quick research
on the marketplaces I mentioned you'll see it's not rare to get commissions of $300 per
sale or even $1000 per customer you referred. Write blog posts with reviews of a specific
affiliate product or service. For example, when someone is searching for a keyword like "Apple
Watch SE Review" this kind of query shows that the user is seriously thinking about
buying this product. That's why it makes sense to write content on a topic like this - you are
more likely to get a commission if someone knows the brand and the model they are interested in.
Do comparisons between 2 or 3 products in the same category (preferably all products
should have affiliate links). For example something like:
Thinkfic vs Teachable is a keyword with 1300 search volume in the US alone.
So you could do a Side by Side comparison of these two online course platforms.
Comparing their features and pricing plans. As you can imagine, if someone wants to find
such a detailed comparison, this person is likely very close to purchasing one of the
tools. And no matter which one wins in your comparison, you will get a commission because
you'll use affiliate links for both products. #4. Build an informational website in a broad
niche that will make it easier for you to drive traffic for less competitive keywords.
In this case, you could use your site for both - display ads and also for affiliate
links which you could sprinkle here and there in your informational content.
The next free traffic source I use is my #5 Email List
You probably heard many times that "the money is in the list".
It only SEEMS like email is an old marketing channel in this online world. It might be older
than some of the recent social media channels. But it's also way more efficient than them.
You don't depend on the algorithms with your own email list as much as
on any other platforms I mentioned today. No one can cancel your audience by closing
your account or applying a shadowban like they can do on social media.
You can always just click Export the list and move your entire audience from one email
provider to another. You own that list.
On top of it, an email list can be a more efficient traffic source
for affiliate marketing. You can include your affiliate links right in the email,
and people who subscribed to your newsletter usually are an audience that trusts you.
They trusted you with their email address, they subscribed to get more information from you,
so it means that you can expect better results from an email campaign promoting a product
than say from a post on a social media channel. It's a warm audience against a cold audience.
If you spam your list with affiliate promotions in every email, you'll quickly lose thier trust.
But if you send them helpful information for which they subscribed and occasionally
or only at the bottom of the email in the resources section recommend them products
or services related to your niche or the topic of the email, you will be surprised
how much higher convection rates will be for the email vs any other platforms.
You could argue that email marketing isn't entirely free because you have to pay for an
email provider but if you are just starting out, many of these service providers have
a free plan until a certain number of subscribers, including ConvertKit which
I've been using for 4 years now. It has great open rates and very advanced automation tools.
Check out my link in the description below to start your email list for free with Convertkit.
Now you heard today that my #1 free traffic source is Pinterest and if you want to know my
Pinterest strategy for this year, watch my video linked up there! I'll see you in the next one!