How to Get Free Traffic for Affiliate Marketing

   

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 The major Problem of Affiliate marketers is how to get traffic to their affiliate links. Some people, after spilling their affiliate links on every social media page they see without making a single sale, they get discouraged and conclude that affiliate marketing doesn't work. The problem is not that affiliate marketing is not working, it is that you have not mastered the simple art of getting real human traffic to your affiliate links. Do you know that some Affiliate Marketers make millions of dollars every year? Where do they get their traffic? How are they making it? I am sure they don't travel to Mars to get traffic to their affiliate links. If you have been struggling to get traffic to your affiliate links without seeing any result, I am going to show you in this post how to get traffic to your affiliate links without stress. 

For the sake of Affiliate Beginners, let us define what traffic means. In our context, it doesn't mean traffic hold up or traffic jam on the roads. In affiliate marketing, what we call traffic is getting people to click your affiliate link and buy the product you are promoting. The number of people who visit your website, read your content, engage with your content, click on your affiliate link and eventually make a purchase is the traffic you have on your website. Through the use of Analytics, you can get a track record of who your traffics are, where they come from, how they arrive at your website, what they did on your website, how long they stayed with your content, and lots more. The dynamics of traffic among other things center on four keywords namely 

1. Content

2. Impression (CTR)

3. Engagement 

4. Conversion.

If you understand those four things very well, you won't have any problem getting traffic to your affiliate links. Without wasting further time, let us now get started on the main subject.

How to get traffic to Your affiliate Links

There are TWO ways to get traffic to your affiliate links.

1. Free Traffic

2. Paid Traffic. 

FREE TRAFFIC METHOD

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This is a way to get traffic to your affiliate links for free without spending money on it. All you need to get started is your computer, or laptop, or IPad or Smartphone, and Internet connection, boom you are good to go! How do you go about it? At this point, I assume you have already registered into your favorite affiliate Program and had gotten your unique Affiliate Link of the product you want to promote and you are now looking for how to get people to click your affiliate links and buy the product you are promoting. Isn't it? Here are 

10 Ways to Get Free Traffic to Your affiliate links

1. Facebook Groups

2. Quora 

3. Reddit

4. Medium

5. EzineArticles

6. LinkedIn

7. Pinterest

8. Google Site

9. Your Website, Blog, or Forum

10. YouTube Video Description

How to Get Free Traffic from Facebook Group

Facebook is the world's largest social media on the internet with over 2.85 billion monthly active users. That's quite a huge traffic, you can get free traffic to your affiliate links from Facebook Group. Let's see how to do that below.

Let's assume you want to promote an affiliate Product on "Make money online", the steps to follow are:

1. log in to your Facebook account and click on Group from the Menu.

2. Search for the Keyword "Make Money online" and all the groups on Make money online will show up for you.

3. Look for the groups that have large membership (20k members and above) with at least 300-1000 daily posts, just click join and wait for the Admins to approve you. Make sure you join all of them. The bigger the number of groups you belong to, the higher your chance of getting free traffic. 

4. When you become a member of those Facebook groups, don't start spamming the groups with your affiliate links. If you do that some groups admin may block you as many don't like spam. See what you will do.

5. Create and publish High-quality content that centers on making money online. Let your content give free value to the community. At the end of your content, don't forget to include a hot call to action in your content. It can be something like this: 

" Hey Guys I was doing research recently and I found out how to make $10,000 in one day. I have just written about it here on my blog. You can check it out here." Then you can insert your beautiful shortened Affiliate Link or a link to the sales page on your website or anywhere you want your traffic to go on your website. Chances are people in those Facebook groups you have joined are going to see your High-quality content and read it, if they find it interesting, they may click on your link and visit the page you directed them to. Alternatively, if you don't want to put any affiliate link or your website link to your content on the Facebook groups, you can ask your readers to inbox you or chat you up to know more about the secret you just discovered on how to make $10,000 in one day. Some of the people in the groups who read your content and found it useful are going to reach out to you. Then you can get to know them, make friends with them, give them more free values and get them to trust you. After that, you can recommend any affiliate product you think will be useful to them and they will happily buy. That's how to get free traffic from Facebook groups. 

How to Get Free Traffic from Quora

Quora is the world's largest Question and Answer website with 300 Million monthly active users. That's quite impressive traffic. You can get free traffic from this website by signing up for free on the site and offering answers to relevant questions that center around your affiliate links. That's very simple. 

1. Go to www.quora.com and sign up for free.

2. Assuming you want to promote a product on weight loss, search for the question, " How to lose weight in 30 days". You will see all the questions related to your query. These are people who have problems and they are looking for solutions. See what you will do.

3. Write a good answer to the questions related to your affiliate links. As a rule of thumb, don't spam Quora with a bunch of affiliate links in one article. The best affiliate practice is this, if you post five articles in one day, put your affiliate links only in 3 articles. Let your content give free value. Write for your readers first, then affiliate sales should follow. As a good affiliate practice, don't post your affiliate links the way you got them from the merchants' websites. They look ugly and too long. You need to shorten your affiliate links to look beautiful and short. That way your readers will find them more attractive to click. To shorten your affiliate link, go to bitly.com or tinyurl.com. Remember, apart from answering related questions on Quora, you can also create your own space on Quora and publish your content with your affiliate links on Quora. Anyone can do this whether you have a website or not. This is another way to get free traffic from Quora.

How to Get Free Traffic from Reddit

Reddit is reputed to be among the largest social networks on the internet worldwide with over 430 million monthly active users. You can get massive free traffic from Reddit.

1. Go to reddit.com and sign up for free.

2. Create your complete profile and start posting high-quality content on your wall. You can also create or join groups or communities with a related niche on Reddit. 

3. Include your shortened affiliate links Url in your contents and your readers are going to click on your links and buy the products you recommended for them. The bottom line is to create high-quality content. Your content should be original, engaging, and very helpful to your readers. Once your contents on Reddit offer free value to your readers and community, the chances are you are going to start getting free traffic from this site either to your website or to your affiliate links.

How to Get Free Traffic from Medium

Medium is a popular online publishing network with over 100 million monthly active users. Every day millions of writers and readers visit the site either to read interesting content or to publish something. You can get free traffic to your affiliate links from this site. Here is how to go about it:

1. Go to medium.com and sign up for free. You can register with your Google account.

2. Create your complete profile by entering in your info as required. 

3. Start publishing high-quality targeted content on your wall. 

4. If your readers find your content helpful and rich enough to solve their problems, they will start engaging with your story and from there you can reach out to them with your affiliate link.

5. You can monetize your content on Medium by joining Medium Partner Program.

How to Get Free Traffic from Ezinearticles

Ezinearticles is a popular free content website where authors, content creators, and publishers can publish free-to-use articles and in return get backlinks to their website which generally increases their visibility and traffic. Ezinearticles was ranked 646 globally by Alexa in December 2013 and the website has continued to grow in popularity and influence among writers and digital marketers. Millions of people use Ezinearticles every day. Hence you can drive free traffic to your affiliate links from this website. To do this:

1. Go to ezinearticles.com and create your account for free.

2. Write a high-quality article related to your affiliate link

3. Insert your affiliate links ( which you have shortened with Bitly or Tinyurl) into your content

4. Publish your content and when your readers click your affiliate links, they will be directed to buy your affiliate products. Boom you are done!

How to Get Free Traffic from Linkedin

Linkedin is one of the largest  American based Social networking services. It is popularly used by Professionals to connect and network with people of like minds. Job seekers also post their CVs and Portfolios on the website to find job. Employers and business owners use LinkedIn to post their jobs in hope to find the right candidates. LinkedIn has over 740 Million members. That's quite a huge traffic. You can drive traffic to your affiliate link from this website. This is how to do it:

1. Go to www.LinkedIn.com and sign up for free. www.LinkedIn.com and sign up for free. 

2. Connect to as many people as you can to build a large network. 

3. Start writing and publishing high quality targeted content on your wall.

4. Insert your shortened beautiful affiliate link in your articles.

5. Readers who read your articles and find them interesting may click on your affiliate link and make purchase. That's it.

How to Get Free Traffic from Pinterest

Pinterest is an American social networking website which allows users to save and discover information in the form of images, videos and animated GIFs. Pinterest has over 478 million monthly active users. You can drive free traffic to your affiliate links to from this website. Therefore, sign up on Pinterest and create your account for free. Then  begin to publish targeted Images, animations and videos. You can insert your shortened beautiful affiliate link in the description or post. When someone engages with your content on this platform, they may likely click your affiliate link as well. That's very simple.

How to Get Free Traffic to your affiliate links with Google Site

If you don't have a website , you can create a free website to promote your affiliate links on Google Sites. You  don't need a  programming skill to  do that. Google sites is easy to use. Even a newbie who does not know how to write codes can create a free webpage on Google sites by simply following the step by step instructions provided on the platform. To get started, with your Google account, sign up at 

sites.google.com

Add a Banner to Your Webpage

Enter your Site's Title Page which is usually the name your webpage will carry on Google Sites. E.g "Datingtips" or "Makemoney"

Play around with your desired banner. Add texts, Pictures and Videos to your Webpage. You can make your webpage to have a multi-column layout. Add  Pages to your Google site free website. Now customize the look and feel of your webpage. Publish and share your Google site free webpage with your friends. That's very simple. Considering the fact that Google has  over 4 Billion users worldwide, making them the largest Search Engine on the Internet, you can drive free traffic to your affiliate links from your Google site free website. Your website will rank high in Google SERP if you publish high quality articles. But even if you are not a writer, there are websites where you can get free high-quality articles related to your affiliate product. All you need is to repost those articles with your affiliate links inserted in them. You can also use spinbot to rewrite the articles you copied from a free content website and use the rewritten article to publish your affiliate links on your Google site free website.

9. How to Get Free Traffic from your Website, Blog or Forum

If you want to get free traffic to your affiliate links, you  need to have your personal website, blog or forum where you publish unique and quality content. That will help you to build targeted audience and free traffic which you can monetize with your affiliate links among other things. Think of a website, it's like having your own house, office or home on the internet. Your domain name is your internet house Address that points people where to visit your website. Being an affiliate Marketer and don't have a website is like being a Soldier without a gun. In my next article, I will show you how to create your personal website or blog with ease. 

10. Get Free Traffic to Your affiliate links with YouTube Video Description

You can drive free traffic to your affiliate links by inserting your affiliate links in your YouTube video description. Any time you want to publish a video on your YouTube channel, include related affiliate links in the description box of the video. Many people who will watch your video are going to click on your affiliate links and make purchase if they like the product. There are  over 2.3 billion users worldwide on YouTube, take advantage of this huge traffic by inserting your affiliate links in related videos descriptions any time you publish a video on YouTube.

Conclusion

To get free traffic to your affiliate links, you will pay the price of investing time, energy and expertise to implement what I have taught you here. If you don't put it to work, I won't lie to you, you are not going to get free traffic to your affiliate links. Hey guys, roll your sleeve up and get to work. Until you work, nothing works. 

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