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Get Free and Quality Traffic To Your Affiliate Links

One great challenge as an affiliate marketer you may face is to figure out how to get traffic to your affiliate links. For any serious marketer solving this issue should be the top priority concern in order to grow their online business.

Affiliate marketing is one method of marketing with which a business rewards its affiliate for every visitor they bring with their marketing efforts. In short, affiliate marketing is simply promotion of products or services of other people and get commission in exchange.

To be honest, this article won't talk about affiliate marketing. But if you wish to know in detail about affiliate marketing, take a look at my articles, How To Start With Affiliate Marketing (A Beginner's Guide) and The Best Affiliate Programs For Complete Beginners (New Version).

This article will explain in detail on how you can double and possibly triple your earnings and conversions using 4 main traffic sources. With the combination of these sources, you can experience the traffic surge to your affiliate links (it simply means more conversions and overall ROI).

Which exactly are those 4 main traffic sources?

From various social media platforms, blogs to Q&A websites and online video streaming platforms, you have numerous sources available to get traffic for your affiliate links. From those endless options, we will look at the 4 main tools that will help you drive more traffic:

1. A blog / website

2. Email Marketing

3. Quora

4. YouTube

How to use a blog to get traffic for your affiliate links

Starting your own website or blog is one extremely effective way to get traffic to your affiliate links provided that valuable and relevant content is being targeted to right audience. Blogging is a much cheaper way to attract visitors to your blog, promote various products or services to attract more potential customers. You will see three really effective tactics that you can use to get traffic to your affiliate links.

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1. First, simply by writing articles to get traffic to your affiliate links

For example, you write an article talking about MailWizz, which is one self hosted automation service for email marketing used in building custom email marketing systems. You can provide your affiliate links throughout the article and simply the number of clicks. The article will provide your audience the valuable content and knowledge about an email marketing system while driving quality traffic to your affiliate links.

If you still aren't convinced, understand that you can't really work online without having any website. So first go get one right now! It can't be stressed enough how crucial this step is. You don't have anything to lose but you wouldn't know before trying it. You can start for FREE too! Simply, use blogger.com and start creating your own website.

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Image above shows another example of the posts I publish on this blog. In this one, I have mentioned the tips to start an online business and provided my affiliate links.

You can also promote the physical products using your website. For example, you can write an article about top 10 best smartphones or top 10 best headphones and so on.

2. Next, provide top recommendations

Along with the valuable blog articles, I also provide my audience the top recommendations. 80% of the links provided there are my affiliate links. The page (below) gets visits by the visitors of the site and eventually clicks. Even 1% of clicks can provide great conversions and transform into commissions for all those clicks.

Many of those affiliate links provided, such as GetResponse or Snov.io provide recurring commissions, thus all of this becomes consistent passive income for the online business, on the other side the visitors are provided with useful tools and services to help them, a complete win-win.

3. Lastly, with banner ads

Eventually your blog will start receiving the traffic, provided that you are following the best practices often mentioned here. Signing up for Google AdSense ads and selling ad spaces can provide one more income stream. You can also add banner ads for affiliate offers.

A recap

1. Create a website

2. Provide top recommendations

3. Use banner ads

How to use email marketing to drive traffic to your affiliate links

First, we will learn best of email marketing. There are 4 techniques that you can implement to get traffic with email marketing: welcome email, email signature, marketing using newsletters and finally, cold mailing.

1. Welcome Emails

To send a welcome email to a prospective buyer is one great way to promote your affiliate links. So how exactly will you do this? Simple, using an opt-in form. If you check out my home page on Vbizonline, you will see a small form in the bottom section to provide some basic personal information.

After the form is filled, the user gets added as a subscriber for my newsletter, allowing access to special custom content such as valuable tips and tricks, tutorials and much more value related to marketing and business.

Whenever a user subscribes to the newsletter, at the exact moment they receives a welcome email. In the email welcoming the user, you have huge scope of adding multiple links to your affiliate products and services.

The new subscribers open the welcome emails as it's something they recently signed up for and this is why there's good chance that you will get clicks on one or more links you have shared as they are genuinely interested in it.

2. Email Signature

Next tactic is using you email signature. An email signature is one powerful way to show your subscribers how professional you are. The email signature is generally found at the bottom of every email that you send or receive.

The objective behind this is to grow a trademark for yourself while standing out. Using a signature is absolutely important to create brand awareness, loyalty and trust. Along with building your trademark, you can always add your affiliate links to your email signature.

3. Newsletter Subscribers

The third strategy in email marketing is the newsletters. As we have seen already, there is one opt-in form on home page of this website which visitors can use to subscribe to the newsletter.

If you don't have a blog yet, it's highly recommended that you get one. Maybe reading this article here will inspire you to start with an article.

With the help of an opt-in form, you can grow your email list of subscribers who will really be interested in the content you offer. You can simply send emails to your subscribers, weekly or biweekly and provide the latest content. You will also add related affiliate links in the newsletter, receiving even more quality traffic to your links.

4. Cold Mailing

At last, the final tactic in email marketing is to get traffic to your affiliate links is by sending cold emails. Cold mailing is nothing but sending emails to number of people on your email list. It is better that you understand how to do things right and not risk getting listed as a spammer.

Please remember, spamming people may give you a short term gain but eventually you will get black listed. The difference between acceptable cold mailing and spamming is that spamming is sending unrelated emails to random people in bulk. Whereas, cold mailing is simply sending 200 to 400 emails each day and to specific audience.

Let's take the example of SEMrush which is an SEO service providing company with great SEO tools for its customers. Consider you sign up for their affiliate program and you intend to promote this affiliate program via cold mailing. How can you do that without spamming people? Easy, you can write a blog post about the SEO tools or simply answer the questions about SEO tools on Quora.

And then, you can send cold emails to all the people who read your article and who are already subscribers of your newsletter. You can also reach out to the people who have interacted with your answer on Quora. Of course you would make sure to recommend the SEMrush SEO tools and provide your affiliate links in the mails.

With cold mailing, you can build an image with your visitors by sharing your results with them. Other examples are TubeBuddy, GetResponse, Hostinger etc. You can basically recommend any product or service with cold mailing after setting up a system properly.

If you want to learn in detail about email marketing and specially the campaigns, check out this Email Marketing Campaigns guide.

Remember, we have Quora

Quora is one Q&A (Questions and Answers) platform where people can ask questions to other internet users. The answers can be read, liked and followed by the platform users. I always mention Quora's significance to drive traffic in my articles and on social media.

You will find that you are being noticed by many as you keep answering on a regular basis. Have a daily routine of sitting down to answer the Quora questions for 15-20 minutes. As you can see, it's not that difficult. Remember, consistency is the key! You have to keep answering regularly and religiously to provide real value. In your answers, you will be mentioning your affiliate links related to the questions and with this you can receive quality traffic organically to your links.

Finally, get traffic to your affiliate links with YouTube

If you wish to skyrocket your online business with affiliate marketing, YouTube is one great source of quality organic traffic. Simply, you need to make videos promoting physical products by reviewing them and providing the value to viewers. Then mention the affiliate links in the description. Anyone really looking for them can click on the links and you get the commission.

Along with the product reviews, you can always create tutorials and educational videos to provide value. The conversions you get with the clicks from these videos is 100% passive income.

To Sum Up

Here are the top 4 sources of traffic for you explained with more ways that you can rely on to receive quality organic traffic for your affiliate links.

Thank you for making this far. I really hope that you implement the principles and start receiving the traffic to your links. Please make sure to follow me on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and LinkedIn to receive real valuable information. Really looking forward to interact with you in the comment section below.