How To Run Affiliate Marketing? | 4 Killer Ways To Promote Your Affiliate Links

There numerous ways you can run traffic to your affiliate marketing business.

But at the start, don’t overwhelm yourself with too many strategies.

Choose the strategies you’re more comfortable with to kick-start your journey.

These are the 4 powerful ways that are effective for running affiliate marketing.

i) Blogging

With blogging, you’ll be creating a blog site which you’re going to fill it up with valuable contents for your readers.

Before you start create one, you should have a clear direction in mind what kind of niche products you want to promote.

This is important so that the future products you’re promoting can blend well with your blog.

Then proceed to create a blog site dedicated to the niche market and update it with latest contents that could benefits or add values to your reader.

You can put a banner at the bottom of your blog or at the side that contains your affiliate links.

Most merchants or vendors have already prepared those banners for your usage.

So you don’t have to even create yourself.

You can also hyperlink those important words in your blog contents with your affiliate links.

ii) Email List

This is the method whereby you promote your affiliate links to your existing email list.

It’s going to be the most effective promotion channel you can have in your affiliate marketing business.

Because the subscribers you have are those already heard about you before.

So you’re no longer a stranger to them. In other words, they are your hot traffic.

People often buy from those who they have trust and trust is build over times.

They still remain as your subscribers means they trust you and want to keep hearing the latest updated from you.

By sending out your affiliate links of good products that can help or add values to your loyal subscribers in your email list, most likely they’re going to buy.

And they’re going to support you again and again when they see you’ve delivering great values.

So you can expect to have high customer Lifetime Value (LTV) with your email list.

Thus, the more subscribers you have, the more sales you can generate.

iii) Facebook Ads

This strategy is no longer work for many marketers now because Facebook has made the big changes in its platform over the years.

If you’re trying to run a Facebook Ads directly to affiliate offers, you’re going into serious trouble.

Where your Facebook will ban your ads account without warning.

Facebook seriously hates affiliate marketing a lot.

So never try this way and regret later.

But that doesn’t mean you can’t use Facebook to drive traffic to your affiliate links anymore.

All you’ll need is implement a little hack so that you can continuously using Facebook safely for your affiliate marketing business.

Instead of running ads directly to affiliate offers, you should run Facebook ads to a survey form.

Based on the answer given in the survey, only then the audience will be shown the affiliate offer.

The whole idea is to create a bridge between Facebook Ads and your affiliate links.

So that you’re not violating the Facebook terms while still able drive truckload of traffic from the platform.

iv) Bing Traffic

Bing is a search engine owned by Microsoft.

Although it is not as popular and widely use as compared to Google, it is still big enough not to be neglected either for getting traffic.

Because there are many population in certain parts of the world prefer Bing over Google when comes to searching information online.

Plus, PC/Laptop manufactured by Microsoft has come with Bing pre-installed as the search engine in the web browser.

Another point to note is that Yahoo! Search now also powered by Bing since July 2009 after a deal was struck between Microsoft and Yahoo!

I have good news for you when comes to tapping traffic from Bing.

Bing is less stricter when comes to its advertising policies, so you can actually run ads in Bing platform directly to your affiliate links without facing trouble.

Another advantage you can have with Bing is you’ll have a cheaper advertising cost compared to other more famous platform like Google.