It’s always a good idea to have your own website to promote affiliate products. But if you don’t have one, it’s not entirely necessary. There are many other methods available that can be used to do affiliate marketing. However, it’s still recommended for you to have your own website, and some of the methods seen below can also help improve the way you can scale campaigns you promote.
Email Marketing
The fastest way to tap into a crowd is to tap into your own contact list. Obviously, you’d be limited in collecting and amassing emails if you don’t have a page for people to opt-in for an email newsletter from you, but it nonetheless can be done.
Use online forums, chat forums etc to make new friends. Your email list must contain a few hundred contacts, at least. But don’t spam. Don’t send emails to the people who don’t know about you or who don’t want to receive your emails.
Your affiliate links that are present in emails can go directly to the merchant’s website for your contact list to purchase the products.
To continue to grow your list, you should create forms for people to subscribe to your newsletter. Here’s a pro-tip you should use in your emails: have an editorial strategy, for example, writing about household products that are uncommon. Try it out!
Writing free e-books
This method takes a lot of time, but if you have the knack and talent for it, you could write informative and interesting e-books which you can send to people via email or get listing sites to display as new, free, and interesting content for their readers.
Firstly, these books should be helpful and of value to their readers. The topics should relate to the affiliate products you are recommending in the book, and it shouldn’t be an aggressive hard-sell of the product either. If the readers like your e-book, they may visit the merchant website and make a purchase.
Writing in Forums
Search for some forums, at least three, and find the ones that are related to the affiliate product you are promoting. Also consider the forums’ page rank. In here, you’ll find members discussing the product or its use in their daily life. Post up questions instead of promotional text in the body of your posts. You’ll have to adhere to forum rules, otherwise you might just get kicked out and banned from it.
Most forums also let you put your signature at the end of your post. If you want more incognito to what you’re doing, then add the affiliate link into your signature.
Forums need maintenance, so whenever and if you intend to use this as a channel of promotion for your affiliate links, you’ll need to be active in them.
Writing Articles
You can still write if you don’t have a website. Publish your articles in free article directories, or pay webmasters for a sponsored post where you embed affiliate links in the text of your articles. If they are well written and formatted and the directory has large traffic, you can expect some good traffic coming to your affiliate links.
Conclusion
The strategies mentioned above are first and foremost, ways of how to scale affiliate campaigns. You may not necessarily need a website to do affiliate marketing, and these methods can actually help you to do so. That being said, some programs only allow direct site traffic, so it’s always best to have all the tools available – including your own website.
Good luck!
