|
  |
|
|
Affiliate Marketing without a Website
By Karla Whitmore
A common misconception is that affiliate marketing requires having your own domain name and website. Though establishing your own website is not as difficult as it might sound, you really don't have to have your own site to market products and make good money on commissions. Following are five simple ways to market affiliate products without paying for your own hosting. 1. Establish several free blogs. Google's blogger will let you set up multiple blogs on which you can market products. All you will have to do is produce meaningful content based on your niche and include links to affiliate products on a regular basis. To avoid being seen as a "spammer" and blocked by Google, make sure the links you include are upfront about where clicks will take readers and don't stuff your blog posts with links. For best results, write several times a week, add relevant, meaningful and entertaining media from time to time and make sure you are contributing quality content. Use a pinging service to "ping" your blog after every blog update and establish incoming links through social networking and other content sites. 2. Set up a Facebook account. Facebook is an increasingly popular way to get your name and affiliate products noticed. If you wish to market products to family and friends, including some information and links to your other content is a fine idea, but if you want to spread out and get even more traffic, establish a Facebook account based on your preferred niche. Adding friends and fans who are interested in your topic will bring in customers. Just remember that when you set up a business account on Facebook, you must keep things friendly without getting personal. 3. Get involved with HubPages. HubPages is a great place to not only talk about your niche and include relevant links to your blogs and networks, but also to make money through the profit sharing program. As long as you are providing original and interesting information of a decent length and dressing up your "hubs" with pizzazz, you will see results. For optimal benefits, refrain from spamming on your hubs or in comments made to other hubbers and be sure to read others' pages and offer input. There are FAQs available on the site to help you make the most of your hubs. 4. Create Lenses on Squidoo. Squidoo lenses focus on particular niches and products. In some ways, Squidoo resembles HubPages, but it has different rules and ways of creating and maintaining your content. One of the best features of Squidoo is the health check application. This application will help you create lenses that are honed for search engine optimization and greater popularity. 5. Contribute Content to Article Directories. Some directories offer dofollow linking which will let your blogs, hubs and lenses be indexed more often by search engines. Most directories frown on linking to an affiliate page, but linking to your other content that does link to your affiliate page is perfectly okay. Even nofollow links offer a means of direct traffic! If you are interested in affiliate marketing without a website, the above five methods can help you make a profit. The best part about using other sites to market your blogs and products is that it is free to low-cost and fairly easy to implement.
|
|
 |
|
PLEASE VISIT THE CONTRIBUTOR'S WEBSITE
No reactions yet.
Please login or sign up to rate this intel.
Please login or sign up to add a comment.
|
|
|
Hi, Karla, All very laudable but in an area of the internet that is smothered in people doing the same thing. Blogger blogs are free but they also require that you surrender the copyright of your content. They can also disappear at the whim of Google. Make any search for any keyword and you will discover that there are hundreds, if not thousands, of results produced by people doing exactly what you have suggested. I'm pleased to see that you avoided the 'review site' trap. I'm not so pleased to see that you did not mention the huge potential of offline advertising. While all affiliate marketers restrict themselves to these very narrow procedures, they will continue to fail.
CONTRIBUTOR'S REPLY
If I didn't write for several clients as a ghost blogger, ghost hubber, article writer/submitter... who use exactly those procedures very successfully, I'd be inclined to agree with you. The ticket is in staying updated and in spreading your precense all over the place. I would do much more of it for myself if I had the time!
Thanks for the great suggestions.
Very nice intel, thank you!
The copyright for this content entitled "Affiliate Marketing without a Website" has been specified by the contributor as:
Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivative Works 3.0
Details 
This content may be copied and distributed (but not modified), as long as the original author is acknowledged with a link back to the content page.
If you use this content according to the license specified, you must link to the following URL:
http://karlawhitmore.qondio.com/
|
|
May, 2012
2008
January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December
2009
January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December
2010
January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December
2011
January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December
2012
January, February, March, April, May
|
|
Not a member yet?
Qondio is a powerful network for making it online. If you have a website to
promote, we can help.
Sign up and get in on the action.
|
|
Welcome to Qondio! Discover the awesome power this network can deliver by going to our About page. Or you could skip straight to the Sign Up form.
|
|
