Affiliate Marketing - How I Get Free Traffic To My Websites

Getting free traffic is crucial in the early days of affiliate marketing. After years of experimenting, read on to find out my ways of building free traffic without spending a penny.

Affiliate marketing can be so much more profitable if you don't have to pay for traffic. In the early days, it really was critical for me not to spend any money at all with my marketing. These days, I still enjoy the pleasures of free traffic, even though I can now certainly afford paid for marketing campaigns. Here I'm going to share with you my top methods for bringing traffic to my websites for free.

Use SEO -

In the early days, I didn't know much about SEO. Now I spend time selecting relevant keywords and using them in all of my content. Surprisingly, even when I don't use keywords, my content can often perform well in the search engines on terms that I haven't spent time carefully selecting.

Monitor The Analytics -

I spend time analysing where my traffic is coming from. Once I find a method that is working for me, I will scale it up and reuse it for my other websites. When you build your websites, be sure to add Google Analytics to your site so that you too can monitor and measure your results.

Article Marketing -

As part of my marketing plan, article marketing really does pay off. Just by adding two new articles per week that offer relevant and educational content, I enjoy many visits to my sites from targeted traffic. Articles often get redistributed around the web, and with my link and information going with it, it can bring through many new customers that otherwise I could not have reached.

Blogging -

This is another way that I can get free traffic. Not only do I spend time researching and writing useful blog posts that are relevant to my readers, I spend time building relationships in the blogging community. By reading and commenting the blog posts of others, the owners and readers of other blogs will click through to my site to see what I have to say. My blog posts can often show up in the search engine results too, which will bring another stream of traffic.

Social Media -

Tools such as Twitterfeed and Hootsuite play a part for me here. I can schedule my status updates to include my blog posts in Facebook and Twitter. LinkedIn is another social networking favourite where it is possible to target my markets easily and many customers have been brought through to my site through the groups available on LinkedIn.

Forums -

More targeted market networking can be performed in forums. The questions, issues and discussions contained in forums provide me with information on what the consumers are concerned about and I can also build relationships by helping out with information and I sometimes can post links to relevant blog posts that I have created or even to my products. All these links come through my site and build my traffic stats.

The most effective way to market for free traffic in affiliate marketing, is to build a marketing plan that you commit to. For example, each week I know that I need to write 2 articles, 5 blog posts and that I need to distribute the blog posts across the net. In my plan, I write down where I will distribute them so that my tasks are specific and measurable. Free traffic is essential in affiliate marketing, and once you have got it, your profits really will begin to look how you hoped they would when you started out.



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