{"id":5180,"date":"2020-09-30T09:37:41","date_gmt":"2020-09-30T09:37:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.johnthornhill.com\/blog\/?p=5180"},"modified":"2020-09-30T09:37:41","modified_gmt":"2020-09-30T09:37:41","slug":"how-to-drive-traffic-to-your-affiliate-link-without-losing-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johnthornhill.com\/blog\/how-to-drive-traffic-to-your-affiliate-link-without-losing-money\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Drive Traffic to Your Affiliate Link Without Losing Money"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you want to be ahead of time in the affiliate marketing game, you got to make those affiliate links work for you! <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-5183\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.johnthornhill.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/pexels-bongkarn-thanyakij-3740400.jpg?resize=300%2C149&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"149\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.johnthornhill.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/pexels-bongkarn-thanyakij-3740400-scaled.jpg?resize=300%2C149&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.johnthornhill.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/pexels-bongkarn-thanyakij-3740400-scaled.jpg?resize=1024%2C509&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.johnthornhill.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/pexels-bongkarn-thanyakij-3740400-scaled.jpg?resize=768%2C382&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.johnthornhill.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/pexels-bongkarn-thanyakij-3740400-scaled.jpg?resize=1536%2C764&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.johnthornhill.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/pexels-bongkarn-thanyakij-3740400-scaled.jpg?resize=2048%2C1018&amp;ssl=1 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Every business owner desires more customers, and if they run an affiliate marketing website, what else could they ask for than more traffic to their site. Driving traffic to your website without losing money is a hack.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a gold mine if done properly\u2026of course is not easy but it\u2019s possible!<\/p>\n<p>A lot of people fall to this trap and end up losing money because they are not using reliable and affordable sources.<\/p>\n<p>But you won&#8217;t! If you know your facts right and have this article till the end, you aren&#8217;t going into any losses!<\/p>\n<p><strong>How to Drive Traffic to Your Website?<br \/>\n<\/strong><br \/>\nThis is the most frequently asked question by newcomers; how to drive traffic to your website? With a ton of websites popping up every day with different products, content, and services, it is difficult to make your website stand out of the crowd and also attract traffic.<\/p>\n<p>However, if you are following the right strategies, driving traffic to your website will not cost you an arm and a leg.<\/p>\n<p><strong>LONG-TERM METHODS:<br \/>\n<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Pay Attention To On-Page SEO<br \/>\n<\/strong><br \/>\nThis is a great way to boost organic traffic for your website! SEO is what drives traffic to your website. Things like putting in enough internal links, adding meta descriptions, and optimization of on-page SEO can spike traffic on your website within a few weeks! Try it to believe it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Long-Tail Keywords Should Be Your Aim<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Once you have the popular keywords and high intent keywords covered in your content, your next target should be long-tail keywords. Why? Because these account for the majority of the web searches.<\/p>\n<p>Most people type in long-tail keywords, and if you don&#8217;t have that in your content, you are missing out on a major point.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Fast Site Loading<br \/>\n<\/strong><br \/>\nDid you know that if a website takes more than 4 seconds to load, users immediately move onto the next website? This is what makes your bounce rate accelerate, and thus it is important that your website is as technically optimized as possible.<\/p>\n<p>All the features on the website, including the images, file downloads, and uploads as well as the functionality of third party plug-ins, should be bullet fast!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Guest Blogging On Your Affiliate Website<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Sure, you post your blogs on other websites but have you thought about doing a similar thing with your website? Invite people to blog on your own site, especially people who you know work in your niche and can do good.<\/p>\n<p>Your content should always be original, high quality, and no spammy links, please! Firstly, it gives an image of low-quality content, and secondly, Google is cracking down on low-quality guest posts, so rather do it right.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Email Marketing<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>While this sounds traditional, it still works! If your email marketing game is on point, it can make a noticeable uptick in your website traffic.<\/p>\n<p>This doesn&#8217;t mean you start spamming people with your website links or sending them invites every day, but moderately managing it is the key to success.<\/p>\n<p>Send emails to people who are already your customers or could be potential customers, reminding them about new product reviews or anything you feel will draw their attention to your website.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How To Drive Traffic To Affiliate Links<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>MED-TERM METHODS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Once you know how to drive traffic to your website, now its time to drive traffic to the links because that&#8217;s how you will get those affiliate marketing dollars! Here are some tips on how to do it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Put Social Media to Work<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Social media platforms act like free traffic drivers, but you have to be sensible enough to use them. For instance, advertising your business is all good, but you need to find the right platform to promote it. These platforms are the best traffic source for affiliate links.<\/p>\n<p>If your website is more finance and business-based, you need to use platforms like LinkedIn and Twitter, where you will find your target audience.<\/p>\n<p>Affiliate marketing websites that talk more about fashion or lifestyle tend to draw most traffic from social media platforms like Instagram or Pinterest.<\/p>\n<p>You can also use Facebook business pages, create a Facebook group, gather link minded audience, or your target audience.<\/p>\n<p>After that, you can start promoting your site and remember anyone who visits a website will definitely click on one or another affiliate link!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Make sure your links are viable and visible<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Make sure you have added the affiliate links in the first paragraph of your blog and that too in a way that rings the bell in the reader&#8217;s mind. It shouldn&#8217;t be spammy; we don&#8217;t want a link after every sentence!<\/p>\n<p>Check for broken links on your website because these can be a real disappointment. Things like &#8220;buy now&#8221; &#8220;best product range&#8221; should stand out in the blog.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Target Comment Sections<br \/>\n<\/strong><br \/>\nDo you sometimes find yourself scrolling till the very end of the page, especially on affiliate websites, just to see what reviews people have? Me too! Add logical comments to the comments sections on various websites that are working on similar niches are yours.<\/p>\n<p>Since most websites allow visitors to leave a link in the comment section, you are your own website&#8217;s free backlink!<br \/>\nHence getting your website and affiliate links some traffic.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Best Traffic Source For Affiliate Offers<\/strong> (FAST, REALLY FAST, \u00a0SUPER AFFORDABLE AND RELIABLE!)<\/p>\n<p>A traffic source for you will be any platform through which your target audience will find your website, visit it and hence increase the traffic organically.<\/p>\n<p>Here is one thing to keep in mind. For all affiliate marketers, using a reliable and affordable traffic source should be your priority.<\/p>\n<p>Avoid classic traffic sources like Facebook ads or Google-ads because they don&#8217;t like affiliates, and they will ban your account. Also, keep in mind that the cost per lead is way much higher than with other traffic sources.<\/p>\n<p>Here you will find the <a href=\"http:\/\/wilbez.trk.org\/ETP\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">BEST TRAFFIC SOURCE<\/a> for affiliate marketing offers.<\/p>\n<p>In this FREE training you will discover the secret new strategy that is helping me generate thousands of targeted clicks every single day without losing money. In fact, this traffic source allows you to pay for performance and if the traffic doesn\u2019t convert you won\u2019t pay!<\/p>\n<p>Amazing! Plus, the traffic doesn\u2019t cost you an arm.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Conclusion<\/strong><br \/>\nWhenever you start driving traffic to your website, start from one reliable source. You don\u2019t want to be at a loss of money right in the start! Collect enough data so you can easily perform strategic changes when the optimizing process begins.<\/p>\n<p>Do your research really well! Find a reliable and authentic traffic source that will not break your bank, supports affiliate marketing and promotes your products and services in the best way possible!<\/p>\n<p>Good luck!<\/p>\n<p><em>This is a guest post from\u00a0<\/em><em>William Bazzi if you would like to be considered for a guest post please contact me.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you want to be ahead of time in the affiliate marketing game, you got to make those affiliate links work for you! 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