As an affiliate marketer, you might be wondering how to promote affiliate links to earn affiliate commission.
If you are interested in earning money online then you have to start a blog, and then you have to promote affiliate links on your blog.
If you don’t have a blog yet, you should start one. If you are not clear about which niche you should choose for blogging, then you should read the blog “How to Choose a Niche” which will make it clear to you on which topic you should write a blog.
Bloggers or Affiliate Marketers make the most of their income online by promoting Affiliate Links.
In this article “How to Promote Affiliate Links: The Ultimate Guide to Boosting Your Affiliate Commission. In “Promoting Affiliate Links – The Ultimate Guide to Boosting Your Affiliate Commission”, I am going to tell you all the possible ways to promote your Affiliate Links.
What are Affiliate Links?
Now, as you are ready with your blog and basic knowledge about affiliate marketing, it is time to signup for the affiliate program or network. Here, you will find the affiliate panel and will be given a unique affiliate link.
Also, you can generate your affiliate link within the affiliate network panel.
This is your unique link which you will share with your audience and with its help your sales will be tracked.
Once someone buys anything through these links you will get affiliate commission on that sale.
How to promote affiliate links?
There are many ways to promote affiliate links that will help you earn a bigger affiliate commission. Here I am going to tell you 10 smart ways to promote affiliate link for free. let’s get started –
1.Promote Affiliate Links in your Blog Posts
Including affiliate links on your blog posts is one of the most common and smart ways to make money as a blogger.
When you write a blog post, you get a chance to describe your product or service in detail. You also have a perfect place to share your experiences with the product or service.
When you share your experiences with readers, you can connect with them emotionally.
There are several smart ways to promote affiliate links in your blog posts and these may include:
- Product Review Post
- Recommendation Post
- Additional Resource or Reference Post
- Personal Experience or Testimony Post
- Instructional Post
- Product Vs. Product Post
To increase your chances of attracting more traffic through search engines, you need to write SEO-friendly blog posts.
2.Add Affiliate Links to Older Posts
You should regularly review your old posts and keep updating the content.
Also, add affiliate links at relevant places.
This will not only help you keep your blog updated but will also increase your chance of getting conversions.
3.Pinterest Marketing
Pinterest works much better for Affiliate Marketing than any other social media platform.
Affiliate marketing on Pinterest is a good idea because it is a virtual search engine. It is a combination of social media and search engine.
To work on Pinterest you have to follow some basic guidelines:
- Create Pins for Pinterest. Ideal Pin size is 2:3 ratio i.e. 1000px x 1500px. Even if you’re not a professional graphic designer, you can create great graphics with the free tool CANVA.
- Pin title should be attractive to attract the interest of visitors and increase engagements and click-through.
- You should do proper SEO using Pinterest keywords with a strong pin description and Alt Text.
- Follow the proper policy terms to reveal the affiliate link by adding tags like #afflink, #sponsored or #affiliate, etc.
- If you are part of group boards you can circulate the pin if they allow affiliate links.
- Always follow Pinterest’s terms of use, as the algorithm and terms keep changing over time.
4.Email Marketing
E-mail marketing is one of the best ways to insert affiliate links. But this requires some time and expertise. First, you need to build your email list and this takes some time to do.
The next step would be to offer them some value. Once your subscribers or audience start getting some value, they will start trusting you.
Gradually when you present them some products with your affiliate link, there is a good possibility that they will buy those products or services.
It is largely true that affiliate marketing and email marketing go together.
So start building your email list and keep offering them the right value.
Trust me your customers will be loyal and returning customers once they trust you.
5.Offer Freebies with your Affiliate Links
As a blogger, you should give some freebies to your visitors. Here you can add your Affiliate Links for free, which is a very good way to promote Affiliate Links.
It is easy for you to include affiliate links in content-based freebies or freebies like E-Books, e-mail courses, tutorials, etc.
These affiliate links can also be included in cheat sheets, printables, checklists or any type of PDFs.
You should keep in mind that the affiliate link should be related to freebies.
For example, you are providing a FREE SEO checklist and in it you have recommended an SEO tool along with your affiliate link to improve SEO.
6.Promote Affiliate Link on Thank You Page
This is a wonderful strategy. When I do an email campaign with ConvertKit, I redirect my subscribers to my thank you page.
For each individual opt-in they can be redirected to a specific thank you page.
Once the subscriber lands on the thank you page, they will have the option to click on that freebie or opt-in to the related affiliate product.
7.Resource Page/Library
You can add your affiliate links to your tools and resources page.
A tools and resources page is a place where you have a compilation of all your favorite tools, products, and services. These are usually tools and services that are niche-oriented and that you are or have used.
For example, if you have a travel blog then in your tools and resources here, you can include your favorite airline, travel agency, travel bags, accessories, camera, etc.
8.Courses and eBooks
You should be good enough in some skill or talent and round the corner that you can create some courses and Ebooks.
For example, you have a blog on health and fitness and you have created an e-book on weight loss diet plan. So here in this E-book, you can recommend and mention some health supplements or exercise equipment to complement your E-book or course.
You have the opportunity to put your affiliate links and if a customer buys through that link you will get a commission.
9.Promote Affiliate links on Images and Banners
You can place a display banner on your blog’s header, sidebar, footer, or embed it in some posts.
Visual posts are equally important in marketing and some of the ways to get affiliate product images are:
Create them yourself: If you want to create good attractive images about your products and attach an affiliate link to the images then CANVA is the best solution.
Use images provided in Affiliate Portals: Affiliate platforms such as Shareasale, CommissionJunction, Clickbank, etc., provide images and banners to their affiliate partners in their affiliate portals.
Ask for them: If you are marketing some affiliate products for which you do not have any images or banners, then you can mail the support with your requirements and they will definitely provide you the same.
Also read this – Why and How of Affiliate Marketing for Online Business Success
10.Promote Affiliate Links on Social Media
Social media is the best way to promote your affiliate link.
But before promoting the affiliate link, please make sure that you are not being banned. Some affiliate merchants and platforms do not allow direct posting of affiliate links on social media.
Also, social media platforms may ban or restrict your account on the basis of spamming.
The best way to promote your affiliate link on social media is with a landing page. You can create landing pages for affiliate products and link to those pages on social media.
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