Best Way to Promote an Affiliate Program?

Discussion in 'Affiliate Programs' started by dbabineau, Mar 18, 2009.

  1. #1
    Hi there,

    I'm looking to promote an affiliate program for a pet-related product.

    Could anyone recommend the best ways they have found to promote their program and get people to join?

    The main things I've done so far are emailing webmasters with complimentary websites and posting on affiliate program directory sites...

    Any suggestions welcome... Thanks!
     
    dbabineau, Mar 18, 2009 IP
  2. Chancey

    Chancey Well-Known Member

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    The best way is to try them yourself and then blog your experience about it.
     
    Chancey, Mar 18, 2009 IP
  3. Divyani

    Divyani Peon

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    You can try Seo technique depend on these options:-

    * article submission in relevant section
    * forum posting (through signature) in pet forums and family forums
    * web directory submission in relevant category
    * Create a blog and advertise on it
    * participating in community sites like Yahoo Answers, multipy, facebook, myspace and make friends of similar interest.
    * online group posting
    * promotional ads
    * link exchange of relevant sites
    * Social bookmarking your sites and articles can bring good traffic and caching.

    Good day,
     
    Divyani, Mar 19, 2009 IP
  4. lifeplayer

    lifeplayer Notable Member

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    It is better to get targeted traffic on affiliate programs.
    I suggest use PPC advertising, SEO and related forum posting (signature)
     
    lifeplayer, Mar 19, 2009 IP
  5. dbabineau

    dbabineau Peon

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    Thanks for all the helpful suggestions :)

    I'll give these a try..

    Cheers
     
    dbabineau, Mar 19, 2009 IP
  6. Divyani

    Divyani Peon

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    Sure my friend. All the best

    I am working on most of the techniques and trust me i am getting great results and good traffic to my affiliate program :)
     
    Divyani, Apr 2, 2009 IP
  7. TaylorH

    TaylorH Peon

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    Try affiliate forums, work with an affiliate network, submit to affiliate directories, find affiliate announcement services, press releases, blogs, etc.
     
    TaylorH, Apr 2, 2009 IP
  8. Femus

    Femus Peon

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    Have you tried ppc on google?
     
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  9. dbabineau

    dbabineau Peon

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    Femus - no havent tried PPC yet..

    TaylorH - any affiliate forums you can recommend?

    Thanks for all the suggestions again

    Best,
     
    dbabineau, Apr 9, 2009 IP
  10. trapp20

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    You're doing it man, and at least you're asking. Many companies think setting up a program means affiliates will flock to it, join, produce and they are done. I would definitely recommend PPC, but you should also try some of the affiliate marketing sites out there (5 star comes to mind).
     
    trapp20, Apr 9, 2009 IP
  11. Danskop

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  12. dbabineau

    dbabineau Peon

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    Thanks Danskop - submitted program to that site :)

    Thanks trapp20 - logged in and posted to 5 star..

    Cheers and many thanks,
     
    dbabineau, Apr 9, 2009 IP
  13. Morrow66

    Morrow66 Active Member

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    I would just advise you to becareful with PPC. If you havent used it before I would recommend you learn a lot about it and start off slow or you will spend more money than you make
     
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  14. michael4168

    michael4168 Greenhorn

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    Here is a PPC program that offers $50000 in PPC for only $5. It is relatively small right now so there are a lot of unused keywords. With its current size it will not compete with other more popular PPC but remember for only $5 you get $50000 worth of PPC ads.

    The bids start at .05 thats 1,000,000 clicks of your ad. If you have a well written ad this will bring in a steady amount of visitors, hopefully resulting in higher conversions.

    Like I said before this won't yet rival more popular PPC, so it may take more time for your ads to be clicked but they will eventually be clicked. This is guaranteed clicks over a longer period of time.

    http://www.hophunt.com/freeppc.html



    Another idea to advertise for free is to visit the traffic forums here on DP there are a lot of free traffic trials posted here.

    Hope this helps.
     
    michael4168, Apr 9, 2009 IP
  15. ramgunjal

    ramgunjal Banned

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    Wow..promoting CPA campaign is the most important fact to earn good amount from affiliate networks.
    There are different ways to promote CPA offers but i would like to suggest simple ways to boost your online sales. * First join related forums to promote your CPA campaign and post different topics related to your product.
    * Participate in yahoo answers and find related topics to put your link.
    * Concentrate on SEO keywords and link building also to drive more targeted visitors from search engines...

    That's the key of success.
     
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  16. fancymouj

    fancymouj Peon

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    Build a Product Review Blog.
     
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  17. mattpayne777

    mattpayne777 Greenhorn

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    I found that the phone broadcasting system that is an affilate program with in itself is the best way to promote affilate programs. It is cheaper than PPC or really any other method out there and it really works if you don't mind talking on the phone a lot and learning about phone advertising. I know this sounds like an advertisment and I guess it is to some extent, but it works.....this is my link, look at it and let me know what you think.

    You can promote anything using it.....
    http://phonebroadcastclub.com/?id=mattpayne777
     
    mattpayne777, Apr 11, 2009 IP
  18. 22gem

    22gem Peon

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    SEo will surely help you.I also like the idea of creating blog that talks about your experience of using the product on your site.It will surely get the attention of pet lovers.
     
    22gem, Apr 21, 2009 IP