Affiliate Marketing Without A Website
Many newbies might be overwhelmed at the thought of setting up a website before they can promote other merchants’ products. As I have learned too, having a website is not the end all and be all to internet marketing. If you want to know how, read on.
Affiliate marketing is a program that allows for affiliates to earn fairly high commissions for each successful sale they manage to refer to the affiliate merchant. The sales page, the payment processing, the digital delivery, and post sales services are the responsibilities of the affiliate merchant. All the affiliates have to do is to recommend and promote the product by referring people to the affiliate merchant’s sales page.
This can be done by encouraging key target consumer to click on the affiliate links exclusively provided for the affiliate. These special links are vital for the affiliate marketers as they serve to let the system know that a visitor was actually referred by the appropriate affiliate.
How do affiliate marketers market the merchant’s goods without the benefit of a website? Here’s sharing some techniques:
* Article marketing: We all know how powerful affiliate marketing can be in link building campaigns. But instead of providing for links to your own website, you could provide your affiliate links instead. Article directories allow you a resource box where you can fill up your bio and a link of your choice. Some article directories do not allow affiliate links in the body copy, but affiliate links are allowed in the resource box. There are many article directories available but the better ones to submit your articles to are www.goarticles.com , www.ezinearticles.com , and www.isnare.com .
* Forum marketing: Online communities, or forums, are additional channels to promote your affiliate links to. Membership in pHp 2.0 based forums gives you a signature box where you could advertise your affiliate links. For every post you make, your signature box will appear. If you post a thousand messages, you’ll have a thousand pages advertising your affiliate links! If you wish to know the forums which are relevant to the subject serviced by the affiliate products that you’re promoting you can use the tool at www.link-advantage.com/search to find the appropriate online community.
* Advertise in eZines: This may cost you as many eZines charge for advertising space. Nonetheless, this enables you to expose your affiliate links to highly targeted prospects using this approach. If the eZine has a list of 10,000 people,, you will immediately be able to reach 10,000 quality leads with one advertisement. Point is, you don’t need a website. Just use your affiliate link in your ads.
Not having a website is not an excuse to not be successful online. Most of the strategies listed here can be accomplished without spending a single cent. If you do not have the financial resources to register a domain or to subscribe to a web hosting service, you can still achieve success with affiliate marketing. Joining an affiliate program is free. So is promoting your affiliate links, if you so wish.
Good luck!
