4 Ways for a Poor Affiliate to get Free Traffic
October 3rd, 2008Let’s face it, nobody prefers to pay for each individual visitor they get to their websites right?
Certainly, pay-per-click is an extremely effective component of Internet marketing, but it also calls for a lot of maintenance and some financial risk.
However, with free traffic, all you’re risking is your time. But time isn’t something we have much, if any, extra of, so let’s consider some ideas for getting plenty of free, targeted traffic to your websites as an affiliate…right now!
1. Focus on a large market
The first piece of the puzzle is the demand. It doesn’t matter what you do to promote your website, you’ll always have problems if there isn’t enough demand inside the marketplace you get involved in.
Don’t be afraid to go after the big markets. When there is so much demand going on, you’re able to take a small cut off the side and still make a killing.
2. Articles that center on large demand subjects
It’s not a secret that articles are still among the best methods of driving traffic to any type of website that you want. Nevertheless, a lot of people still make the mistake of writing articles that are not aimed at the right audience for their affiliate offers.
To avoid this, you must do your due diligence when choosing keywords to focus your articles on. Write the whole article around the keyword. It is essential that the keyword itself is a keyword that is closely associated with the offer you’re promoting.
For instance, don’t write an article about aerobic exercise and attempt to promote tennis shoes. Instead, write an article on a particular tennis training method and then discuss how a good tennis shoe can assist you in your game…and THEN guide the visitor to your tennis shoes site.
To generate lots of free traffic as an affiliate using articles, you do NOT necessarily have to write hundreds of articles, you simply need to write quality articles that people will link to, share and above all, click on to reach your website!
3. Loads of inbound links
An additional key to an intense amount of traffic from the search engines and referring websites is inbound links. The more numerous your inbound links are the more listings you’ll be rewarded with from the different search engines.
True, it’s not always a the fastest way to get traffic, but it’s certainly worth it. Here’s what you can do to get going:
- comment on different people’s blogs
- submit your site to related niche directories
- write additional articles
- write exclusive content for another website to use with a backlink to your site
4. Becoming Part of a Community
Social networking sites are a great place for finding traffic, strictly due to the great number of people visiting them daily. Youtube, Digg, Myspace, Facebook, and thousands of other sites are flooded with people who are interested in what you are promoting.
Get in there and start dropping a few links, adding some content and getting involved. You don’t need to commit your life to this, just spend some time and get some added exposure to your website, leveraging the huge amount of existing traffic on these sites.
Spending some time in the Social Network Communities will truly speed up your online profits, so go join a community today!


