June 12, 2007
How Do I Get Traffic To My Affiliate Sales Page Without SEO?
I know very little about SEO and I don’t have a big budget to use for Adwords advertising campaigns. What are some things I can do to drive traffic to my affiliate pages?
I’m writing this with the assumption that an “affiliate sales page” is a ClickBank affiliate sales page… and that you are at least familiar with niche and keyword research.
Also, keep in mind that there are many ways to skin a cat so what I will describe here are methods I currently use to get traffic to my sales pages.
So with that said, the shortest answer I can give anyone is to:
Advertise your product on popular niche specific forums or sites. Short of shoring up a joint-venture deal with a popular forum / site owner, this is in my opinion one of the easiest ways to get targeted traffic to a sales page.
Here is the long answer…
I don’t know about you, but I don’t particularly like to use Adwords and other PPC engines for traffic as I always felt it was a bit of a hit and miss type of approach (I never knew if I was hitting the right target market…) so I developed a relatively simple way to drive targeted traffic without spending a ton on PPC advertising. This will take a bit of work, but works almost every time.
- Create a blog (preferably on a separate domain) and start writing solid useful content on a regular basis on your niche with links to your affiliate products
- Drive Traffic to your page using Web 2.0 tactics (bookmark your pages / posts using Onlywire). Submit an original story to Netscape, Digg and Reddit.
- Set up a Squidoo account and set up individual lenses for each of your primary and / or secondary keyword phrases and place a well written article (that people would actually want to read) in each of your lenses with at least one or two anchor text links to your sales page.Use RSS feeds from your blog (step 1) on each of your Squidoo lenses
- Write a couple of articles for submission to Article Directories per lens to fortify the Squidoo search engine rankings.
- Set up a similar page on Hubpages, and set up a page on Twitter on your niche topic. Link both the Hubpages and Twitter pages to your Squidoo lens and/or to your sales page.
- Bookmark all of your Squidoo, Hubpages and Twitter pages using Onlywire.
- If it is a competitive phrase, keep writing articles for submission to article directories that point to your Squidoo lenses or your blog. The reason for the former is that a new Squidoo lens has a better chance of ranking higher in the search engines than a new blog.
One of the things you need to keep in mind is that anytime you link directly to an affiliate page, you are giving somebody else your linking power. I personally use a process that I call my ClickBank Bypass Method to drive sales to unique sales pages for other people’s ClickBank products, which is a way for you to start controlling your own internet real estate by creating your own sales pages with your own opt-in form for maximum conversions.
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June 12, 2007
PlugIM.com @ 1:19 am (Trackback)
How Do I Get Traffic To My Affiliate Sales Page Without SEO?…
Have you ever wondered how you could drive traffic to your sales page with limited SEO knowledge and a tiny budget?…
Anonymous @ 1:24 am (Trackback)
How Do I Get Traffic To My Affiliate Sales Page Without SEO?…
Do you dislike paying money for traffic? Don’t know much about SEO? Or perhaps you just want to generate more traffic to your affiliate sales pages……
June 15, 2007
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June 18, 2007
David @ 1:24 pm:
I just read your post and plan to refer to it this Friday, June 22nd in our weekly “Who Said That?” Good Information. I admit that I haven’t used Squido like I should.
Steven @ 4:50 pm:
Hi David,
Look forward to reading your piece.
Squidoo is a double edged sword… since we are in essence building up someone elses website, which means we are at the mercy of the ‘Squidoo gods’. But, the methods are so easy that it’s hard to overlook it at this time…
July 24, 2007
Blochure @ 2:37 am:
Hi David - another way is to create a page on Blochure.com
we just launched a couple of days ago, so you’re not going to get huge SEO benefits or traffic - but it will grow. Blochure allows users to create pages on products or services, and allows you to use your affiliate codes. Plus we share the adsense revenue with the page creators.
August 24, 2007
Liz @ 5:53 pm:
Great tips, thank you! I just setup a Squidoo lens here for fun / experimenting –> http://www.squidoo.com/personalgrowthfaves. If anyone here is interested in personal growth topics or goal setting you should check it out.
For now it doesn’t have any ads or affiliate links or anything, I pretty much just created it for fun and to share articles and posts that I enjoy. But who knows, maybe sometime in the future I’ll monetize it.
BTW - for those who are interested in making affiliate sales, I personally have had success with Steven’s #1 tip - blogs, especially when combining it with the #2 tip - submitting blog posts to Digg, Netscape, etc.