What you are going to have to do to get traffic, as we said earlier, is learn how to harvest as much traffic as you can from other sites with a large number of eyeballs and direct them to your advertisements, sales pages, landing pages, or affiliate offers. The way to do that is to use the following techniques to get people from one area of the web to another:
Submit to search engines
Use tools to help you submit to web search engines so that your pages get indexed and ranked quickly. A good tool for that is WebCEO, as it will also help you figure out keywords to use to get the targeted demographic you are looking for. Don’t just assume submitting to Google is enough, you want a tool that automates multiple submissions,
Publish articles
Go to article directories, like www.ezinearticles.com, and submit free articles for acceptance. They are not the only free article directory, but they are a good start. Create articles that capture people’s attention and use some good keyword methodology to capture search engine attention. Then, use the resource box to put links back to areas where your affiliate marketing offers can be accessed. You can’t go directly to a sales page from your affiliate, in most cases, as it is against the terms of the agreement. But, there are ways for you to add these offers to a blog and link back to your blog, or something
similar. To automate, sign up for article submission sites that will submit articles to multiple directories for a wider exposure in half the time. It does cost a little, but the extra bang for your buck can bring more people to your affiliate offer.
Set up press releases
This is a similar strategy to the article submission, but instead of articles, you are submitting press releases. With press releases, you can be more commercial and no one is going to get bent out of shape. Press releases are for advertising new offerings, new companies, news about your business, so they can hardly be expected to take a soft sell approach. Just remember to put links back into the areas that will provide some revenue too. There are also services that will allow you to submit to multiple press release sites too
Promote on social networks
If you haven’t joined Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, & Myspace you should do so right now. Get an account set up and find ways to promote links back to your affiliates. This can take a bit of time to get used to the networks and their rules, but once you figure out ways to do this, through status updates, cleverly embedded links, and applications, you will start to really start getting the hang of this.
Use social network tools for automation
For instance, Twitter has Tweet later and Tweet deck tools that can be used to automate tweets, replies, and even some direct messages. Network your tools so that when you post on one site, it gets broadcasted to multiple sites at once.
Write free reports or ebooks
Get promotional topics out there and embed links to your affiliate offers within them. If you use the reports or ebooks as freebies to get people to enroll in your own marketing programs, you can both create income from affiliate offers and have residual income from subscribers.
Get others to promote your offers
Set up affiliate programs for your own ads or make partnerships where you each sell each others products. Include high commissions, quick payouts, and anything that will make your offer more appealing than the next one.
Give incentives to buy
Offer to bribe someone for clicking on a link, signing up for a lead-based affiliate offer, or buying a product that you’ve advertised. You can even use info products with more embedded affiliate offers to get people excited about buying a product or service. This way, if you can have repeat sales. Even if it’s not your own product you are trying to sell, remember that you can give an incentive to buy that costs you little to deliver.
Set up email campaigns
If you have numerous subscribers and/or members in a site, fans, or friends, you have the potential for creating email campaigns with affiliate offers in them. Remember to respect people’s privacy as you can easily be labeled a spammer this way. Instead, always make sure they opt-in to such a list and then be careful to include relevant information in your emails. Just sending out affiliate ads is considered tacky and basically ignored, if not outright deleted.
These are just a few ways to start generating huge traffic to your site by getting links out to people within your market niche. There are so many different ways to do this, that you need to keep a fresh eye out for new and innovative techniques that can be implemented before the public becomes jaded about them. This has the best effect to generated traffic
