How to Generate Traffic for your Affiliate Products

Am listing here some free methods you can make use to produce visitors to your affiliate website. These techniques will work, but you have to give your very best. We all know nothing comes simple.

• Article marketing

Article promotion is the oldest and best way to advertise and drive visitors to your affiliate website or item. Affiliate promotion helps you build backlinks to your Affiliate website, and it also helps you drive quality site visitors to your site. Simply create articles about the products or services you are trying to promote, and submit it to as many article directory  sites as you can. Some of the best article directory sites are ezinearticles, article dashbord and article base. You can also make use of web 2.0 sites like Squidoo and Hub Page to publish your articles. Article promotion is all free, and all the big entrepreneurs agree its promotion is the most powerful and effective way for advertising online. Don’t forget that every time you create a piece of writing, make sure you put a link in it to your web page, so interested people can visit and hopefully buy the item your promoting.

• Forums

Another great way to advertise your website is to join related forums. For example if your promoting weight loss products, join forums that are about this topic. People on these forums are already looking for products to help them lose weight, so it makes it a whole a lot easier for you to promote your product. But you need to be careful. You can’t make people buy things from you by spamming and over promoting yourself. Be helpful to others, and try to answers questions, without always promoting your product. And make sure to put a link pointing to your site in your signature.

• Social networking

These days social nrtworking sites are busier than ever. Social media is a great way to promote your affiliate website. Register with sites like Twitter, Facebook, MySpace and etc, and start social networking with others. Find people interested in what you have to offer, and try to be helpful to them. Don’t make the mistake of many people who start advertising their stuff heavily as soon as they arrive. Take your time, establish yourself as an authoritative and trusted person on topics related to the product your advertising.