10 Ways to do Affiliate Marketing without a Website

 10 Ways to do Affiliate Marketing without a Website

 1. Post on Forums and Online Communities The Internet is excellent at bringing like-minded people together in online communities and forums. These places offer a great opportunity to promote your affiliate products. The first step is to find a forum with an audience that will be interested in the products you are promoting. For example, Mountain Project is a website that brings together people that are interested in rock climbing: After you’ve found a website with a solid online community, check the forum guidelines to make sure they allow affiliate links, sign up, and start contributing to the online conversation. Another way to get your affiliate offers in front of an online community of engaged people is to create your own Facebook group and foster discussion around your niche. Not only will you have more control over the posting guidelines, but it can be a profitable way to promote your affiliate offers with weekly promotions. The key to affiliate marketing is to build a relationship and establish trust with your audience. Before you start promoting your products, offer something of value, and give people a reason to trust your recommendations. 

2. Solo Ads Solo ads enable you to reach new audiences by paying to leverage other people’s email lists to promote your affiliate offers. How do solo ads work? Let’s say that you have started your affiliate career focusing on the fitness niche. You have signed up to an affiliate program and started to promote your affiliate offer on social media and online forums. You’ve made a few sales, but you want to expand your reach and find a new audience to target with your offer. You can research influencers in the fitness niche that provide a solo ads service using websites like Udimi. If the solo ads provider thinks that your offer is a good fit for their email list, they will send your offer to their subscribers for a fee - charged at a rate per click Not only can solo ads yield instant commission, but it can also help you to generate more opt-ins if your merchant is running an affiliate contest for opt-ins. However, not all solo ads providers are equal. Some will send poor quality traffic to your offer that doesn’t convert. You need to carefully assess the reputation of a solo ads provider before you invest your money, and you need to track every campaign to measure your results. If you find a solo ads provider that offers a decent ROI, keep going back to them, month after month. Solo ads are also an excellent way to test an offer out before investing too much time into other forms of marketing. 

3. Viral eBook This affiliate marketing strategy is quite simple. You create an eBook on a hot topic that people are interested in and embed your affiliate links into the content. When somebody clicks your affiliate link and purchases a product, you earn a commission. Sounds easy in theory, but you’ll need to conduct comprehensive research to find a topic people want to read about and invest a lot of time to create a quality eBook. You can use Google Trends to help you find a hot topic that people are interested in. Look at what's trending and receiving significant search volume. If you promote products in the fashion niche, you could create an eBook on the Egirl style and link to affiliate products that come under that the fashion style. Even with a hot topic, you’ve got a lot of work ahead to create your eBook, and with no guarantee that you will see a significant return on the time you invest in the project. 

4. YouTube Channel YouTube is the second-largest search engine in the world, and it’s a great place to earn affiliate commissions without a website. Whenever you see a YouTuber reviewing products or asking you to “click on the link in the description,” that’s affiliate marketing in action. To succeed as an affiliate marketer on YouTube, you will need to produce excellent content, learn how to leverage keywords to increase the reach of your videos, and build an audience of loyal subscribers. Without a website, the most profitable way to promote your affiliate offers on YouTube is to drive traffic directly to affiliate programs that provide a free give away, or a low priced product, as that's less likely to turn into complaints from people watching your videos. You can also pay a hosting vendor to host a sign-up form and direct your YouTube traffic to a free offer and get people to sign up to your email list. Once somebody has subscribed to your email list, you can send them weekly newsletters to promote your affiliate products. You can also earn advertising revenue by signing up for the YouTube Partner Program and placing ads on your videos. The major drawback of this form of affiliate marketing is that you are at the mercy of YouTube’s moderators. If your channel is flagged for any reason, you can lose your whole channel and all of your affiliate income in one fell swoop. Luckily this happens very rarely, especially when you focus on producing quality content. 

5. PPC Affiliate Marketing Paid affiliate advertising can see fast returns, but it also comes with more risk and investment on your part. Google Ads and Facebook Ads are the two leading advertising platforms that affiliate marketers use to promote their affiliate products. These platforms work on a pay-per-click (PPC) advertising model. You create an ad, bid the maximum amount you are willing to pay to display your ad, and only pay a fee when somebody clicks on your ad. There are several drawbacks to this strategy, especially if you are new to affiliate marketing and operating without a website. Google takes the landing page your ad is directing traffic to into consideration when assigning your ad a quality score. If the merchant site you are advertising offers a poor user experience, you will end up paying more for your paid ads. Even worse, if the content on the merchant's website violates Google’s advertising policies, your Google Ads account can be suspended until the landing page is fixed to comply with Google regulations. Facebook Ads also have similar rules regarding compliance. Acting as an affiliate for the merchant, you have no control over the merchant's landing page. If they refuse to make the landing page compliant with the advertising platforms regulations, your account could be suspended indefinitely, and you won’t be able to advertise. These advertising platforms also restrict the number of ads directing traffic to the same landing page. If multiple affiliates are advertising the same offer, your ads can be canceled, and your account suspended. Without a website, you can only successfully utilize these platforms if you are the only advertiser directing traffic to an offer. While the opportunity for instant traffic and commission can be tempting, you need to be attentive and methodical in your approach to PPC for affiliate marketing and proceed at your own risk. 

6. Write Ads or Reviews for Classifieds Websites This form of affiliate promotion is very similar to the forum and online community method. Rather than posting in online forums, you post your affiliate links on classified ad websites. Craigslist is the largest website of this kind, with millions of people posting ads on city pages across the world. You can promote your affiliate links by posting ads, product reviews, and other helpful posts to the relevant categories of classified ads. You can earn an affiliate income using this technique, but you will need to be committed to posting multiple times per day across numerous websites. Aside from being time-intensive, you are also vulnerable to changes in policy from the classified sites. If they decide to ban the posting of affiliate links, you will be unable to promote your products. 

7. Content Publishing Platforms Medium and Steemit are the two most prominent free publishing platforms you can use to promote your affiliate products. Anybody can create an account and publish content for the world to see. Medium has a readership of nearly 100 million, offers some great analytics tools to monitor the engagement of your articles, and also has a high domain authority to help your content rank in Google. You need to inform your readers about any affiliate links in your content to avoid any issues with Medium’s moderators. Steemit is similar to Medium, but publishers receive payment for the engagement their content generates in the form of the cryptocurrency Steem. Affiliate links are allowed, so you can start publishing your affiliate content once your account is verified. 

8. Social Media Social media can be an excellent channel for affiliate promotion. Instagram has seen massive growth over the last few years, while new video-based platforms like Tik Tok are only going to get more popular with the rollout of 5G and increased internet speeds across the world. If you want to succeed as an affiliate marketer without a website, Instagram is a great platform to promote your affiliate offers. Some Instagram marketers make the top 5 of leaderboards, boast over 1 million followers, and see high engagement when they promote their affiliate offers. Instagram doesn’t allow you to link directly in your posts, so you’ll need to direct users to your bio. You can create posts promoting your offer and instruct users to check out the ”link in bio.” You’ll need to grow your following and focus on creating posts that get lots of feedback, likes, and shares, to grow your affiliate business. You’ll need to monitor the engagement of your posts and focus on providing content that makes the most impact on your audience. After you’ve built up a substantial following, you can start promoting your affiliate products. Image Source While social media is still an excellent channel for affiliate promotion, recent years have seen a significant decline in organic social media traffic. Facebook, in particular, is becoming a pay to play platform. Image Source You can use Facebook Ads to increase your reach and target users with your affiliate offers. However, if you send traffic directly to your merchant’s landing page, you run the risk of breaking Facebook Ads regulations and receiving a suspension of your account. Another way to harness social media to promote your affiliate offers is to purchase traffic from social influencers. For example, many Instagrammers with large followings leave their email address in their bio. If you find an Instagrammer that has a following that would be interested in your affiliate offers, send them an email and see if they offer advertising. Depending on the niche, the product, and the following, this can be a profitable way to reach an engaged audience and promote your affiliate offers. 

9. Email Marketing Email marketing is a potent tool for affiliate marketing with or without a website. The first step is to build a list of email subscribers that are interested in hearing from you. There are companies that will sell you an email list, but the quality of these email lists is questionable at best. So how do you build an email list? There are loads of vendors that provide sign up form services, and they will provide the hosting, so you don’t need a website. To convince people to provide you with their email address, you’re going to need to provide a compelling offer in exchange. This can be anything from a free guide to a free course or resource. After you’ve built your form and created your offer, you need to direct traffic to your sign up form. You can post on social media, and even use paid social media ads to speed up the process of building your list. Once you’ve got a substantial number of subscribers, you can start sending regular emails and promote your affiliate products. Just like any other form of affiliate marketing, focus on helping your audience with useful and informative email content that offers value. Information Source