Your affiliate marketing success highly depends on your link placements. And that’s because of a simple reason:
Strategically placed links are more likely to be clicked by your readers!
Just imagine you’d see a blog post completely stacked up with affiliate links each two or three sentences.
Nobody would end up buying something through your affiliate links!
Incorporating your links seamlessly into your content and trying to further help your audience with your affiliate products… thats our goal!!!
Only this way you can drive tons of sales in the future.
To achieve that, we need some genius ways to promote affiliate links.
Most of them are super easy to do, so let us have a look at the most smartest and genius ways to promote affiliate links!
Table of Contents
Genius Ways to Promote Affiliate Links
1) What I Love About Affiliate Marketing…
2) Genius Ways to promote Affiliate Links
- Add Affiliate Links to Your Blog Post
- Leverage Email Marketing
- Create a Resource Page
- Include Affiliate Links in Your Freebies
- Use Banners and Side Bar Ads
3) Promote Affiliate Links with Social Media
11. Host Webinars and Live Sessions
What I Love About Affiliate Marketing...
There is really one thing that makes affiliate marketing special for me: in most cases it is super easy and a great source of passive income!
Affiliate marketing is known to be evergreen.
Let me give you an example for this: Let’s say you create a blog post and add some affiliate links to it. When optimized and promoted properly (SEO, social media, newsletter, …), you remain getting affiliate sales even years after having published your post.
This gives you such a great opportunity to earn passive income – allowing to stop changing time for money!
To read more about why I love affiliate marketing, check out this post:
Genius Ways to Promote Affiliate Links as a Blogger
To make affiliate marketing even more profitable, there are super smart ways to promote your affiliate links on your blog.
Let’s go through each and every one of them!
1. Add Affiliate Links to Your Blog Post
Adding relevant affiliate links to your content is the very first step you should take.
Especially for tutorials and reviews it is super effective to include affiliate links in your content.
In fact, 74% of people are checking sites for reviews before making a purchase.
While you should add affiliate links to your old blog posts, try to write these evergreen types of posts in the future to ensure long-term earnings
- How-to Guides: Detailed tutorials related to your niche
- Product Reviews: In-depth reviews of products you genuinely use and recommend
- Top Lists: Lists of the best products or services in a specific category
There is one important thing though: Never ever spam affiliate links!
You should only include affiliate links when it further helps your audience and when it adds more value to your post
Let me give you an example: If you’re writing a travel diary, you could mention the camera you used to take your photos and include an affiliate link.
As you can see, only incorporate your links when it naturally fits your content and when it offers some kind of a solution for a problem.
This is by far better than staking up your post with random affiliate links.
We’ve already discussed this in the introduction.
That’s the first of our top genius ways to promote affiliate links.
In case you’re not having blog, I strongly recommend you to start one.
This post covers everything you need to start your own blog:
2. Leverage Email Marketing
Trust me: Do not longer wait and start your first newsletter.
In case that you’ve read my about page, you know that I’m also new to email marketing and I’m still trying to make proof of its effectiveness.
But according to so many bloggers out there email marketing is such a powerful tool to drive affiliate marketing sales and traffic to your website.
In fact, a study found out that email marketing has an average ROI (return on investment) of $39 for every dollar spent.
I know I keep mentioning this study throughout my recent posts, but I’m just too impressed fron this number!!!
A ROI of $39 means that you invest as little as $1 and get 39 time more of it back… crazy isn’t it?
Enough with praising mail marketing, let’s get back to the point!
With your email list, you can start sending out highly personalized and targeted emails, promoting your affiliate products.
Same as adding affiliate links to your blog post: Add your links seamlessly into your email and try to solve your audience’s problems.
3. Create a Resource Page
Adding a simple resource page is another genius way to promote affiliate links as a blogger.
Once created, a resource page is evergreen.
For those of you, who don’t have a clue what a resource page is:
It is a dedicated section on your blog where you list and recommend products, tools, and services you find useful.
For you as a blog owner, this could be, for example, your blog hosting, SEO tools or email marketing software.
Depending on your niche, there are so much more things you could promote in your resource page.
Let’s say you’re in the travel niche. Just think must-have credit cards, travel gear or hotel recommendations.
Just go a step back and think about:
- what has helped me so far
- what could help my audience too
Once you find something, consider adding it to your resource page.
4. Include Affiliate Links in Your Freebies
Freebies are valuable content pieces such as mini ebooks, pdfs or checklists, you’re providing for free!
You can use your freebies to promote affiliate products.
Adding an extra page with tools or further resources to your freebie, is usually a genius way to promote affiliate links.
Why?
Just think about it: People wouldn’t sign up for a freebie, if they aren’t interested in your content.
Therefore, people who are reading your freebies are 100% interested in its content ensuring a higher conversion rates on your affiliate products.
5. Use Banners and Side Bar Ads
With some affiliate programs you have to opportunity to add banner and side bars to your blog.
That’s usually a very simple way to promote affiliate products.
These visual elements can catch the attention of your readers without being intrusive.
Remember: Do not overload your blog with affiliate ads. Only include a few relevant banners.
Promote Affiliate Links with Social Media
Making social media part of your affiliate marketing strategy as a blogger is probably the most genius way to promote your affiliate links.
Let us have a look at the best social media platforms to promote affiliate products on:
6. Promoting with Instagram
With 2 billion users worldwide (April 2024) Instagram is one of the top three biggest social media platforms out there.
This is a huge potential for you, to get free traffic to your affiliate links.
How to promote affiliate links on Instagram?
- Promote with posts by reminding that you’re affiliate links are in the bio
- Promote with reels
- Add your links in stories with the link sticker
Make sure to use tools such as Linktree, for your instagram bio.
LInktree, for example, provides you with a simple landing page allowing you to link to your affiliate products.
7. Promoting with Pinterest
With Pinterest there is no need for landing page tools such as Linktree.
That’s because there is something that makes Pinterest special: You can directly add your affiliate links to your Pins. This means that each of your pins can represent one affiliate link!
But let us go a step back: What is Pinterest?
Pinterest is a visual search engine and a social network, providing users a platform to discover, collect and share both images and videos.
Pinterest does work a bit different compared to other social media platforms:
Search Engine Focus
As just mentioned, Pinterest is more like a search engine than a traditional social media platform.
Visual Discovery
Pinterest emphasizes visual content, such as images and videos, which makes it ideal for showcasing your affiliate products.
This visual focus can help you to attract and convince them of your affiliate product.
Longer Content Lifespan
Content on Pinterest (pins) has a much longer lifespan compared to posts on other social media platforms.
Pins – your affiliate link – can continue to drive traffic and engagement for months or even years after they are initially posted. (huge pro!!!)
8. Promoting with Facebook
Another social media platform that is great to do affiliate marketing is Facebook.
The most smartest way to promote your affiliate links on Facebook is through Facebook groups.
A Facebook group is nothing more than a community interested in a specific topic.
Try to find groups relevant to your niche and provide valuable content.
Same as before: This can be an opportunity to include your affiliate links, but only include them when they naturally fit your content!
9. Launch a YouTube Channel
Have you ever wondered how YouTubers make so much money? Believe it or not but most of their income is from affiliate marketing.
Therefore, launching a YouTube channel can be a genius way to promote your affiliate links too!
Pick a niche you’re interested in and start earning with affiliate marketing on YouTube!
On YouTube the same rule applies than on blog posts:
Evergreen content for the win!
You know how it works: Tutorials, reviews and top lists – that’s what we want to create
In your YouTube videos you should make your audience aware of your affiliate links in your video description.
Important: Don’t forget to include an affiliate disclosure outlining that you’re getting a commission with each sale generated through your affiliate link.
10. Create a Podcast Channel
If you love to speak and interview other people, then creating a podcast channel might be the go-to way for you.
In terms of promoting your affiliate links, podcasting works quite similar than on YouTube.
Try to promote your affiliate products in your podcast episodes to solve your audience‘s problems.
You can provide your affiliate links in the show notes of your podcast episodes!
11. Host Webinars and Live Sessions
This is such an effective way to promote affiliate links.
Let me tell you why:
Webinars and live sessions allow you to engage directly with your audience. This gives you the opportunity connect with your audience on a more personal level that builds trust and loyalty.
These two thing can make your affiliate sales increasing.
Let us think about how you can showcase your affiliate products in real-time to make the most of it:
- Demonstrations: Show how the product works and what benefits it has
- Exclusive Offers: Provide special discounts or bonuses for webinar attendees who purchase through your affiliate link
- Q&A Sessions: Again: we want to build trust and credibility, therefore go ahead and answer some questions about your affiliate product
12. Track and Optimize Performances
I‘m gonna admit: This point does not really count as a genius way to promote affiliate links.
But, it is super important to include this step to be successful in affiliate marketing!
I want you to always keep track of your link performances.
Many affiliate programs and networks offer you tracking tools allowing you to see how many people clicked on your links.
Tracking results tell you whether or not your strategy work out. If not don’t lose motivation or something!
Go ahead and change your strategy. Experiment with different link placements and formats to see what works best. We call this A/B testing.
You’ll find something that works for you – that’s for sure.
So when putting everything together you should:
- Identify Top Performers
- Optimize Underperformers
- Do A/B Testing
The Takeaway
At the end of each of my posts I provide a short takeaway. Just to make sure you remember everything you learned today! 🙂
With affiliate marketing you have the opportunity to earn passive income through creating evergreen content.
This allows you to stop changing time for money!
The most important lesson in affiliate marketing is to only include links when they seamlessly fit into your content.
Trying to help your audience with your affiliate product is your main goal in affiliate marketing.
Better include just a few high-quality affiliate links in your post than spamming multiple links.
There are a bunch of genius ways to promote affiliate links.
This list gives you an overview of ways we’ve talked about in this post:
- Blog Posting
- Email Marketing
- Resource Page
- Freebies
- Banner and Side Bar Ads
- Social Media
- YouTube
- Podcast
- Webinars and Live Sessions
Final Thoughts
At the end of the day the most genius way to promote affiliate links is the way that fits your preferences the best.
That’s a personal choice.
However I tried to include versatile ways so that there is something for everyone!
Now it is up to you!!! Grab your laptop and get started to promote your affiliate links.
You got this!
If you have any questions, feel free to get in touch in the comment section below or write me an email!
