If you are ignoring these five traffic sources as an affiliate marketer you are leaving money on the table. Such a waste. I’ve gotten results like this, this, this, and this all from these traffic sources that I’m going to show you, and they require very little time and honestly very little expertise.
The reason that I chose these traffic sources that I’m going to show you is that they are less competitive and honestly they’re a lot manage to brand-new affiliates that are still learning the game.
Unlike our friend Google. And the last reason is that these traffic sources that I’m about to show you don’t have extremely complicated algorithms that you have to spend years and years to figure out. So let’s dive in and talk about these five traffic sources that affiliate marketers are missing out on.
Pinterest is something most of us have heard of. There’s nothing new here, but look at these stats from my Pinterest account which gets very, very little love from me. You can see here we’re looking specifically at pin clicks.
And you can see here in the past 30 days we’ve gotten 155,000 impressions, thousands of engagements meaning clicks and things like that, but we’ve got a total audience on our stuff of about a hundred thousand and an engaged audience of people that are clicking and things like that of almost a thousand people.
So this is driving almost a thousand to two thousand people every month to my blog, which is less than what Google’s driving, but we’re putting in almost no work. Yeah, life is good.
So all our team does with Pinterest is we pop out a few pins a day and we use templates to do it. So we have a Canva account.
And you can see we’ve just got a ton of different templates that we use that are all for Pinterest, and we put out a blog post or even just think about a subject, and all we do is really quickly throw it, change the words a tiny bit, switch out maybe the middle picture. It takes about few seconds.
Then we hop in here to Pinterest right here. We upload the pin, we add a title and a small description, a few tags, and we are good to go.
So it takes about five to ten minutes per pin. You can pin to your own blog post and help grow your own blog and email this that way, or you can directly pin to landing pages. You can directly pin even to affiliate offers inside of Pinterest, and we’ve made money literally just putting in our affiliate link, making a small pin, and throwing it on Pinterest.
The other reason I love Pinterest is it’s a search engine, and search engines bring passive income, meaning I can put content out on Pinterest, and it can bring me traffic six months from now. It can bring me traffic a year from now, and so search engines are the only things that actually do that. And Pinterest is one of the easiest search engines to rank in, especially as a beginner.
Quora
I have got to admit to you guys after I made a video about a month and a half ago about Quora and the potential of Quora, I actually haven’t been doing any posting at all on Quora. But we can hop on the screen and look at these stats that are still coming in from my posts months ago.
And you can see I’m still getting hundreds of views every single day on the posts that I put in Quora, and those hundreds of views, if you look here in Bitly, are resulting in clicks still going to my lead magnets, my YouTube videos, my blog posts all passively.
Now Quora is super cool because you can actually rank in Google in Quora within a matter of hours. So Quora ranks for millions of keywords in Google, and you might not want to start a blog, but you can write these comments in Quora.
And if your comment gets a lot of views in Quora, then you will rank for the keyword in google for whatever quora is ranking for in the google search engine.
I love Quora for beginners because it’s really, really easy to get started with Quora. All you’ve got to do is create an account. You can search questions up here, and then you’ll literally just click answer, and it’s a very simple box right here where you can answer. And so you can become kind of the master of a single niche or a single space on Quora very, very easily just by answering all the questions as they come up.
It requires very little startup time, very little money, and it can blow up very, very quickly. So if you’re interested in learning more about this Quora method, there’s actually a video right here we put out a few months ago where I really break down how to blow up on Quora.
But essentially, all I’m doing is I’m finding the right posts, I’m writing these long posts right here, and inside of those posts, within the first few sentences, I’m linking to my own personal content. And that’s how you can see right here in Bitly. You can see I’m getting clicks to all of these links to my content through Quora very passively.
Number three is your own personal Facebook profile. Comment