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How To Use Forums To Advertise Your Affiliate Link

Its one thing to get setup as an affiliate with a certain program and quite another to actually start making money with your affiliate business. Generally speaking, money can only be made online with traffic. If you don’t get any traffic to your website or affiliate link, you will not make any money. How do we get that traffic? There are many ways, but let’s focus on the use of forums.

One of the things that make forums such a useful traffic gathering location is that someone else has done the targeting for you. We all want our ads and links targeted to people who have an interest in our products, that’s the idea behind Google’s Adsense program and many others. When you find a forum that is target towards the same industry that you are in, then that means that the bulk of those forum members already have an interest in your product or service. Any ad you place in front of their eyes is already targeted to the exact audience you’re looking for. If you sell lawn & garden accessories, look for a landscaping forum. If you provide information on a particular vacation site, look for a travel forum. If you have a program that allows you to access your office computer from home, look for a site for busy professionals. Once you find the forum that matches the product or service you have to offer, you’ve found your targeted buyers.

Now, how do you capitalize on these forum members that all are wanting your product or service, but just don’t know it yet? Ad placement is the next step. Don’t just make a post saying “Need flowers? Visit this website”. These ads are generally regarded as spam and are removed quite quickly, in fact if they are not they are not successful anyway as people tend to view them as ads and skip over them to get to the next posting with valuable information. Put your affiliate link in the signature file or profile that most forums have available to members. In many forums, at the bottom of every post you make will appear whatever is in your signature file. Then, every time you make a post or share a thought or idea, boom – your affiliate link is right there. Now, be careful as some forums do not allow affiliate links in their signature lines or profiles. The easiest thing to do in this case is to setup a website with some nice information or enticing looking splash page and have the affiliate link there. Now, when people read your thought provoking post, they see your link at the bottom, and then they check it out. There, you’ve got the traffic.

One of the hardest parts of web marketing is getting your site, affiliate link, or product in front of the eyes of the people you’re targeting. Forums have already found your target audience for you, now you just have to find the right forum.