Once you have developed a good reputation, you will want to begin advertising through
your forum signature. Ideally, you will want to include some eye-catching assortment of
colors, symbols, and words in your signature.
This will draw people's attention. You will then want to link them to something other than
an affiliate page – whether it be a page you created to sell an affiliate product or an auto
responder course used to capture email addresses.
Remember to repeat this process in all applicable forums. Look for high traffic forums
that allow commercial link posting in signature files – and that also happen to fit with your
specific audience-targeting and marketing angle goals.
Next, create a reputation. Last, add your signature in some attractive way that draws
visitors' attention, but is also likely to convert them into interested clickers. You will find
that this form of advertising pays off considerably – and does so faster than other
methods available.
Using Traffic Exchanges to Promote Affiliate
Programs
If you're unfamiliar with exchanges, you will want to read this over carefully and consider
printing it out:
One of the best ways in which you can promote affiliate programs is through various
traffic exchanges. Almost all well-defined, robust niches on the Internet have some form
of traffic exchange. For instance, casinos, gaming sites, niche forums, and Internet
marketing sites all have some form of traffic exchange system. IM, in particular, has
dozens of exchanges.
A traffic exchange can serve multiple functions; however, in most cases, it does two
important things:
1) It allows you to surf sites, gain credits, and then cash in those credits; and
2) It allows you to put banners or dynamically-generated link boxes on your
site that will generate credits, which you can then cash in. Cashing in credits,
with most exchanges, results in a certain amount of traffic being drive to your site
via the exchange site or via banners on other sites that are members of the
exchange.
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