Hi, I’m Praneeth Kumar.

In this blog post, you will learn how do you promote and get traffic to affiliate website consistently through free and paid ways.

You will love this ultimate actionable guide as I am going to walk you through how You can actually get started and drive traffic to your website in easy steps with lots of examples.

So without further ado let’s get started,

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How do I promote & get traffic to affiliate websites?

There are several ways to promote your affiliate marketing website on the internet like you can promote it on social media platforms like Facebook and Instagram,

You can promote it on other platforms like forums and emails.

Let’s take a look at 8 platforms to start promoting your Amazon affiliate website or any affiliate website in general.

Here are 8 main ways to drive traffic to your Amazon affiliate website for free.

Let’s see how you can drive traffic to your website for free.

1. Pinterest.

Look, Pinterest is not just a social media platform but also a visual search engine just like Google.

Each image that you upload on the platform, it allows you to attach a URL to external website and drive traffic from this platform.

When you get to know this, Pinterest can be one of the best source of driving traffic to your website for Free.

One of the biggest reasons why people use pinterest is to read articles and for shopping reasons.

• Read why people use Pinterest so heavily?

Unlike other social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter, Pinterest is one of the best social media platforms to drive traffic to your website.

Take a look at a few statistics on how much traffic you can drive from Pinterest.

• The average life span of the Pinterest pin is 3.5 months whereas 5 hours on Facebook and 48 hours on LinkedIn for a normal post.
• An average a single pin can drive 6-page visits and 11 repins.

As a matter of fact, in some niches like health fitness, fashion, home decor, and cooking niches many popular blogs of that industry drive almost 70-80% of traffic to their websites from Pinterest, not Google.

If you have an Affiliate website in some popular Pinterest niches like home decor, health and fitness, fashion and beauty, travel, art, photography, and design.

Pinterest can be a goldmine for driving traffic for your blog.

Now that you know you can drive traffic to your website, let’s see how you can get started with Pinterest.

How can you get traffic from this?

Let’s see how you can drive traffic to your website from Pinterest in a few steps.

1. Learn how the Pinterest platform works.
2. Learn SEO on Pinterest and best practices.
3. Buy all the important tools for Pinterest like Canva and tailwind tribes.
4. Stick to a schedule and start posting pins on the platform.
5. Join relevant group boards and promote your Pins on your website.

You can use some graphic design tools like Canva to create pins for your Pinterest.

• Read Canva review.

Unlike Google the interesting thing about Pinterest is that it helps new accounts grow faster which constantly adds new pins to the platform, click here to learn why Pinterest is less competitive than it looks like.

As a complete beginner to the platform, you can drive a decent amount of traffic to your website within a couple of months of starting your efforts on Pinterest.

2. Forums.

Forums are other Interesting places to drive traffic to your website for free.

These are kind of social media websites and platforms where people discuss any topic, share their opinions and views and solve other problems related to an industry.

Some of the popular forums are like,

• Reddit.
• Warrior forum.
• Quora.

As a matter of fact these popular forums get millions of viewers every month on the internet.

These are just examples but depending upon your affiliate niche.

You can find lots of forums and drive traffic to your website for free.

Here’s a quick guide on how you can get started with driving traffic to your website from forums.

How can you get traffic from this?

First of all you need to decide which forum you are going to select and start driving traffic.

In order to find relevant forums about your topic for free, you can do a quick Google search like this.

For example if I have a Amazon affiliate website related to basketballs.

In order to find relevant forums on the Internet related to my topic I will do a quick search something like this in Google search.

Basketball “forums” 

and you can see a list of results, select any one and start using the forum.

All you have to do is to follow a few simple steps in each and every topic forum you visit and drive traffic to your website.

1. First of all please read and follow the guidelines of the forum which you are targeting.
2. Find any relevant questions that people are asking related to the topic on the forum which you can answer.
3. Answer the questions in the forums.
4. Be active in the forum by engaging with people through comments and replies.
5. Try to add as much value as possible to the forum before trying to get value from it and drive traffic back.

Now when you have added value to the audience and platform, you can now start answering questions and Link your website as an additional source of information for that question for the audience.

Please don’t spam the forum with your website links all over the place, I see a lot of people doing this which is a serious mistake.

Follow a rule like out of 10 questions that you answer on the forum, only link to not more than 3 questions.

This will make you look more genuine and helpful both for the audience of the forum and for the people who are maintaining the forum.

This way when you follow the guidelines and add value to the forum, people will start liking your work and appreciate your effort and visit your website because you are helpful.

This is how you can drive Quality traffic to your Amazon affiliate website from forums.

Now you can use that traffic into a sales funnel and start selling your Affiliate products.

3. SEO.

Hands down Search Engine Optimisation is the best way to drive traffic to your website long-term in a passive way.

If I were to select only one traffic source in this list for your Affiliate website it would be SEO.

The reason is simple,

You get high-quality consistent traffic to your website for FREE.

With this high-quality traffic, you can convert it into lots of sales for your affiliate website and make money.

For example assume you have an Amazon affiliate website about washing machines.

You targeted a keyword and written a blog post on your website for something like,

Best washing machines.

Assume that you have ranked your blog in the first position for this keyword in Google SERPs.

Guess what will happen,

All the people who search for the Keyword best washing machines will visit your website and convert as customers.

As a matter of fact,

• 61% of online users in the US have bought something after reading a blog
• SEO leads have a 14.6% close rate, while outbound leads (such as direct mail or print advertising) have a 1.7% close rate.
• Internet users in the US spend 3X more time on blogs than they do on email.
• 93% of online experiences begin with a search engine

Source: junto digital, optimonster.

As per the above statistics, it clearly shows that blogging and SEO are a great opportunity to drive traffic to your website.

To help you get traffic from SEO for your website, here’s a quick guide.

How can you get traffic from this?

Look this blog entrepreneurshipera is all about helping online entrepreneurs like you who are looking to earn money through blogging and digital marketing and other online businesses,

I have lots of resources for you guys to drive traffic to your website from search engines.

While We’re talking about how to drive traffic from search engines to your Amazon affiliate website.

You need to learn the following things,

1. Learn what is SEO, types and pros and cons of it.
2. Learn how to do Keyword research, I have written a detailed guide on how to do keyword research using Google search here.
3. Invest money in SEO tools like Ahrefs and SEMrush.
4. Setup important tools like Google Analytics and Google search console.
5. You need to write and publish content on your website, if you do not know how to write content you can click here.

Because you have an Amazon affiliate website and you want to increase your sales and commissions.

You should target some specific type of Keywords like these in order to maximize your affiliate sales on your website like these,

• Commercial intent Keywords for example best phone under xx.
• Comparison intent keywords for example iPhone 12 Vs Samsung galaxy S4.
• Informational intent keywords for example how to fix xx issue in iPhone 12.
• Review posts like iPhone 12 review.

I just have taken the example of iPhone to explain the concept easy, depending upon your own Amazon affiliate niche you can target those types of keywords in your blog.

You can click here to learn how to do keyword research using just Google (my secret Keyword research method which I use).

You can learn more about keyword search intent here.

After writing and publishing enough blog posts on your website like at least 25.

Now you can start building backlinks to your website from other websites.

Backlinks are external links from other websites to your website or web pages.

Backlinks are important for Google to rank your website in search engines and let your website get traffic from SEO.

You can click here to learn how to build backlinks for your website in 2021. 

Before starting to building backlinks to your website I highly recommend you to check out a few other important blogs on backlinks on my website like,

• Pros and cons of building backlinks.
• Why not to buy backlinks?
• Backlink quality versus quantity which is more important and why?

You need to be very safe and Secure while building backlinks to your website because backlinks are one of those practice in Google which if done rightly can grow your SEO efforts a lot and

if done in a wrong way, it can get a penalty from Google which causes a drop in traffic and visibility of your website on search engines like Google

By following these popular methods you can drive traffic to your website consistently and make money through your website from SEO.

4. Email marketing.

By using email marketing you can also drive traffic to your website.

This is one of the popular strategies that many professional bloggers and affiliate marketers use not just to drive traffic to the website but also to build valuable and deep connections and trust with their audience.

If you do not know why email marketing is so powerful and helpful you can click here.

To explain it in simple words, 

Whenever people visit your website from search engines or social media platforms, you collect email address of your audience on your website.

By collecting and gathering the email address of your target audience.

Whenever you publish a new blog post or want to increase sales of your affiliate products,

you can send email notifications to the audience to let them know that you have published a blog post or have a product which they can buy which would solve their problem.

This is how you drive traffic to your website from email marketing in general.

As a beginner you might not know how you can start email marketing, I will walkthrough a quick overview of how you can start email marketing.

How can you get traffic from this?

Look the most important part of email marketing is to collect email addresses of your target audience on your website.

One of the popular strategies you can use to collect email addresses of your audience is with the help of a lead magnets.

Lead magnets are just free offerings to your audience like,

You can create a subscription form on your website and whenever people visit your website let the form to pop up on your website using tools like Optimonster.

You can offer a free guide or resource or course about something related to your niche to your audience, 

You can create a free resource and ask your audience to get the resource by leaving their email addresses in the subscription form in the popup and access the resource in their email inbox.

Make sure whatever free resource You offer to your audience is helpful, adds additional value to your audience, and is not easily available in other blog posts.

By offering such a high-quality resource for FREE to your audience, your audience will be convinced and give their email addresses for the resource.

This way you get the email address and using popular email marketing software like Mailchimp and convertkit,

you can start email marketing campaigns and send emails to your audience and automate the process whenever you publish a new blog post or you have a new product that you want to sell to your audience.

5. Web Push notifications.

This is another popular and highly effective strategy to drive traffic to your website whenever you publish any content on your website.

It works like this, You sign-up, create and connect your website with popular web push notifications tools like, one signal and webpushr.

When ever people visit your website, a popup will appear like this,

Source: Mashable.

This asks people to choose if they allow cookies and notifications to receive from the website to get latest updates about the website.

More often than not, if your website content is good and it helps audience well,

people are going to subscribe to your website and allow to receive web push notifications from your website because they can get all the information about that niche well answered on your blog.

Now whenever you publish any new blog post on your website, you can either manually send notifications to your subscribers directly or automate the process.

When people click on the notification in their mobile or desktop feeds, they arrive to your website and this way you can get traffic to your website.

This can consistently drive traffic to your website because once people also know that their other questions related to the subject are also answered in this blog,

they will visit your blog to learn about it in future because they already know You have published the post which is useful for audience.

You can watch this video below to learn how to add push notifications to your website for free.

6. Guest post.

Guest posting on other people’s websites is another popular way to drive traffic to your website.

By guest posting on other people’s websites there are 3 main benefits,

1. You can get a quality backlink to your website.
2. You can build good relationship with the Webmaster and grow your network and connections.
3. You can drive high quality targeted traffic to your website from other websites.

Because of all this popular benefits of guest posting, many bloggers and website owners use this strategy.

To help you go better with guest post, here is a quick guide about how you can guest post on other platforms and get traffic.

How can you get traffic from this?

In order to find relevant guest post opportunities for your website, all you can do is to do a quick search in Google.

You can search something like this,

Your niche + guest post.

Your niche + write for us.

Your niche + submit a post.

For example, let’s assume you have a website about home decor.

You can search something like this in Google.

Home decor+write for us.

You can see a list of results.

Now all you have to do is to select any one of the result and see if the website is good, 

Is the Website, genuine, authoritative and has traffic from search engines.

To determine all these things, you can analyse the website performance in search engines using SEO tools like Ahrefs.

If you find websites with the following characteristics.

1. Website is ranking for some good number of keywords in Google.
2. Website is genuine and trustworthy.
3. Website has organic traffic.
4. Website is authoritative in the industry and relevant to your niche.
5. Website allows you to get a backlink from middle of the content.

You can select the website in the guest post list and submit the guest post form on the website.

If you get response from the website, you can then write and submit guest post.

This is how exactly you can find and select the relevant websites from where you can do guest post to drive traffic to your website.

Pro tip;

Apart from writing a blog posts on other websites like guest blogging, I would also recommend you to start guest blogging on content publishing platforms like Medium.

For those of you who don’t know what median is,

it is an online content publishing platform where over 150 million people visit the platform every month majority of them are bloggers, journalists, and Avid readers.

It is free to sign up create an account and start publishing blog posts on this platform.

All you need to do is to, copy whatever the existing content that you have published on your website to Medium and

add a Canonical tag in Medium blog post to your website as the main post so that it solves the duplicate content issue.

• Learn more about what is keyword cannibalization and duplicate content and why it is an issue?

You don’t have to create new unique content for publishing on Medium, with this strategy you can drive lots of unique and targeted visitors to your blog from the medium platform through the backlink to your website or blog post.

7. Paid ads.

When I am talking about paid ads, I refer to 2 things,

• Search engine marketing like Google Adword ads.
• Social media marketing like PPC and Facebook ads.

You can run paid advertisements on these platforms and drive traffic to your website or Affiliate blog posts.

You can decide which platform you want to run advertisement by asking yourself where your majority of audience are, are they in Google, or in Facebook and or in twitter. 

The beautiful thing about paid ads is it targets the right audience.

How to get traffic from this?

For example, if you run a Facebook ad campaign or Google ads for any of your blog post, 

Let’s say a blog post on “the best web hosting service for beginners”.

When you promote this blog post through Facebook ads or Google ads, let’s consider Facebook ads.

You have so many options like,

• Which country to target.
• Which audience to target.
• How the audience interacts with your ad campaign.

Anybody and everybody who Clicks on your ad either on social media like Facebook or search engines like Google.

The traffic is targeted and you will have to pay money for the platform where you are advertising for each click and visit the user from your ad to the platform.

But, if you compare the ROI would be great.

For example, if it costs around 100 dollars to run Facebook ads and

get 1000 people to your ad campaign and blog on the above post, the conversion rate of these ads can earn you a good amount of money.

Because we are promoting high and expensive products like web hosting services which have good commission rates.

If you take an average conversion rate of 5 percentage by running Facebook ad campaigns, and

if you earn 50$ as commission for promoting any web hosting service in general in your post.

You are actually getting 250 dollars ROI of spending $100 on a Facebook ad campaign.

It is all about measuring ROI.

This is how you promote and drive traffic to your website running paid ad campaigns on search engines and social media platforms.

Note:

I do not recommend you to start running social media marketing campaigns like paid Facebook ads or search engine ads like AdWords and PPC for your Amazon affiliate website because,

you will get a very little Commission by selling Affiliate products on Amazon and ROI for running paid ads on social media and search engine for your Amazon affiliate website blog posts is bad,

So if you have an Amazon affiliate website do not use paid advertisements to drive traffic to your Amazon affiliate website or Affiliate links.

8. YouTube.

It is impossible to not include YouTube and end this blog post.

YouTube is the second largest search engine after Google and the second most visited social media platform after Facebook.

Over 2.3 billion people use YouTube.

You might be wondering if people use YouTube to learn about products.

Take a look at some stats of YouTube.

• 70% of viewers bought from a brand after seeing it on YouTube.
• 68% of YouTube users watch YouTube help make a Purchase Decision.
• The top four content categories watched by YouTube users are comedy, music, entertainment/pop culture, and “how to.”

Source: social blade

As per the above statistics, People watch YouTube not just to get entertained but also to learn things and solve their problems.

So the question arises how you can drive traffic to your website from YouTube.

I will walk you through a quick overview of how you can do it.

How can you get traffic from this?

Many people don’t start YouTube because they think they need to invest a lot of money in camera equipment and video production.

But the reality and fact is totally different from that.

You can start recording and uploading videos from your smartphone camera.

All you need to do is to create and publish videos that solve people’s problems related to different products and services relevant to your niche.

Because “how to” kind of videos is a popular category on YouTube.

You can record different types of videos of you solving problems with products like,

How to solve this _ issue with your washing machine?

This is just one example of how you can make videos.

You can record other types of videos like, 

• Product reviews.
• Comparison of products videos.
• Unboxing of products videos.
• Helpful tutorials videos.
• Videos with discounts and giveaways.

These are just type of videos which you can create on YouTube.

Whenever you publish such videos on YouTube, always make sure to have a call to action in your video description

by either including an affiliate link to the product which you are explaining in the video so that people can purchase the product immediately or

include your blog post link and tell your YouTube audience that they can find more information about the product by reading your article from the video description.

Because YouTube is a property of Google.

If you are able to create videos that attract lots of visitors and gain lots of traffic on YouTube search.

You can also be able to rank your videos in Google search results and drive some exposure and traffic from there as well.

This is the most common way to drive traffic to your website from YouTube.

Why no social media?

You might be wondering that I have not listed any social media platform like Facebook and Instagram to drive traffic to your Amazon or any affiliate website.

Many social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter’s organic reach are almost dead.

You cannot consistently drive traffic to your website for free on these social media platforms by posting your website links.

Popular social media platforms like Facebook are constantly changing and improving their algorithms on what types of content it should show in users’ feeds.

Facebook said that it doesn’t want to promote any posts which are not engaging with users like blog posts and which drive traffic to other websites and break the chance for people to connect with each other.

Although social media platforms can get you a bump in traffic to your website for free,

considering social media to drive traffic to your website consistently is not a reliable option.

But we are looking for sources that can get you consistent traffic to your website,

social media is definitely not one of them so I didn’t include that.

These are all the popular ways to drive traffic to your Amazon and another affiliate website for free consistently on a regular basis.

With that said let’s conclude the blog post.

Ending remarks.

There you go these are all the things you need to know about how you can promote and drive traffic to your Amazon affiliate or any Affiliate website in general for free but consistently.

Do comment down which traffic strategy you are going to use to get traffic in this list.

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Read my other blogs,

• How to do affiliate marketing without a website?
• Why are blogs the best for Affiliate marketing?
• Is Amazon associate worth it?

I will catch you next time till then,

Keep learning and keep growing.