Using Social Media As An Effective Affiliate Marketing Tool

Hi guys,  welcome to the last month of an eventful year 2020!

This Month, let’s refresh our memory on using Social Media as an effective tool for Affiliate Marketing.

Social Media is one of the simplest and quickest ways to ensure making money through affiliate marketing worth your while. If done right, social media makes your work easier by far and in most cases is even essential for other components of affiliate marketing.

Here are 4 ways to use social media as an effective affiliate marketing tool:

1. CREATE QUALITY CONTENT

When using social media for affiliate marketing, a great way to start is by focusing on producing quality content. Asides the fact that you’re promoting your products/services, you also need to produce great content that your audience will enjoy. you should always stop and focus on your content first. When creating content, ask yourself: “Will my content grab my audience’s attention? Is it of value to my audience? Will this kind of content bring my audience back to my page?”

With the right creative and interesting posts, you can capture your social media platform audiences and command their attention such that they’ll be forced to pay attention to what you have to say or what you have to sell. You can even get results by promoting your affiliate link at the end of your content.

2. KEEP UP WITH YOUR AUDIENCE

If you manage to build a stable audience on social media, a good practice to keep them is to regularly give feedback and maybe even communicate with each other. That way, you can build a community! Create Facebook groups, hang out on forums for example and engage them in conversations and discussions. You also need to respond to comments and mentions and let your audience feel some connection with you. You can even retweet or share someone else’s post that you feel can be useful to other members of the community you’re building. All of these will increase the likeliness that they will click your link or register with you as an affiliate if they feel a special bond with you.

3. USE TIDY AND CLICK-FRIENDLY LINKS

It is important that you create a redirect affiliate link that directs your customers to a sign-up page. It is also equally important that your link is tidy and click-friendly. If your link looks clumsy and sketchy. A clean and simple link is a link that will be more enticing to click. A raw affiliate URL is easy to spot and since it looks sketchy many people simply won’t click it. That’s why one of the most powerful affiliate marketing tips is to turn raw affiliate links into click friendly redirect links. For example: http://ad9719fta-bp9w9dmisqhl1v05.nairabet.affiliatekgja.com/ does not look like a friendly link people may be worried about the lading page, hence they won’t click it. A great way to solve this problem is to use link shortener and customizers like bitly, Tiny URL, Google URL shortener and others to tidy up your affiliate link before sharing them.

4. USE ATTRACTIVE PHOTOS

It’s a proven fact that images attract clicks. Photos say a thousand words and can draw attention quickly if used rightly. related photos along with your social media for affiliate marketing posts will attract the reader and if the content is right, they will pay attention to what you have to say.