Short-term affiliate strategies?

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Hi. I started with affiliate marketing 10 days ago. So far I've created 3 niche blogs and I've started to build links to them. Because SEO is rather long-term strategy, I'd like to diversify a little and try some short-term strategies. Do such exist? If they do, can you point out a few? Maybe Web 2.0 stuff?

BTW, by short-term, I mean to get at least some results within 1-2 months. My budget isn't big ($500), that's why I prefer not to dive into the paid stuff (PPC, PPV, Solo ads, Media buys etc.).

Thanks.
 


dzianis posted some fine advice here

With $500 I'd look into getting GSA, Captcha Breaker, a VPS, proxies and get a lot of patience to learn and test, test, test. You'll get more stuff on the GSA forum (what type of structures, which platforms are better, etc...) but be prepared to fail and get bitchslapped by Google hard before you find something that works. Good luck.
 
One thing to go for is the long long long tail end of your niche.

But in general.... you want short term, but not paid?

Does not compute.

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I was on a vacation for a week and I haven't tested your advice.
I just had a little time to setup an Adwords campaign before I left. Today, when I came back, I saw the results: I had made my first sale. I'll try to rinse and repeat this. Meanwhile I'll utilize your advice and I'll continue working on SEO.

Thank you all.
 
in the beginning. You can function with out a web site although it is better, when you have your own for tracking purposes.

The best advertising is free advertising. I suggest article marketing and forum marketing. It's a big ocean as one person has already replied. You'll need to research and make tests. Don't spend a lot of money because thats not needed. You basically advertse your link one way or another.
 
Rent a profitable ad space on a reputable blog or news site with high traffic in your niche. I pay $250 per month to deliver ~5-7k targeted visitors per month to one of my blogs. Make sure your ad converts well. Buying ad spots works great for me. Research and learn it, you might profit from it too, you have enough money to get results if your blogs convert, if your affiliate products sell well, if your ads are effective, etc.
 
Want short-term affiliate monies? Do this:

1). Find affiliates products that offer coupon/promo codes, discounts, or savings.

2). Use Google keyword tool to figure out the exact match volume of
[product name] coupon
[product name] coupon codes
[product name] coupon deals
[product name] coupon code
[product name] promo code
[product name] savings
etc...

3). After you've found some exact match keywords with 200+ monthly searches, create an account with Animoto. Get a paid account if possible.

4). Buy at least 5 aged YouTube accounts if possible. If not, create multiple accounts using proxies.

5). Using Animoto, create 30-60 second commercials advertising coupon discounts/savings for your desired product. Make it look professional, use decent copy, etc.. Create at least 3-5 videos.

6). Upload each commercial onto YouTube. Make sure every video has its own YouTube account. Make the title the keyword you're targeting. For instance, if you found an exact match keyword that was "[product name] discounts", make the title "Best [Product Name] Discounts." For the other videos, switch the title up a little bit. So if you had 5 different videos all targeting the same keyword, their titles would look something like,
"Best [Product Name] Discounts"
"[Product Name] Discounts 2013"
"Top [Product Name] Discounts this year!"
"Exclusive [Product Name] Discounts"
etc...

7). After all 5 videos are uploaded onto 5 separate (hopefully aged) youtube accounts, make sure the video descriptions are unique and at least 300 words.

8). Add watermarks or text boxes in your videos that tell viewers to access the discounts by clicking a link in the description. Use separate bit.ly links in each video descriptions that point to the affiliate offer.

9). For maximum effect, create a professional looking landing page displaying offers. Point your links at landing page.

10). Wait at least a week before throwing backlinks at the videos. For maximum effect, use Fiver gigs to build link-wheels at videos, embeds, etc... It's been a while since I ranked YouTube videos, so you should do your own research before creating backlinks to the videos.

If you're smart about this, use proxies, update your youtube SEO knowledge, and use proper keyword research, this method gets you stupid easy affiliate money. You can rank multiple videos for the same keyword on page 1 of the SERPS within a month or two.

ALSO, make sure you upload your videos a few days apart from each other.

Anyway, hope this gives you ideas. YouTube is stupid easy to exploit.

P.S. If you really want to make good money on the internet, don't get too focused on "GET-RICH-QUICK" methods. They never last. Instead, you should focus on learning REAL marketing and creating authority sites. I'd be making way more money had I lost the whole "GET-RICH-QUICK" mentality a year or two ago.. Just a few thoughts...
 
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With that budget of $500 I will take the risk of PPC strategy. For PPC strategy, we can start with at least $400 to invest in Adwords and Bing. Just have to make sure that you build the right campaign so you won't be wasting money.
 
Want short-term affiliate monies? Do this:

1). Find affiliates products that offer coupon/promo codes, discounts, or savings.

2). Use Google keyword tool to figure out the exact match volume of
[product name] coupon
[product name] coupon codes
[product name] coupon deals
[product name] coupon code
[product name] promo code
[product name] savings
etc...

3). After you've found some exact match keywords with 200+ monthly searches, create an account with Animoto. Get a paid account if possible.

4). Buy at least 5 aged YouTube accounts if possible. If not, create multiple accounts using proxies.

5). Using Animoto, create 30-60 second commercials advertising coupon discounts/savings for your desired product. Make it look professional, use decent copy, etc.. Create at least 3-5 videos.

6). Upload each commercial onto YouTube. Make sure every video has its own YouTube account. Make the title the keyword you're targeting. For instance, if you found an exact match keyword that was "[product name] discounts", make the title "Best [Product Name] Discounts." For the other videos, switch the title up a little bit. So if you had 5 different videos all targeting the same keyword, their titles would look something like,
"Best [Product Name] Discounts"
"[Product Name] Discounts 2013"
"Top [Product Name] Discounts this year!"
"Exclusive [Product Name] Discounts"
etc...

7). After all 5 videos are uploaded onto 5 separate (hopefully aged) youtube accounts, make sure the video descriptions are unique and at least 300 words.

8). Add watermarks or text boxes in your videos that tell viewers to access the discounts by clicking a link in the description. Use separate bit.ly links in each video descriptions that point to the affiliate offer.

9). For maximum effect, create a professional looking landing page displaying offers. Point your links at landing page.

10). Wait at least a week before throwing backlinks at the videos. For maximum effect, use Fiver gigs to build link-wheels at videos, embeds, etc... It's been a while since I ranked YouTube videos, so you should do your own research before creating backlinks to the videos.

If you're smart about this, use proxies, update your youtube SEO knowledge, and use proper keyword research, this method gets you stupid easy affiliate money. You can rank multiple videos for the same keyword on page 1 of the SERPS within a month or two.

ALSO, make sure you upload your videos a few days apart from each other.

Anyway, hope this gives you ideas. YouTube is stupid easy to exploit.

P.S. If you really want to make good money on the internet, don't get too focused on "GET-RICH-QUICK" methods. They never last. Instead, you should focus on learning REAL marketing and creating authority sites. I'd be making way more money had I lost the whole "GET-RICH-QUICK" mentality a year or two ago.. Just a few thoughts...

That was a loong answer to a somewhat rhetorical question, I thought. Interesting read, though.

I will just add a small point to what you said - rinse and repeat.
 
^That was a really short and useless comment on a somewhat long post that directly answers the OPs question (which was not rhetorical in the slightest).
 
I was on a vacation for a week and I haven't tested your advice.
I just had a little time to setup an Adwords campaign before I left. Today, when I came back, I saw the results: I had made my first sale. I'll try to rinse and repeat this. Meanwhile I'll utilize your advice and I'll continue working on SEO.

Thank you all.

I would never start out with Adwords, and what are you driving traffic too? Just a site? Landing page? What?

To be honest PPC can be a pretty hard thing, and it can even be worst when you don't know what your doing. I would try Facebook ads, or POF first, and then move yourself up.
 
I would never start out with Adwords, and what are you driving traffic too? Just a site? Landing page? What?

To be honest PPC can be a pretty hard thing, and it can even be worst when you don't know what your doing. I would try Facebook ads, or POF first, and then move yourself up.

Google suspended my Adwords account. I had a $75 coupon that was wasted because of that. I'm done with Adwords for now. I may try your suggestions, but that will probably happen after 2-3 weeks. Now I'm trying (almost) free stuff and I have some results...
 
You can try to bring traffic from different sources. For example, social networks like Facebook, Twitter , Youtube. It depends what is your niche.
 
Google suspended my Adwords account. I had a $75 coupon that was wasted because of that. I'm done with Adwords for now. I may try your suggestions, but that will probably happen after 2-3 weeks. Now I'm trying (almost) free stuff and I have some results...

FYI, you can find $100 adwords vouchers for as little as $5 on fiverr