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How to Get More Eyeballs on Your Affiliate Links

Posted By Guest Blogger 26th of September 2011 Blogging for Dollars, Writing Content 0 Comments

This guest post is by Peter Lawlor of B2Web.

The more articles I publish on my niche websites, the more knowledgeable I become about keywords, and more importantly, the search habits of my target audience.

During the early days of my affiliate marketing business, I would write a post promoting a particular product or service as an affiliate and move on. That was a big mistake, but one that is easily solved.

My “Aha” moment as an affiliate marketer

As I dug deeper into my niches, I realized that people use different search phrases and terms when looking for the same solution.

Eyeballs

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This was a major eye-opener to me and presented a profitable “aha” moment. I discovered in one instant how to leverage my existing content and get far more eyeballs on my affiliate links. The result was a more revenue from my blogs.

Affiliate marketing is a numbers game. The more people who see your affiliate links, the more clicks you’ll garner and the more commissions you’ll earn. Granted, your pre-selling must be up to snuff as well.

One simple technique to increase the number of eyeballs on your affiliate links is to write a series of posts segmenting your target audience.

Segmenting your target audience

No matter how narrow or broad your niche, your audience can be further broken down into groups.

It’s a no-brainer that exhausting the keywords in your niche is a good idea. However, there may be more keywords when you segment your audience. If you get creative, you’ll be able to expand the profitable keywords you can target with audience segmenting.

How do you segment your target audience?

You can segment your target audience by:

  1. solution sought
  2. price
  3. best of…

1. Solution sought

Segmenting by solution sought means thinking about the different uses or purposes the product you promote can meet.

For example, if you promote washing machines, people look for different types of washing machine such as “washing machines for apartments” or “small washing machines” or “stackable washing machines.”

Voila, you have three new ways to promote a washing machine or a product line of washing machines. In fact, you can create posts that feature the “top 5 washing machines for apartments”, “top 5 small washing machines”, and “top 5 stackable washing machines.”

2. Price

Segmenting by price is particularly effective if you promote big ticket physical products. Many consumers search for big ticket items by price. Returning to the washing machine example, there are sufficient monthly searches to warrant a “washing machines under $500” post. In the post you feature washing machines under $500.

3. Best of …

Many consumers begin a search with the word “best.” So why not create “best” of articles with your affiliate promotions? The post could feature a single product or several products you deem to be the best.

Combine segmenting techniques

You can often combine the “best of” segmenting technique with “price” and “solution sought” techniques. For example, you could create a web page targeting “best stackable washing machines.” This keyword is actually a combination of two decently searched keywords being “best stackable washing machines” and “stackable washing machines.”

Taking it further…

The aim of any blogger should be first and foremost to provide valuable information for readers. One way to do this is to link to other resources, including other posts on your site.

In your segmented posts, you can link to individual reviews or posts profiling a particular product.

For example, if you have a post featuring “washing machines for apartments” and list ten washing machines, why not link from each featured washing machine to a dedicated profile or review?

This way you:

  • enhance the readers’ visit
  • keep them on your site longer
  • build credibility with your knowledge of washing machines
  • improve the odds visitors will click your affiliate links.

The result: you leverage your affiliate promotions

If you are an affiliate marketer, you know it takes time to become familiar with a product or product line and publish quality content. When you segment your audience with multiple posts as set out above, you leverage your existing content resulting in more eyeballs on your affiliate links.

Do you segment your audience with multiple posts? Share your thoughts in the comments.

Peter Lawlor is a contributor to B2Web which is a site all about using WordPress which includes video tutorials, in-depth video-based reviews and theme recommendations such as the Genesis Theme by StudioPress.

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Comments
  1. Thanks a lot Darren. Your innovative ideas has improved my website more than my expectation. Keep posting.

  2. Peter,

    Some great tips here. Every affiliate marketer (or ever blogger who occasionally uses affiliate marketing techniques) should understand and utilize segmentation. By using this you are able to really focus and sell to an active market rather than burning out people who may not care.

    -Steve

    • Hi Steve,

      You make a great point about “blogger who occasionally uses affiliate marketing techniques” because in my view affiliate marketing is one of the best ways to monetize any blog even if it’s one product being promoted. Surely every blogger has one product or service they love and wish to share.

      That said, I understand the reluctance of some bloggers about turning a blog into a commercial enterprise (I don’t have that reluctance, but I can appreciate it). If a blogger is reluctant to commercialize a blog, then clearly this post won’t interest them.

  3. Thanks for sharing. Good tips as I work to build my audience and advertising.

  4. Aha! Thanks for sharing your three killer key techniques. (I love your headline by the way)

  5. The idea of making as many titles from a single product is very much interesting and a sure way to target as much audience with very little hard work. In this manner the idea can be reused many times with different content but brainstorming for new ideas would not be as much required. A great tip thanx for sharing.

  6. For best affiliate marketing, use smart links plugin to automatically insert affiliate links to the main keywords.

  7. Nice article Peter. In affiliate marketing, our efforts do not just stop from putting the affiliate links and driving traffic to these. An analysis of the kind of traffic that click on your affiliate links could help to in boosting or increasing the number of people that buys the product that you are advertising. More “eyeballs” mean more commissions..

  8. I am running a blog in English and other in Hindi. For English blog solution was there – adsense, For blog I choose affiliate program as adsense in not supported for Hindi. For first 5 months my affiliate income was just 3$. I read your most and have done some research. Hope my affiliate earning will increase significantly on Hindi blog. BTW, I am getting 500+ page views/day on Hindi blog.

  9. It took me ages to really break down how people choose to search for things, which is odd as we obviously do it everyday. A great post that really highlights what i need to remember.

  10. Smart concept Peter, and just glancing at my post ideas journal, I think I will be able to turn about 20 posts into 50+ by segmenting, thanks for sharing this insightful technique.

  11. Thanks for sharing!! I think I understand it now. There are many good tips where I can work whith. I starting to enjoy this!!! Thanks again

  12. Howdy this is kind of of off topic but I was wanting to know if blogs use WYSIWYG editors or if you have to manually code with HTML. I’m starting a blog soon but have no coding know-how so I wanted to get advice from someone with experience. Any help would be enormously appreciated!

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