Affiliate Marketing Without A Website

Once you have selected a product or service you want to promote, you will be given your unique tracking URL which will identify when a visitor you attracted buys a product, thereby giving you a commission for that sale. Since you cant simply paste this code into a website as you don't have one, you will need to find alternative places to place the code. Luckily there are quite a few places you can do this from classified ads sites to forums as well as social networks.

Online forums can be found in every corner of the internet spanning virtually every topic you can think of. Forums are one of the most effective places to promote your products as they allow you to make posts. You can either place your referral code in the posts that you make or better yet put them in your forum signature. Best of all the forums you post your products on should be related to your product to maximize potential sales. For example If I was selling pianos I would only go on music forums and post my link there as I know that the individuals on that forum will already be interested in music and therefore more inclined to purchase a piano. The ultimate jackpot would be finding a music forum devoted to pianos. In effect what you are doing is looking for very targeted traffic to expose your product to as this group of people are far more likely to buy the product then the average person.

Now finding a suitable forum is quite a simple process. Simply search the terms related to your product and the word "forum" after it to find related forums to what you are selling. In my piano example I would search the following on Google "piano forum" or piano music forum" and perhaps even "musical instruments forum". Once you find a suitable forum the next step is to sign up by creating a user name and password. If the forum allows signatures (see the forum control panel) you can paste your link in there pointing people to your product. This way, every time you make a post on that forum your link will be displayed in that post automatically. The alternative to this is to manually include your code in any posts that you make promoting your product. Be careful as many forums frown upon posts created for the sole purpose of selling a product so you will have to come up with ways to sneak your link into posts. The final step is to make as many posts as possible on as many forums that you can find to increase the exposure of your link in order to increase your sales.

An alternative method is to use classified ad sites to promote products. There are many free ones such as Gumtree, Adtrader and Vivastreet, a simple search on Google will reveal many more. The trick to promoting affiliate products through classified ads is to make sure your ads doesn't look like spam. You will have to be extra creative in achieving this and try to create a compelling sales pitch to be successful in this arena. The methodology is quite self explanatory: write a classified ad promoting your product including your unique tracking URL. Then simply choose the most appropriate section of the ads site to publish it in. This method will require trial and error as your success will vary depending on the product you choose. Some products sell well in a particular way while others will never sell using that same sales pitch. Simply try as many different ways of selling you product as possible to find which works best for you.

In the end, affiliate marketing without a website is all about maximizing the exposure of your affiliate product to as many potential customers as possible. There are other places you can sneak your affiliate link into so keep your eyes open and never underestimate the potential of any site in attracting potential customers.