· Issue 21 · January 2013
Methods Affiliates Use
to Drive Traffic by Shawn Collins
A
ffiliates were asked “How do you typically drive traffic to your website?” for the 2012 Affiliate
Shawn Collins
Summit AffStat Report.
Quite a variety of traffic sources for people, and the most
popular mirror my experiences. I’m not surprised at all that SEO and social networks, as well as blogging, are ruling the day. In my case, the traffic sources go to blogs, so the blogs themselves are not traffic sources for me. I like email and video a lot, too. In chapter seven of Extra Money Answer (feedfront.com/ traffic), my free online book for getting started as an affiliate, I go through my eleven key sources for driving traffic to affiliate sites.
These are in no particular order, and I didn’t include organic traffic from Google, Yahoo, etc., as I would encourage you to focus on creating quality content, and the search engines will find you. Over fourteen-hundred affiliates were surveyed on their methods, preferences, and strategies for the 2012 Affiliate Summit AffStat Report. More details on AffStat at AffStat.com.
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☞ Shawn is a Co-founder of Affiliate Summit and Co-Editor-in-Chief of FeedFront Magazine, and you can follow him @affiliatetip on Twitter.
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