Affiliate Instant Cash Flow | How to Use Social Media Sites for Your Affiliate Marketing Campaigns

If you’re anything like me, then you probably enjoy a good laugh, and some time to relax or be with friends. In many ways, the internet has become an outlet for many people to do just that, and thanks to the ever-expanding dynamics of social media sites, you can use it to your advantage as an for your affiliate marketing campaigns as well.

What Is Social Web 2.0?

The phrase is used to describe the new interactive internet, and it allows people to get more involved with the websites they visit, rather than simply reading content – because that’s all that was available. These days you can jump online to do just about anything, from watching videos and playing games, to joining communities, voting on content, and posting comments, and much more.

For the modern internet marketer, these fantastic innovations are a great tool. All these web 2.0 sites are all begging people to get involved and for affiliate marketers that means that getting links back to your website or promotion is a thing of the past!

Do you remember the day when you couldn’t interact with the websites you used? Those days are over, and now you don’t have to worry about contacting other website owners, or sending out hundreds of emails to arrange reciprocal backlinks or anything like that… It’s much easier now to interact with others than ever before…

The best part is that search engines absolutely love these websites, and there are dozens if not hundreds of different resources to put your link on larger, more popular websites. Fortunately for you, even as an affiliate, you can get plenty of traffic very rapidly when you begin using these methods.

Need some proof? Take a look at the U.S. Alexa rankings today and you’ll see that 4 of the top 10 most visited websites are social media websites, such as Facebook, Youtube, Blogger & Twitter They are all receiving huge amounts of traffic.

What Does That Mean For You And Other Affiliates?

Well, instead of fighting your way to get listed in the Google search results, you can use web 2.0 sites to get the same results, and all you have to do is submit some content. The most important part are the keywords you use so visitors can find your content. Focus on the right keywords and you can start getting traffic immediately. These web 2.0 sites have revolutionized the way affiliates can drive traffic and improve their search engine rankings, both much easier and much faster.

Keyword research is an entire process in itself, and if you’re promoting products as an affiliate it’s not hard to find the product specific search terms that people are looking for. Head over to the new and improved “Google AdWords External Keyword Tool” and begin looking for keywords, starting with the name of the product itself, and then look for keywords that include words like “review” or “scam.” Of course, there are many other uses of the Keyword Tool, but in this post I’m dedicated to giving you…

4 Web 2.0 Marketing Strategies You Can Use to Make Money TODAY!

There are so many different social networking sites, like MySpace, Facebook and Twitter, it can be hard to figure out which ones will generate the most sales and commissions to your affiliate account. In this blog I want to cover 4 completely different methods that you can use today to start making some extra money in these hard times.

1. Blogs are a great way to get targeted traffic to your affiliate campaign without hassling around with all the technicalities of building your own website. What’s even better is that blogs are highly search engine optimized, which means, unless you’re a php code-writing geek, a blog will do a much better job at getting recognized by the search engines, ranking higher than your webpage as a result.

If you don’t already have a blog, you should set one up right away because Google and other search engines love blogs! They’re often filled with highly-relevant, frequently-updated content that users are looking for, so Google users will be happy with the search results and continue using their services – it’s as a win-win situation for everyone.

I recommend using Google’s free blogging program called Blogger. You can setup as many blogs as you want using the same account, and if you’re already a Google user, it’s that much easier to get started. I’m not going to walk you through all the steps of setting up a blog, you can find dozens of videos how to do that. So let’s keep going…

2. Squidoo is another service, kind of like a blog, that allows you to create a free webpage that’s quick and easy to build, and doesn’t require any troublesome software or your own domain name or hosting account. Squidoo calls their webpages “lenses” but they’re the same thing. What’s great about Squidoo is that they don’t mind if you use their pages to promote, so you’re not going to get banned for creating an advertisement for your blog or other affiliate promotions using their service.

You can get started quickly by using their 5 step wizard, so I’m not going explain each step of the process. Instead, I’ll give you some times that will make your lens stand out from the competition and improve your search engine ranking at the same time. It starts with the right keywords, which I briefly mentioned earlier. Include your keywords in the headline and in the body of your lens. Provide valuable content, but make sure that it’s incomplete, leaving readers wanting more.

Now that you’ve provided the bait, you can lead your visitors over to your blog, which leads directly to your affiliate campaign. I recommend linking to your blog, rather than your own site or directly to the campaign, because the more links you have coming into your blog, the higher search engine ranking it will get, which means more traffic, more sales, and more commissions for you.

3. Social Bookmarking is a great way to get generate high-quality one-way incoming links to your website and build interest in the product you’re promoting at the same time. Social bookmarking sites like Digg, Delicious and StumbleUpon are extremely popular ways to save and share the pages that you’re interested in with others. They’re free to use and anyone can setup a bookmark in a matter of minutes.

Bookmarking your content is a great way to get recognized by the search engines because it generates one-way incoming links from popular bookmarking sites, which convinces Google and other search engines that your content is valuable and should get placed higher in the search results. That means you can get more organic search engine traffic for free than you could get paying hundreds of thousands of dollars to Google AdWords for the same results.

Make a list of all the URLs you create (or that get created for you) because the next thing you can do to make more affiliate sales is:

4. Ping Your Content because it’s the best way to let the search engines know that you’ve just added fresh new content online, and this tells them to go look at it and index it in their search results right away. Once again pinging your content is free to do, and it takes a matter of seconds. You can use PingOMatic to ping all the pages you’ve created including all your blog posts, your squidoo lens and social bookmarks, that way the search engines will be sure to find your content quickly. If nobody knows you’ve added new content online, then you’re not going to get visits or sales. Pinging your content is like putting up a flag that tells everyone to look at you, to make sure that your content is given a chance to be seen by the millions of internet users that surf the net each day.