So lets talk about some ways to market your affiliate program/ebook/website. The new buzz word in the internet marketing world is Social Marketing!! Its just as it sounds and a fairly simple idea. You make a website or have a program you want to sell and all you do is market it along all the social networks. IE: youtube, myspace, facebook etc etc. We used to call this spamming sites back when I first started doing it. Now a days its pretty much becoming the normal thing to do. Its also becoming the easiest free method for gaining traffic to your sites. In some cases easier than getting ranked on the search engines. My goal over the next few weeks is to dump off a few simple techniques to gain traffic from these social giants for your various projects.

I already talked about gaining traffic on StumbleUpon. The key with StumbleUpon, and the same goes for every other social network, is participating in the network. No one wants to Stumble, or Digg, or give a rating to people who arent involved. I am not saying, go out and be a spammer and annoy the hell out of people. The basic idea is make some friends, add value to their social networks and participate.

So lets talk about one that you probably havent used before, Scribd.com. If you havent been there before, this site is all about ebooks, articles and anything in the written form. There are some photos, but those arent getting the most attention. One method I have employed with Scribd is uploading quick articles about affiliate offers that are going on right now. The first thing you want to pay attention for with Scribd is originality. Do not go and copy other peoples stuff. This is just going to give you some bad reputation on their site and no traffic going your way. Scribd is all about original articles that generally help people in some shape or form. Again, its all about adding value to the site. You want to create enough buzz for people to want to comment on it, link to it, and build traffic to it. Now the beauty of Scribd is you can add HTML to your articles. This means you can embed your links into the articles and easily use their social network traffic to push some sales/traffic your way.

So now that we have some tactics under our belt for using the site. How do we build the traffic on the article? The very first method is to…you guessed it participate in the site. Go comment on other articles, join groups, make a group, and get some friends. Because no one knows anything about people who keep to themselves. One example for you, lets say you comment on one other persons article, not only will the author see it and probably check out what you have written but so will all the other people who see that persons article. Again I really want to emphasize the fact that you should be writing real responses that add value to other peoples articles and not writing things like, “HEY CHECK OUT MY COOL ARTICLE!”. All that does is waste your time, other peoples time, and ruins your reputation. Another method is Stumble your own articles. Again thats just an easy way to cross the traffic sources over from StumbleUpon and Scribd. There are plenty of other ways to drive the traffic to your Scribd articles. I could write pages and pages of them. Now I’m not guaranteeing any crazy amount of traffic. Always take your time, and test test test. Then test some more. Track your results, review them, and go back at it again. Enjoy the tips and Good Luck with your Social Marketing!