Tribe Affiliates Cheat Sheet

PART 1:

Picking your niche based on ROI and other crucial factors

Return on investment: how to get the most return for every dollar you spend on your business
Return on effort: get as much money out while putting as little time and effort in

Put a Heavy focus on the commercial value of your niche

Step 1: Be clear on your personal interests (what are you passionate about – because affiliate marketing is a long-term game)
Step 2: Use GKPT (Google Keyword Planner Tool) to find commercial value of keywords related to your niches (pick middle of the road)

Step 3: Use GKPT to find search volume (demand level – pick something in the middle)
Step 4: Use Google search to find competition level
Step 5: Check keywords on social media platforms to determine coverage
Step 6: Check Google Trends to make sure your niche is stable or growing in demand

PART 2:

Picking the right affiliate program to maximize conversions

Pay Per Click: Ad Sense / Native Ads
Pay Per Sale: Click Bank / JV Zoo / Peer Fly / Share A Sale / CJ
Pay Per Action (email / zip code): Max Bounty / Peer Fly
Merchandise affiliate program: Amazon

Key Selection steps

Is the offer directly or closely related to your niche?
Is the offer already heavily promoted?
How easy is the conversion point of the OFFER (click > email or form > sale)?
How flexible is the program in terms of advertising? (own materials or you’re free to come up with your own materials)
Do they offer flexible landing pages? (i.e. email page / social media page / freebie giveaway / etc.) ?
Do they allow tracking URL’s?
Do they allow redirect domains?
How much does the program pay?
How many offers does the program have?

Can the program be promoted using a wide range of conversion systems?

Ads
Content links
Mailing list ads
Co-registration

PART 3:

Available Conversion Systems

Direct promotion of link (i.e. drive traffic to link directly via Traffic Buys)
Content-based ad traffic (i.e. drive traffic to your content site and visitors click ads or text links)
Email-based traffic (i.e. build up mailing list then send traffic via confirmation or via update links)
Review traffic (i.e. review the offer and attract direct traffic)
Video traffic (i.e. create video / upload to You Tube / get traffic from link in description section)
Search Platform with original content (airline sites / hotel booking sites)
Niche Product Review Platform (Trip Advisor)

PART 4:

Traffic Generation Strategies

Category 1: Direct traffic for your link FB Ad buys:

Come up with basic profiles and optimize later / this is trial and error so start with many small buys to establish winning pattern quickly
Use source-targeted / page targeted tracking for your REDIRECT domain
Hide ultimate source from affiliate program or sponsor AdWords Placements
Use redirect domain or ‘value-added intermediate’ page
Use source-targeted / page targeted tracking for your REDIRECT domain
Hide ultimate source from affiliate program or sponsor Direct Blogger / Authority site outreach
Same niche / ask for test buy / negotiate best price
Use source-targeted / page targeted tracking for your REDIRECT domain
Hide ultimate source from affiliate program or sponsor Influencer outreach
Twitter / Instagram / YouTube channels / FB pages / FB group admin
Same niche / ask for test buy / negotiate best price
Use source-targeted / page targeted tracking for your REDIRECT domain
Hide ultimate source from affiliate program or sponsor
Blogger / Authority site outreach for mailing list building
Pay for placement of your content to promote your mailing link in the content
Same niche / ask for test buy / negotiate best price

Category 2: SEO How to get backlinks for SEO:

Use reverse engineered ‘best’ content
Guest posts
Scholarship
Press release
SEO outreach
Find dead links quality sites in your niche link to and ask them to link to you instead

Category 3: Social Media

YouTube review videos:

Target the right keywords
Short videos / Clickbait titles + image / LSI keywords in title + description /mention keyword in video itself / promote video to get views up = social proof
Facebook video content
URL in description section allows for hashtags
Share on page / personal wall / groups

Facebook site link content:

Facebook allows for custom description
FB draws up preview automatically
Graphic must attract attention
Similar to Google Plus

Twitter Tweets:

Post your link with description in tweets
Keep republishing at strategic times
Pair with hashtags

Instagram:

Share photos related to your niche
Users must click on your profile to see affiliate link
Target niche-specific hashtags

Pinterest:

Share photos related to your niche
Users click to go to your affiliate site

Category 4: Forums

Reddit:

Must link to content with VALUE
Very allergic to spam
Build credibility first

4Chan:

Must link to content with VALUE
Very allergic to spam
Build credibility first

Niche-specific forum:

Must link to content with VALUE
Can be very allergic to spam
Build credibility first

Category 5: Question and Answer platforms

Yahoo Answers:

Get Level 3 account to post answers with links
Very targeted
Gets banned if abused

Quora:

Answer targeted questions
Can post link directly even if newbie
Quick ban if abusive

Category 6: 3^rd party blog traffic

Guest posts:

Niche targeted
Approved by host site
Credible / ‘official’ traffic
Traffic based on quality of content / traffic volume of host site
Comments
Can post link in name or in body of comment (must be high quality)
Quick ban if abusive

PART 5:

Traffic Optimization Strategies

Optimization basics:

Discover what works
Do more of it
Come up with variations
Pick variation that improves results
Keep improving it
Use element by element approach NOT total change

Facebook Ads

Do multiple test buys
Pick winning text and image combo
Element by element optimization (don’t optimize in clusters / optimize one element at a time)
Decide between building email list or converting directly

Google AdWords

PPC keyword buys – must be high intent
Drive to Landing page
Conduct multiple tests
Increase your quality score through constant testing

Content-based ad traffic (ie., drive traffic to your content site and visitors click ads or text links)

Clickbait (Scam / Fraud alert posts)
Clickbait for social media promoted blog posts
News jacking

Email list marketing

Trial and error testing for freebie
Trial and error testing for squeeze page
Trial and error testing for headlines
Trial and error testing for email body
Trial and error testing for call to action

Review content optimization

Trial and error testing for title
Trial and error testing for format
Trial and error testing for page layout

Video content optimization

Trial and error testing for keyword targets
Trial and error testing for title / description
Trial and error testing for how affiliate is being promoted (squeeze page or direct link)

PART 6:

The key for affiliate marketing success in today and beyond Diversify Traffic and Conversion Systems Optimize, Optimize, Optimize. Scale Up.

Many little streams add up to a big river