Free Traffic Method: The “Affiliate Syndicator”

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Interested in getting a lot of free traffic? Steven Lee Jones, who is a very successful marketer, knows how to get a lot of traffic to his sites. No, you don’t really need JVs with big lists, and you don’t need to pay for this traffic.

What are we talking about? We’re talking about Steven Lee Jones’ submission software, Traffic Anarchy. It submits to article directories, to RSS directories, to social bookmarking sites, and to press release sites. See our Traffic Anarchy review for more information. Want a quick easy way to clicks on your hops (or any other affiliate link), eyeballs on the sales letter of affiliate products your promoting, and some cool commissions in your pocket?

This is a free traffic method that will allow you to syndicate (aka. spread) your affiliate links across the internet on auto-pilot. Sound good?

It’s called the “Affiliate Syndicator” and you can start putting this to work for you within a couple hours of reading this. You can use this to either drive traffic to a well-designed review type landing page, an opt-in landing page, or straight through to your affiliate links. All the while building backlinks for your site with a sneaky little move you can pull off easy.

So no need to waste time we don’t have, let’s get straight into the strategy.

Step 1 : Choose A Niche Market

Maybe you’ve already got one, or maybe you need a free 83-minute training video you showing you some killer methods to find hot, profitable niche markets. If you’re more apt to go the software route – Micro Niche Finder. Either way, in order to make this work, you need:

[+] Something to sell (affiliate product)

[+] Someone to which to sell it (a market)

Nothing too especially hard here. The name of the game is doing this over and over again. So while you’re at it, find 20 good niches. Now that you’ve got something. Move on [...]

Step 2 : Buy A Keyword Domain + Install WordPress

Again, fairly simple steps. Grab a keyword domain for your niche – preferably one that has some search volume. You can use the Google Keyword tool or some other keyword research software to check for search terms with volume. The reason we want this is for long-term ranking possibilities. You can see exactly how important keyword domains are in achieving rankings in a case study from the guys who run Market Samurai.

Here’s the priority of top level domains you should grab:

(.com)
(.org)
(.net)

This is in terms of ranking effectiveness based on a keyword domain. Meaning a .com is generally going to perform best in terms of ranking simply for a keyword domain, .org next, followed by .net.

Step 3 : Plug It In

Here’s where we need a couple of plugins to make this all work.

You’ll be needing a plugin called FeedWordpress which allows you to load keyword based rss feeds, pull the feed items and turn them each into individual posts on your site. You’ll also need a plugin called SEO Smart Links which allows you to automatically redirect certain keywords through to your affiliate link (or to any destination you want) in an SEO-friendly way. Also:

SEO Smart Links can automatically link keywords and phrases in your posts and comments with corresponding posts, pages, categories and tags on your blog.

Cool. Redirecting and site-interlinking taken care of in one shot.

Grab Keyword RSS Feeds

The more you get the better generally. Shoot for higher volume keywords because most of this traffic is going to be generated by RSS aggregation sites (like Feedage.com, etc), and not necessarily by the search engines. Here’s how to get a bunch fast.

First, you need some keywords, so if you haven’t done it – do some keyword research now.

Step 1: Go to Google Blog Search

Insert your keyword into the search box on Google Blog Search let’s say for example “learn electric guitar online”. You’ll get the results back, but look carefully in the left sidebar, you will see that a RSS link has been generated for that keyword. If you’re not interested in doing all that, here’s the structure Google Blog Search uses:

http://blogsearch.google.com/blogsearch_feeds?hl=en&q=learn+electric+guitar+online&ie=utf-8&num=10&output=rss

Replace the bolded text above with your keywords to generate a new feed. Don’t forget to put “+” signs in place of spaces.

Power User Tip:

If you’re a bit more technical: To do this fast – use php string replace to replace spaces with plus signs, then use Excel concatenation to concatenate the modified (+ added) keyword string to the rest of the standard RSS structure.

If you have no idea what any of that means, don’t waste your time. Only for power-users… moving on…

Step 2: Load Your RSS Feeds into FeedWorpress

There’s a couple of setting here you have to pay attention to.

Find the setting that makes the title of the post link to the actual copy on YOUR site, rather than the source and enable it
Find the setting to automatically update your feeds (this will update and add content to your site continuously)

Start with about 10-20 feeds, and add more daily if you wish.

Step 3: Load Your Keywords and Affiliate Links into “SEO Smart Links”

This is a pretty simple process. Take the same keywords that you used to generate you feeds, and add them to the redirect section of SEO Smart links. Redirect the keywords to affiliate links of offer(s) you want to promote. So you’ll need to grab your affiliate links first and be able to find good affiliate products to promote.

This will turn all of those keywords into SEO-friendly (cloaked) affiliate links. For example “learn electric guitar” has this link structure: mysite.com/learnelectric - and the link redirects through your affiliate link. This also has another benefit, which is the back links you will be getting are to your site giving you the link value but redirecting clicks to affiliate offers [cooler than cool].

Step 4: Syndicate

Now the fun part… You want to find and submit your sites RSS feed to as many RSS aggregation sites as possible. Here’s a few examples:

Feedage.com
Feedraider.com
Goldenfeed.com
Feedest.com
RSSMountain.com
RSSMicro.com
RSSMotron.com
Icerocket.com
Feedagg.com
AZFeeds.com
2RSS.com

Of course, there’s a lot more than that… There are lists everywhere and they are fairly simple to find with the power of Google.

Power User Tip: This process of submission can be time consuming. Let a robot do it. Use SeNuke.

Step 5: Rinse and Repeat

This isn’t a strategy you can do once and see floods of traffic. The goal is to set up one site. Once you’ve set it up and syndicated it – it keeps automatically adding content (by way of FeedWordpress) with you affiliate links in the content. Each time the blog is updated, the feeds you submitted are updated on the RSS aggregators as well. It’s on auto-pilot after about 1 hour of initial work. Continually adding content, continually syndicating your affiliate links across the web.

The only thing you may want to do is swap out affiliate links for different offers in “SEO Smart Links” – this will allow you to try to find higher performing offers.

Next, find a new niche, build a new site, and repeat the process again. Don’t expect to make a million dollars, but when put to work, after building a portfolio of niche site this could easily yield $50 per day (or more). $50 x 30 = $1500 a month. Are you making that much now?

Step 6: Stop Doing It

May sound like a weird suggestion, but yes. Stop. Why, you ask? Because you’re going to have someone else do it for you. Head to bestjobs.ph and you will find a willing and able individual who will do this and similar things full time – working for you for $250 a month.

Step 7: Invest into a Real Business Driving Real Traffic

These strategies are cool to kind of get that initial lift for little to nothing out of your pocket, but this is by no means an avenue you want to build your online business on. If you’re serious about making money, you should get serious about driving real traffic.

Jeff Johnson is launching his traffic generation program, Traffic Voodoo on March 29th. If you’re not familiar with Jeff it’s because he’s a fairly underground guy – but he walks the walk. Simply put, he knows how to drive the kind of traffic quickly and easily that you need to make real money online. If you’re interested, you can check out our full Traffic Voodoo review here.

Beside that…

Let me know what you think… leave your comments, questions, etc below. Who knows, you might even have a better idea or a suggestion for improvement. Either way, leave it below.