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May 06 2008
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How To Create A Viral Report To Increase Affiliate Sales – Part 3

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Once you have written your free report and inserted links to various products offered by your affiliates, the next task on your list is going to be finding a home on the Internet for your free report.

You will also want to develop strategies for promoting the free report so you can generate some interest in both the report and the affiliate links contained therein. Here are some ideas to help you make a permanent place online for your free report, as well as publicize the report in the right places.

First off, you must have your own website. These days, it is very easy to get excellent pricing on the joint purchase of a domain name and a basic hosting that will only cost a few dollars a month to operate.

The advantage of having the free report on your own web site and hosted on a remote server is that you can update the report whenever you like.

Also, you have control over which affiliates can post ads on your free report pages, and certainly can update the links in your free report whenever you like. This makes creating free reports very simple, as you can have several free reports that are posted under one domain name, just on different pages.

Once you have a permanent home on the web for your free report, you can begin the process of promoting it. Here are some ways in which you can promote your viral report:

1. Classified Ads

Write a short blurb, no more than a paragraph that will let the reader know what your free report is about. Include something that will serve as a teaser, catching the interest of the reader. Include the link over to your free report. Try to use classified ad web sites that rate high with the search engines. This should produce some traffic to your free report in just a few days. Here are some sites:

  • http://www.craigslist.org
  • http://classifieds.yahoo.com
  • http://classifieds.myspace.com
  • http://www.adlandpro.com
  • http://www.backpage.com
  • http://www.oodle.com
  • http://www.adpost.com
  • http://www.sell.com
  • http://www.adquest3d.com
  • http://www.chooseyouritem.com
  • http://www.domesticsale.com
  • http://www.epage.com
  • http://www.postaroo.com
  • http://www.usfreeads.com

E-Book Directories

Another alternative is to get your free report listed in listings of E-book directories. Look for directories that focus in some manner on topics that are related to the subject matter of your free report. This will make it easier for people to come across the link to your free report while looking for information online. This approach is a little less direct than the classified ads, but can still lead to some excellent traffic for your free report.

  • http://www.mindlikewater.com
  • http://www.wisdomebooks.com
  • http://www.ebookjungle.com
  • http://www.free-ebooks.net
  • http://ebooks.searchking.com
  • http://www.ebookpalace.com

Article Marketing

Another avenue of promoting your free report is to target web sites that invite authors to write articles on a variety of subjects. Write a two hundred to five hundred word article about a topic that involves some aspect of the information found in your free report. Include a link to the free report either in the body of the article, or in the author description. Make it a point to go with one of the article sites that tends to rate high with the search engines, and you may find some great traffic coming to you from that angle. Here are some good article directories in which you may distribute your articles:

  • http://www.ezinearticles.com
  • http://www.goarticles.com
  • http://www.articlecity.com
  • http://www.articledashboard.com

Making sales with your free report involves three basic elements:

  1. You must have a free report that is entertaining and informative. If the report does not hold the attention of the reader, then chances are he or she will never even notice the links. Hold their attention long enough and well enough to entice them to give the links a try.
  2. Make the information relevant to the links. No one wants to link from a free report on raising funds with a canned food drive to a site selling makeup. The leap must make sense.
  3. Make sure you include as many links as possible without littering the report too heavily. The more links included, the better your chances of a reader clicking through, seeing something he or she likes, and deciding to buy a product or products. Keep these thoughts in mind, and you will find that producing free reports is well worth your time for making money online.

Enjoy!

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Stanley Tang

[tags]internet marketing, article marketing, ebook directories, classified ads, viral reports, affiliate marketing[/tags]


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  3. Roy Phay May 13, 2008 at 6:34 am

    Hi Stanley,

    Just stumble upon your site, totally love your site and this particular post. So, I decide to leave a comment here to intro and also connect with you.

    Those are all great traffic strategies that I personally use them too. There’s some nuggets of gold in which you mentioned about Classified ads which a lot of newbie do not know how to leverage on them.

    Nevertheless, great meeting and look forward to catch up with you.

    To Your Success,
    Roy Phay
    http://www.RoyPhay.com

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