So I'm getting my hands dirty as a newbie and decided to try a seemingly straightforward affiliate offer - web hosting.
Targeting web design communities on Facebook, I've got reasonable success (3 affiliate signup a in about 30 days). I was thinking of different angles I can use to promote web hosting on a website using Google as a traffic source, since I already have an SEO service that helps boost search rankings.
An idea I had was to start a landing page or ebook on "How to start a blog" or "how to start a [enter website here]" and plant my affiliate link within the LP or ebook. Is anyone here using this angle and having any success? Any other ideas to share?
One angle that works well is targeting specific webapps that people may want to run.
Wordpress is the best-known one, and is already pretty saturated, but there are hundreds of apps, frameworks, and technologies out there. Docker, Rails, Node, PHPBB, Piwik, MediaWiki, DocuWiki, etc, etc, et very much c.
Be aware that with a lot of these your audience are likely to be very, very, VERY tech-savvy, so you'll have to play to that and make sure your offers are actually appropriate. But if you can get it right you'll see very high purchase intent traffic.
You could also try doing a combination recommendation and HOWTO targeting less tech-savvy people. A lot of folk want a wiki, for example, but don't know where to start installing DocuWiki.
I've seen more than a few people with the 'want a wordpress site? we'll set it up for you for free!' - you get them to sign up for a cheap plan and you do the 1-click wordpress install for them.
Hey Caurmen
Thanks for the tip on the different web apps. I agree that the target audience will be very tech savvy.
I'm considering whether I should just push Facebook ad traffic directly to the web host's site using some creative ad copies, or actually create a single page LP "how-to guide" for all the web apps, before planting links to the web host's site. The correct answer is to do both and to test it out, but before jumping into the water I usually like to do a little more thinking. Considering the number of different web apps out there, it'll be a huge feat to test!
Thoughts?