Effects of News and Viral Sites on Affiliate Marketing

Compared to evergreen content, newsy content characteristically always have a very short life span. If you are unable to quickly take advantage of the moment, you hardly stand a chance while doing affiliate marketing on a viral website. Some kind if dilemma if you ask me! Characteristically, news sites tend to get more views on their home page. For that reason, it is best to highlight your best promotions on the home page. News content is not entirely useless for affiliate marketing. They are most effective in promoting deals which are time bound and hot, exact same way the news itself could be hot. You can always try to make the deal hot news and it gets attention and clicks that way.

Let’s say for example a dealer is offering a 20% discount on a certain product, instead of just plastering the promotional banners all over your website, you could write a news article alerting your audience of this once in a while offer to buy a good quality product at a very reduced price. You get your commission as a marketer if in your news promo, you add an affiliate link to the product from the dealer to enable them easily secure the offer. Many marketers rely on same strategy for pre-order and product launch announcements as well as highlighting best deals during popular sales seasons like Black Fridays.