Is Social Media A Viable Channel for Affiliates?

I worked hard on twitter and facebook for over a year because I assumed that social media was ‘the future’. I got lots of friends and likes but not a lot of business. I was more successful with traditional SEO. As a small player I assume that is typical.

But I don’t think you can or should ignore such a big market – no matter how big or small you are. My impression is that many people live on facebook and to a lessor extent twitter. But you have to practically manually push their mouse button to blast them off of those sites.

As with other measures of online success, you can artificially inflate your ‘numbers’. But to get real benefit you have to interact and provide some type of engagement with them. If you’re a big market player with millions at stake, you can afford a full time presence and hire some techies to make things constantly fun and exciting.

However, that is not to say that the ‘little guy’ has no hope. I’m sure there are plenty of smalltimers currently on their way toward facebook riches. But it isn’t going to come without lots of work, talent and luck.

I am far from being an SEO expert, but I assume that google expects you to have some type of presence everywhere – especiallly at those large sites (with members and money that google covets).

If you are farmville and other non-casino games you can sell directly, But with current gambling & advertising restrictions it is neccessary to slide into that area sideways with ‘phoney money casino games’.

At the present time I think the small outfit gets a better return from non-social media efforts. But, the internet is constantly changing and you need to be prepared.

And, oh yes.

The ‘little guy’ has no chance of getting number 1 google search positon for a word like ‘casino’. They have to work on long tail keywords and niche markets.

But, social media is a differnt ‘animal’ altogether.

I have done 0 with the Social Media. I dont know, I just dont get it. I need it explained to me.

I think with social media, if you have the right formula – you’re not likely to share it with the wide world.

But what I will say what works is – niche your niche. Get right into it.
Work it like a fan of whatever you are promoting… not a business brand.
Relate to your target market.
Know the times your viewers and target market are online.

and most important of all…
Grow your base of followers, fans, viewers – whatever you want to call them for each social media network.

If all you are doing is creating an account on social media network and posting articles and updates to it – it won’t go very far.

@bud405n 236243 wrote:

I have done 0 with the Social Media. I dont know, I just dont get it. I need it explained to me.

Totally understand where you are coming from. No joke Buddy, if you ever want to have a pow-wow, I’d be happy to answer any questions for you. Not that I’m some self-proclaimed guru on the Social Media front, but I’ve learned a lot and have seen some excellent results!

@Rak 236244 wrote:

I think with social media, if you have the right formula – you’re not likely to share it with the wide world.

But what I will say what works is – niche your niche. Get right into it.
Work it like a fan of whatever you are promoting… not a business brand.
Relate to your target market.
Know the times your viewers and target market are online.

and most important of all…
Grow your base of followers, fans, viewers – whatever you want to call them for each social media network.

If all you are doing is creating an account on social media network and posting articles and updates to it – it won’t go very far.

Amen, Rak. You could not be more right. when it comes to social media, I feel like you can’t go in blindly. Instead, you have to have a thoughtful strategy. And just focus on 1 channel to start and then begin to dabble and conquer the others.

Not the most luck advertising trying to use social media sites but it could improve in the days to come.

Well i’ve been on twitter for like 2 weeks when first signed up typed in casino then just followed the first few pages of people related to casino, then didn’t worry about it, then ever day in email new person, then you log in folow them back then seem to get new people all in ur niche. I sort of is a fun thing in a way strangely lol, the other day i typed in poker in search for people and followed bunch of them fair enough followers back I think if i just sat there for days and smashed the following would get heaps of niche followors.

U just type in people search casino, then poker , maybe if you almost hired a team of people to do this log into your account use a service like freelancer for example . something like that people to log into ur account 5 people addin people daily accepting people daily in ur email u could get to thousands. of only niched casino traffic.

I would definetly say Twitter is probably the best social network to get traffic from.