Affiliate marketing

Affiliate marketing is where other people promote your products in return for a commission. For example, if your product costs $100, you can pay an affiliate $10 for each sale they generate for you.

How to do it

You’ll first need to create an affiliate program that people can sign up for. This gives them a unique link they can use to promote your product and track the sales they generate.

Then you’ll need to look for people who may want to promote your product.

The easiest way is to look for people who are already promoting competing products.

Here’s how:

Go to Ahrefs’ Site Explorer

Enter the domain of a competing product

Go to the Backlinks report

Look for an affiliate footprint in the URL

For example, many of the backlinks to bluehost.com go to URLs with /track/ in them:

List of referring pages

These are most likely affiliate links, so we can find all the websites promoting this product by filtering for backlinks with this footprint (/track/) in the target URL and toggling “One link per domain”:

Backlinks report with "One link per domain" filter applied

Recommended reading: How to Create a Successful Affiliate Program for Your Business

6. Influencer marketing

Influencers are people who have an active, sizable audience (usually on social media) and the ability to influence their audience to do something.

Influencer marketing is the practice of working with influencers to promote your brand’s messages, products, or services.

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How to do it

The easiest way to find influencers is to use existing third-party tools. And there are different tools for the different social media platforms. Here’s a list to look through:

Followerwonk (Twitter)

Influenx (YouTube)

Heepsy (Instagram, YouTube, TikTok, Twitch)

inBeat (TikTok, Instagram)

Intellifluence (Reddit, SoundCloud, podcasts, Amazon reviews, iOS and Android reviews, Twitch, LinkedIn, Facebook, Pinterest, Instagram, YouTube, Twitter, TikTok)

Grin (Twitch, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, Twitter, TikTok)

Influence.co (Facebook, Pinterest, Snapchat, Instagram, YouTube, Twitter, blogs)

HypeAuditor (Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, Twitter, Twitch)

When you’ve gathered a list of influencers, don’t reach out just yet. Since social platforms can be gameable, some of these influencers may have tons of fake followers. A certain percentage of fake followers is inevitable, but you don’t want them to be a significant percentage of those influencers’ following.

A quick way to check is to use a tool like SparkToro’s Fake Followers Audit (Twitter only) or HypeAuditor’s Instagram Audit.