Top 6 Social Media Platform For Affiliate Marketing

Today, social networking sites span the spectrum of demographic groups. While teenagers are still more apt to use them than older people, there are now niche social networking sites, which target people who all share some common interest, such as skateboarding or investing.

Now, in addition to teenagers and adults, social networks are increasingly becoming used by another group – businesses. That's right: many businesses are now infiltrating social networks to advertise in some subtle manner – and then replicate their message through systems that are already available within the social network.

The most prominent social network is - 

1. Facebook 

If the affiliate product you are selling has a broad appeal, you may want to use Facebook to market your product as you will be able to reach the largest crowd quickly. Now, there are a number of different ways in which you can market your affiliate product through FB. One way is to set up a profile and then begin adding friends to your list on a daily basis. Depending on your goals, you may want to add a personal profile for yourself and then talk about your business/product on your page; or you may want to simply create a profile for your business and use that to market your product. Once you have had some experience marketing on FB, you will want to consider looking at other social networking sites.

2. YouTube

YouTube affiliate marketing is an online business model where you can generate revenue by adding affiliate links for products/services. You can make money on YouTube by doing affiliate marketing, which is including links to products you review and use in your videos. If someone makes a purchase using your affiliate link, you receive a small commission for the sale.

3. Twitter

Twitter’s monthly usage is increased day by day. It is one of the best social media platforms to target an audience with a potential reach of approximately 300 million users to different advertisements. Twitter is also counted among the most active social media networks, with around 5000 tweets a second. You must use the Twitter trending hashtag. For being visible on other’s profiles, you should tweet 8 to 10 times a day.

4. Instagram

After Facebook, users find Instagram as the most popular social media platform, with 1billion (MAUs) monthly active users. lt allows user to share a wide range of content such as photos, videos, Stories, and live videos. It has also recently launched IGTV for longer-form videos. 

Social media affiliates use Instagram as it is widely used globally. There is no limit to the amount of text and you can explain the product/service in detail.

5. Snap Chat 

It is the best platform to target users under the age of 35. Snap Chat has 265million daily active users with 10billion views daily on different photos and videos.  It has attracted many affiliate marketers to brand the business and market products.

6. WhatsApp

Although WhatsApp itself does not allow ads, still there are plenty of ways to take advantage of its unique format and earn money. In affiliate marketing, you can get a commission that is dependent upon the product, which you have to sell. After getting your affiliate URL, start promoting it on WhatsApp by sharing the link with your contacts and connected groups.

Whichever sites you decide to use, keep the following in mind your goal should be to develop a network of people who share a common interest and could potentially be interested in your specific product. For this reason, it is always a good idea to think long-term (i.e. don't do things that are going to get you banned) instead, concentrate on building your network and introducing them to your affiliate product.