Affiliates on Twitter: The Next Battle Ground

There are many affiliate marketers who take advantage of the latest technologies to make more money online. There is such a thing as early mover, and the sooner you position yourself to take advantage of the latest developments all around you, the better you can position yourself to start dominating your market. Twitter has quickly become one of those battlegrounds for affiliates. Twitter is one of the best services to drive traffic to any website. It’s not just about the quantity of traffic but rather the quality of it as well. Let’s say you have a website about credit cards, and you have 10,000 people following you on Twitter. If you have truly put the time in to gain your followers trust, there is no reason you can’t make money from your efforts.

Just like any other technology, there is a right way and wrong way to use it. There are many affiliates who are using black hat tactics to create bogus accounts on Twitter and use them to bombard the community with their affiliate offers. You can almost tell an automated account for a real one these days. But the scripts and bots are becoming more sophisticated. That practice is going to get a bit more difficult to execute with the latest FTC ruling. And let’s not forget about the community backlash against spammers. If you are dubbed as a spammer, it’s going to get you ignored or banned on twitter. You’ll lose all your followers in the process.

Don’t get me wrong. There is nothing wrong with using automated tools such as Humming Bird or TweetAdder. You can have all the followers in the world, but I personally don’t see any problem with that practice as long as you are not spamming your followers. Having lots of followers is a big responsibility. If you can’t gain their trust and provide them with valuable content, you are going to lose them eventually. So while having them can be a big boost for your business, it will keep you honest as well (unless you don’t mind getting banned on Twitter).

Twitter will be the next battle ground for affiliates. There are plenty top affiliates who are creating Twitter specific products and courses to make money online. Top affiliates go beyond creating websites to make money online. They create training courses, service specific products, and scripts to boost their income. Twitter is a goldmine for such affiliates and marketers. They not only make money selling their own products, but they join hands with other top marketers and give away their products to gain high affiliate commission from related products. The practice has worked in this industry for years and will continue working.

Twitter is not a green social network anymore. It’s quite established, and while the executives scramble to build a solid business model behind the service, Twitter is not going anywhere. The sooner you start using Twitter for your affiliate business, the better off you will be. Just remember: don’t spam. It could have big legal and business ramifications.