One of the most common questions we face almost daily is: “How can I launch a CPA campaign without investing?” Directing traffic to an offer without a penny of investment and making it produce results is every affiliate’s dream.
The advantages are pretty obvious: you don’t invest money, and you only make a profit with free traffic. However, there are disadvantages to consider when working with Free Traffic from Socials. In fact, in order for you to have an income without a cent of investment in the campaign – you need to spend a lot of effort, energy, and the most important resource today – time.
Salute! Today, AdsDoom team will share the top 5 free sources of traffic and free tools that work. And most importantly, the answer to the question: which resource is more significant: time or money? Either way, the main advantage is the ability to start affiliate marketing without investment. We find this question relevant not only for those who have just started their growth in this field, but also for experienced affiliates who can get something new.
We won’t describe the implementation of each method in detail in this article, but if you have any questions, we’ll always be available to answer them.
(And, yes, your feedback and opinions are always appreciated 24/7/365, so if you want to see a case study on a specific theme, ur welcome)
And we’re starting our review!
1.Facebook
Quite recently we have already shown you how you can get traffic from this social network, but “Repetition is the mother of learning”.
In this bundle, we will need your own domain (here already on your choice, if free will be banned, we recommend considering paid options, but it all depends on the vertical, with which you work), develop a “spacer” and have a large number of accounts (they can also buy or register manually).
After that, we must prepare the ground for our accounts: add a certain number of people as friends, fill out a profile, put an avatar on it (these manipulations are necessary for the trustworthiness of not only Facebook itself, and leads), join “our interest groups”, that is, if you are working with Dating, you should research on groups with dating/relationships. The most important fact not to forget is that you have to customize your profile for your target audience.
Once your profiles are ready, it’s just a “case for small”: turning to a link reduction service and shortening your site’s domain and coming up with the creative. There are an infinite number of examples, but the more unique your proposal, the more effective your campaign will be, and therefore – profit. Launch the mailing list and wait for our conversions.
For all that, this case can be automated and scalable, but it already requires a financial investment, because you need special software and proxies. At this stage, the traffic is completely free, and you are not needed to invest a lot of time. It’s enough to devote a few hours a day and not break the rules of Facebook.
Spam messaging is fading into the background, but it’s still a valid method for advertising. Especially if your journey in affiliate marketing has just begun.
We rate this social network as 7/10.
• If you have an imagination – there are no costs;
• It is enough not to break the rules, allowing you to protect yourself from account blocking;
• It does not take much time, because most of the time will take the layout of the creative and the creation of “spacer” (if you haven’t accounts, you will still need to pay attention to the registration of accounts)
2. YouTube
The secret to the success of this platform is the integration of a huge number of links and tools.
You can create a channel and fill it with content (modifying it with effects or background music to avoid bans) or you can use YouTube Shorts with link integration. It all depends on the product and vertical you decide to promote. This platform also has its own strict rules, which it is better not to break.
AdsDoom team strongly recommends you to test YouTube Shorts, as there is a unique opportunity to get into recommendations, thanks to unique algorithms.
All that’s left is to prepare a video for 15 seconds and integrate into it the offer that you decided to promote (again, it all depends on the vertical). The chance that your video will go viral and attract new leads is very high. And consequently, and the chance of the money rain is pretty high! (just look at how many views your video can get if it gets into recommendations)
We rate this social network as 10/10
• You will have to spend a huge amount of time to create a really engaging video (our main motto: everything comes by trial and error), so don’t be afraid to imagine and implement all your ideas, but keep in mind YouTub’s rules.
• If you want to do everything yourself and not use any paid tools, you’ll have to do all the creative work manually. This also applies to uploading videos, you have to do everything by hand (although there are paid tools that can upload a huge number of videos to multiple accounts at once);
• If you break the rules of the site, there is a chance to get under the blocking not only an account, but also the block on the hardware and IP, so approach it wisely, because you can say goodbye to all the accounts in one second;
• Despite all the arguments written above, the potential of this network is huge, and most importantly, the payment for the conversion is extremely high;
• From the first payments you can easily and quickly scale by creating new accounts for specific geo, but in this case you will have to pay for proxies;
3. TikTok
Even though TikTok has been pushing their AdsManager for paid ads as much as possible lately, the free source is still alive.
Yes, today it may take longer to get results than before, but in any case the source still lives.
All you need is to create a Business page of your account and design it as a user or a product page (that’s better). This type of account gives you the ability to monitor your channel statistics, learn your audience preferences and see the geography of your subscribers, their gender, and activity peaks.
And most importantly – only with this type of account you can add a link on your profile. So after you create an account and get 1,000 subscribers on it, you can put your affiliate link in the bio.
All you have to do is come up with a selection or a series of videos that could attract a user to click on your profile and follow the link that’s attached. Accordingly, you need to create a strategy of how you can interest our potential customers. This can be a caption in the video itself that calls users to go to the profile or audio/voice/music that performs the same function.
Don’t forget to use hashtags under the video, so the audience can find something in the search browser that interests them.
We rate this social network as 6/10.
• Too often apper updates and restrictions. What worked yesterday may no longer be effective today.
• TikTok can ban videos for suspicion of anything. Therefore, you need to approach the creatives wisely, and most importantly, do not repeat them. You need to create content that is unique and hasn’t existed before.
• Time and place. There are days when absolutely everything is banned, but there is a possibility that your video might not be moderated at all and will be uploaded at once… This is the practice we see with competitors from Facebook. So here you should arm yourself with nerves and endurance.
• Test, test, test. The AI of this site has become even smarter, so you have to look for a loophole for certain verticals, because the computer diagnoses your intentions even at the stage of advertising, respectively, both video and account can be sent to the ban, especially if you use AdsManager.
4. Telegram
Today, Telegram is breaking all records of daily active users – more than 500 million monthly active users. This hybrid of messenger and social network is also suitable for free traffic.
Before that, many users used WhatsApp, but it has limitations on the number of people in a group – no more than 256 people. To create a list of contacts, an affiliate had to buy a database or parse it manually (through both paid and free software), which could take more than a month.
The only one cons is that promotion in Telegram takes a long time to gain popularity, and you may have to advertise the channel somewhere else (both in similar channels and for a fee).
AdsDoom team believes that the best vertical for this social network is Dating, because this site doesn’t do any moderation if you understand what we mean.
We rate this social network as 9/10.
• The flight of fancy is free. Anything your heart desires.
• A huge number of bots, both for communication / answering questions, as well as a bunch of hostings that support your channel;
• Try to look natural, and most importantly, interesting: leaving links to your Telegram channel will not be effective if they are constantly spammed. Or find a way to heat up your audience so they want to click on the link and go to your offer or to another channel for the purpose of promotion;
• Ability to integrate a link to Telegram channel in other social networks;
• Uniqueness of your channel in your hands, as well as the exchange of links on the pages of social networks to your channel will always be relevant, in order to gain an audience.
5. Twitter
The platform is incredibly popular with users in the U.S., the U.K., Japan, India, Brazil, and Indonesia.
AdsDoom’s team is convinced that it is not just a social network, but also a powerful tool (Elon Musk would not lie).
To attract a local audience, the first thing you have to do is fill the page with information and make the profile attractive. You have to write a catchy tweet (don’t forget the curiosity of human nature) to fuel the user’s interest and motivate them to click on the link.
Twitter wants to show you ads that would be interesting and useful for you, so it also has the same AI, by which it adjusts to your interests, age, language, geo, and others. In short, in the same way it collects information about the user (as any other social network) and broadcasts your interests.
You’ll need subscribers: if you’ll get them yourself or use a paid service – it doesn’t matter.
We rate this social network as 8/10.
• From the first income from this platform, you can test Twitter Ads Manager and scale up your affiliate campaign;
• Twitter shows itself to be quite loyal to different content, but we recommend creating a “spacer” (you can read how we did it HERE);
• Be imaginative and use only your creatives, because the secret of success is uniqueness;
• Use tags to help users find your tweets;
• You have to be inventive and clever, blow up this platform and create a personal viral tweet. The most important thing is to get users excited and have the desire to subscribe and follow. Otherwise, they’ll figure out what’s what.
In addition to this knowledge, you will also need software, ideally free.
We have also prepared a breaking five for you 🙂
1)AdsBridge
𝗔𝗱𝘀𝗕𝗿𝗶𝗴𝗲 is a unique tracker with a wide range of options for effective and high-quality work with campaigns. It perfectly matches the needs for beginners and expert publishers as well.
It has a 14-day free trial and if you are an AdsDoom user, the services of this tracker are free for you.
2) Canva / Figma
Maximum user-friendly service for creating creatives and banners.
Creating images in the service is based on the principle of dragging and dropping ready-made elements and variation of changeable templates. The graphic editor gives access to the built-in library of templates, stock photos, illustrations and fonts.
3) Bitly
Bitly is the largest URL shortening service. In addition to the URL shortening service itself, this web resource provides tools for viewing statistics on clicks on the shortened links generated.
4) Telepost
Telepost helps Telegram channel administrators cut down on routine work and focus on producing quality content. There are pending posts, reactions, clickable links, a visual editor, work in a team in 1 account and more. Best of all, it’s completely free!
Plus, don’t forget about the huge number of bots that already exist, like:
- @Manybot – developing a custom bot;
- @BotFather – for creating a new bot and managing existing bots;
- @TGStat_Bot – channel and post statistics.
5) Bensound
Here you can find free music and sound effects for your YouTube videos to avoid copyright bans.
Try them, discover new strategies and find more sources with free traffic from socials. Combine them however you like to make more Benjis in affiliate marketing without investment!
Promote your campaign through any of the sources mentioned above or recommend your Telegram channel first on Facebook, thereby making a doublet in one shot!
Don’t forget that we are always nearby to point the way, if necessary.
May your ROI be higher than Everest with AdsDoom
Good luck in all your endeavors!