The RevoStock Affiliate's Guide To Driving Traffic and Making Money

  • By: RevoStaff
  •   2
  •   310

Our new RevoStock affiliate program pays an unprecedented 25% to our affiliates who refer people to RevoStock for their Stock Media buying needs!  Our goal with the new program is not for you to just be an 'affiliate' but for you to feel like you are a part of our marketing team!

So, as part of our team, I want to spend some quality time with you showing you how you can make some money by driving traffic using your affiliate link!  So, I have put together 7 different ways you can drive traffic to RevoStock and therefore gain referrals and make money!  Let's get started!

1.  Share your link with your friends and colleagues.

Let's start with the basics.  The easiest way to start is to simply share your affiliate link with your friends and colleagues.  When you share your link with someone who has not used RevoStock before and they sign up for an account, you will earn 25% of all of their purchases for 6 months. 

Like most affiliate programs, we offer banners you can put on your website or post on your social media channels.

You can also use your link or banner in your signature as you post online in comments/forums, etc.  Just note that being spammy is always a no-no.  If you have a reputation on the forum you are posting, you can likely do whatever you want within reason, however, if you are a totally new commenter, it will appear as if you are only commenting so that you can post your affiliate link.  This is bad form and will likely be a turn-off and could even get you banned from the site  you are posting on. 

2.  Share RevoStock products via your social media outlets.

Share our Stock Video, Music or Template URLs on any of your social media outlets including FaceBook, Twitter and Google+.  When you share one of our product pages on Twitter especially, our "Twitter Cards" will allow the video or template preview inline within the Twitter feed.

RevoStock Example Tweet

To get the most bang for your buck, you will want to make sure you include relevant hashtags that people hopefully will be searching for.  There are two ways to do this:

Direct Hash Tag Search:  In this case, you would use exact match hashtags like #StockFootage, #StockVideo, or #TimeLapse or #UnderwaterFootage.  

The problem with these hashtags is that they are tags that are more likely to be used by stock media shooters than buyers.  

That leads us to using something I like to call Indirect Hashtag search.  In this case you want to put yourself in the shoes of the buyer.  Where are they? What are they doing?  Maybe they are in the #editing bay, maybe they are #rendering #AfterEffects, maybe they are working on an #emailmarketing campaign.  Maybe they are drooling over the new #Blackmagic camera?  You can use tools like Hashtagify.me to find hashtags that are applicable.

In these cases, you may get MORE response to your tweet, but the response you get may not be interested in purchasing stock media right now.

3.  Promote Freebies and Revo Blog Posts

FREEBIES

While inherently free, freebies are often a gateway to purchased items as well.  Freebies also build good will among people who may not buy something, but may recommend the site to their friends who will buy something.  Freebie users may not buy anything, but may be so happy with their freebie that they might tell others about it.  Using the tweet/social sharing methods mentioned previously along with one of our Freebies could bring you a lot of return on your tweetvestment.

Our current freebie can be found via on our homepage, but also on:

http://www.revostock.com/Freebie.html

BLOG POSTS

In addition to our Freebies, you can also promote and share our RevoStock blog posts.  We regularly try to write articles that will be of interest to our readership.  Sharing these blog posts through your social media channels with your affiliate ID appended to the end of the link is a great way to drive traffic.

4.  Promote Special Offers and Sales

From time to time, RevoStock offers specials, coupons and promotions.  When we do, we will generally send an email about this offer.  By promoting these offers and sharing them on your social feeds, you are likely to get some response from interested media buyers.

5.  YouTube Promotion and the RevoStock "Promo Video Maker"

YouTube is a very powerful way to drive traffic.  Here are a few ways to drive traffic via YouTube:

1.  Video Reviews of RevoStock:  Use your webcam and interview yourself talking about RevoStock, what you like about it and even what you don't like.  Authenticity is important!  People want to watch real, authentic and transparent people talking about things that are important to them.  

2.  Video Tutorials:  Using screen recording software like Camtasia, you can create videos without even needing a camera!  Here are several ideas for screen capturing information/tutorial videos:

  • How to search for Stock Footage at RevoStock
  • How to search for After Effects Templates
  • How to search for Music and SFX.
  • How to use RevoStock MediaBoxes
  • How to use Advanced Search to find what you need.
  • How to Edit After Effects Templates
  • How to Edit Video
  • How to Use After Effects
  • Equipment Reviews or Tutorials

3.  Producer Interviews:  If there is a particular producer/media seller you like on RevoStock, then feel free to contact them and ask for an interview.  It could be an actual video interview via webcam or Google Hangouts, or it could be just an emailed interview where you read the results on camera and show some examples of their work.

4.  Show and Tell How You Have Used RevoStock's Media:  If you have used RevoStock's media yourself in your own projects, you can do a video or a blog where you talk about the project and why and how you used Stock Media.  

The list goes on and on, and you could create so many videos just on the topic of After Effects or video editing.  For any of the videos you create, you will want to mention your affiliate link in the description of the video.

Remember, your videos don't have to be incredibly long or complex.  Sometimes a simple solution is all that is needed like, "How to Loop a Video."

Do make sure that any written content you use, including your script is unique and original.  DO NOT PLAGIARIZE EVER!  Google despises plagiarism and takes action on sites and pages that do so.

5.  Promo Video Maker

The RevoStock Promo Video Maker is a special tool we have that will allow you to create custom video montages from our collection of Stock Video and Templates that you can then upload to YouTube to promote your affiliate account.  Promo Videos are created by simply adding files to a MediaBox and then clicking a button that will encode your special promo video!  Currently, the Promo Video Maker is only available to affiliates by invitation only.  Here is an example of a video created with our Promo Video Maker.

6.  Create a Blog and Use the RevoStock Wordpress Plugin

If you want to really drive continuous and long term traffic, we recommend creating a Wordpress blog and use our Wordpress plugin to promote products and drive traffic to your affiliate link.  Once you create your blog, you then use all of the pre-mentioned techniques to crank up the traffic to your blog and then to RevoStock!  Wordpress is the most powerful, well known and frequently used blog software available and is used for everything from personal blogs to commercial websites.

Creating a blog does not need to be scary.  In fact, it's quite easy and quite reasonably priced too!  You can have your own Wordpress blog for around $5 a month.  But, the traffic possibilities with your own blog are potentially very high.

Here is a tutorial by Blogging expert Michael Hyatt which shows how you can set up a WordPress blog and start blogging in only 20 minutes!

Create Your Own Self-Hosted Wordpress Blog in 20 Minutes.

Ultimately Google LOVES good quality and unique content.  What is content anyway?  It is anything that can be consumed by readers, viewers, etc.  In this case, we are talking about the written word, but we could also be talking about video production.

So, if you are going to create a blog, it is important to write unique and original content.  However, this doesn't have to be scary.  If you are one of our affiliates, you likely already know something about video production, so write about what you know.  Some of the simple "must-have" posts for an affiliate would be "Why Use RevoStock", "How to use Stock Footage", "How to use After Effects Templates", "My Favorite AE Plugins", etc. etc.  

You will want to shoot for the following characteristics with your posts:

1.  Original Content:  Run yourposts through a plagiarism checker like this one at Plagiarism Checker at SmallSEOTools.com.  Does it matter?!  100,000% it matters.  Write high quality, unique content and Google will love you and rank your page bringing you traffic!  Write un-original, copied, short, poor-quality content and Google is likely to slap you with a penalty.  Don't waste your time and effort copying the work of others.

2.  Longer Blog Posts Mean More Traffic:  The longer the blog post, the more traffic you will likely receive from Google, which leads to more affiliate traffic and more sales!  When you write longer posts, there is more information, keywords, etc. for Google to grab onto and index.  This will give your post more opportunities to be indexed and ranked in the search engines.

3.  Google Likes Quality: The other day I was talking with a friend about Google's penchant for ranking higher quality content and he asked, "How does Google know if the content is high quality or not?"  I have to admit, it is a bit of a mystery to me as well.  How can Google tell that that my blog posts is a quality blog post and what does 'quality' mean anyway?

Only the great and mighty Googlebot knows all of the details for sure, but I think of the Golden Rule, "Do to others what you would have them do to you."  In this case it would be, "Write for others what you would want others to write for you."  Write interesting content that you would want to read yourself in a style that is readable and interesting.

4.  Lists are powerful things:   I remember reading a book in my school library when I was a kid called, "The Book of Lists."  It was fascinating to all of my classmates partly because some of the lists were rather "saucy."  Overall, however, people are attracted to lists.  I believe we like lists because they are concise and interesting ways to organize and present information.  

Today, blog lists are all the rage and creating and writing lists are great ways to bring in interested readers.  Here are some examples:

  • Top 10 Photo Display Templates
  • Top 5 4K Shots of New York City
  • 7 Stock Videos That Made Me Laugh

These are a few examples, but you can be as creative as you want to!  Use the power of the list to your advantage!

THE REVOSTOCK WORDPRESS PLUGIN

RevoStock is one of the only (if not the only) stock media site with a WordPress plugin allowing you to display our Stock Media on the pages and posts of your blog simply and easily with links that include your affiliate link.

Once you have your Wordpress Blog set up, you can install our RevoStock Media Gallery plugin and start promoting content.

The plugin has several options for displaying content from search based requests to MediaBox display.

Here is an example of the plugin in action on one of our RevoStock producer's websites.  Check out the gallery at the bottom to see the plugin doing its thing!

http://www.postquisdesign.com - RevoStock Media Gallery Wordpress plugin.

To close things out, these are just a few of the  many ways that you can drive high quality and interested traffic using your RevoStock affiliate link.  We would love to hear from you.  Have any other creative or interesting ideas or ways to drive traffic and promote?   Post below and let's talk about it!  Thanks for reading!