Social Media can be a powerful traffic driver, just make sure your content doesn’t just live at the Social Media sites. In Affiliate ABCs podcast #10 Debbie (a.k.a Loxly) and Vinny (a.k.a NYFalcon) explain how to use social media sites to drive traffic to your website by interacting in communities and online social settings. And it doesn’t have to take up all of your time to be effective either.

Links mentioned in the show:
MySpace Account for Awesome Wreckage Website
Facebook
Orkut Social Network
Loxly’s Twitter
Awesome Wreckage Twitter
Roboform – Keep track of all your logins
Knowem.com – Check on and register all your social media identities
TwitterFeed – Feed your blogs to your Twitter accounts

For AffiliateABCs sixth podcast Loxly and NYFalcon talk about some things that every website needs to have and why. Things new affiliates may not think about like Privacy policy and About us.

Here is a privacy policy that you can use as a template: Jensense Privacy Policy

People are already responding to Getting Started with Twitter Part 1 so here is Part 2! In Part 2 we cover creating posts, how and when to Retweet, and what are some good examples of who is using Twitter in business. We talk about hashtags, Twitter Search and Twitter parties.

Twitter accounts we reference in the podcast:

http://twitter.com/JetBlue
http://twitter.com/Starbucks
http://twitter.com/DirectTV
http://twitter.com/Mashable
http://twitter.com/ProBlogger
http://twitter.com/skydiver
http://twitter.com/sfzoo
http://twitter.com/GeorgiaAquarium

And here is the link to the Twitter Search using the #asw09 hashtag to follow the goings on at the summit.

Some more folks you might want to be following on Twitter if you are interested in affiliate marketing:
MissyWard
AffiliateSummit
ShawnCollins and AffiliateTip
Haiko

And of course, your hosts:
NYFalcon
Loxly

A tip we didn’t mention in the podcast about finding followers is to find people you admire and listen to and see who *they* are following. Click on those names to see if you like what they have to say, and then follow them. Or not One of the beautiful things about Twitter is that you can follow a conversation using Twitter Search or just by clicking on people’s names. You can read them without following them, and even @ reply to them without following them.

As always, feel free to post questions below or in our twitter thread at ABestWeb or the NYFalcon forum. Affiliate ABCs series isn’t just about Twitter, but it seems to be a hot topic right now, and it is a great way to build a following for your site/company so we will probably do another podcast or two about using it. Also feel free to post requests for future shop topics that *aren’t* about Twitter

Affiliate ABCs #3 is focused on how to get started using Twitter, a popular messaging platform that is being referred to as microblogging. Some people object to that classification, and Twitter itself has a prompt above the message box that says “What are you doing”. It started as a way for people to succinctly state what they are doing at any given moment. You have 140 character limit to say what you are doing. Some people took this literally and would post things like “going to the bathroom” or other nonsense that really no one does want to hear.

The intelligent folks that were introduced to Twitter started using it to say what they were currently doing in a different way: “I just made a blog post about my new coffeemaker and I’m enjoying a cup of Breakfast Blend right now. Here’s the link.” or “I’m @asw09 listening to @skydiver and @jimkukral talk about pitching your press release to newspapers and bloggers.” Now people are realizing that “What are you doing” isn’t about what you are eating or what you are doing that no one cares about, but what you are doing that relates to your business and personal life that people would want to know about.

We’ll get into more advanced ways to use Twitter as we go along, but for now, here is our podcast about getting started, setting up an account, making sure you have a profile and avatar, determining your audience, and finding people to follow you. We touch on the mechanics of setting up an account and starting to interact to determine how you can best use twitter. As always, feel free to post questions below or in our ABCs Plus Forum.

Your hosts for this show are Vinny and Debbie Carney a.k.a Loxly. Our main twitter accounts are:

http://twitter.com/vinnyohare
http://twitter.com/loxly

Here is the account we set up during the podcast so you can follow along as it grows:
http://twitter.com/vacationdude

Also mentioned in the podcast:
http://search.twitter.com
http://twitter.com/loxlygallery

The first Affiliate ABCs podcast from NYFalcon and Loxly was pretty off the cuff and we started talking about A/B testing which peaked some people’s interest. So here is a 15 Minute lesson where we talk about it. Have a listen, then post any followup questions here over in the threads at ABCs Plus Forum.

We would love to cover topics by request. The next planned podcast will be the ABCs of how to get started with Twitter. From creating an account to finding friends, etiquette for retweeting, following and unfollowing, we’ll try to give you the basics.

NyFalcon (Vinny O’Hare) and Loxly (Deborah Carney) sit down and try their hand at podcasting. Here is the first episode of the show “Affiliate ABCs”. Let us know what you think!   For our first podcast we basically talked about the weather, flip flops, A & B testing, page formats, and generally just talked about making money online. It is all very rough but I am sure we will get better once we have a set format.

We are taking questions for future episodes, post your questions as comments here or in this thread over at the ABCs Plus forum.

This podcast is for newbies to affiliate marketing, so shoot us those questions you are afraid to ask the “gurus”.  Warning though, we don’t do ebooks or lead gen affiliate marketing, we talk about retail affiliate marketing on sites that are built to last   That’s our specialty.