How To Spam Affiliates4u

With so many voices clamoring for attention, how do you get heard through the noise on the heart of the UK affiliate industry? Here’s a few tips I’m going to share with you to help you use a4u to the fullest of its potential.

Do Not Add Five New Threads At Once

A favourite of Euroffice and Kitbag is to post new threads in each of the network forums they are partnered with, then one in their own industry vertical and another in Merchant Promotions. This then clutters up the a4u home page for about 5 minutes to the annoyance of most. If you have important news to share, why not just one or two posts? If you’ve been adding multiple posts, check out which forum in the past got the most response or views. Or even do post 5 times if you really feel the need, but add them over the course of the day, getting more exposure for your spam.

Get A Blog

If you’re not blogging about your company or client, why the hell not? The blog feed on a4u is a great way to get your spam out there. Since you’re likely to be tagged as a merchant/network/agency you will be slightly hampered by the fact that the link from the forum to the blog feed page will filter you out and only have affiliate blogs. You ideally want your post to stay on this page as long as possible to hopefully pick up traffic and even “backs” if it’s something interesting. Timing is crucial here.

There are serial posters who already use this page particularly well, Kier from Webgains and Mark from Existem-AM who knock out a handful of posts a day about their clients. Well done to them! However you really want to avoid posting around the time they whack up their half dozen posts for the day, pushing yours off the first page. This mostly seem to be around mid to late afternoon, but they will keep you on your toes by having other random posts!

Also keep a look out for Yes Asia who seem to have a time difference allowing them to blog 12 hours in the future and stay at the top of the page!

Get On The Homepage

Simple enough. Use the “Your Thoughts” tool to keep everyone up to date with your message, or be a bit intriguing. It’s also nice to occasionally be social, just for the hell of it.

Reply to people in your forum posts. This isn’t only good for business, but keeps your thread at the top of the forum it’s in and increases the chance of it appearing in the “Most Active Forum Threads” section on the homepage.

Hit Peak Times

The site is busiest between 11am and 1pm, so aim to get any new threads up around then. Same with blog posts. The busiest day on the site is Thursday due to the fact it’s newsletter day (the non-spammy one that people read), so if you have exciting news, you want to keep it near the top of its forum by Thursday morning when the newsletter is put together. For blog posts you really want to be pushing them out on Tuesday or Wednesday to give them a day or two to gather “a4u backs” and appear on the homepage. This should more or less guarantee inclusion in the newsletter.

There you go! It’s not actually a spamming guide, just advice on how to get the most out of affiliates4u and get your message across. As usual feel free to add your own thoughts below and further apologies for the enduring lack of new theme.