So you are wanting to use Twitter to boost your affiliate sales? Good because along with being an excellent marketing channel and traffic generation tool, Twitter is wonderful for generating affiliate commissions.

You have to be careful when using Twitter to generate affiliate commissions. The reason is because if you don’t do it correctly then you end up getting flagged for spam, and having your Twitter account being hit with the Twitter slap. Very similar to the Google slap, the Twitter slap is when Twitter sees you as a spammer, and either suspends or deletes your Twitter account.

So how do you tweet in order to make affiliate sales but not look like a spammer? It’s simple, provide quality content with your Twitter feed along with mixing in some affiliate links. The cool thing about Twitter, is that if you hate writing content, you don’t have to. All you have to do is direct your followers in the direction where they can find the kind of content that interests them.

An easy way to do this, is to bookmark some sites that are updated pretty regularly, preferably more than once a day and tweet some posts or articles related to your niche several times a day. Then about once every 10 tweets include your affiliate link. It can be a link to an amazon product, clickbank product or even your own product.

Try to send at least 10 tweets everyday, use a scheduling tool to help manage your time on Twitter. Here is a post I wrote about using my favorite Twitter tool, Using Hootsuite to Manage Your Time on Twitter.

Here is a good schedule to follow for tweeting 10 times a day:

• Interesting niche related quote
• Post or webpage related to your niche
• Affiliate link
• Blog post related to your niche
• Niche related video
• Niche related blog post
• Retweet a guru in your niche
• Retweet a follower
• Blog post related to your niche
• Connect a follower to either another follower or a guru in your niche

Tweet that exact formula everyday, mix the order up a little everyday, and feel free to add more tweets if you want. Just remember if you are sending 20 tweets per day, then you get to tweet your affiliate link twice a day. Try and focus on one affiliate product for at least a month. That gives your followers plenty of time to see your affiliate link, they get to see it several times, which gives you a higher chance of making the sale.

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