A New Affiliate Marketing Experiment In Driving Traffic

November 5, 2019

Over the last few days, I bought a couple of new products:

1. Easy Commission Funnel [new in 2024] – this is another Done-For-You Funnels type product.

This recommendation replaces Freebie Commissions which is no longer available and you had to pay for Freebie Commissions.

And it’s 100% free. All you need to do to make it work for you is to sign up and start promoting it yourself.

There are 6+ passive income streams built into the funnel and full training is provided on the funnel itself and how to drive traffic to it.

You will have to join the various programs promoted by the funnel, but most of these are also free to join.

There are a couple of programs that are $9.97/mo but you can delay joining them until you start making commissions from the other, free programs.

Jeff, the creator, constantly keeps in touch and lets members know about updates to the programs in the funnel and provides landing pages we can clone in LeadsLeap (an all-in-one marketing platform and also free to join).

Jeff is in this for the long haul, so the Easy Commission Funnel won’t be disappearing anytime soon (like other programs and funnels have done).

2. ARVO – this is a product [no longer available] that uses and interfaces with YouTube.

The idea behind this product is intriguing. It’s to livestream videos on YouTube.

The funny thing with livestream videos is that they get page #1 ranking in YouTube and frequently in Google itself.

The beauty of using this product is that you don’t have to create any videos yourself. You don’t have to sit in front of a camera and dream up ideas of things to talk about.

You can re-use videos that are already on YouTube which have a Creative Commons License – this means it’s perfectly legal to use them yourself as there are no copyright issues to worry about.

So how do you find these videos?

Type a keyword into the app and it will find the videos for you.

You can then download the videos you’re interested in, or merge 2 or more videos into one and then upload them into your livestream event.

Getting back to the issue of traffic, this seems, at least at the outset, to be a far better way to get targeted, free traffic than the traffic upsell in Freebie Commissions.

Here’s replay of a webinar that shows ARVO in action and gives an inside look:

The Affiliate Marketing Experiment

ARVO is at the core of this experiment.

It can potentially be used to drive traffic to any web page, be that a blog page, a product review, a squeeze or landing page to collect email addresses to build your list or directly to a product offer.

What I plan to do is run a few livestream events using videos found by ARVO and link those to different types of pages so I can test the quality of the traffic.

If it’s good, then buying pre-made funnels like those included in Freebie Commissions is actually a good strategy as it saves time on me manually building funnels myself. I can just concentrate on driving traffic.

If I find the traffic is good, but say the Freebie Commissions funnels don’t convert when funnels from elsewhere do, then I’ll know that the Freebie Commissions funnels are not well optimized and I’d be better off getting done-for-you funnels from someone else.

So the initial experiment will be to send traffic to up to 7 funnels. I won’t be sending traffic directly to offers as I’d much rather build up my email list for the same amount of effort.

These are the funnels I’ll be looking at targeting:

Zach Crawford’s Free Affiliate Marketing Webclass
AI Cash Machines – learn how to leverage AI in your marketing
The Easy Commission Funnel – as outlined above
GotBackup – online backup service for PCs and mobile devices
My own email list squeeze page – offers training on driving traffic
The One Funnel Away Challenge – learn how to build your first funnel
The Master Affiliate Program – new affiliate marketing program for 2025
The 30 Days Challenge Bundle – Create 7 income streams in 2 minutes

Whether I can target them all in the next week will depend on the time I have available and the amount of research I have to do to find suitable videos to livestream.

I also need to integrate ARVO with Google so that it can post the livestreams and notify Google when they go live.

I’ll let you know the results in future posts.

The First Hiccup So Far

I’d originally planned to use Clickmagick to track clicks in the Freebie Commissions funnels.

Here’s a free guide that explains why link tracking is so important for marketers.

The idea was to track redirections to the affiliate links after someone filled out the optin form and also to track link clicks in the email I send them after signup.

Both the Freebie Commission giveaway products ~~are~~ were on WarriorPlus.

I found that links created in in ClickMagick wouldn’t correctly redirect to the offer pages on WarriorPlus.

So I couldn’t use ClickMagick during this test.

I don’t know if this is a WarriorPlus-specific issue or it happens with other affiliate networks as well.

I need to do some investigation on this but I’ve never had problems with such links before.

Since this experiment first ran, Freebie Commissions has closed down and I’ve switched to LeadsLeap for link tracking and building/cloning landing pages provided the Easy Commission Funnel developer.

The Autoresponder I use is Aweber. It allows you to tag certain actions a subscriber takes, like opening an email or clicking a link in an email.

This way you can see what your subscribers are doing with your emails.

Since I couldn’t use ClickMagick, I set up links with another link tracking tool I use – Affiliate Tripler – which is a WordPress plugin [no longer available but Pretty Links Pro provides very similar features].

During testing, I found that links created with this link tracking tool were not being tagged by Aweber when clicked inside emails.

And when I dropped back to using the free Pretty Link Lite plugin (now known as “Shortlinks by Pretty Links”) to achieve the same aim, those links weren’t being tagged correctly either.

I’ve had to resort to using raw WarriorPlus affiliate links in the emails as these do get tagged correctly.

Maybe WarriorPlus is doing something funky with its links that’s preventing Aweber link tagging from working.

I need to contact Aweber and get clarification on this.

All the funnels setup is now done.

Tomorrow, I hope to run the first livestream event on YouTube.

If you use Freebie Commissions or ARVO yourself, let me know your own thoughts on them and how useful they really are.

And also let me know if you’ve had trouble with your own autoresponder not tagging WarriorPlus affiliate links.