When I first started affiliate marketing, the first thing I noticed was all these freebie programs that paid out for giving free stuff to people. How easy’s that! All you need to do is enter an email or a zip code. I thought I’d be a gazillionaire a gazillion times over but being the newbie I was, I just had these on a few banners on some of my sites. Needless to say, the clickthrough and conversion rates sucked big time… so much so that I moved on to my next gazillionaire idea.

Well, months down the track, I finally gave it another go and stumbled on an idea. I’m sure this is not new but I’m also sure that not everyone’s thought of this.

Here’s what I did.

1. Create a poll based on a contentious topic of the week. Use google trends or yahoo buzz for ideas.
2. Find a nice one field submit campaign. MaxBounty has heaps of these, more so than any other network I’ve seen.
3. Put the affliate link behind the poll buttons.
4. Here’s the killer. Add the text, vote and enter your email to get XXX!!!
5. Hit Adwords with as truck load of keywords related to the topic.
6. Bank!

Here’s an example of one of these pages. This example uses the $250 Free Grocery Gift Card campaign from maxbounty.