The Zero-Follower Starter List

Rule: Active, beginner-friendly discussion on strategy, funnels, and compliance. Direct affiliate links and blatant self-promotion get removed. Contribute to discussions and share genuine experience before ever linking anywhere.

Rule: Build-in-public community for niche sites and affiliate projects. Members share real progress, traffic numbers, and failures. Vague questions get removed fast, be specific about your actual situation. Great for building presence over time, not for a single promotional post.

Rule: Broad business community. Same principle applies: genuine discussion first, no link drops. Useful for wider reach once you've built some comment history.

Facebook groups aren't reliably indexed the way subreddits are, and membership/rules shift often, so rather than naming specific groups that might be inactive or gone by the time you read this, here's the actual method: search Facebook directly for "[your niche] affiliate marketing" and "[your niche] beginners," sort by most active, and join 2-3 groups with real recent post activity (not just member count). Read the pinned rules before posting anything. Most active groups allow value-first posts and restrict direct promotion to a specific weekly thread, look for one before posting.

Search your niche's core problem (e.g. "how do I start affiliate marketing," or the specific problem your offer solves) and answer real, already-asked questions directly. Quora rewards answers that stand alone as genuinely useful, a link to your bridge page at the end is normal practice here, not against the grain the way it is on Reddit.

Find 3-5 recent, active videos in your niche (search your core topic, sort by upload date, pick ones with real comment activity). Leave a genuinely useful comment on the actual content of the video first. Whether a link is appropriate depends entirely on that specific video's comment culture, some creators and communities are fine with it, others aren't. When in doubt, skip the link and just build visibility through useful comments, people click on profiles that consistently add value.