Profiting From Affiliate Marketing - Choose A Profitable Niche
The first thing you need to do in affiliate marketing is to choose a niche (that you want to promote products/services in)
. This is the first step, and also one of the most important step toward affiliate marketing success and you would not want to get this wrong.
In this article, I am going to share with you some tips on how you can start choosing a profitable niche market.
1. Brainstorming
Many newbie affiliate marketers bump into this problem - And that is, they do not know what to promote!
There are 1,001 niches available (from health and fitness, business opportunities, love and relationships, finance and investment, self-improvement, home and garden, etc.) for you to choose from. I can say that you are literally spoiled for choice here.
So, which niche should you venture into? The first thing you can do is to do some simple brainstorming.
Especially when you are just starting out, you will want to go into niches that you have an affinity with. The reason is because, by going into a niche that you have an interest with, you will know exactly the problems that people in your niche are facing, and as such, you will be in a better position to locate products/services (that you can promote as an affiliate) to help them with their problems.
As long as you can find products/services to problems in which people are currently facing, and you explain to them how these products/services can help them solve their problems, you can be sure that people will want to buy them (and you will be able to generate commissions for every single sale you refer to these products/services).
2. Check For Demand
After you have decided on the niche market that you have an affinity with, the next thing you need to do is to check for demand.
The reason why you want to do so is because, if nobody is interested in what you are interested in, then there is no way you will be able to generate a single cent from the market!
There are a few simple ways which you can use to find out whether or not there is a demand in the niche market that you are intending to go into, and they are:
Books: Check out Amazon's website. Find out whether or not there are books written for the market that you are intending to go into.
Magazines: Are there any magazines dedicated to your affinity market? If there are lots of magazine available, you can be sure that people are indeed spending money in this market (and that means there is a huge potential for you to be able to generate a lot of money in this market as well). The reason is because, these magazine publishers will not publish magazines in markets with little or no demand. So, if you find lots of magazines available, that means good news for you.
Articles: Check out major article directories such as EzineArticles and GoArticles and find out whether or not there are articles written in the niche that you are intending to go into - If there are lots of articles, chances are there is a demand in it (and that means you can safely go into it)
3. Keyword Research
There are various keyword research tools (Such as the free Google AdWords Keyword Research Tool, free Wordtracker Tool, and the free Keyword Discovery Keyword Research Tool) that you can make use for free to check out whether or not there are people searching for the niche that you have selected in the brainstorming process.
Generally, I would go into the niche if there are at least 1,000 monthly searches for the keywords that are relating to the niche that I have selected in the brainstorming process.
If there are no books or magazines, or articles written that is about the niche that you have just brainstormed, or that there is a low search volume for the keywords around the niche, then my suggestion is that you look for other niches to work on (as chances are there is very little demand for it, and likelihood is that you will not be able to generate a lot of money in this niche as well).
Profiting From Affiliate Marketing - Choose A Profitable Niche
By: Jun Yuan Lim
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