subject: How To Find Profitable Affiliate Offers For Physical Products [print this page] How To Find Profitable Affiliate Offers For Physical Products
People involved in affiliate marketing are beginning to realize that physical products are more than worth their time, if selected properly and marketed to the right audience. Most have jumped on the digital product bandwagon because of the very large commission rates and the ease of doing joint ventures with other affiliates, but a lot of them are beginning to understand that physical affiliate offers convert much better, especially those sold from stores like Amazon and Commission Junction.
There are still plenty of untapped niches, when it comes to affiliate promotions, so it's no surprise that very profitable affiliate offers for physical products can be easily found, if one knows where to look. Probably the best place to start the search is Amazon.
Here are the essential steps for finding great affiliate offers:
1) Amazon
Choose any category on Amazon and take a look at the list of bestselling products in that specific category. Make a list of products that look interesting, either because of a simple product name or the large price tag. There is no exact science behind this, so you will have to trust your instincts on this one.
2) Google Keyword Tool
Go to the Google Adwords Keyword Tool and enter the product names, one by one, into the keywords box. We want to accomplish two things by doing this: the first is to see how many monthly searches the product name has and the second is to see what are the highest searched related keywords. Those keywords may be general-based ones or related product names. This is where things get interesting, because you can find additional products just by looking at the related keywords.
Product names with at least one thousand monthly searches in Google are definitely something you should take a closer look at. Reduce your list to those that satisfy that requirement and then check out the competition.
3) Google search
Use Google search, Yahoo SiteExplorer and SEO For Firefox to analyze the competition on the first ten spots in Google. You are trying to determine how many people are ranking for the keywords you wish to pursue and of what strength are those pages.
These three steps are the most important parts in product research and selection of profitable affiliate offers. You will just need to modify the process a bit as you get more experience, to best suit your way of doing things.
