subject: Niche Affiliate Marketing Guide [print this page] If you are searching for niche affiliate marketing tips, then this is the right place to learn. As you may know, affiliate marketing is basically a form of online advertising where you promote affiliate products and can get paid commissions from vendors. There are many popular markets for internet marketers such as dating, weight loss, pet supplies, making money online, and some others.
But if you have a website, you have probably noticed that it is darn near impossible to rank well in search engines for broad things like "weight loss." This is why you should focus your efforts and utilize niche marketing.
Niche marketing is when you target a specific part of a market rather than targeting the market as a whole. For example, instead of making a blog called "pet supplies," you would try to focus on a specific niche within that wide topic. Just a few ideas are "mature cat food," "halloween dog costumes," or "ferret training." These are just three niches within the very wide market of pet supplies, and I'm sure you can come hundreds more ideas if you tried.
It is like doing keyword research. If you try to rank for a one-word keyword then you will not get very far, but if it is a five-word keyword you will usually have a much better chance of ranking. That same idea applies to niche marketing. There are millions of sites about pet supplies or pet training, but if you pick a specific niche (such as ferret training or guinea pig food) then there are a lot less competing websites.
Niche affiliate marketing is good because you focus on a specific niche, making it easier to learn about your topic since you don't have to learn everything. Also, once you narrow down your niche, it makes finding long-tail keywords much easier because your competitors will probably be thinking of broad topics like pet supplies instead of specific niches for starting their research.
Since there is less competition, that means you will have a better chance or ranking well. You can make small websites based on a single niche-targeted keyword, or make a slightly larger site that uses several keywords is still tightly focused on your niche. Then as an affiliate, you can promote products specific to that niche.
