This will be the first day of our Affiliate Marketing Rockstar series that will guide each and everyone of you, including me, to make a profitable affiliate marketing campaign.
What Do We Need
We need to find a niche that is profitable. We can go along and say the most competitive niches there is because that’s 100% profitable. The only draw back is that they are competitive.
In Selecting A Niche
In selecting our target niche we have to keep in mind what are our resources and if this niche would be enjoyable for us. I have been an advocate of go for profitability first before going for your passion, but in this case, affiliate marketing is a long term business so you might want to pick a subject that you can talk about and feel happy working for a very long time.
Who Are You
Ask yourself if you know much about something that you want to make an affiliate site for. If you know about cars, you might want to do affiliate marketing and pick a niche for cars. As for me, I know about web hosting since I’ve been in the business, own one and also as a web designer, I am always using web hosting for my clients. So I’ll choose the niche web hosting in this example.
The Demand
You must keep in mind that to survive in this business, you must know if there is a demand for the niche you’re targeting. Use freekeywords.wordtracker.com to find the topic that have sufficient searches per month. 10k searches a month should be viable.
The Supply
Now let’s see if there is someone supplying for the demand. By this, we can know if there are tons of competition in it. Or is it possible for us to compete in this niche. Let’s go to Google.com and see the competition. To check the competition, all you have to do is to type the keyword in quotes “web hosting“.
As you can see, its a very competitive niche. 101,000,000 is a tough battlefield to get into. You’ll be eaten alive. To know if the niche is safe, you might want to look for a niche that has 1,000,000 to 2,000,000 competing pages.
Just repeat this process until you found a good niche that you want to target. Stay tune for the next part of our affiliate marketing rockstar.
July 12th, 2008 at 7:12 pm
Looks like a very interesting series ha. Will check out the next articles. by the way, ganda talaga ng theme mo. hehe. Pano kaya ako magka theme ng clean, na parang ganito. Tsaka reddish and color scheme.
July 12th, 2008 at 9:47 pm
Thanks man. My friend gave me this template. I just tweaked it a little. Less ads makes it look neat doesn’t it? This blog is not for making money anyway.
October 26th, 2009 at 5:28 pm
Hi snoob,
I’m really trying SO HARD to get 1M to 2M results but I can’t. What’s the maximum “ok” number of search results?
Thankies!