Niche Affiliate Marketing Tips That Work
Here are a few tips on affiliate marketing that will knock your socks off and and help you earn money right away.
I’m not going to bore you with the usual stuff, like “go to ClickBank to see what’s hot”, create a Blogger Blog or Squidoo lens, write articles that link to those sites acting as landing pages. No, this article goes beyond the normal regurgitated stuff you’ve probably heard or read a thousand time already.
To earn money with Adsense or niche afflliate marketing, a simple method for doing this is what I call traffic surge marketing, or trend marketing.
If you view a T.V. show or hear about a new movie coming out, or are aware of when the next Oscars event is taking place, go to Google Trends find out what the hottest terms are right now for those events. Find out what the most popular search terms are for today, yesterday, and even the past few days. Then make the perfect synergy of a landing page promoting a product, a content piece with just Adsense on aside from your content, and post these articles on a free blog that will rank quickly like Blogger or Wordpress. Many people are successful with this business model and putting up quick, dirty ugly sites like this to capitalize on the “surge traffic” also known as “trends traffic”.
What you want to do to beat them at their own game is to anticipate what the trends are going to be so you can get ahead of the surge of traffic.
How do you get ahead of the surge of interest to ride the wave of interest and traffic and to position yourself ahead of everyone else?
Read a newspaper, watch some television, or just take a general birds-eye view towards what is popular right now.If Oprah recommends a book on her talk show, then you should make a review page or post about that book and then sell some of them through your Amazon affiliate link.
If you have any marketing experience at all, then you’ll know what might be of sudden interest in the niches that you already have sites built for.
Here are 2 examples for how I did this for my niche sites:
I have a website about home brewing and one day when I was at the movies with my son I saw a trailer for the Beer Wars Movie. As I was sitting there, I thought that this would be of interest to my site on home brewing so I found a trailer for the movie on YouTube and embedded the YouTube video on my site.After that little post got indexed, I reviewed the movie trailer and did some research on others’ opinions of the movie.
My second post was a review on the movie itself.I accomplished all of this in less than a half hour, largely by reading other peoples’ opinions on the movie.When the movie went live, suddenly there were a lot more people on the search engines looking for “Beer Wars Movie Trailer”.
In anticipation of the sudden but temporary traffic surge, I decided that I would make sure that I was page 1 for those terms so I used Backlink Solutions to quickly catapult my site to page one for those terms. When the movie went live, I was already on the first page for the search terms that I wanted.
Example #2 of how I anticipate a surge of interest and increase traffic for my niche sites using offline resources.
I was reading the newspaper one day and saw something about an antiques show where people were bidding on a 300-year old birthday cake. I reasoned that since this news item made it to the offline newspapers that it would be interesting to visitors to my site on antique furniture.
So I wrote the post about that antique birthday cake, but the Adsense earnings and traffic spike didn’t come like I thought it would. Granted, I still got a lot of traffic for that particular post but I was a Johnny-come-lately with that bit of news and it wasn’t totally relevant to a site about antiques furniture but since the site was about antiques some visitors found the birthday cake post of interest.
Although it did increase my daily Adsense earnings for that site for a few days.
One of the best ways to do SEO for your niche affiliate sites is to understand your niche and write newsworthy articles, in other words, to write about newsworthy items of interest to them.If you researched your niche and your target audience, you really don’t need to rely on keyword lists to get traffic.You can often receive a lot of traffic just by writing about is really interesting to your visitors.
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