Niche Affiliate Marketing Tips That Work

June 3rd, 2009 by posting

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 takes you beyond the regular recycled content that you have probably read, or heard about, a thousand times already.

A simple method of making money with affiliate marketing, or even with Adsense, is what I call trend marketing or traffic surge 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.Check out the most popular search terms for today and for the past few days. Then create the perfect storm 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 position yourself ahead of the crowd and ride the wave of traffic?

Watch some television, read a newspaper, or just take a general birds-eye view of what is hot right now. If Oprah recommends a book on her show, make a review page or post, put it up quickly to promote the book and then sell some of them through your Amazon affiliate link.

You’ll know what might be of sudden interest for certain niches that you may have built sites for already, if you have any marketing skills at all.

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, it occurred to me that this would be interesting to visitors to my home brewing site. So I went to YouTube and found a trailer for the movie, which I embedded on my site.After that blog post got indexed, I reviewed the trailer and did some research on others’ opinions of the movie.

My second post was a review of the actual movie. I did all this in 20 minutes, most of which was spent reading others’ opinions on the movie.There was suddenly a lot more people searching for “Bee Wars Movie Trailer” on the search engines once the movie went live.

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 browsing throught the newspaper one day and ran across an article about an antique show where people were bidding on a 300-year-old birthday cake. I assumed that since this bit of news made it to the offline newspaper that it would be of interest to people going to my antiques furniture site.

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.

However, it did increase my daily Adsense earnings for that site for a few days.

If you’re into niche affiliate marketing one of the best ways to do SEO for your sites is to write for people and to understand your niche and to write newsworthy items, or rather, to write about newsworthy items of interest to them.If you know your niche and your target audience, you really don’t need to rely on keywords lists to get traffic. Many times you can get great amounts of traffic just by writing about what is really of interest to your audience.

Daniel McGonagle runs the Niche Affiliate Marketing newsletter, a Free publication for niche affiliate marketers. His newsletter is brimming with tips like the one you just read, so head on over there and pick up a free copy.