Choose A Niche For Your Affiliate Site

You've heard there is a lot of money to be made in Affiliate Marketing. So you immediately sign up for a bunch of Affiliate Marketing programs that have absolutely nothing to do with the content on your website. A few months later you check your reports and you discover you haven't made a dime. And you ask yourself  'Now How is that possible?

Simple answer: Choose a niche for your affiliate site. You need to decide a niche for your affiliate site before you even decide putting together your affiliate site, never mind signing on affiliate programs. It's like building a house without a foundation. you have to decide who you are going to target before you start typing. I'm sure your next question will be "What in the world is that?"  Well, I'm going to tell you what a niche is and then show you how to choose a niche.

What is  a Niche?

Well, basically a niche is a specific segment of people searching the web for specific information to a problem. Your job as  as a prospective owner of the affiliate site is to identify the general market that you want to promote your affiliate site in and then seek out the niche within that market. That niche is what your affiliate site will be about. The neat thing about carving a niche for yourself is that you get to claim that niche for yourself. Instead of slugging it out in a crowded niche where you risk getting lost in that crowd you identify a niche withing  a market where you believe you can succeed and prosper. For instance I have a blog called Laptop Mechanic which seeks to identify and resolve the problems of peoples laptops. Now I decided to get into Technology since I'm a Technology junkie and I love gadgets. However, Technology is too huge  a market so I narrowed it down to computers. Again, I was like 'naaah, computers is too broad. I need to narrow it down some more.' So I said to myself 'Let me touch on fixing and solving laptop problems." And it's been a blast ever since. I made sure I identified a niche that I could succeed in and be passionate about. Once I identified that niche I then signed up  with affiliate programs related to the content on my blog.

How To Choose a Niche

To choose a niche, you first decide on a general market you want to  want promote your affiliate site. Next, narrow it down to a specific sector of that market, your niche and then create your affiliate site around that market. So let's say for instance(and this just an example) that you want to go into Internet Marketing. Now Internet Marketing is one huge market out there which so you have to narrow it down to a small niche within this market, that being Affiliate Marketing. Even further, let's say you want to go into health. Now health is way too broad so we narrow it down to, say herbal medicines. the important factor here is to narrow it as far down to as specific a niche as possible that way the content on your affiliate site is more targeted. Also,  you avoid slogging it out with the big boys and risk being lost in the crowd..  Your ultimate goal is to gain as many visitors as possible in a small niche and make tons of money in no time.

So before you start dreaming about dollars you need to choose a niche for your affiliate site before you  start signing up for affiliate programs. Decide what your website is going to be about and who you're going to reach before you e\put your content together. Do this and you will be laughing all the way to the bank.

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How to Do Keyword Research For Real

Last time, I  talked about keywords and its importance to your online presence. This time I'm going to show you how to do keyword research for real. Here we go:



Write a List

First, you need to compile a list of keywords  that you going to use for your website. They also represent the niche that you want to get into. Just open up Microsoft word and list them line by line. This is important because you will want to refer back to these words while you keep track of your keyword research results.



Find Yourself a Keyword Research Tool

There are key advantages of using a keyword research tool. First it offers elaborate information about your competitors in terms  as to what kind of keywords they're using.. That way you can make necessary changes to your keyword list if you have to. Also  the keyword research tool gives you the rundown on the number of searches for your keywords for a particular month, and how much money you'll make each time your ads are clicked.I suggest you try Google Adwords. It's the best out there. Just google Adwords and download it for free.


Do The Research

Start entering the keyword or keyword phrases into the keyword research tool. Make sure you enter one keyword/keyword phrase at a time to get the best results while doing your keyword research. our keywords, you type in the research tool and click 'keyword ideas' just to see how many searches have been done So  if Super Affiliate Handbook is one of your  keywords you type it in the research tool.  Upon completion of this session, add one column to  record the cost per click of each keyword that you researched to calculate the amount of money you could earn for the ad using that keyword.

Make Sense Out of the Research

By 'Make Sense of Research' I mean Analyze the Research. You need to break down the results of your keyword research and make use of it.  While doing your analysis, look out for two important factors. first:

Search Volume

This refers to the number of searches browsers performed on a specific keyword/keyword phrase. Pay attention to keywords that have a high search volume because this suggests that  a lot of people are searching for information on them.

High Paying keywords

High paying keywords connotes keywords that will help  your cash register. You do not want a keyword that is highly subscribed otherwise you'll be lost in the search wilderness. Instead go for a keyword that will attract less competition and give you a better chance of staying at the top of the search charts. Let's say you use a keyphrase such as Super Affiliate Handbook, make sure it's a keyword phrase that will help you climb up the charts. If not, try another alternative .  Looking for a reliable keyword research tool, I suggest Wordpot.

As you can see keyword research is absolutely crucial to the cash register of your online business. Failure to do it right and you could end up in virtual(internet) poverty. Follow the above directions and you'll do just fine

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Keywords: What are They?

Keywords:what are they? well, keywords  are part of the information search engines use when they include your website  on their search results.Let's say you go on Google  or some other search engine and you type in a phrase called Super Affiliate Handbook  . Google then generates and displays the web pages that bear the phrase.  Super Affiliate Handbook.  . that, ladies and gentlemen, iscalled a keyword phrase or search term. Other  non-phrase words or single words are also called keywords or search terms. If you think keywords are not important to your Affiliate Marketing prosperity and website traffic prospects, think again. They're absolutely critical. In fact, before you put  fingers to keyboard, you need to decide which keywords or phrases you're going to use in your websites or blogs. They're absolutely key in  determining whether you reach prosperity or eternal poverty.

Why Should  I Take Keyword research seriously?

You should take keyword research seriously as  keywords.key phrases are the means by which you get targeted traffic to your affiliate website. Keywords are also the means by which people looking for your product use to find  your website. As  cyberindian .com  indicated, it is almost like looking up your number in a telephone book with the keyword/keyphrase being your phone number and the search engine acting as the telephone book.  Most importantly, keywords/key phrases determine how high your wbsite ranks in the google sweepstakes. Your keywords must also bear relevance to the product and information on your website.

How Do I Choose Keywords For My Website?


Well, you will have to pick your customer's brain. here.  Put yourself in your customer's shoes by brainstorming on the type of keywords/phrases that they'll type  when looking for you in Google or any other search engine.  To accomplish that, you'll need a keyword tool. Through this tool, you can tell how many people or companies are using your selected keyword. the key here is to use keywords/phrases that nobody is using. Failure to do that and nobody is going to find you on Google. If you're looking for a keyword research tool that will help you climb the search ranks I suggest Wordpot . It will Make your keyword research that much easier.

How Do I know That People Are Searching For My Keywords? 

When webmasters are linking back to your website. By that I mean the number of sites that link to your website determine the popularity of your website. This is what Google  uses to rank websites. To get other webmasters to link to your website would require what we call Reciprocal Linking where webmasters agree to place links on each other's websites. To find out how to do this,  check out  http://www. reciprocallink.com.

Another factor determining the popularity of your website is whether the keywords  people are searching for fit the keywords in the pages for your website. So that if someone types   a keyword called $1000 that  should exist in any of the pages of my website for it to show up on the search results. Something you need to keep in mind for your keyword research  is that google crawls individual pages not just websites.

So the stronger your keywords, the better the chances of your website being ranked.
Cheers!

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