Niche Research
Posted by Nick on January 11, 2008
How’s it going.
Today I spent a few hours doing Niche Research. I started by looking a some of the products in various markets on Clickbank.com. After that I did a search on the various related keywords using Google Trends and Google’s Keyword tool. I looked at the number of searches as well as the number of competing pages.
I guess there are two ways to go about affiliate marketing. One is to choose a Niche which has a reasonable amount of searches per day but very little competition. This way your site can have a good chance of showing up on the first page of Google’s “natural” search results. Then set up a web page and do article marketing to drive traffic to your site. Hopefully by placing affiliate links throughout your site and the text of your articles you’ll make some conversions.
The Second way would be PPC. I’m thinking that you would need more searches (and hence more competition) to make money doing this type of affiliate marketing. I’m still very new and inexperienced at all this so any advice from experienced affiliate and internet marketers would be greatly appreciated.
One question I have is how many products do you generally need to market in order to make $5,000- $10,000 profit per month? I know the answers will very depending on many variables but if some experienced internet marketers could tell me perhaps what number they started with that would be cool.
Thanks
Nick
