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 watch 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”.
You can be a super affiliate by anticipating what the demand and 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 possess any marketing skills at all, then you’ll know what might be of sudden interest for certain niches you may 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 how interesting this would be on my home brewing site, so I embedded a movie trailer that I found on YouTube. After that little post got indexed, I reviewed the 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.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. I was already on the first page for the search terms that I wanted when the movie went live.
Example #2 of how I use offline resources to anticipate a surge of interest and traffic for my niche sites.
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 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 the antique birthday cake, but the traffic spike and Adsense earnings didn’t come like I had anticipated. 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.
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 understand your niche and your target audience, you really don’t need to rely on keywords lists to get traffic.You can often receive a lot of traffic just by writing about is really interesting to your visitors.
Daniel McGonagle runs the Niche Affiliate Marketing newsletter, a Free publication for niche affiliate marketers. His newsletter is chock-full of tips like the one you just read so stop on by and get a free copy of your newsletter.
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