How to find a profitable niche for affiliate marketing?

How to find a profitable niche for affiliate marketing? On Net India

Today's post I will talk about how to find a product in an affiliate marketer.

Friends I hope you can easily verify the product after this blog.

You need to first define your niche before setting foot on this business.

The main reason for this business disruption is choosing your wrong niche.

The following are some tips that will help you choose a profitable niche online.

Finding Your Niche - An Overview

A niche market is defined as a subset of the largest markets. A profitable niche market is a market that has a reasonable number of people who are willing to pay for a product or service on the niche.

The basic principle of niche research involves dividing a broad topic into subcategories where you cannot find a subcategory that is high or medium in demand and low or moderate.

One mistake you should always try to avoid is to distract the market with a niche. A market is very broad and very competitive. I want to emphasize the fact that

A niche market is a subset of the largest markets.

To find a profitable niche, your job will be to seek out a group of people whose hunger for products or services are not being met. When you locate these people and satisfy their hunger, you will make some money. As an affiliate, you don't need to create the product or service yourself. All you need to do is to register with affiliate networks and search for the product or service which might be hiding somewhere.

To find a profitable niche, you should be looking for:

1.     a niche where there is a high demand for information or products

2.     a niche that is not too competitive and

3.     a niche where people are willing to keep their hands into their wallet and buy products or services. There should also be the possibility of selling a wide range of backend product to the same customer.

Hunt for Niche Ideas

Sometimes coming up with a niche idea is difficult for some people, but thanks to the category and subcategory listings of some websites. This is one of the easiest ways of spotting niches.

Clicking on any of the categories will lead you to a subcategory which can be narrowed down further to find a niche. For example, "Computers" is a category that has the following subcategories: graphic cards, motherboard, system cooling, computer speakers, etc. Each of these subcategories can have their own subcategories and so on.

You can think of the broad categories as markets and the subcategories as potential niches.

Sites where you can find this kind of category listings are:

• Ezine Articles
• Shopping.com
•  Dmoz Directory
• MSN etc.

By browsing through the categories and subcategories of these sites, you can easily spot niches that draw your attention. One super-terrific thing I like about this method of niche hunting is that you can uncover many niches you wouldn’t have thought of in a million years!

When hunting for niches, what I normally do first is to find as many niches as possible before I worry about their profitability. So when you have compiled a list of niches in a text file, the next thing to do is to determine their profitability and the competition involved. But note that the hot searches or products shown on some sites like shopping.com/top_searches are likely to be profitable, but you may want to confirm them.

Check if there is Demand for Information in your Niche

Some niche ideas you got in step 1 above might be or might not be popular. You probably do not want to see yourself in a niche where only a few people are interested in, that¡¯s why you have to check if there is demand for information in the niches you selected during niche hunting.

To check if there is demand for information in a niche, you have to check if people are really talking about your niche in community sites, or searching for information in your niche in search engines. Community sites are sites like forums, answer sites, blogs, social media sites and another web 2.0 sites where like-minded people come together to share ideas. If there are active community sites in a particular niche, then it means that people are really demanding and supplying information in the niche.

In the case of checking if people are searching for information in your niche through search engines, you can use keyword research tools. The keyword research tool will show you the number of searches that are being made for keywords in your niche. There are many keyword research tools available like the free Google Keyword Tool. If there are thousands of searches for keywords in your niche, it means that a lot of people are searching for information in your niche. Keyword research tools can give you far more information than just the number of searches for keywords in your niche.

Check if your Niche is Profitable

You can check to see if a niche is profitable through sites that show you what people are buying online. Few examples of such sites are:

1. Shopping.com
2. eBay
3. Clickbank
4. Amazon
5. Flipkart

Check for the Level of Competition in your Niche

By competition, I mean the websites you will be competing within search engines and these websites are those ones that appear on the front page of Google when you search for the keywords you are targeting.

Your competitors are websites that appear on page 1 in Google or any search engine you're targeting.

There is one very big misconception many people have when it comes to website competition. You must have come across this misconception I am about to talk about ¨C and you probably believed it!

Many times, I have come across many sites that will tell you that if you do a quoted search in Google for your target keyword, the number of results returned to indicate the strength of the competition. They went ahead to say that if you click through to the last page of the search engine result page, Google will display the actual number of sites that are competing for the keyword and if this number is more than a certain value, then the competition is too stiff. This is not really the truth because most of those pages might not even be targeting the Exact keyword you are targeting. On the other hand, even if the number of webpages is below a certain number, the competition might even be very stiff because some websites are well optimized for that keyword phrase.

I¡¯ll like to highlight the fact that your competitors are websites that are targeting the exact keyword you¡¯re targeting. Also, your competitors are those webpages that appear on the front page of Google when you do a search for your keywords.

Your main competitors are webpages that incorporate your keywords in places like their title, anchor text of backlinks and URL. So if you really want to smoke out your competitors in Google, you have to use the following search operators:

• All in anchor your keyword here
• All in title your the keyword here and
• All in URL your keyword here

Perform these three searches separately to filter out those webpages that have your target keyword in the anchor text of their backlinks, page title and in their URL respectively.

The three search queries mentioned above will only help you to see the sites you are competing with, they tell you nothing about how strong the competition is. To determine competition strength, you have to spy on your competitors.

Below are 4 things to look for when spying on your competitors (concentrate on the first page of Google SERP):

1. The number of backlinks to the competing pages (use Backlinkwatch.com).

2. The backlink anchor text of your competitors (Backlinkwatch.com will still show you this).

3. The Google page rank of your competitors (Get this information by installing SEO Quake) and

4. The Google page rank of your competitors' backlinks.

The only type of backlinks you should consider are relevant ones. What I mean by relevant backlinks is that they are those backlinks that have your keywords in their anchor text. So don't be scared at the total number of backlinks a site has. Also, disregard backlinks that have the Nofollow attribute.

A tough competing site is one that has a lot of RELEVANT BACKLINKS from high page rank pages. You are the one to decide what is tough for you. If you can do better than the competition by building relevant backlinks from webpages with high page rank, then your site will stand a chance of appearing on the first page of the Google search result page.

Warning: When building backlinks to a particular webpage, make sure that you vary the anchor text of the backlinks. If not search engines might penalize your site. In other words, don't use the same anchor texts in all the backlinks that points to a webpage, vary it a little.

So what have we been saying so far? Here is a summary:

1. Hunt for niche ideas by browsing the categories and sub-categories of sites like shopping.com, MSN, EzineArticles etc.
2. Check if there is demand for information in your niche by using a keyword research tool and community sites.
3. Check how well products and services in your niche are selling by visiting online marketplaces.
4. Use Google all in the title, all in the anchor and all in URL operators to identify your competitors
5. Use www.backlinkwatch.com to find out the number and quality of backlinks your competitors have. This information will tell you whether you can outrank your competitors or not.

With all that you have learned so far, you should be able to discover a profitable niche for yourself.

This procedure of finding a niche requires a bucketful of patience and determination. However, if you want to make it a lot easier, you can use SEO SpyGlass.

Click here to See more article