Affiliate Marketing Tips You Can Use

By leejon | June 1, 2009

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 tell you the usual boring stuff like, “go to ClickBank and see what’s hot” then create a Squidoo lens or Blogger blog and write articles linking to those sites acting as landing pages. No, this article goes beyond the normal regurgitated stuff you’ve probably heard or read a thousand time already.

To earn money with Adsense or niche afflliate marketing, a simple method for doing this is what I call traffic surge marketing, or trend 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 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. There are a lot of people following 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 beat them at their own game by anticipating 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?

Read a newspaper, watch some television, or just take a general birds-eye view towards what is popular right now.If Oprah Winfrey recommends a book to her book club, many people will go to search the internet to buy it so get ahead of that traffic by setting up landing pages to promote that book via your Amazon affiliate link.

If you have any marketing experience at all, then you’ll know what might be of sudden interest in the niches that you 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 that this would be of interest to my site on home brewing so I found a trailer for the movie on YouTube and embedded the YouTube video 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 on the movie itself. 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. I was already on the first page for the search terms that I wanted when the movie went live.

Example #2 of how I anticipate a surge of interest and increase traffic for my niche sites using offline resources.

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 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.

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

One of the best ways to do SEO for your niche affiliate sites is to understand your niche and write newsworthy articles, in other words, 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 brimming with tips like the one you just read, so head on over there and pick up a free copy.