Choosing the right affiliate program(s) for your website can make or break your online business. Simply follow the steps in this tutorial to greatly increase your chances of discovering the best affiliate programs available in your niche.
Obviously, I assume that you already have some ideas what your niche could be. If you need some inspiration, you may try these two articles before proceeding any further with this tutorial:
- Profitable niches in under 10 minutes
- A fool-proof way to discover the hottest markets
If you know some of my previous articles, you will probably know that I am a great fun of combining different tools to achieve the desired results. Well, today it's not any different. We will use the awesome SpyFu service that I already mentioned before - this will be our source of competitive intelligence.
Than we will do some Google magic to quickly extract the results that we need.
Ok, let's get down to business.
1. Open the SpyFu homepage. Enter your niche of choice in the input field and submit.
As you may see in the screenshot above, my niche for the sake of this example is "dog obedience".
2. In a second or so you will see results brought by SpyFu. This is when things get really interesting.
On a side note - SpyFu is an extremely capable service and it may be used in many creative ways - I will cover some of the other possible applications in the future.
Today we are interested in the section titled "Adwords results".
Your search should generate results similar to the ones below.
SpyFu may provide you with a much longer list of advertisers, but the ones that are listed directly on the first page of results are usually the ones, which are most active in the Adwords system. And this is a good sign for us!
As you may guess, websites, which are very actively promoting their products through Adwords, usually have a very good reason to do so - they are earning money! If only they had some affiliate programs, you could be earning too. And my experience is that the affiliate programs that I find this way happen to be some of the most established and profitable in any given niche.
3. But how do you find out, which websites actually offer some affiliate programs? Well, you could manually visit all websites and scan their pages, but there is a much simpler and faster method. It is time to do some googling.
Google offers a very useful "site" operator, which allows you to limit your search to any given domain. You can combine it with the "OR" operator to include several domains in your search. Do you know where I am heading?
Well, you've guessed it! We will use a search query like:
site:domainA OR site:domainB OR site:domainC affiliate.
We will simply list all domains and complete the query with the "affiliate" keyword to quickly discover any affiliate programs that these websites might offer.
There are two things to note in our example:
a) dogobediencereview.info immediately looks like an affiliate site and may not be worth including in your query
b) sitstayfetch.net (a very famous Clickbank program) actually redirects to www.kingdomofpets and this is the domain that we will have to use in our query, because this is the domain that Google indexes.
So our actual query will look like that:
site:petsmart OR site:dogproblems OR site:www.kingdomofpets OR site:shelbymarlo affiliate
And the results will look similar to the screenshot below. Please note the results highlighted in yellow - you've just discovered some very hot affiliate programs!
Ok, now you only have to sign up for this programs :-).
This method have worked for me brilliantly in many niches. It surely does not exhaust all the possible affiliate programs in any given niche, but that is not the point.
Your goal with this method is to quickly locate some of the best, top-earning affiliate programs available. And in this area, it's really a killer strategy.
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