Affiliate Niche Market: How To Test If Yours Will Be Successful

Many affiliate marketers are looking for string of niche markets that they can make a profit in. Even the most successful marketers may only find 3 successful niches for every 10 that they try out. So how can you test to find which ones are going to be successful?

The first way is to carry out a Google AdWords campaign using direct linking. This is one of the fastest ways to get some results. It is also a method where you can easily measure results. Direct linking is where you publish your ad and send traffic direct from your advert to the merchant's site.


The numbers that you should be looking at are the CTR (click through rate) and CPC (cost per conversion). This will give you invaluable information about whether customers are interested enough in your offer to actually click on the ads to find out more. It will also give an indication of how well the merchant's site converts its customers.

This is something that is not often talked about in affiliate marketing circles. You can do everything right by sending qualified prospects through to the merchant's site. But if their site doesn't convert them into paying customers, you're wasting your time.

If you are not ready to start spending money on pay per click (PPC) advertising like Google AdWords, you can use free methods. To do this you need to write a number of articles about the subject. Then submit them to the popular article directories like Ezinearticles and Goarticles. You can also build some Squidoo lenses, Hubpages, and Blogger blogs about your niche. This type of approach is sometimes called 'bum marketing'.

Think big. One or two articles won't cut it with this method. You need to be thinking of creating 100+ articles. They do not need to be masterpieces, but they should give some relevant information.

This type of article marketing will take longer for you to start seeing results and it is less measurable. But the big advantage is that it is free. You could even find that you start getting affiliate commissions without having to lay out any money. Once you start to see a steady flow of money coming in, then you can start to invest in PPC advertising.

By: Robert Newsome

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