How to Find the Best Niche Markets For Affiliate Programs

Intent gurus always make niche affiliate marketing sound easy; then when you try to cash in on it you fail. There are various reasons for this, but the subject of today is how to find the best niche markets. In order to know what is popular at the time, it is important that you know where to go in order to discover new niches. Two great sites that you can use to your advantage are eBay pulse and Google keyword tool. These are two excellent tools that you can use in order to find the next hottest niche before others flood the market. It is important that you know what niches are hot because if you are spending money on advertising and not selling anything then you are wasting your time and money.

EBay pulse is a great site to go to in order to find the next hottest niche market. Simply go to this website and it will give you the top 10 most searched for items. Thanks to this site, you now know the top 10 products that people are buying. There is also a drop down box for each category on eBay. You can use this in order to find the top 10 most searched for products in each of these groups. With this information, you have a better idea of which products you should try to sell using affiliate programs. For example, maybe the most searched for product is a cell phone; go to websites that sell cell phones and cell phone accessories and see if they are offering affiliate programs.

Next on the list is the Google keyword tool. There are multiple uses for this tool. It is most commonly used in order to find the best keywords to use when marketing a site-so keep this in mind for when you are trying to get your site listed on search engines. All you have to do is type or word or phrase into the box, and it will give you a list of the most searched for phrases. Just like with eBay pulse, you can use this tool to find out what people are searching for; and if you are planning on running a successful niche marketing business it is crucial that you know this information. You can see how easy it is to learn what people are searching for by using these sites. The best part is that it will only take you seconds.

If you are going to be a successful niche marketer, it is important that you understand the basics of marketing. One of these basic marketing fundamentals is that the market is always changing. What was popular last year may not be as popular this year. It takes a lot of work to discover what is going to stay popular and what is going to be a passing fad. Remember, it can take up to a year for you to start getting serious traffic to your niche marketing web pages; if your niche isn’t still popular, then you are out a lot of time and may be even money.

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Micro Niche Finder Tool Review

Micro Niche Finder Tool Review

Now I know you might be thinking, “oh no, another affiliate review.” I assure you this is quite the opposite. I know and have read many affiliate reviews that are just copied reviews from the affiliate section of the product the person is writing about. I’m sick and tired of all the lies that some affiliate marketer’s will say just to get a buck. Well, you don’t have to feel that way with me. Every time you read a review from me, I guarantee it will be 100% my HONEST opinion.

I purchased the Micro Niche Finder tool back in May 2008. I paid my $67 dollars for the software, then downloaded and installed it immediately. My first impression of the software was that it was simply amazing. I searched for different terms, getting excellent search results and low competition. It also provided me with the cost per click price for the keywords I was searching for. Micro Niche Finder does an excellent job with storing the previous keywords you had searched for, making it easy to go back and review your keyword search results. Another benefit this tool includes is the “brain storm” button on the top right side of the software. The brain storm button will generate random searches from Google Suggest, helping if you’re ever stuck and need new material. It also has a feature called the S.O.C or “Strength of Competition”. The S.O.C. help determine the competition of websites for the specific keyword of your choice.

Though the software seems promising, it also (in my opinion) has major flaws. Micro Niche Finder runs off of Wordtracker. It gets all of the keywords from Google Suggest then matches them with Wordtracker search counts. So the results come from mixing two different sources that gather data differently, then combining them to generate the search numbers. I was a bit confused and contacted James Jones who is the owner of the software. This is the the email reply I got back from James Jones. James states, “Phrases come from Google Suggest. Counts come from Wordtracker.” Now, Wordtracker uses different meta crawlers than Google to determine it’s search counts. What this means is that the search numbers that Wordtracker provides are off when you compare them to Google’s. Come on, let’s be honest, it’s almost everyones goal to be indexed in Google. How are we suppose to determine what keywords to use if we don’t get accurate search results? If you want an example of this visit my previous post about Wordtracker search results here.

One last thing I forgot to mention is the support. James Jones does an excellent job responding to any emails or questions you may have about the software. I have emailed him numerous time regarding some issues I had with the software and he was prompt to answer them.

Would I recommend Micro Niche Finder? No, I would not recommend this tool. Based on the search count inaccuracies of the software, I don’t think it’s a wise investment of $67. You should save your money and use the free keyword tools out there like, the SEO Book keyword tool and the Google keyword tool. Sometimes the best things in life are FREE.

I’m looking forward to your comments.

Jerry

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Wordtracker vs. Google- You be the Judge.

I wanted to take this time to clear up some stat issues. Some of the readers of my blog have been questioning my stats, they’re not too sure my stats are accurate. That’s fine, I believe that everyone is entitled to their own opinion.; ) I would also want to make sure that the stats are accurate before I start another niche marketing site. That is why I took the liberty to contact Wordtracker about their stats not matching up with Google’s. This is the email reply I got back from Wordtracker, word for word.

Before I get into the email, If you want to verify that Wordtracker stats are off, do the following;

1. Visit the Google Keyword Tool and search “diesel men’s shoes”. You will get an approximate average search of 14,800 for the month of June.
2. Got to Wordtracker.com and search “diesel men’s shoes”. You will not find any search results!

Here is the email I got from Wordtracker.com regarding their stats (click to expand).

In this email from Wordtracker states ” We don’t get data directly from Google or any of the engines as they don’t make it available to external tools.” Clearly they have not checked Google’s keyword Tool. lol. So where do they get their data from? Is it accurate? Why am I paying a hefty fee for stats that are NOT generated by the search engines? Then they go on to say “We get our data from metacrawlers, rather than the search engines themselves. After all, the metacrawlers contain the results from the search engines.” HUH? I thought Google uses meta crawlers?

Anyways, to top it off they say “So our data represents around 1% of US search. However, it is worth noting that we go to strenuous lengths to remove all automated or spam traffic. As a result, the search numbers we give you originate from genuine people with genuine credit cards.” Genuine people with genuine credit cards? I don’t get it. This is why there is an issue with the stats. The only question is, who’s stats are you going to trust? Google or Wordtracker?

Now don’t get me wrong, I’m not mad at Wordtracker. I just feel like their stats are irrelevant. Not to mention I have paid for their service only to now find out their stats are off. :\  I’ll just take my chances and follow the big dogs at Google & Yahoo!.

Now, I’m sure you’re happy with Wordtracker’s service and I want you to take this time to share your experiences, both positive and negative.

I look forward to your replies.

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