One of the best pieces of software that I have found for Affiliate Marketing is a service called Datafeedr.

Many companies in the Ecommerce space have datafeeds, or feeds that give all the data on the products they sell.

And this can potentially be thousands of products.

So what Datafeedr does is get all the different feeds from different companies and creates a way for you to add a store to your site with those product feeds and each product has a buy link that is your affiliate link!

Brilliant!

If you want to see a site I have created with the Datafeedr plugin go to http://BestWomensWinterBoots.com.

So here are the steps that I follow when I am creating a Datafeedr store.

Step 1- Market Research

For all market research I use Market Samurai.   I get an idea of a potential niche market and I type that into the keyword research module.  Then I follow the “Golden Rules” for choosing a potential market (greater than 80 searches a day, less than 30,000 competing pages & at least a 15% PBR).

Then I choose a main theme keyword, i.e. “Womens Winter Boots” and then 3-5 (or more) category keywords i.e. Womens Dress Boots, Womens Snow Boots, Womens Snowboard Boots.

Step 2 Buy a Domain Name

Then I buy a domain name with my main theme keyword in it.

Step 3 Upload WordPress

Using Fantastico in your Cpanel upload wordpress to your new domain name.

Step 4 Upload Datafeedr Plugin

Follow the instructions from the Datafeedr site to upload the plug in to your site.

Step 5 Create and Upload Your Store

When using the Datafeedr Plugin you have to create a store.  Basically follow the instructions on the Datafeedr Store and just a shameless plug for the Datafeedr team; they have the best customer service for any product I have ever used.  If you ask a question in their forum they usually answer it right away, if not it will get answer within a day or two.

Usually I just search for my main keywords and make each category keyword a category for the store and then upload that store to your site.

Step 6 Add Your Affiliate Links to the Site

This is really easy in the plug in settings just go add your affiliate number or link in the settings page.

Step 7 Drive Traffic to Your New Site

Now begin to get people to visit your site utilizing whatever Home Business Advertising you like to do. I prefer Web 2.0, Article Marketing & Video Marketing to get people to visit my site.

A buddy of mine was interested in starting a home based business in the “Fitness Bootcamp Niche” So I told him I’d check it out and let him know what I thought.

Watch this video:

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Step 1: Google Suggest

So I started out in Google and looked at Google Suggest (the thing that pops up and tells you different keywords and how many sites are competing for that Keyword.

Step 2: Commercial Viability

Then you look and see if there’s any PPC Advertising (The sponsored links on the right hand side and possibly the top) If there are, it is usually a commercially viable market. That’s just a fancy way of saying people will spend money in this market.

Step 3: Find Long-Tail Keywords

Next scroll to the bottom of the page on Google and look at the “related keywords.” This will help you drill down and find more long-tail keywords and possibly buyer keywords. For this niche….Fitness Bootcamp is vague. What do they want to know about fitness bootcamp? Do they want to start one? Find one? Etc…. Long tail keywords add those action phrases.

Step 4: Traffic Stats & Action Keywords

Then we used the Google Keyword Tool at:

https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal

Type in the keywords you found when you looked at “related keywords”. You’re also gonna want to add you main keyword “fitness bootcamp” and some action phrases. Something like “fitness bootcamp how” or “fitness bootcamp start”

Step 5: Check for Competition

Go back to Google and type in one of the action keywords you found using Google’s Keyword Tool. In the video I typed in “Fitness Boot Camp Workout” The purpose now is to look at your competitors and what they’re doing. So I clicked the number one spot on the first page of Google to see what they were doing.

This guy is selling his product for $109. So you can see that the competition isn’t giving away free information in this market (at least this guy) You’d want to do this for at least the top 5 positions for this keyword, if not the top 10.

Step 6: Find Affiliate Products for Keyword

I noticed that he has a thing for affiliates at the bottom. So I went to www.ClickBank.com to see if there were any affiliate products we could sell to this market.

Affiliate products are other people’s products that you market for them and if the people you send to their sales page buy you get a commission off of that product.

You can also check www.CBEngine.com for affiliate products on clickbank. Sometimes clickbank’s marketplace is hard to navigate through and find products. So this is just another place to find some products to market as a clickbank affiliate.

Step 7: Check Stats for Competition

Then go to Yahoo Site Explorer at: https://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/mysites and type in the url of the number one site in google for this keyword. Look how many pages this website has and look how many links to this website there is.

To take the number one spot for this keyword you will have to do more than this website. Get more quality link backs, etc….

Now do this for at least the Top 5 sites in Google to see what the competition will be like to get on the front page of Google on this site.

Step 8: Decide is this is something you want to go into

Now assess if this market is something you’d like to spend your time, money & resources to market to.

Pros about the fitness bootcamp market:

• There is money in it…
• A couple clickbank products so you don’t have to create a product
• One of those products pays pretty well

Cons about the fitness bootcamp market:

• Fitness Bootcamp is a vague phrase. To find out what they want in this market you have to create long-tail keywords like “Fitness Boot Camp Workouts”
• When you do the long tail you see that you only get like 30 searches a month. Which tells me that this isn’t a very hot market…could be one day but it isn’t really happening right now

So those are the steps that I go through to see if a market is viable or not….

If you have any more questions write a comment below and I will do my best to answer it…