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How do you do affiliate marketing in more competitive niches?

by ryansjones
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Ah, it has been quite a while since my last post (mainly due to increased hours at my day job in the retail environment during the christmas season, working on my big website, and other competing stuff). Anyways, I have one question when it comes to niches. When I first joined in the affiliate marketing business (back in July), I got my initial websites through yourbizwebsites (where you can get up to 10 different pre-built websites full of clickbank related content and are aimed at 10 unique audiences as their names imply, such as building muscle, save marriage, and others). Also, I am currently in the process of building another website, which will contain offers from affiliates via linkshare, commission junction, traffic exhcanges, 2 mlms I am with, and will be marketed to a wide variety of audiences. However, the niches that I have been given to promote seem to be highly competitive. At my first site alone, here are the niches I were given: ebooks on internet marketing, building muscle, weight loss, dog training, cat training, dating and relationhips, saving a marriage, getting an ex back, ebooks that are aimed at realtors trying to invest in foreclosures, ebooks on learning spanish, and skin care. However, I have noticed that many of those subjects seem to have a lot of competition (perhaps that is a downside of getting pre-built websites, since you are competing with others offering pretty the same kind of stuff). Anyways, my question to you is that are there ways to get an edge when marketing in more competitive niches? Also if you have marketed in more competitive areas, feel free to share your experiences and advice. BTW, I have also taken up to multilevel marketing firms: global domains international and the spider web system, and have been straining to get sign ups (though i have gotten 2 at global domains since I first started), and noticed that those tend to be competitive as well. Any advice on how to get an edge in these kinds of fields would be helpful.
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  • Profile picture of the author Monetize
    I would highly recommend that you research and select your
    own niches as opposed to working with what's been "given"
    to you. While doing so, visit the major affiliate networks and
    find offers that fit your niche(s). Finally, do not promote a
    bunch of unrelated products on a single site as this does
    not lead to conversions.
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  • Profile picture of the author ryanman
    I have one sentence- "Where there is competition...There is loads of money to be made"...And it's more than enough for everyone.
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    • Profile picture of the author Eric Stanley
      Originally Posted by ryanman View Post

      I have one sentence- "Where there is competition...There is loads of money to be made"...And it's more than enough for everyone.
      This is so true. At first I avoided all competitive niches like the plague. Now they are the only products that I promote. Why? Because people are making tons of money from them, hence the competitiveness. There is certainly more than enough $ to go around as long as you can position yourself, and I don't mean the top spot.
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  • Profile picture of the author lstoops
    Competition is a great thing. Finding the right keywords is what will determine success or failure.
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  • Profile picture of the author Hanuka
    Go to google; type the keyword which you want to rank for; click on the
    10th result on the 1st page(assuming that it's a "normal" page and not "ranked
    by internal links" site cause the page is on a "big name" domain..

    Copy the site's url and write in google link:http://www.domain.com ("domain"
    be the site's domain offcourse).

    Then asses how hard it'll be to rank naturally there.

    You can also go to MarketLeap(.com) and check the link popularity count
    to determine further how much work will you need to do to be on the 1st
    page of Google.


    Another thing: You should build your site around your main "big" keyword, but
    trying to rank at the beginning for the lesser keywords(which contain the
    big keyword).

    ..hope that helps... that's how I'm about to SEO my site anyways xD
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