Found a niche, no affiliate products

You can create a product yourself

^^^best advice Try to create a product after you do some research. Find a need and create a product to solve it. You can even consider outsourcing the product creation if you have the means.

Good luck

Is there money in the niche? Are there ads for the search? What are the products they are selling? Are they information products or physical products? Are there books on Amazon about the subject? What are the top 10 sites in Google? Are they selling products? What products are they selling? Are they physical or information products?

Is it 15,000 EXACT local searches?

Are there any forums, blogs or other 'hubs' in the niche i.e. facebook groups or anything?

Anything on sale on Amazon? Do the products appear to sell well? i.e. do they have lots of reviews?

If there's no competition and nothing to sell it's possible that it's because there's no demand for it or the search volumes are incorrect or misleading.

I sometimes stumble across niches that seem to have good search volume and demand and no competition and wonder why no one is monetizing this niche but usually I realise later after a bit of research there's not as much demand as I thought.

If there's genuinely nothing on sales definitely people looking for information and there's a problem to be solved then you could create your own info product to sell but do proper research first to make sure this really is a viable niche and there's not a reason why people aren't already competing in it....competition is usually a good sign as it means there's money to be made.

Everything I've ever done online, all of it, product creation has been the most profitable. If you have a niche with a need, and you can help solve it with a product, you're in good shape

"Little competition" usually means, no market.

You pretty much answered your own question "No Products/No Demand"... I must have missed that before..

Create your own product, contact me in 6 months when you have the conversion testing done and I'll be your affiliate.

First you need to confirm if there is money in that niche.

How many Google Adword ads appear for your main KW? What is cpc for the advertisers?
What is sold by these advertisers and the 10 top organic SERP sites?

If there is money go for it. Find out what your niche wants and give it to them by creating your own product.

I would look at the first few pages of results for that keyword in question, each site one by one, and find out if those sites seem to have 'solved' the problem a potential searcher might have.

Start looking into your own product and make it better than what entire first page has to offer and you will be on to something.

And don't think for one second you can't create a better product than what is the collective first page results. Just use your head, be creative and you will be in business.

I would test the niche to see if it's responsive. Run a quick ad, send them to a squeeze page and see if they buy into your free offer. If they do, and they do so in bunches.... immediately create a product for this niche.

If most dont subscribe, and the conversion rate sucks... pick a different niche.

Yeah as Randall says run a quick test on it first before deciding to jump in head first. Set up a site with a couple of pages / articles and / or an opt in form, run some targeted traffic at it, see how responsive they are and if they're willing to buy and you'll know before you go spend lots of time and money on it.

It sounds like this is only based on one keyword, which is just 1/2 of 1% of the kind of niche research you should be doing.

Bear in mind that there are plenty of private affiliate programs that aren't all that easy to find. One way to find them is affiliate directories, but I prefer to do indepth keyword research and then search the SEs for people who show up on the first page.

I focus on buyer keywords and look for people who are NOT affiliates but the actual product creators, manufacturers, etc. and then I contact them to see if they have an affiliate program.

Personally, though, I don't get involved in a niche unless I see some advertising, some competition, and plenty of products / services to promote. My own personal bias is that all these other competitors have done most of the research for me and I'm able to study them and find ways to reach their target audience better than they do.

RoD

whats the CPC on google? it must be very low. you should pick "buyer's keywords" if you are trying to sell something. if its just information then probably go with adsense

Definitely make sure that people are really interested in spending money in this niche, and then you can create a product.

Gauge interest on forums, other blogs, other sites, etc.

Jake

Try a wholesaler or dropshipper to find products that would sell in the niche.

create your own product.

but first...

collect opt-ins

set up a good sequence with solid free info

then ask them what is their number one problem or hindrance in 'said' niche

create your product around their problems

the answer to this is simple, it's a sucky niche. The first thing I look for is a ton of competition, that's how you know the niche is good... then it just comes down to god marketing.