Hi everyone and welcome back to another video.
In today's video, I'm going to be breaking down
step by step,
how do you find which articles to write about
on your affiliate marketing website.
Now, I wanted to take this tutorial one step further.
So not only am I going to show you how to do this,
but I'm going to find three realistic niches
that I would personally go into based on their numbers.
Now, if you are anyone who is doing affiliate marketing
using niche specific websites,
it's extremely important to do your research.
There's two parts to the research.
First is finding out what niche to make your website about.
And second is finding out which specific articles
you should be writing that you know will rank on Google.
Now, before we get into this tutorial,
I just wanted to take one second to say,
if you're new to the channel,
welcome, my name is Greg.
And I like to talk about online entrepreneurship.
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if you're interested in making money online,
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You guys know how much it means to me.
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So without further ado,
let's go ahead and get started in today's video.
So this video is going to be very short
and very to the point.
So, the first thing to know is that
you need to use a niche research tool.
That's the only way to really do this.
There is a lot of speculation that you'll find
as you start to research different tools
on which ones are better than others,
which ones are worth the money
and the pros and cons to using the free tools out there.
Now to sum up years worth of research
in about 30 seconds for you,
here's everything you need to know about these tools.
First is if it's completely free,
I don't recommend it because I don't think the information
is going to be accurate.
Second, if it's a free trial of a paid tool,
then I definitely do recommend it
because you're not going to have to pay,
but typically you're going to get the full features
of a paid tool.
Third, just know that some of these tools
can get pretty expensive,
but as you become more advanced in affiliate marketing,
you can see how they're worth their weight in gold,
because they save you a ton of time.
And lastly fourth is that even when you are using
a paid tool, even if it's a top tier paid tool,
you are going to have to use common sense
when you're doing niche research.
If something just seems too good to be true,
or it doesn't sound like it makes sense,
go with your gut on this.
And I'll talk about this a little further in this video.
So with that said, the last thing before
we get into this step by step tutorial on the computer
is to know that print on demand
and affiliate marketing use different research tools.
This is commonly confused,
but to clear this up very quickly for you,
in affiliate marketing we want a niche research tool
that is pulling information from search engines
and search activity on the internet.
For a print on demand research tool,
we want a tool that is pulling data
from t-shirt listings and t-shirts sales
for print on demand.
This is very different from the search engine data
that we have with our affiliate marketing research tool.
Now, if you are someone who is in print on demand
and affiliate marketing like myself,
I'll link up a tutorial for the print on demand
research tool down in the description,
so you can get your information on that separately.
So without further ado,
let's switch over to the computer now
and I'll show you the two main things.
First is going to be how to find a niche
to make your affiliate marketing website about.
And then second is how to find which articles
to write on your website that will rank on Google.
So let's go ahead and switch over to the computer here,
and I don't wanna waste any of your time.
So this is the tool that I personally use.
It's called SEMrush and long story short,
it's the best bang for your buck.
And they have a great free trial.
Now, I actually used to use a different tool for this.
It was called KWFinder,
but recently they've made a lot of changes to their tool
and they've limited their free trial
in addition to being very pushy to get you to sign up.
So with that said, KWFinder is still a good tool,
but the one that I personally use is SEMrush.
So this is the homepage here.
This is what you will see.
I'm just going to log in so we can get to the tools here.
Okay, so once you're logged in,
you have access to all of their tools now.
So I guess the first thing we should do
is go to their pricing and just cover this
so we're all on the same page
before we start using the tool.
So yes, this is a paid tool,
but they have a seven day free trial.
Like I was saying before,
if you can get a paid tool with a free trial,
the free trial is the way to go
especially as a beginner in affiliate marketing.
This will give you access to really good information
that you can base your affiliate marketing content plan on.
And as you start to grow your affiliate marketing business,
and you have money to invest back into your business,
this would be a tool that I recommend you use.
Now in regards to pricing,
they don't offer any discount code,
so I don't have a discount code to offer you,
but I do have my referral link down in the description.
If you use that link when you sign up, thank you for that.
If not, I hope this tutorial is helpful anyways,
but those are the plans here.
You really just need the pro or the guru plan.
You don't need a business plan
unless you are extremely deep in affiliate marketing.
So with that said, pricing is now out of the way.
Now let's go back to the tool and get started with this.
So this page is basically your homepage
and it's called your dashboard.
This is what we're going to be using primarily
and it's how we're going to be finding
what niche to make your website about.
So all you have to do, it's very simple,
don't worry about anything on the left side,
just stay at the top part here and type in all of the niches
that you're thinking about going into.
So to give you an example here,
I'm going to type in Apple
and I haven't typed this in before,
but the concept should be about Apple computers or iPhones,
and we'll see what kind of information it comes back with.
(keyboard clicking)
So as you can see once you type in Apple
and you click search,
it's going to switch it over to keyword overview.
And this is the information that we're looking at
for our overview of our entire niche website.
So the main metrics we're looking at
is over on the left here,
we wanna see how much monthly volume there is.
This is going to be an average over the last 12 months,
every month,
how many people are searching for something related
to Apple.
And as you can see, the search volume is astronomical.
It's over 6 million per month.
However, the keyword difficulty is 93%.
What that means for us is yes, there is a ton of traffic,
but it is extremely competitive to go into.
So if you were someone new,
starting out with affiliate marketing,
this is going to be far too competitive
for you to compete with,
because you're going to have a new website
compared to your competitors on this topic
who have websites filled with content,
and they've been in existence for years.
So, although we are going to get a lot more information
down here about each one of these niches that we type in,
we only need to focus on the volume and keyword difficulty
when we're starting out and finding what niche to go into.
Now as promised in the beginning of this video,
I'm going to go through here
and I'm going to find three niches
that I would personally go into
and create an affiliate marketing website about.
So I'm going to do a bit of digging here
and I'll come back when I have three to show you.
All right, just like that I've searched a few up here
and I opened up three tabs with three separate niches
that have good numbers,
I'll explain to you why here.
So the first one here is microgreens.
So if you're not familiar with this,
I was at a farmer's market the other day,
and I saw a lady selling a bunch of these,
what looked like very small plants
and they are actually microgreens.
So you can grow different plants on a microscale.
It's pretty interesting,
but this is a niche that people are looking for.
So going by the numbers,
there's nearly 50,000 people per month
searching for this just in the United States alone.
The keyword difficulty is at a 78.
This is within range of something that you can compete in
with a new website.
On the rating scale of SEMrush,
anywhere in the sixties or the seventies
is going to be good for you,
if you're just starting out.
Now with that said, if you can find something
that has decent search volume
and even lower than sixties or seventies
on the keyword difficulty,
that is going to be even more ideal.
So without spending too much time here,
the last thing that I like about this one
is that the trend of how many people are searching for this
is actually going up.
This means that more people are getting interested
in this topic,
so you have the potential to create your content
in the niche and grow with this niche
as it starts to get bigger.
So moving on to the second niche,
this is a much bigger niche but it still has good numbers.
So I would consider going into it
because there's so much room to create content.
This is the niche of wine.
And as you can imagine, wine is quite a big niche
but it has a lot of subniches to go into.
Speaking of which in a minute here,
I'm going to show you how to find those subniches
to write about.
But looking at the numbers
you have over 670,000 people per month searching about wine.
And the keyword difficulty is only a 69.
Now the trend on wine obviously is going to fluctuate,
but people are going to be drinking wine forever,
I don't see that ending anytime soon.
And moving onto the third niche that I found
is converted van.
This niche is pretty interesting
because it's become very popular over the last few years
and I think now it's really starting to take off.
Looking at the search volume,
you have about 50,000 people per month searching for this.
The keyword difficulty is at a 72, so it's right in range.
And then looking at the trend, this one again is going up.
So now we have three solid niches to go into.
Again, you can do all of this on your free trial.
Just be sure to write down what these niches are,
so you have them for the future,
if you still wanna go into them.
But with that said, now we need to figure out
what kind of content to write on our website
about these niches.
Just because the overall niche looks good,
does not mean that we can just write anything
about the niche and expect it to rank on Google.
There are going to be certain products,
there are going to be certain topics,
certain questions you can answer,
that are essentially missed by other websites.
So if you create that article,
you have a very high chance of ranking
on the first page of Google.
And there's a way to find out what these topics are
on SEMrush.
So I'm going to take this topic of converted van,
I like it the best out of the three that we just found
and I'm going to find out which articles
to write on the website.
So all we have to do at this point is come over to the left
and go to topic research.
And we're just going to type in converted van.
(keyboard clicking)
Now, this is going to take a minute
to pull all of the information,
so just be patient on this.
But once it's done loading,
you have a ton of great information here.
Let me show you how to use this.
So there's three things that you need to be aware of.
First is how you are viewing the information.
I prefer to view it as cards,
which is just like this.
Second is the toggle switch right here
to show you the subtopics that are trending
showing those first, always turn that on.
And then third is the dropdown over here
that lets you prioritize how the cards show up.
What we wanna prioritize is topic efficiency.
Essentially what topic efficiency means
is all the hard work is done for us.
If SEMrush is rating it at a high topic efficiency,
that means that it has the highest search volume
and the lowest competition.
So with that being said,
all of these cards should be in order
of the highest efficiency first,
and then it's going to give you the general subtopic
at the top.
Once you open it up,
you will be able to see the monthly search volume
on this subtopic along with the difficulty for it.
Now instead of focusing on the left side over here,
focus on the right.
These are all going to be the best questions
that you can write content about
for your affiliate marketing website
that has the best chance of ranking.
So with that said, these are all great articles
you can write on your website and you can jump around
from subtopic to subtopic
just by looking at the headlines on the card here.
So try to stay on the ones that are ranked as high
and then just open them up and look down the right side.
And you can find all of these questions
that you can answer in your articles on your website.
Now my biggest piece of advice for you
is if you don't plan to continue using this tool
after your free trial,
make sure that you are writing these down
because this is very good information.
And it's very difficult to find this information
on other research tools.
Now, the last thing to add into this video
is just a little bit of advice.
So if you are starting out
with a new affiliate marketing website,
aim to get at least 30 articles on the website,
each of them being at least 1000 words long.
Now the second part of this
is once you write this content on your website,
generally from experience,
it's going to take roughly eight to nine months
until that specific article that you published
starts to get its peak traffic from Google.
Now peak traffic is different from traffic in general.
Peak traffic means it's basically ranked in the best spot
on Google search that Google thinks it should be.
However, once you publish an article,
don't be surprised if you start to see traffic trickling in,
in the first or second month.
This can and will absolutely happen,
but you won't see those big spikes of traffic
until eight to nine months.
Now one more piece of parting advice
is when you're looking through these topics over here,
it is okay to find a subtopic
that has a lower monthly search volume,
if the difficulty is low as well.
What this means is less people are going to be searching
for that every month,
so you don't have the opportunity
to get as much traffic from writing that article.
However, since the difficulty is so low,
you should be able to rank first, second or third
on Google very easily.
It is definitely good practice to write
some of these articles in the beginning,
just so Google sees that you're writing content
that should be ranked on the first page of Google.
Then as you start to write more and more articles
on your site,
you can start to move into the ones
that have higher difficulty,
but also have a lot more search volume every month.
So just like that, that's the end of this video.
I hope it was short to the point and helped you out.
If you have any questions about finding your website's niche
or finding what specific articles to write about,
just let me know down in the comments.
Otherwise I hope you enjoyed this video.
Feel free to leave a thumbs up,
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could use this information.
And with that being said,
I will see you all in the next video.