Create A New Stream Of Income With Affiliate Niche Websites
I’m always looking for ways to find good content and so when I had the opportunity to have Susanne Myers of ‘Daily Affiliate Tasks’ as a guest blogger I jumped at the chance. Susanne is a successful affiliate and niche marketer who can certainly help you with making money online.
In my own online business, I count on my many niche sites to bring in multiple streams of income each month. Regardless of your main niche, you too can build niche sites to promote specific products or perhaps make money with Adsense.
With that said, read on to see what Susanne Myers has to say about how to create more income with niche sites.
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Create A New Stream Of Income With Affiliate Niche Websites 
By Susanne Myers
Daily Affiliate Tasks.com
Creating a new stream of income can be as easy as setting up a little niche website. This can easily be done within just a couple of days. Let me walk you through my process of creating these small affiliate sites. Set one up this week, get some traffic to it and then rinse and repeat as often as you’d like.
Find A Hot Topic
Start by finding a good topic for your new niche website. Don’t reinvent the wheel here… start with some proven and profitable niches. While you are at it, make sure you can find some good products to promote as an affiliate. The big profitable themes and niches usually center around:
• Getting healthier and losing weight.
• Making or saving money.
• Saving time.
Do Your Keyword Research
Your next step is keyword research. Use a tool like Wordtracker or the Google Keyword tool to figure out what terms people are searching for on Google in your niche. If you’re new to the idea of keyword research, read through this blog post http://www.affiliatetreasurechest.com/707/keyword-research-skills/
You want to come up with one main keyword, several other big terms (to be used as the categories of your site) and a list of long tail keywords. These will be three or more words long and are usually fairly easy to rank for in the search engines. Got all that info? Great, let’s move on to the next step.
Register A Domain And Set Up Hosting
Register your domain name. Ideally want to incorporate your main keyword into your domain. Stay away from dashes, numbers and anything that’s hard to spell. Once your domain is registered, set up hosting. I recommend you get cPanel hosting like Hostgator or Bluehost. It will make the next step – setting up your niche website much easier.
Build Your Site With WordPress
I build all my niche sites using the free software you can download from WordPress.org. It’s quick and easy to install – particularly if you have cPanel hosting. Log in and look for a one-click installation via Fantastico. Once your site is installed, customize it with one of the many free and paid wordpress themes and add extra functionality with plugins.
If you’re new to working with wordpress and have never installed your own site, I recommend you grab a copy of my wordpress guide here: WordPress Blog Setup Made Easy
The next step is to add some content. Using the keyword research you did earlier, set up about 5 to 10 categories for your site. Then start working on adding two or three blog posts per category, using the “long-tail” keywords for inspiration. Pick a keyword and come up with a topic idea. Use the keyword as part of the title of your post and then one more time early on in your content. Make sure each post is interesting and at least 250 words long. Rinse and repeat until you have at least 20 blog posts published.
Quick Monetization Tips
Your site is up and running and you have some good content posted. Your next step is to figure out how to monetize it. The simplest thing to do is to incorporate Google Adsense ads. It’s a great first step, but it’s also hard to make a lot of money from this program. My suggestion is to find a few good affiliate products that you can promote. Include recommendations for them within your content and consider adding a button or banner ad for some of the products to your blog sidebar. You can take a look at my blog at www.AffiliateTreasureChest.com to see how I do both.
Quick tip – The P.S. of your blog posts is a great place to promote products that directly relate to the content you’ve shared.
Where do you go from here?
Once your new niche site is set up, you want to focus on two different things: Adding more content and driving traffic or marketing the site. I recommend you spend about 20% of your time on adding more blog posts and articles to your site. The rest of your time should be spent on getting traffic. This could be writing and submitting articles, guest blogging and commenting on other sites, being active on social media etc. Spend just a little time each day to promote your new niche site and it won’t take long before you see traffic and your income increase.
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