Advice for Getting Started in Affiliate Marketing

If you are just starting out in affiliate marketing, our advice would be to pick one of the high value areas, e.g. finance, high value electronics, travel, gambling, then pick a high value product, and then go very niche with your site.

Examples might be:
- A really good guide to a particular city that is far away so you can sell expensive flights.
- A focus on a high value electronic product, such as tablet pcs.
- A very specialised site on a high value finance product, e.g. equity release mortgages.

Going niche will help you become an "authority" site and that will bring traffic, you can't be the same as millions of other sites out there if you are just starting out.

It also helps if what you are going to promote is a relatively new product, as this will usually mean more demand and less competition. Taking advantage of the latest consumer trends is always a good idea.

Ask yourself the questions:
- Do people buy this product online.
- Are people searching for this product online. See keyword suggestion tools.
- What is the competition like from other sites, do I stand a reasonable chance of getting onto the first page of a search engine?

Good luck!