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In this video, I cover how to uncover low-competition keywords you can rank for to bring in affiliate income every single month. I give specific examples to help you learn my thought process behind uncovering hidden keyword opportunities and how to make $500 a day with affiliate marketing in 2023.
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TOC:
00:00 Intro
01:44 Minimum Viable Post (MVP)
02:40 Search and Buyer Intent
03:13 Strategy 1
06:52 Strategy 2
08:26 Strategy 3
09:48 Strategy 4
10:30 Strategy 5
In this video I'm going to show you a Strategy to pave your way to make your First 500 a day with affiliate marketing Now to succeed with affiliate marketing You have to be a good detective so good Keywords that can make you money are Everywhere but they're not going to slap You in the face you also have to be Early on these keywords so for some Context there are tons of keywords that You'll simply never rank for because You're just too late we're too late so Your chances of building like a personal Finance site and ranking for things like Best mortgage rates or the best travel Credit cards are about as likely as Shaq Hitting his free throws even if you have A high Dr site and a huge budget for the Massive staff you need to create all This content it's still almost Impossible so the trick here is to find Hidden keywords that have very little Competition basically all the ones that Other people have missed and then you'll Be making 500 a day so for example in Late 2018 I was browsing through ahrefs And I discovered the keyword podcast Hosting only had a difficulty of around 40 at the time and that meant there was Still a shot for a smaller site like Mine to rank for it and if I I could get The ranking early and continue updating And improving the page my chances for it To stick on the first page of Google
Were also great so I decided to go for It now as of right now the keyword Difficulty for this term is 95 and it Would be nearly impossible to rank for It if you didn't have an authoritative Site in the podcast Niche or at least Have a domain rating of like 70 or Higher even then you would need a bunch Of high quality backlinks for major Websites to even have a chance to get on The first page of Google Now to help you Find the right keywords I'm going to Show you how I approach this and I'm Going to show you some specific examples And current keywords that you can use to Learn this process so at the time I was Only interested in the potential of Keywords because of a few factors so the Top page is ranking for it weren't major Tech or news sites with high DRS nor do They have a ton of high quality Backlinks so my goal was simple I'd Create a minimum viable post necessary To get that article indexed on Google For that keyword and see where I was Ranking so I'd watch what happened after About a month and see where my posts Lied from there I would continually Update the article you know every few Weeks to make it better improving the Content building more backlinks and just Continuing to see how the rankings Changed so over time I noticed my Rankings climbed Higher and Higher and I
Also knew that podcasting was something That was likely to stick around because It's a major source of consumer content So it's been a popular medium since the Early 2000s so I just had a hunch it Would continue to get search traffic I Also knew there was some buyer intent Behind the search phrase because if You're searching for podcast hosting you Probably want to start a podcast and Find the company to use to host it so Now after four years of ranking for this Keyword this article makes me thousands Of dollars each month in commissions and I've been holding around the top 10 Positions for podcast hosting and Different variations of that term so it Started out as a hunch and then it Morphed into a little experiment and now I get to live off this passive income This one article brings me every single Month so when you're creating your list Of keyword ideas you want to think about Buyer intent so forget about everything Else so search intent means everything When it comes to affiliate marketing so It doesn't make sense to try to rank for A difficult keyword if it's too broad or Too generic so lots of people search for Broad topics like how to read faster but That's more of a search someone would Use to learn how to read so instead a Better term might be best speed reading Course or speed reading course reviews
Something that signals they're looking To buy so now that you have some of the Thought processed down on finding these Keywords I want to show you my exact Process for finding these hidden money Making keywords so the first example Here I want to show you is for the term Best gaming glasses now this is a unique And Niche topic from the gaming industry That's growing pretty rapidly so this is What I call an emerging keyword because The idea of gaming glasses for those That know the lingo are blue like you Know blocking glasses so lots of time Spent at a screen causes eye strain so Gamers are starting to wear these blue Blocking glasses since they're playing For hours and hours on end but it didn't Start out this way so blue blockers were Originally made Popular by Fringe Biohackers who wanted to work late Without having their circadian rhythm Thrown off it stopped junk light day so Here's what we're seeing in ahrefs for The term at first glance we see a 12 on The keyword difficulty this tells us That it should be fairly easy to rank For next you want to scroll down and Look at the position history down the Page to see the sites that are ranking In the top 10. so when you click on the Drop down Arrow you'll see the referring Domains and total backlinks to this page So the fewer the backlinks the URL has
The better because if you can create Better content and get a few more Backlinks you have a chance of Outranking these results so pay close Attention to each link look for the Dr Of the site that's ranking and in General if you see a bunch of sites with The domain rating of like 85 Plus Ranking in the top 10 it might be too Difficult to go after even if the Keyword difficulty score is low so from Here you want to look at related terms And check the option for view for top 10 Choices at the top so get a bunch more Related terms with the individual Keyword difficulty rating so generally We want to look for keywords with Difficulty under 40. so this way you can Get a bunch of keyword ideas and you can Build multiple pieces of content around It and then you can get an idea of which Term is likely to bring the most traffic To your website so for example if you Decided to build a parent topic page on The best gaming accessories you could Create a link bait post that I covered In a previous video but all the Different gaming gear and from there you Could write your article about the best Gaming glasses and link to it from that Parent article so the goal for this is To kind of understand what's ranking in The top 10 positions on Google and then Set a goal of making a better piece of
Content around that topic so how would You go about monetizing this article With affiliate marketing once you start Getting traffic so you just go to Google And search for the term so you go Through the review articles that are Currently ranking and see what brands They're recommending you can also look At the ads in the top spot for your Search so for me I see gamer advantage And Gunner gamer glasses both of these Brands have affiliate programs and when You go to Gamers Advantage site you can Find an email at the bottom of their Partner page and apply for a partnership And for gunner they have an ambassador Program that pays out 15 on every sale So now you don't have to choose these Two companies there's a bunch more and You can always fall back to Amazon in Their associate program if you want to Promote glasses that aren't from these Two Brands I found here so now let's Look at some basic math now while there Isn't a huge amount of search volume for This term at around 700 searches a month If you're able to rank for some of the You know other related keywords that Search volume goes up significantly so The term gaming glasses is still a part Of the target term best gaming glasses And it gets around 12 000 searches a Month so you'll naturally be optimizing For this term over time now for being
Hypothetical here let's say you end up Ranking for this term in one of the top Five spots and let's say you get around 2 000 visits a month to your article and You've optimized it to maximize your Clicks on your affiliate links so let's Say out of those 2 000 visitors two Percent click through and make a Purchase now let's say your recommended Gunner RPG Razer Edition as your top Recommendation they'll sell for a Hundred dollars so every pair of glasses You sell makes you 15 bucks because they Offer a 15 commission two percent of two Thousand visitors to the page is 40 Sales 15 multiplied by 40 sales is six Hundred dollars and that's just assuming You only sell the glasses ranked in that One spot the first position you're Likely to make sales from the second Third fourth and even fifth uh spots as Well so now we'll run through a bunch of Other keywords to get your ideas flowing Yeah baby if you want to learn the exact Process step by step how to build a Blogging business an affiliate marketing Machine make sure to click the link in The description below and sign up for my Free 60-minute master class so let's Look at the term best ski polls and this Is where it gets interesting so you'll See that has a keyword difficulty of two And around 1400 monthly searches you'll Also notice the graph and you see all
The Peaks and valleys now this is Because it's a seasonal product so most People don't search for ski gear in the Summer but as the winter approaches it's On So when you scroll down and look at the Position history you want to look at Something here so the first position is Gearjunkie.com and their domain rating Is 76 and then you have Switchback Travel with a domain rating of 63. gear Patrol has a domain rating of 80 but Then the sixth position is powder 7 with A domain rating of 41 and extreme Nomads After that has a domain rating of 28. so This is where the opportunity comes in You can now go and look at the content In those top 10 articles see what They're doing and how you can do it Better now you might not rank in the top Three or four positions but you could Potentially beat some of the lower ones In ranked number six or seven for this Pretty quickly if you create some better Content so the first thing that comes to Mind is none of these Pages have any Videos so you can shoot a quick YouTube Video discuss the various ski poles talk About each one another thing is to Notice some of the content is fairly Thin especially on Powder 7 and extreme Nomad sites there's not much to it now Another thing to notice here is a lot of These sites have a ton of ads on the
Page so this slows down the site but it Also can ruin the user experience and Cut Downs on the ability to earn Affiliate commissions because people Will leave before clicking on any Affiliate links when they're just Bombarded with ads ads also when you Take a look at the related keywords you Have a bunch of potential options to Rank for various terms since the keyword Difficulty is so low so that was one Example you know the next example is Unique because it's not your typical Affiliate marketing driven way of Finding a keyword and monetizing it with An affiliate link but it's set up the Same way so we're looking at the term Here best starter motorcycle because There isn't a ton of competition for it Right now at the moment the keyword Difficulty is 16 with a monthly search Volume of about 2200 searches now when You look at the related terms there's a Ton of terms with similar keyword Difficulties you could incorporate into Your SEO strategy for beginner Motorcycles so high consumption holds The first position for the term and the Article is set up like a typical Affiliate article the basic intro is Some background on the topic what to Look for in a beginner motorcycle and Then it lists all the recommendations Reviews even a big button with the price
Encouraging you to buy so from what I Can see they don't have unique affiliate URLs to each bike and that's probably Because these companies aren't set up to Handle fulfilling motorcycle orders Through affiliate links however if you Can build up steady traffic to an Article like this you're gonna have a Big Opera opportunity to sell motorcycle Gear by making recommendations in the Post itself and linking up to other Pages on your site about this type of Gear so you can find the affiliate Programs you can also sell protective Gear like helmets jackets pants gloves And more another option is to look for a Brand partnership so let's say you're Getting a lot of traffic to the page you Could reach out to these motorcycle Manufacturers show them your traffic Stats and see if they will pay you Monthly to have their bike in the number One recommended position and who knows If you're sending them tons of traffic They might even create a custom link Just for you and pay you a commission on Every bike sale you refer to them so It's an expensive product low Competition now the next one I want to Show you is another seasonal example but It's a good one because the competition Is very low relative to what you're Looking at here so when you plug in best Snowmobile into hrefs it gives us a
Seven keyword difficulty so that's a Good sign but here's where it gets even Better when you check the position History six of the top 10 results have Domain ratings under 50. one of them is A 12 and another is an eight so your Chances of ranking for a term like this Is definitely in your favor if you love Creating content around snowmobiles But he's got to grab him by the horns And show him his boss so given the type Of product here this is another chance For you to rank an article like this and Then use it as a way to link to Snowmobile gear or you can work on Getting a sponsorship deal or a unique Link from one of these companies now These are very expensive products Anywhere from five thousand to twenty Thousand dollars for a good snowmobile So the commissions can be very high on There now for our last example we're Going to be looking at lawn mowers now When you search for best self-propelled Lawnmower in ahrefs we have a keyword Difficulty of 34 which is not bad given It's still in the green it's a little More competitive than the previous Examples but it's still doable for a Person who wants to make some unique Content about lawnmowers and do the work To build up some quality backlinks when You take a look at some of the top Articles that are ranking you're going
To see a majority of them are using Amazon affiliate links to make these Commissions so take a look at the Spruce's article about the best Lawnmowers so they're using Amazon links They're also using Walmart links Farm And Fleet and other Merchants that They're paying referrals through so it's Best if you sign up for as many Affiliate networks as you can so you can Link to multiple options for your reader To click through at once they may click Through to Amazon but they might click Through Walmart instead and as long as They use your link you'll get that Commission winning so to give an example Amazon Affiliates pays only three Percent for Lawn and Garden Products That's why it's good to find other sites With the same product with higher Commissions as an option for people to Use but if you have steady traffic every Month thousands of visitors and multiple Reviews on the page the money starts Adding up over time so building up an Affiliate business is about strategy and Volume you might not be able to rank for Highly competitive keywords and rank for Everything but there are plenty of Opportunities if you're willing to Search for them so the goal in building An affiliate machine is to go after Small wins at first so finding keywords That are less difficult to rank for is
Important in the beginning because you Have to start building out Authority Getting traffic in the eyes of Google Before you can rank for more difficult Keywords so when you start with the Easier stuff you see results faster and When you start getting your first few Sales you'll stay motivated to keep Going so for example one of our blog Growth engine students Rob didn't even Break a hundred dollars a month for his First few months but by months five and Six he was already earning over a Thousand two thousand dollars a month From affiliate commissions now the only Way you get to earning 500 a day and Beyond is to just keep going so keep Creating content keep doing keyword Research and refine your process as you Go if you're interested in learning more How to build an unkillable blogging Business click the link in the Description below and sign up for my Free 60-minute Master Class