The Most Used Affiliate Marketing Tool

Affiliate marketing websites and blogs have a wide range of tools and plugins available to them to aide in their affiliate marketing campaign.

And giving how affiliate marketing is a big money making strategy with many skills involved, it therefore covers so many areas of online business as well.

Some those areas include:

• Website design
• Writing skills
• Technical know-how of websites
• Products and niche researching

For affiliate marketers with access to budgets, they can supplement the lack of knowledge on some of those areas by pouring in money on advanced tools and professional help.

But for less fortune affiliates who don’t have a big budget for setting up their affiliate website and just want to dedicate their budget to advertising, then the need for free affiliate marketing tools becomes imperative.

Google provides a set of free tools and features that you can dedicate to your affiliate website.

What most affiliate marketers don’t know is that you can use Google to:

• Find profitable niches
• Get content ideas for your affiliate blog
• Find profitable affiliate products
• Cloak your affiliate links

All of the above can help you setup your affiliate website and get it running.

Using Google Auto-Complete to Find Profitable Niches

There is no tool on the planet that can tell you which niche you will succeed in, that’s because success is the result of hard and smart work.

In niche finding you should start by finding out what your hobbies are and what kind of experience you have.

For example, if you have struggled with smoking in your life and managed to quit, then you could promote products in that niche and help others.

You will be speaking from personal experience, knowing the struggles involved and how to solve these problems to achieve the desired goal.

This is actually what affiliate marketers need to do, prove your expertise and gain their trust to be able to sell affiliate products to them.

Even hobbies like fishing and playing guitar do have people looking to buy paid solutions for them.

But if you still want niche ideas to browse through, then you can use Google’s auto-complete feature to generate niche ideas.

We are going to use key words that guarantee to generate you niches; words like:

• Get rid of
• Software to
• How to build

So if you combined any of these words plus a,b,c..etc on Google, then you will see interesting niche ideas:

Of course not all of them are money niches, but you can browse through them and pick the niche you feel you can contribute to.

Now you need to make sure that the niche is indeed a money niche and not just a niche where people are looking to read something on your blog and leave.

Do a simple Google search for your selected niche:

Look for websites that sell products, you will need to visit each site to know if they are selling products or just writing a good article on the topic.

The more websites you find of people selling products, the more profitable the niche is for affiliates.

Generate a List of Writing Ideas for Your Blog Posts

What can make your affiliate website a hard to resists one is the content you publish.

And if you are selling your affiliate products through a blog then you have a great opportunity to show your readers just how knowledgeable you are.

It is proven that affiliates who showcase a high level of experience sell more than those who are more eager to sell any affiliate product they find.

That’s why they say “Content is the king”, all which highlights how important it is to publish at least 2 articles a week on your blog. Especially of you are just starting out as an affiliate.

But like most people, it might be hard to come up with interesting writing ideas that at the same time are in high demand.

It will be useless to just write about how was your day, or how cute is your pet, just for the sake for writing.

You need content that people in your niche want, and that solve the problems for them.

Those are highly sought after content and can lead to viral spreading of your affiliate website.

And yet again, Google’s auto-complete feature can help you find these golden content ideas.

Google generates suggestions based on how popular the topic is (how many people are searching for it and writing about it).

So open up Google and put in your niche keyword plus A,B…etc

You will find great areas to cover on your blog and some of these writing ideas could be very relevant to your affiliate product.

Finding Profitable Affiliate Programs with Google

Profitable products are basically those that provide generous affiliate commission on a high priced product.

Of course there are many factors that can tell you how profitable a product is like its reputation and quality.

But for the most part, you can find affiliate programs with high payout and then do further research in determining how profitable it is.

Yet again fire up Google and this time put “NICHE site:.com/affiliates”

This returns a list of affiliate programs in your niche, which you can browse through and check out the amount of commission they offer.

When you are picking your affiliate program, try to choose the one that offer many affiliate tools as well.

Banners, Email swipes, free PDFs are valuable materials that can help you run your affiliate marketing campaign easier and with less work on your part.

Cloak your Affiliate Links with Google URL Shortner

There are many benefits to cloaking your affiliate link:

• It makes your affiliate link look cleaner
• It protects your affiliate commission by hiding the URL of the product’s website.

There are other paid services that can do this for you in more elegant manner, but this Google tool can still deliver the results you want.

Go to Google’s URL shortner page and insert your affiliate link:

You will get a new URL that looks like this: goo.gl

This will redirect to the stats page for your affiliate link, you can see how many people clicked and on which day and from which country.

All in All…

Affiliate marketing tools provide an undisputed edge to any affiliate marketer, and using them can be vital in beating your affiliate competition.

Never be afraid of trying new tools, affiliates who have technical phobia will be missing out on great opportunities to accelerate their growth in what’s becoming a more technical age nowadays.