Peanuts to Profits With Thor Schrock
Peanuts to Profits With Thor Schrock

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how to dominate an affiliate marketing niche.
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Select Affiliate Marketing Offers that Will Make You Money

Before you start any new online or offline money making venture it’s a good idea to poke around and see what others are doing in the niche before you jump in with both feet.  By doing your homework first, you can save a LOT of time, money, and effort.

After I found a niche that satisfied my search criteria for multiple offers across several networks with good payouts, I needed to see how stiff the search engine competition was for organic traffic.

I pay $99 a month to subscribe to Shoemoney Tools (currently in beta at a discounted $99 rate).  You can do some of the same research I do using Shoemoney Tools by accessing other various websites on the web at no cost.  However, Shoemoney Tools has the APIs to query Google properly unlike many of the hack and slash tools on the web that get gummed up every time Google changes their algorithm.  This package is worth the price for its consistency alone IMO.

First, I did some keyword research using Shoemoney Tools to identify what keywords were common for my niche.  Not only does Shoemoney’s keyword research tool give me keywords, but it also gives me key phrases with the words in the order they are typed by visitors.  These small advantages are what can push you over the top with your SEO. Read More

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My family and I are spending some time in the Colorado mountains this week, and as we move from tourist haven to tourist haven I keep getting asked what I do for a living.

All of this altitude and fresh air got me thinking about the bigger picture of what I am doing in affiliate marketing.  Everything I have done up to this point has been following others into niches.  I have been replicating the work that others are doing and tweaking it using techniques and resources that others don’t have access to.

With that said, I have never carved out my own affiliate marketing niche and built the long-term infrastructure to make money in it.  When you think about it, the majority of affiliate marketers never do that – they simply do what I was doing.

I decided it is time to make my move, so I developed a plan of attack on a specific niche.  Most affiliates are looking to make quick money with little or no work.  My plan is being executed while I write this, and if it works, I should be making as much as $1,000 a day in as few as 30 days.  This should be long-term money that will continue to pour in as long as I tend my website properly.

If you want to see how I am doing it so you can repeat it in your own niche, read on.  I am going to tell you how I identified the niche I am going to take on, how I researched my competition, and how I plan on dominating the organic search positions for my keywords to drive highly targeted free traffic to my new website.  Here’s the plan: Read More