Golden Goose Marketing

Free affiliate marketing program?  That got your attention, right?  Although I’m not going to send you off to some guru’s long sales letter and opt-in email list, there is an excellent way to build your own free program.  Anyone can do it, and I’ve outlined the steps below.

• Pick a niche. For our purposes here, it doesn’t really matter which one.  Just pick something that interests you.
• Think up some keywords. What would YOU search for if you were looking for the product in question?  Make a short list.  If you’re really stuck, you can get a few more from the Google External Keyword Tool.
• Search them.  Use Google, Yahoo!, and MSN.
• View the ads and check out their landing pages.  Do you see a lot of highly relevant ads?  A lot of big companies, or more affiliates?  What do their landing pages look like?
• Enter the landing pages in at Compete.com and Quantcast.com. Assuming that they get any significant amount of traffic, you can learn a lot about the sites.
• Enter the main offer’s URL at Compete.com and Quantcast.com, also.  This is a great place to learn more about demographics.
• Use the primary demographics and create a fake Facebook account if Facebook marketing interests you. You will be served more relevant ads there, which should give you plenty of ideas of other offers you could promote, along with a lot more landing page insight.
• Spy on the affiliates, too.  Enter their domains in over at DomainTools, or use an IP neighbors utility to find all the other sites owned by the affiliate you’re looking at.  This can be a great way to see which niches are currently hot for a user.  If you’re wondering whether a site they own is current, try putting it in over at Compete or Quantcast to see overall traffic volume over time.

There’s plenty more that you can do, but the main point is that there is SO much information out there for free.  You can learn more than you can probably even process just by looking at what other affiliates are currently doing.  What’s stopping you?