Ahh affiliate marketing, the life blood of good SEO spam. This is how I put food on the table; affiliate marketing driven by SEO.
But how do you find good keywords?
Today we will be going through a painfully simple way to find some good affiliate keywords to help you stack some more chips. We’re not doing anything revolutionary, but making the affiliate connection is where the magic happens.
The tool we’re going to be using is SEMrush combined with the end goal of smashing some affiliate ranks.
To start, we literally look at the site we’re trying to monetize and make a list of relevant programs.
Let’s say we have a blog about outdoor gear. A good company that comes to mind is REI, and they also happen to have a decent affiliate program. Now we’re going to pop them in SMErush and take a look at the “advertising research” tab.
Why you ask? Well let’s just assume that most of these keywords actually convert into $$ since the company is bidding on them. Unless they are a bit retarded and like spending money on nothing, which sometimes can be the case but it’s not usually. You’ve got the company you’re affiliated with paying money to advertise and sell their shit, so if you rank on those keywords you can do the same. Starting to get the picture?
Yesss, I seeeee, **scrambles to SEMrush and goes to check some keywords and make more bank ;-)
Overall just a slam drunk approach to researching your niche and finding some good keywords that you know are actually going to make that cheddar.
You can also use the filters to exclude the brand and other unwanted keywords.
Yup pretty easy, look at all that honey.
There really are so many uses for SEMrush, love that beast. And to sweeten the pot even more, here is my coupon which will get you the free 30 day trial. Hope this simple technique just made you some more money, now go crush it!
SEM Rush is so clutch and those filters are very useful.
Some of my favorites for this type of work (affiliate keyword research) is “vs” keywords. Like for REI it could be “tent A vs tent B” style keywords. Usually a page on REI will rank even if they haven’t really targeted that properly — but you can and grab some of that traffic.
That’s a great tip, shit you could take their organic ranking keywords, sort out the ones not in the top 10, and keep those ones.
Drilling down to keywords they not ranking top 10 on but bidding on. That could be useful also.
A nice short & sweet guide there dude them filters shure will come in handy.
Yes sirrrr.
good post Jacob! Another sweet thing about Brands is that their Branded keywords normally have good search volumes. “REI ponchos” or whatever it might be. Go after these keywords!
I’d think those keywords would be way hard to outrank the actual brand for, but hey if you’ve had success with em then shit yeah. You could take all those brand keywords and use a rank tracker maybe to spot the ones the brand doesn’t rank highly on? Just an idea.
The brand always rank well or better than you yes but there are more traffic driving positions in the SERPS than #1
That’s exactly what I do to rank e-comm type pages, makes for a nice piggy back. P.S. Your site is the shit. For a guys who’s heard and read it all over the years, there is a shit ton of awesome dialog up in here.
Way to build a stellar community!
Thank you kindly sir!
Great stuff Jacob as always! Is there any way to join your community for $49, because i’m newbie and really not on budget to spent $200 and than $49, so is there any possible way to subscribe at first for those $49, like that i could support as newbie and no budget to stay for 4 months in your community and learn a lot and apply that to make money and than even with $1000 profit, i would not mind paying even $500 for your community. Really hope you can give a chance to people like me and those that are not in budget and just starting out. Thanks :)
Sorry buddy, but you gotta pay to play.
I can assure you I’ve created something well worth $200 for those willing to put everything into action.
Dude! You’re no doubt an expert in keyword research. I’ve been using semrush since a while and i’ve discovered plenty of keywords to earn my living. I would recommend every internet marketer to use sem rusm
Trying to tell if this is spam or not, if so, good job bro!
Gained lots of tips from ur blog bro..
once after reading your articles.
any one can rank their keywords & Play with Google.
Thank U alot Bro :)
this looks awesome trick but my question is how did you get to know about REI? Should I just pick any category and randomly see all advertisers bidding for particular keyword and see if they have decent affiliate program?
Just an example of a random affiliate program I thought of. Like most people have a couple affiliate programs in mind, if one of them has good organic ranks then you can try scoping them.
I’m wondering how much their organic/paid data is accurate? are they accurate at least 70 %?
It’s ok, not going to bet me life on it.