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To help you make money right away, here are some affiliate marketing tips that will knock your socks off.

I’m not going to bore you with the usual stuff, like “go to ClickBank to see what’s hot”, create a Blogger Blog or Squidoo lens, write articles that link to those sites acting as landing pages. No, this article goes beyond the normal regurgitated stuff you’ve probably heard or read a thousand time already.

To make money with niche affiliate marketing or even with Adsense, a simple method for doing this would be what I call trend marketing or traffic surge marketing.

If you watch a T.V. show or know of a movie coming out, or are aware of when the next Oscars event is going to be, then head on over to Google Trends to see what the hottest terms are right now for those events. Find out what the most popular search terms are for today, yesterday, and even the past few days. Then make the perfect synergy of a landing page promoting a product, a content piece with just Adsense on aside from your content, and post these articles on a free blog that will rank quickly like Blogger or Wordpress. Many people are successful with this business model and putting up quick, dirty ugly sites like this to capitalize on the “surge traffic” also known as “trends traffic”.

You can be a super affiliate by anticipating what the demand and what the trends are going to be so you can get ahead of the surge of traffic.

How do you get ahead of the surge of interest to position yourself ahead of the crowd and ride the wave of traffic?

Read a newspaper, watch some television, or just take a general birds-eye view towards what is popular right now.If Oprah recommends a book on her talk show, then you should make a review page or post about that book and then sell some of them through your Amazon affiliate link.

If you possess any marketing skills at all, then you’ll know what might be of sudden interest for certain niches you may already have sites built for.

Here are 2 examples for how I did this for my niche sites:

I have a website about home brewing and one day when I was at the movies with my son I saw a trailer for the Beer Wars Movie.As I was sitting there, it occurred to me that this would be interesting to visitors to my home brewing site. So I went to YouTube and found a trailer for the movie, which I embedded on my site. After that little post got indexed, I reviewed the trailer and did some research on others’ opinions of the movie.

My second post was a review of the actual movie.I accomplished all of this in less than a half hour, largely by reading other peoples’ opinions on the movie. When the movie went live, there was suddenly a lot more people searching for “Beer Wars Movie Trailer” on the search engines.

In anticipation of the sudden but temporary traffic surge, I decided that I would make sure that I was page 1 for those terms so I used Backlink Solutions to quickly catapult my site to page one for those terms. When the movie went live, I was already on the first page for the search terms that I wanted.

Example #2 of how I anticipate a surge of interest and increase traffic for my niche sites using offline resources.

I was reading the newspaper one day and saw something about an antiques show where people were bidding on a 300-year old birthday cake. I reasoned that since this news item made it to the offline newspapers that it would be interesting to visitors to my site on antique furniture.

So I wrote the post about that antique birthday cake, but the Adsense earnings and traffic spike didn’t come like I thought it would. Granted, I still got a lot of traffic for that particular post but I was a Johnny-come-lately with that bit of news and it wasn’t totally relevant to a site about antiques furniture but since the site was about antiques some visitors found the birthday cake post of interest.

However, I saw an upward surge for those sites’ Adsense earnings for a few days.

One of the best ways to do SEO for your niche affiliate sites is to understand your niche and write newsworthy articles, in other words, to write about newsworthy items of interest to them. If you understand your niche and your target audience, you really don’t need to rely on keywords lists to get traffic.You can often receive a lot of traffic just by writing about is really interesting to your visitors.

Daniel McGonagle runs the Niche Affiliate Marketing newsletter, a Free publication for niche affiliate marketers. His newsletter is brimming with tips like the one you just read, so head on over there and pick up a free copy.

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