How To Make Money At Home – Do Your Research

Since most people who read my blog are looking for some real tips on how to make money at home, I want go over some of the basics again of how you can achieve that.

Research

I know, you are probably rolling your eyes in boredom at doing research, but if you can seriously get this right you’ll be one rich affiliate marketer.

The key to good keyword research is finding phrases and words that have 1. good searches, 2. low competition and 3. are easy to monetize.

You’ll often hear marketers talk about picking the low hanging fruit and when you are just starting out (or even if you are experienced) this is really the quickest way to make money from home because you have hardly any competition.

Which would you rather go after? A term like ‘golfing’ which has tremendous searches but you’d be competing with nearly 10 million pages, or ‘which are the best golf clubs to use if you are a beginner’ where the competition is minimal? Sure not as many people will be searching for that exact phrase, but you are likely to pick up traffic on variations on that phrase and get traffic much easier (and therefore make sales much easier).

So how do you choose the right topic?

There is such an array of different types of products online to promote so how do you choose which one is going to make you any money or not?

One of the things that I take into account when choosing subjects and niches is think about a problem first and then find a solution to that problem.

Most niche’s will have a problem that someone wants to solve: how to make money at home, how to lose weight, how to get rid of acne, how to install a home security system, and so on.

If you can identify a good solution instead of just trying to ‘sell’ a product then you are more likely to make a sale and earn yourself a commission.

Take this blog post for example. You are probably reading it to find out how to make money at home (since that is what the post title is called). You either found me by doing a search online, read an article that sent you here or are one of my subscribers. Either way you are looking to solve a problem: making cash from home by affiliate marketing.

Have I solved your problem yet? Well, not exactly yet since I haven’t gone into specifics – however I probably HAVE got you thinking more about what sort of niches and keywords that you can promote on your blogs and websites that can earn you some money (or at least I hope that’s what you are thinking about because that was my goal with this post).

Over the next few weeks I’ll write about more specific ways how you can make some money from home because really I think online marketing is just about the best job there is. Catch you soon. Tracey.