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Niche this and niche that. Everything is a niche. It’s not the newest thing. Everyone wants to find a niche. The money making opportunity that no one has found before. Niches are great, but you could spend weeks trying to find a product to promote that no one else is promoting. We want to make some money.

The way you speak and the way you write about subjects is unique. At least, it should be. While other newbie affiliate marketers are looking for the newest niche and hunting down keywords that people are using, you can just write the way you speak.

A few years ago, that’s what I was doing. Looking for niches that no one else was promoting. Was I interested in the products I was trying to sell. Nope. Did I make some sales? Yes, but it was hard work. The niches were so small that I had to work with a lot of different products. I had to do keyword research on subjects that had little to do with what I was interested in, so I didn’t know when the keywords were the wrong ones to use.

Something I could promote, lessons on programming PHP. Why? Because I do it. I learned it from books and online. But I wanted to learn specific things, like how to scrape news site or how to build auto responder software. I searched for concrete lessons on doing these things and other similar things. My concrete lessons, I mean down to earth. Tutorials that would show me how to do something specific and useful in the real world. I found plenty of lessons on how to write something that would print "Hello World."

But when I went to Google and looked for ways to do this, I used the words I speak with. I didn’t use programmer speak. So I didn’t find the lessons until later on, by accident, because I was using the wrong words. But they weren’t the wrong words. If someone had written a tutorial with the words I spoke with I would have found it.

And if you speak and write in lay terms about a complex subject, you can reap the benefits of traffic. Because in a world of internet users, you are bound to find someone who is looking for the specific words you used to explain a subject, even if they aren’t the most common. Trust your own voice.

And I will give you one tip of finding subjects like this, where your unique searches can help you beat the niche finding blues. Use your Google Search History. If you use Google as a search engine, sign up for an account, so that it will save your search history. I did back in 2005. Every now and then I check through it. What I look for? A bunch of searches in a row on a similar subject. It meant I was looking for something and not finding it. Which also means that there may be other people out there doing this.

When I got my new laptop with Vista on it, I looked for tutorials on how to install Apache webserver on it, because I was having issues. I didn’t find all the info I was looking for in one place, so I wrote an article. That article is still ranked high in Google. When I was trying to understand how to replace the weatherstrip on an Andersen sliding door for my dayjob at All About Doors and Windows, I didn’t find anything that was easy to understand even in books, let alone online. So I went to work, figured it out and wrote the article because I knew that others had to be looking for the info. The article is ranked right under the Andersen website in Google.

So another tip, keep notes whenever you are looking for info that is hard to find. And use your family and friends. Ask them about the last time they gave up looking for something.

But what if you don’t have a Google Search History or friends and family. Then head on over to Yahoo Answers and browse around for a while in the topics you have knowledge of. Yes, those are actual questions that people ask because they couldn’t find the answer. Some are so simple.

And this is why a niche is not necessary. What is necessary is forward momentum. Getting started just for the sake of starting. Show yourself that you mean action and affiliate marketing is not just fodder for a bunch of new daydreams about where you can be five years from now. Make the dream a reality. Start.

I know that I just told you to start and a have yet to mention methods. That’s because I am building a list. I want a complete list of methods. Show all options available. But this will give you a start on creating a list of topics that you have knowledge of.

I have also added a forum on this site, for specific questions that I am missing in my posts.

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