Amazon Affiliate Niches (2019) the Ultimate Guide to 68 Low-Competition, Evergreen Amazon Affiliate Niches OBLIGATORY DISCLAIMER
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Amazon Affiliate Niches (2019) The Ultimate Guide to 68 Low-Competition, Evergreen Amazon Affiliate Niches OBLIGATORY DISCLAIMER This free report will not make you money. This report is meant to guide you to some of the best low-competition (at the time of writing), evergreen niches that you can promote as an Amazon Associates affiliate. But in no way am I guaranteeing that by simply reading this report you’ll become rich and be able to hire a harem of buxom wenches to feed you grapes all day. Bummed out? You shouldn’t be. Online business – just like the bricks-and-mortar kind – weeds out people who are lazy and give up easily. If you’re a hustler and you take a long-term view of making money online, then you too can experience the magic of turning your keyboard into a monthly income. I know a lot of sales pages in the make-money-online niche promise “push-button riches”. I’m telling you the opposite is the case. Making money online requires persistence, perseverance, patience, and other words that begin with the letter “p”. With that in mind, this report gives you information that you can act upon. But you need to act - and persevere - to get results. Amazon Disclaimer: I don’t work for Amazon, and I don’t claim to speak for them. This report presents information related to products and product categories on Amazon.com that I researched on my own, without any input by Amazon staff (although in my dreams Jeff Bezos often whispers sweet business wisdom in my ear). Bottom line: this report is in no way affiliated with Amazon, the company. PLEASE FEEL FREE TO SHARE THIS REPORT, AS LONG YOU KEEP IT AS-IS. 2 Table of Contents What This Report is All About ……………………………… 4 How I Found These Niches ……………………………… 8 What to Do After Reading This Report …………………………… 9 68 Amazon Affiliate Niches for 2019 (and Beyond…) ……………13 PRODUCT CATEGORIES ARTS & CRAFTS ……………………………… 14 BABIES ……………………………… 16 BEAUTY & PERSONAL CARE ……………………………… 19 CAMERAS ……………………………… 22 ELECTRONICS ……………………………… 25 HEALTH ……………………………… 29 HOME & KITCHEN ……………………………… 32 MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS …………………………….... 36 PETS ……………………………… 38 SPORTS & OUTDOORS ……………………………… 40 Final Thoughts ……………………………… 47 3 What This Report Is All About The Amazon Niche Site Opportunity… Everyone knows that Amazon is a huge online retailer... But did you know that nearly 50% of all online sales in the US are made through Amazon, which works out to an insane 5% of all retail spend in the country? Check out this pie chart that shows Amazon’s percentage of US e-commerce sales versus puny competitors like Walmart and Ebay: Source: Chart: Amazon’s Dominance in Ecommerce 4 Here’s another interesting graphic by Emarketer that shows how Amazon stacks up against the other top 10 U.S. ecommerce sites: What makes this sales gusher great (for you and me), is that Amazon also has a huge affiliate program. In fact, the Amazon Associates program (as their affiliate program is called), was the first major brand to offer an online affiliate program when it was started back in prehistoric 1996! It’s estimated that Amazon has up to 1 million sites in its Associates program. Not all of those sites are “making it rain”, but there are still lots of online entrepreneurs who are killing it with Amazon affiliate sites in a short amount of time (and many others making modest sums – and rising). There are a few things that I find exciting about Amazon affiliate sites in particular: ● Hundreds of product categories that niche sites can be built around. (Note: I don’t recommend you build a niche site that just reviews products. When you build a site, it should be “topical”, i.e. an authoritative resource on a topic, not a product category. 5 For example: instead of your site being about “barbecues”, it should be about “barbecuing” – or even better, “the art of backyard grilling”). P.S. There are actually more than 50,000 product categories in the Amazon directory. I counted. ● Thousands of low-competition “buyer” keywords (and even more informational keywords) that can be targeted. ● Great conversion rates (because many consumers are already buying from Amazon). ● Ravenous market for Amazon affiliate sites. We’re currently going through a “gold rush” era in the website flipping market. Investors are hungry to buy niche affiliate sites, and Amazon sites are apparently the most popular. In fact, I was told by a person who works in the industry that demand for good-quality Amazon affiliate sites currently exceeds supply. But Finding a Niche is Hard… A number of years ago I ran a survey of my readers asking what their biggest problem was finding a niche. Nearly 700 people completed the survey (a pretty good sample), and the top two answers (by far) were: → How to find a profitable niche → How to find a low-competition niche My interpretation of those results was this: because most people recognize that niche selection is crucially important (in getting traffic and making money) they want to reduce the risk in finding a niche. And that’s one of the reasons why I created this guide: to use my ten years of experience making money online to help separate the wheat from the chaff and pick out the niches with the best chance of success. So that’s why I created this guide for you. But rational human beings usually aren’t selfless, are they… What’s in It for Me… Some people have asked me: “Why give away these niche ideas? Why not just keep them for yourself?” 6 Beyond the fact that I don’t have the time or interest in building hundreds of niche sites (I currently have a small portfolio and am happy to slowly add to it), I have one selfish reason: My goal is to turn my passion for niche research into a business. I spend hours every day doing niche research inside my go-to tools (especially Ahrefs) and writing up findings. I come across new niche opportunities literally hourly. I could just save those opportunities to my hard drive and call it a day. But why do that when I can provide services that help others realize their dream of making money online? So if you’d like to help me help you, please go to my Services page and let me know how I can help you accelerate your dream of building and growing one (or many!) profitable niche sites. Moe Muise, M.A. Researcher-In-Chief www.KeywordsBlogger.com 7 How I Found These Niches My team and I followed these steps to find the 68 low-competition, evergreen niches in this guide: 1. Scraped the Amazon directory of 50,000+ product categories 2. Sorted the resulting product categories by need. 3. Did keyword research for each product category to find the lowest-competition commercial (aka “buyer”) keywords. To do that, we did the following: ● Brainstormed the best “topical” keyword for each product category ● Entered the topical keyword into Ahrefs’ Keyword Explorer ● Zeroed in on commercial keywords by entering the keyword qualifiers “best” and “review” ● Set the KD (Keyword Difficulty) score to “4” 4. Confirmed that the SERP for each keyword had at least two “weak” pages. We arbitrarily set the criteria for a weak page as follows: ● DR (Domain Rating) of 10 or less ● Zero backlinks to the page 5. Confirmed that products are actually selling in each category by using the Amazon sellers tool Viral Launch (because people can be searching Google for products but not buying on Amazon). That’s the process, in nutshell. Now, before jumping into the specific niches, please read the next section to learn exactly what you should do after reading this guide… 8 What to Do After Reading This Report Let me start with what you should not do after reading this guide… You shouldn’t pick one niche that seems lucrative, then whip up a “review” website that consists of 10 pages, each page a review of a product on Amazon. Why is that a bad idea? Because you’ll likely fail. Fail to get traffic and fail to make money. That’s because Google (and other traffic sources) wants to see new sites that are useful and make a contribution to the web. That means doing more than simply reviewing products. If you know anything about SEO, you’ve probably heard that Google is all about “EAT” these days… EAT is an acronym that stands for: ● Expertise ● Authority ● Trust So Google wants to see content that is thorough, well-researched, and shows that the site is a trusted source of information (put another way: a topical authority). Which is why I’d like you to make a subtle mind-shift when reviewing the product categories this guide… Instead of thinking “I’m going to review X number of products and make a killing!”, start with this question: “How can I cover this niche in a way that’s valuable to my audience?” So I’m asking you to shift from “How can I quickly make a buck?” to “How can I serve my audience?”. 9 That means creating a site that: → Covers the most important angles of your niche thoroughly (i.e. is a “one-stop shop”) → Looks professional → Is organized in a simple, intuitive way → Has some informational content that is not selling anything, and is intended to provide useful, educational, actionable information… As well as having content that helps your audience make informed buying decisions (i.e. product reviews and lists of the “best” products for various needs).