Affiliate marketing, just as in many different money making structures online usually follows a certain set guidelines to make up the whole of an entire successful system. While it's not written in stone that a person has to absolutely follow these guidelines, guidelines are usually put in place as to help the person learning acquire success and dodge the pitfalls that many have face before them. When looking at affiliate marketing, a proven business model is usually found in creating websites based around a highly targeted niche.

Making money from a content rich niche marketing website can be very easy, very difficult or impossible. First let us define and describe what a content rich niche market website is and how it works. You won't find a list for Niche Markets anywhere. There isn't one.

A person will find niche marketers when he types words into his favorite search engine and hits search. Let us say he types in the term meeting nice girls. He will get many hits that will provide links that take him to niche marketing sites. On these sites, he will be asked to enter his email address and opt-in to receiving a newsletter. Since he is in need of learning how to "meet more nice girls", he willingly does that.

On the content rich site he will find articles and other information about improving his chances of perhaps meeting that special girl and advertisements for products and services designed to help him improve his chances. In the future he will receive a newsletter, about every two weeks usually, and he will have become a niche market customer.

If you are the niche marketer, the opt-in email address supplied is pure gold because you will have a customer or a potential customer. When he buys the products and/or services that you are advertising on your site, you will make money. Having a content rich site enhances the possibility of sales.

The trick to making money from a content rich niche marketing website is to have a topic that helps people solve their problems, makes them feel better or look better, or supplies them with information that they need. You will need to have related products and services advertised on your site since that is where the income actually comes from.

The website content is what makes people visit your site again and again. The more content rich it is, will determine how often they visit and how long they stay. The longer they stay the more opportunities you have to sell to them. If for instance your niche actually was "meeting nice girls" you might have content such as aricles based on the best spots to meet nice girls, the top spots related to certain city regions etc.

When it comes to products you are trying to sell as an affiliate marketer, this could be something along the lines as a membership to "mingling with singles" type of website. Or perhaps an ebook on "Learning How To Speak To Single Girls". Affiliate marketing can be very rewarding if you do some proper research and make sure you are entering into a niche that is proven to be profitable.