With the advance in internet technology, you can have virtually references on the net. You have tons of encyclopedia, dictionary and Yellow pages on the net. Apart from your references, you can in fact take them as a media to promote your affiliate sites. You can search for your niche and start promoting your website.

So what is niche marketing? This may probably be the most popular question by the affiliate marketing newbies. Niche marketing means marketing to a particular group. You will not promot your website or product to the whole public. You may feel strange that why it is done so. You will probably want to make as many sales as possible and you will probably want to promote your website to everyone in the world. This is very true. However, we have to admit that there is no one product in the world can attract the whole public. It will be just next to impossible to promote your affiliate website to all the people in the world. As a result you will choose a niche market and start to promote the products in this market. For instance, you may choose to promote products related to fishing and you will start to promote them to people who are interested in them.

However, you should never think of something and start promoting it. You need to analyze it thoroughly. Below are some tips for you:

The first thing you need to think of is the audience, or the target audience. Taking the idea of fishing as an example, it may probably that people who are interested in it are in their mid ages. I In this case you will need to make your websites more appealing to people in this age group.

You will also need to have some knowledge in the niche market you choose. If you have zero knowledge in it, you will need to do some home work and research first. This is because you need to maintain the website and you will have to put some new contents into it every month. You do not have any knowledge in the products or niche market it will be impossible for you to maintain the affiliate sites.

You may think niche marketing is quite strange if you are totally new to affiliate marketing. However, this is the way to go and experiences show that it is the way to make real money online! As a result, you need to make your affiliate website focusing to your niche market and you will able to succeed in your career as an affiliate marketer.