With niche-based websites, you simply select 10-20 products all based around a specific niche market. For example, weight loss or parenting.
You then construct an article-powered niche website that features 10 different articles, and at the bottom of every article, you feature a direct link to the merchants website.
Niche based websites are very easy to set up, but just keep in mind that each website needs a specific theme. You want to segment your affiliate campaigns so that every website is focused around one specific market (or niche), so that you can funnel targeted traffic to your websites without convoluting the process.
Think about your websites structure from your visitors' perspective. If you were interested in finding out more information about the golf market, and you landed on a content website that had multiple categories where golf wasn't the main focus, not only would you likely exit the site but you wouldn't think it was an authority site.
Authority sites ALWAYS focus on one specific market segment, so that they can deliver quality and informative content that warms up visitors and maximizes profits.
When creating your content site, hire a writer to create 10-15 keyword rich articles around different areas within that market.
For example, if you were to create an affiliate based content site on weight loss, you could create articles on all different aspects of losing weight, from healthy eating guides to work out routines.
Then, match up each article with a relevant affiliate product, and feature an ad box in the middle and end of each article, or integrate text based affiliate links within the content itself.
One of the easiest ways to create an affiliate based content website is to use the power of Wordpress blogs.
With Wordpress, you can download a free copy of their powerful blogging software, install it onto your own hosting account and have a fully functional, dynamic website created in under a few minutes.
Then, you can easily optimize your blog for the search engines using Wordpress's built in optimization tools, or download interactive plugins that will help to thoroughly optimize (and monetize) your blog for top search engine ranking.
Blogs always rank quickly within the major search engines based on their SILO structure. A SILO is a targeted websites that is broken down into segments or individual categories.
Then, keywords are used to clearly describe each area of the site. Since SILO's help search engine crawlers explore the website, and identify the relevancy of your website based on the keywords featured throughout the site, blogs tend to rank quickly AND rank higher!