If, however, you’ve identified a possible topic and got a rough list of 50 content ideas – now it’s time to see if that niche can be profitable. This stage is crucial to your ultimate success and skipping this part can lead to a whole heap of wasted effort. It really doesn’t matter how amazing your content is, if there isn’t a lot of traffic in that niche, you’ll struggle to make any significant money. Places to research include Facebook forums/groups – search on Facebook to find groups and forums within your chosen topic. How many groups are there, and how many members? How engaged are they? Is there a good online community vibe? Product advertising in Google search – if you type a relevant search term to your niche into Google and a string of product ads appear before the first search result, then this is generally a good sign. Reddit – like on Facebook, there are tonnes of groups and sub-groups on Reddit for all manner of niches. Reddit’s whole premise is to show a network of communities based on people’s interests. It’s a great source when researching which topic to enter into.
The principles of affiliate marketing are easy to understand – create content, build trust, grow an audience and earn commissions on promoting affiliate products to your readers.

However, this is just one example in one niche. If you’re in other niches it’s worth looking at who is offering their own affiliate programs, or products/courses that might work with an affiliate model. Increasingly, selling leads to businesses is becoming a really solid model for affiliate marketers to begin pursuing.
However, as you may imagine, the product categories are limited to items they would normally sell through their store (i.e.clothing, electronics, home goods, and beauty products). If your website is promoting any of these products, then Target can be a good option for you.