Create Your First Amazon Niche Website On WordPress

How to Create Niche Website on WordPress for Amazon Affiliate

Amazon Affiliate Marketing is one of the easiest ways to make money online for beginners. In this tutorial I will be guiding you step by step through the whole process so you can start making money with Amazon’s affiliate program. You'll learn how to Create Niche Website on WordPress and how to start marketing Amazon’s products as well.

Best and Profitable Niche Idea for amazon affiliate marketing:
There are a bunch of niches that are quite profitable to start with. These include

Home improvement tools (Average of $300 selling price)
Arts & Craft (Average $210)
Appliances (Average $200)
Automotive (Average $180)
Electronics ($240)--(Drone is one of Hottest Niche)
Baby Care ($190)
Home & Kitchen ($200)
Pet Care ($170)
Patio & Garden ($170)

Under each of the niches, there are different products you can comfortably promote to make money. The choice you make depends on your conviction and passion.

Note: that making money with these products is determined by your hard work and smartness. I wish you good luck.

Amazon Affiliate Marketing Video Tutorials:

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Amazon Niche site Guides:

The graphic below shows you just how to write the perfect Amazon Product review your your niche website.

Amazon is the world's #1 e-retailer of all kinds of products (both physical and digital) and they run one of the most popular affiliate programs online. Successful Amazon affiliate marketers make a lot of money every month, and that earning is mostly passive once your site is up, running and ranking. In this guide, I'll talk about Amazon affiliate niche sites, and various practical strategies for building, scaling and flipping them.

What is an Amazon Affiliate Niche Site?

In simple terms, this is any site that earns from the Amazon Associates Program via affiliate links/banners placed throughout their site. The term 'niche site' itself can be pretty broad, as what you consider as a niche site may differ from person to person. In general, I'd like to think of it this way: if a website earns most of its revenues from Amazon's affiliate program, then it can be thought of as an Amazon niche site.

For example, TechTage is NOT a niche site, because Amazon isn't its primary source of income. On the other hand, sites like BestReviews and TheWireCutter can be considered as Amazon niche sites because they mostly make their money from Amazon's affiliate program. Even though they both are huge authority product review sites, they still rely on Amazon to earn most of their revenue, so their earning model is pretty similar to that of the smaller niche site's.

Now, those are two in a million sites, and not everyone has the time, money or energy to build such large sites. So, what most people do is to build smaller niche sites that focus on a particular type or category of products. For example, someone might have a site about toasters, or ceramic cookware, or baseball accessories, you get the drill.

Of course, you can create a broader site. Say, you create a site about all sorts of sports equipment, be it water polo, golf, billiards, or paintball. Can such a site work well for earning through Amazon? The answer is, yes, but it'll require you to invest a lot more time, money, and effort up front than creating a simple single-topic site.

If you have a topic in mind, it usually takes less than 2 weeks to set up a complete niche site with all of its contents. But obviously, that's half of the total work. The other half comprises of promoting the site, ranking the site on search engines like Google, optimizing target pages for better conversions, nurturing it properly, and scaling it even further once you start getting some positive returns. So, in this in-depth guide, I'll guide you through each major step below:

1. Finding a Suitable Niche for Your Site

There are 3 broad types of niches:

High Competition Niches: These are your typical saturated niches that everyone and their mom is aware of. An example of this would be the laptops niche, as it's filled with reviews and round-ups from top technology sites on the internet.
Medium Competition Niches: These are usually niches that you CAN rank in, but they will require a fair amount of effort and up-front investment. They are usually dominated by medium-high level experienced affiliate marketers, who can invest in premium site design, content and promotion without any issue.
Low Competition Niches: Everyone likes low competition niches (some even get stuck in the endless pursuit of finding a zero competition niche) because even beginners can create a site in a low competition niche and rank it with relatively less difficulty. But one thing people tend to forget is that there is a fixed number of product categories on Amazon and no "absolutely zero competition" niche exist as such.

So, with proper planning and execution, you can rank in low competition niches and perhaps scale the site to other relevant product categories to increase the earnings.
Why Should you choose Low Competitive Niche??

It's easy enough for you to rank your site in.
It can yield you a decent amount of earnings when you rank your site.
It has enough products and sub-categories for you to make a whole site out of them.

Finding Product Ideas:

how do you gather enough product ideas so that you can analyse the competition (more on this later) and research about it to make sure you really want to create a site in that niche? Here are a few ways of doing that:

Look at amazon product category.

To avoid wasting time on uninteresting niches, you can only browse the sub-categories that you seem to have an interest in.

These are the criteria that I stick to while brainstorming for product ideas:

Average product price of at least $50
Average Amazon customer rating of at least 3.5
At least 2 products within the top 1,000 best-seller list of its broadest category. You can check this via the sales ranks that are available below the product description.
At least 500 monthly searches (local US) for either "best [product category]" or "[product category] reviews". For example, "best camping hammock".

Browse Sitemaps of Popular Sites to Gather Ideas:

Use SEMRush to Get Niche Ideas from Top Sites:

You can plug any big site that publishes product reviews into SEMRush and apply a couple of simple filters to get a lot of keyword ideas, and also see which keywords are bringing them the most traffic.

Calculating the Earning Potential of a Niche:

I use a simple, free, web tool called AmaProfits to determine how much money a niche site can potentially make in a particular niche. It's not amazingly accurate, but it generally gives you a good indication of how much earning potential your niche site has once you put in the data.

2. Choosing a Domain Name:

Now that you have chosen a niche, it's time to pick up a great domain name which helps your site to identify with the target audience.
Brandable or Exact Match?
When choosing a domain name, the trade-off is between two things:

Keyword-richness
Brandability

Keyword-stuffed domains like BestProductReview.com aren't really brandable. They don't sound professional and might attract penalties from both Google and Amazon themselves, easier than a brandable domain, like ProductAuthority.com or TopProductGuide.com

3. Choosing a Fast Web Host:

in this case,I would like to suggest Hostgator .one of the largest web hosting company in the world.

Pricing and Plan:

Pros:

Linux- and Windows-based plans both available with shared and dedicated servers;
99.9% uptime guarantee;
45-day money-back guarantee;
Plesk & cPanel control panels;
Free migration service;
Courtesy off-site backups;
Free advertising offers;
24/7 support.

4. Common plugins for every WordPress website:

Here are a few fundamental plugins that I use on almost every niche site:

Yoast SEO - for a SEO foundation, as well as easy customization of various on-page elements like meta description, title tag and various robots meta settings.
Akismet - to prevent comment spam.
EasyAzon Pro - for easily adding Amazon affiliate links to content, and its awesome automatic link-localization feature based on the user's location.
WP Super Cache / W3 Total Cache - caching plugin to make the site load faster.
Q2W3 Fixed Widget - for creating fixed sidebar widgets/banners that boost the click-through-rate to Amazon.
Autoptimize - to boost site speed by minifying JavaScript and CSS automatically.
EWWW Image Optimizer - for bulk optimizing uploaded images and making the pages on my site lighter in size.
P3 (Plugin Performance Profile) - to determine which plugins are the most resource intensive and making the site slower.
Shortcodes Ultimate - as a backup plugin to Thrive Content Builder for shortcode-based design elements like buttons and content areas.
Contact Form 7 - to display contact forms on the site.
TablePress - to create simple, but effective product comparison tables.
Auto Featured Image - for generating featured images automatically for all posts.
WordFence Security - to secure the site from hackers and brute force attacks.
Table of Contents Plus - to create expandable 'table of contents' boxes.

Setting Up the Template Pages:

Next, you need to set up the basic pages that are pretty much mandatory for all niche sites. They include:

About

Contact

Amazon Affiliate & FTC Disclosure (set to noindex)

These pages not only help establish your site as a professional, serious site in the eyes of Google, but some of them (privacy policy & FTC disclaimer) also prevent your Amazon Associates account from getting banned.

5. Content Strategy for Your Niche Site

Now that you have your site up and running, it's time to move on to perhaps the most important section of all, the content. This is so important, because your niche site's content is what will directly communicate with the visitor. So, if your content is boring, dull and useless, no visitor is going to keep reading it and make purchases on Amazon based on your recommendations.

Types of Content:

Informative articles - these are basically there to supply information related to the niche to the visitors who would otherwise need to search elsewhere for that information. These are generally less than 1,000 words long.
Answer-type articles - these help people to quickly get answers from your site. For example, if you have a dedicated to Treadmills, you can post an article like, "Motorized vs. Manual - Which Treadmill is Right for You?"
List type posts - List type posts are a great way to attract visitors and keeping them engaged. An example of this would be, "7 Ways Your Treadmill is Going to Help You Get Leaner"
'Best or top [Product]' Roundups - These will be your primary earning pages. These are also the longest (at least 2,000 words long) form of content that you should publish on my niche sites. "Best Motorized Electric Treadmills for the Money" - would be an example of this type of content.
Individual product reviews - lastly, these are your traditional individual product reviews. I make sure they are at least 800 words long. I don't recommend reviewing a ton of individual products, because very few products in any category actually have a decent search volume. There's no use reviewing something that has almost zero search volume, because that isn't going to bring you new visitors.