1). Selling to a hot market certainly helps.
2). Being passionate certainly makes the job a lot easier. I started out promoting all kinds of affiliate products, and guess what I became passionate about? The tools I was using to market with. Now if you just ask me a simple questions about keyword research or article marketing, pull up a chair cuz it's gonna take a while.
3). If you're promoting a specific manufacturers line, you could write about them, the durability of their product. The latest designs and why they are rated so highly, etc...
4). You'll be further ahead by devoting a blog to each offering, especially if your using organic search results for your traffic. However, if your niche is confined to one manufacturer, you could possibly have "XYZ Shoes" as your blog title and your posts or modules about the actual style or product review.
5). You do want to use high volume / low competition keywords for your campaign. The quotes only represent the search terms in their exact order. For instance the results for "black leather running shoes" will show you pages with that exact term as typed. Without the quotes could yield results from a book like "Then Tom removed the black leather gloves from his hands and began running after the fetish who stole Jennys stinky shoes". Think of the words a potential buyer would use when looking for the product they just have to have. They don't type in quotes (mostly we do that for research) , but they will type in terms like Apple 80gb video ipod. You do not need your titles, etc in quotes. Just seed your content with 3/5% of your keyword or phrase so the search engines will see that you have relevant content.
6). Two to three articles a day will get the job done without the risk of burnout. Remember , this should be somewhat enjoyable. Update your blogs daily for the first few days and then you can taper off to weekly to maintain your position in the search engines. I'm on the fence regarding duplicate content. I see both sides of the debate, but I guess it depends on what results you want from the articles. I see little difference in submitting the same article to 5 or so article sites (depending on their tos) or tweaking that one article 5 times to make it unique. I've done searches and seen the same article listed on numerous sites and blogs. Confusing! One great article that goes viral is what I want. Then, try to do an encore.
9). Clickbank is what you make of it. There are thousands of products to choose from, so it's all about picking the ones you feel strongly about. There's also PayDotCom, Commission Junction, Copeac and Azoogle for CPA offers, and others. Plus there are plenty of independent programs for thousands of products you can promote.
10) You can definitely replace that job by doing things right. Try to picture the viral effect of say 10% of your articles. 3 articles a day = 1095 articles, and if 10% are requested or picked up by webmasters and each one of those sites receives just 100 unique visitors per day. Chew on that for a while and decide if you think it's got the potential to pay your way.
Hope this helps!
Mike
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