How to Find Your Affiliate Niche Market Profiting from your affiliate niches. Finding your own profitable niche online is where most aspiring affiliates get stuck, and it can often take months on end to find a niche that will give you a favourable return on investment. (9) 1. Pick on a broad category of ideas, which could be green energy, affiliate marketing, relationships, general shopping, or sports, etc. (10) 2. Think about the subsets that lie within the broad category you picked on above. For example, if you chose the relationship market, think about people who are just starting to date, (11) 3. Pick on an item to sell that belongs to one of the subsets you just identified above. 4. Continue brainstorming and finding out specific details about the people that might belong to any of the subsets you picked on above. For example people who have just broken up in reality still want their partner back or would be more than willing to make up or buy products that help them understand why their partner broke up in the first place. (12) 5. Next step is to determine the profit potential of the keywords you think these people will be using when looking for solutions online. (13) The results that are returned will show you exactly how many websites are competing for that keyword, the lower the figure the better, also pay attention to the advertisements being run at the top and left hand sides, the fewer the better for you. In summary that is how you find your affiliate niche market online. (14)