To help you make money right away, here are some affiliate marketing tips that will knock your socks off.

I’m not going to bore you with the usual stuff, like “go to ClickBank to see what’s hot”, create a Blogger Blog or Squidoo lens, write articles that link to those sites acting as landing pages. No, this article takes you beyond the regular recycled content that you have probably read, or heard about, a thousand times already.

To earn money with Adsense or niche afflliate marketing, a simple method for doing this is what I call traffic surge marketing, or trend marketing.

If you view a T.V. show or hear about a new movie coming out, or are aware of when the next Oscars event is taking place, go to Google Trends find out what the hottest terms are right now for those events.  Find out what the most popular search terms are for today, yesterday, and even the past few days. Then create the perfect storm of a landing page promoting a product, a content piece with just Adsense on aside from your content, and post these articles on a free blog that will rank quickly like Blogger or WordPress. There are a lot of people following this business model and putting up quick, dirty ugly sites like this to capitalize on the “surge traffic” also known as “trends traffic”.

What you want to do to beat them at their own game is to anticipate what the trends are going to be so you can get ahead of the surge of traffic.

How do you get ahead of the surge of interest to ride the wave of interest and traffic and to position yourself ahead of everyone else?

Watch some television, read a newspaper, or just take a general birds-eye view of what is hot right now.  If Oprah recommends a book on her show, make a review page or post, put it up quickly to promote the book and then sell some of them through your Amazon affiliate link.

If you have any marketing experience at all, then you’ll know what might be of sudden interest in the niches that you already have sites built for.

Here are 2 examples for how I did this for my niche sites:

I have a website about home brewing and one day when I was at the movies with my son I saw a trailer for the Beer Wars Movie.As I was sitting there, I thought how interesting this would be on my home brewing site, so I embedded a movie trailer that I found on YouTube.  After that little post got indexed, I reviewed the trailer and did some research on others’ opinions of the movie.

My second post was a review of the actual movie.  I did all this in 20 minutes, most of which was spent reading others’ opinions on the movie.There was suddenly a lot more people searching for “Bee Wars Movie Trailer” on the search engines once the movie went live.

In anticipation of the sudden but temporary traffic surge, I decided that I would make sure that I was page 1 for those terms so I used Backlink Solutions to quickly catapult my site to page one for those terms. When the movie went live, I was already on the first page for the search terms that I wanted.

Example #2 of how I use offline resources to anticipate a surge of interest and traffic for my niche sites.

I was browsing throught the newspaper one day and ran across an article about an antique show where people were bidding on a 300-year-old birthday cake. I reasoned that since this news item made it to the offline newspapers that it would be interesting to visitors to my site on antique furniture.

So I wrote the post about the antique birthday cake, but the traffic spike and Adsense earnings didn’t come like I had anticipated.  Granted, I still got a lot of traffic for that particular post but I was a Johnny-come-lately with that bit of news and it wasn’t totally relevant to a site about antiques furniture but since the site was about antiques some visitors found the birthday cake post of interest.

However, I saw an upward surge for those sites’ Adsense earnings for a few days.

If you’re into niche affiliate marketing one of the best ways to do SEO for your sites is to write for people and to understand your niche and to write newsworthy items, or rather, to write about newsworthy items of interest to them.If you researched your niche and your target audience, you really don’t need to rely on keyword lists to get traffic.  Many times you can get great amounts of traffic just by writing about what is really of interest to your audience.

Daniel McGonagle runs the Niche Affiliate Marketing newsletter, a Free publication for niche affiliate marketers. His newsletter is chock-full of tips like the one you just read so stop on by and get a free copy of your newsletter.