How To Create An Income Stream In The Online Gaming Niche In 7 Days

By reading this article, you are actually getting a 7-Day Action Plan on how to get started in the online gaming niche and a chance for you to be an affiliate for some of the popular game guides or having you as an expert (with your own products) in this niche!

Do note that this information is made possible because of the recent release of Tony Sanders' Clickbank Gamers. You will also get some of the materials that's required in the article from the course package.

Also note that some of the requirements here would need you to have some prior marketing knowledge in mind, e.g. keyword research, buying of domain name, setting up of website & landing page and autoresponders.

Day 1: Getting To Know The Online Gaming Niche

There's a lot of money to be made from the online gaming niche but the buyers (or gamers) are lots more sensitive to gaming information as compared to other niches. Therefore you would need to know what they really need, understand how they think and then provide the answers to their questions!

In Clickbank Gamers, Tony Sanders (an expert gamer and marketer) will share with you some of the needs, questions, desires and fears that most Gamers will have and how you can answer them. You will also get access to some of the profitable game guides that gamers would want to have access to.

Some of the popular online games that you can start exploiting would include World Of Warcraft, Starcraft II and Farmville. In Clickbank Gamers, you will get to know seven more and a brief walkthrough of what all these games are all about.

To get you started, you can explore the official game sites in details, play the trial or the actual game in possible, just to have an overall feel of the gaming environment.

There are also other sources to check out more details like Forums, Gaming Articles or even the Sales Page of some popular Game Guides.

Have in mind the problems and needs that most gamers have and at the same time research for affiliate products that you can promote or have your own Game Guides done up and ready to be sold. Keyword Research is required.

Day 2: Creating Your Website And Landing Page

Assuming that you have taken action and gotten the products (affiliate or your own) that you are ready to promote, it's time to create your website and Landing Page.

Your Landing Page will help you to generate trust among the Gamers and to highlight that you understand their problems and you are there to help them with your Gaming Guides.

Your Landing Page will perform two tasks for you depending on what you wish. First, you can have an Opt-in Form to attract these Gamers to sign up for an ecourse (provide them with gaming tips and a chance to get more information through the products). Second, you can expand on the first task by adding more gaming articles (outsource or write on your own) to your site. This will help you to get some search engine rankings to attract more Gamers.

In Clickbank Gamers, Tony Sanders provide you with some of his high-converting Landing Pages for the online games mentioned. There are also around 30 gaming articles for each of the 10 online games that you can rewrite and have them placed on your sites as well.

Day 3: Setting Up Your Autoresponder And Try On Your Own

Once you have crafted your Gaming Tips (preferably around 7 Good Tips), it's time to load them into your preferred Autoresponder services.

How To Provide Good Gaming Tips? You can actually spend some time researching Gaming Forums or even try Yahoo! Answers, they will have some good ones over there that you can use and share with your subscribers.

In Clickbank Gamers, you are actually being provided with these Gaming Tips or eCourse that you can edit to your style and have them loaded up into your Autoresponder.

And to make sure that your website, landing pages and email messages are working well - try them on your own, make sure all links are working well and even subscribe to your own list to have a feel of being "sold".

Day 4: Create Your PPC Ad Campaigns

If you have the excess budget, you can choose Day 4 to do up your PPC Ad Campaigns. This is one good and faster way of bringing in traffic.

Here's a few good tips on running successful PPC Ad Campaigns:

1. Create AdGroups with no more than 50 Keywords each
2. Provide at least two sets of Ad Copy for each Ad Group
3. Measure the Timing of your Ad Campaign to suit the before and after peak hours of playing
4. Have a Schedule to check on your Performance!

In Clickbank Gamers, you will get a good set of keywords that you can start using to promote for each of the recommended Game Guides.

Day 5: Article Marketing And Social Bookmarking

Article Marketing is a good way to bring in constant stream of traffic to your sites. To do so, you would need to have articles on various article directories. And write your articles in different versions and based on the keyword terms you wish to market on your site.

A good article marketing strategy would be in two forms - creating contents in different formats like Blog Posts, Email Newsletter or Free Reports. Second would be to have gradual and constant uploading of contents on various platforms.

Social Bookmarking is basically one method to create exposure for your sites. Create your social profile on sites like StumbleUpon and Digg and bookmark those articles you have written on your sites.

Day 6: Getting Backlinks and Social Media Links

Getting backlinks is not an easy task, as compared to article marketing, for most because in order to get quality backlinks, you have to appear active and sociable in sites like Gaming Forums, Gaming Blogs. These platforms do not encourage their members and visitors to just appear on their sites and drop their links and disappear.

In order to have quality backlinks, you would need to find those forums that are popular and have high rankings (e.g high page ranks of 4 and above) in the search engines.

Next up, you will need to have various social profiles done up in sites like Facebook, YouTube and Twitter and provide added value to the Gamers Community at those sites.

Day 7: Track, Monitor And Expand

Once you have everything up and running, with traffic coming in from various sources. It's time for you to gather data and track which format is working best for you and which areas to improve.

For example, you can track and monitor on:

• Click-thru rates on your PPC Ad Campaigns and the Conversion Rate
• Analytics to see the major source of your traffic
• Compare the searches from PPC and from Organic. If the latter has a bigger number, you may wish to minimize your PPC budget.

Next up, you can continue to research into the niche (this is an ever-growing niche), expand into new marketing methods and repeat this whole process for a new online game!

Conclusion

This is a 7-Day Action Plan that can help you break into the online gaming niche. You can choose to be an affiliate for some of the popular game guides or you can create your own game guides. Either way, you can create and promote your niche using the steps mentioned and profit from it.