Start with creating a list of keywords that are relevant to your blog topic. The best way to do this is to brainstorm on a piece of paper. Write down every term that comes into your mind related to the topic. If you hit a wall, you can find websites selling similar products, and then use the ABAKUS reverse keyword generator to see what terms they are using.Determining your keywords is actually the process of deciding “If I were a person looking for the affiliate products I am promoting, what keywords would I use in a search engine?” The process requires a bit of intuition and out of the box thinking. When you target keywords to your topic, search engines will send traffic to your blog for free.

Yahoo Search Marketing will also suggest keywords that are related to the word that you typed in. Add any of these words to your master list if they are relevant to your blog topic. At this point, your list of keywords will be very long. Make a note next to each keyword of how many searches it received in the last month. From this point on, you’ll be focusing your efforts on only the keywords that have 5000 or more search results. These keywords and the number of searches will go in the “keyword” and “demand” columns of your spreadsheet.The final step is to find the max bid for the keywords terms in pay per click systems. You can use Yahoo Search Marketing again to find what people are bidding per click for advertising on your targeted keywords.