Researching your own niche is a very important step, its just like any kind of market research you would take when setting up a business, you need to research the size, (how many other BANS affiliates there are selling the same as you), how many visitors you expect to get from search engines etc.
In the last post i covered how you can find a niche from objects around your house, if you didn’t manage to find any, thats fine, we will see what people are buying online and use this data to find a good niche to get into. Many of these tips i got from marks blog 
but i do have some of my own methods of finding niches also.
So lets see what people are buying, for this i usually head over to shopping.com and click on top searches here and you will see a list of categories, i just clicked on jewellery for a quick example, and these results come up.
| 1 | primark |
| 2 | drop price tv |
| 3 | zodiac tattoos |
| 4 | british passport |
| 5 | price drop tv uk |
| 6 | hug kiss ring |
which as we can see not alot of quality information come up for us, i suppose you could make a niche selling primark jewellery, just an example (not a very good one) But if you do decide to sell a brand name product, don’t put that name in your Domain, e.g. Primarkjewellery.com if primark wanted that domain, they could get it and all your hard work down the drain. Well using shopping to find a niche could be an option, the good thing about shopping.com top searches is it tells us what people are actually searching for on websites which is a factor we could take into account.
There are many other shopping directories which you can look into also;
Google shopping directory - search for niche shops in there (ideas)
Heres a great list of top searches from search engines (a tool we will be using)
There are many more ways to find your niches, which i’ll add to this thread when i think of them.