Use Google Insights for Search, then choose a category but leave the keyword field blank, and hit Search.
Highest volume keywords on the left. Highest trending keywords on the right. Is this data 100% accurate? Well I don’t really know – Google could be holding back – but this is the best way I’ve personally found to find the most popular keywords.
Leave a comment and let me know what you think!
KeywordMixer.com is a simple web-based app that lets you manufacture your own keyword lists without having to type everything out manually. It’s like Excel, but it doesn’t take a minute to boot up and load, which is great for manufacturing keywords quickly and on the fly.
Just a few years ago, keyword tools were all the rage. They were marketed in such a way that suggested the keyword tool you used is the secret to profitable campaigns. While keywords are important, you don’t need expensive and fancy tools. For research, use the Google Keyword Tool or Google Insights for Search. For multiplying keywords together, use KeywordMixer.com
For the example, I’m having the tool combine “Chevy” and “Chevrolet” with all the USA models which I found on Wikipedia (a favorite research tool btw). Click the image to enlarge it.
When you click the “Combine” button, it simply iterates through and prints out the keyword variations for you. Copy/paste them as you please.
Read this post in particular on keyword research and it should be clear why this is useful 
Hotel key card –> pizza ads
I just received an email saying Adbeat will be closing from public beta in about 2 weeks, so you should sign up here while it is still free!
What is Adbeat? It lets you see the top PPC ads across the Google Content Network, Yahoo/MSN PPC, DoubleClick, Adsonar, and Pulse360!
You can search out specific advertisers in your niche, and see which adcopies they use the most. You can also search out specific publishers and see which ads appear the most on their sites. You can see which ads appear most on a network by network basis.
It really kicks ass.
Since it is still free, I recommend taking tons of notes on the adcopies used in the markets you compete in! You know, for future reference and stuff update: the free period is over.
I originally found out about it by watching an interview on Mixergy.com (great site!) with the owner, Mike Colella, entitled The $2.2 Million Affiliate Who Wouldn’t Let Me Interview Him – with Mike Colella
If you are into CPV Marketing, go check out CPVDen.com! It’s a good forum, so if you’re a noob, shut up and don’t ruin the place. Only post once you’ve been testing and actually have something to ask or add. Affiliate Marketing does not need more shitty forums!!
Answer: THE APPEAL.
And more specifically, the appeal as stated by your headline.
I have seen one ad pull as much as nineteen times the response of another. Both ads occupied the same amount of space in the same medium, and both had superbly written copy and graphic design. The difference that made the difference was the appeal. One got it right, and the other didn’t. John Caples
Even if you launch with an “OK” ad and a shitty lander, hitting the correct appeal will make all the difference. Everything else can get dialed in and optimized later AFTER you’ve found what your market wants and responds to.
Moral of the story is split test until your customers react to your offer like this…
…through your affiliate link of course 
When I was 18 or 19, I knocked doors on a traveling sales crew and sold magazines across the US (hahaha I know) for about 1 year. Lately, I can’t help but think how much magazine sales is like affiliate marketing. If door-to-door sales was marketing 1.0, then the affiliate model is marketing 2.0.
The set up is virtually the same.
Armed with a sales pitch, the affiliate does all the heavy lifting and is the one actually out there making everything happen, just like the door-to-door magazine guy.
The affiliate manager is like the one who drives the van, and reports back to the network. Both the affiliate manager and van driver are incentivized to get their affiliates to do well with the offers.
The CPA network collects all the money and distributes it, much like the sketchy guy sitting in the back of a cheap hotel room counting all the cash his affiliates fetched that day (yes this is really how it goes down).
Every new apartment complex or neighborhood is a new place to get traffic. Kicked off Google? Just go to the next one or sneak back in.
Biggest difference? Affiliate marketing pays better
Man, I love this industry
