Around the Christmas holidays, people do everything do find the perfect gifts for their loved ones. Do you know what this means? It means more opportunities for you and I to promote hot items.

People are practically surfing the web with their credit cards in their hands. Amazon is the most trusted online store and its affiliate program could mean extra money in your pocket. Here are several strategies you can use for the upcoming holidays.

1) Create niche sites targeted around a single product
Toys and gifts for kids are particularly popular this time of the year. You can create blogspot or wordpress blogs each one targeting a single product. For example, this site promoting the Schwinn Roadster 12 Inch trike or this one promoting the Cranium Hullabaloo game. Keep these sites simple and make sure you include a call to action for your visitor. You need the visitor to click and go to Amazon through your affiliate link. There are literally thousands of toys which can be used for this strategy on Amazon but not only (I personally prefer Amazon since it converts very well because of the fact that it is well known and trusted). You can also buy your own domains for this strategy or create and Astore (I prefer to do all of them).

2) Create large sites targeting various products
For example, a site with hot products for 2008 can be a very good idea. Or maybe a site which presents appropriate gifts for children of various ages. There are endless possibilities. Even if it is already November and creating this website now might not show its true potential, next year it will have already aged and with some consistent link building, it can be a really good money maker.

3) Do some PPC
You can find tons of cheap keywords that are highly targeted. This, combined with the buying that’s going on around Christmas, can turn into nice profits. You can use the small targeted niche sites as your landing pages as they are highly targeted and will improve your quality score, thus providing you with cheap clicks.

If you think you are already late, think about the fact that you can use this strategy for the rest of the year also. Create small targeted Amazon affiliate niche sites and get them to top 10 of Google for the particular product they are promoting. They can also be used to provide your large sites with some link love.