Questions on researching a niche for a noob
I'm currently in the research everything about affiliate marketing stage and have a few questions about narrowing down a niche. As someone who is very new to this business and SEO, please answer all questions for someone who's just starting. I'm a huge fan of this community and appreciate any and all help!
What is the minimum $ amount you'd target for a product category? Or maybe a better questions is what is the avg minimum commission $ amount per sale?
What is the minimum monthly search volume you'd recommend for a keyword(s). Is there a maximum as well?
ahrefs has a tool that measures ranking difficulty of keywords based on backlinks.(Easy, Medium, Hard, Super Hard). What is the highest difficulty you'd recommend targeting. Or what is the maximum number of avg backlinks you'd try and compete with?
I know there are many different strategies when it comes to setting up a blog. Would you recommend strictly focusing on affiliate commissions based on referring products or Adsense revenue based on a blogging about personal interest. Pros/Cons?
Any other general advice on how to determine the competition of a niche?
Any resources–youtube, blogs, forums, old reddit posts–you'd recommend for helping narrow down good niche ideas?