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If you’ve been on the Internet any length of time, you’ve probably heard about affiliate programs. You may even have heard of the people who are making six or even seven figure incomes solely through the promotion of affiliate products. However, despite what some people may lead you to believe, making money with affiliate programs is not as simple as signing up for a program and then sitting back to watch as the money pours in. In fact, it’s anything but! The reality is, good money can be made through promoting affiliate products, but those who do make the good money have put in a great deal of hard work first.

If you are determined to go ahead and earn money through the promotion of affiliate products, then it’s a great idea to know where to start. Many people say that you don’t need a website to create an income through affiliate sales, but the best affiliates have websites of their own. If you think having a website is too expensive, think again. Most people who don’t have websites have to use paid advertising to make their sales (for example, through the Google Adwords program), which can add up to a lot of money very quickly. However, a website only need cost as much as a domain name and cheap hosting. To find out more about these, check out GoDaddy or iPowerweb (although there are many other domain name providers and hosting providers out there, if you’re willing to do a bit of research).

What if you know nothing about html or website design? What if you want to get started straight away and really don’t have the funds to get going? There is a completely free option to creating your own website without knowing anything at all about website creation, and that’s through the use of blogs. A simple blogger blog is free, easy to use, and you can get started immediately creating your own web presence. One of the best things about blogger blogs is that they also get spidered by the search engines quickly and regularly (especially Google, which owns blogger). If you don’t know what that means, that’s okay. It basically just means that your site is likely to get indexed by the search engines quickly, so people will be able to find your site when they do a search of the major search engines.

Okay, so you’ve got a website, and you want affiliate products to promote. You also want to know the best ways to promote these affiliate products so you actually induce people to buy the products you’re advertising! A good place to start is with Clickbank. It’s free to join, and you can promote any of their products. Of course, there are a lot of products to choose from! The best idea is to find a niche, or a topic you’re interested in, and create your site around it. Then look for products that fit into that particular niche. One of the best ways of promoting affiliate products is to do an honest review of the product you’re promoting. Of course, it helps if you own the product! Nevertheless, many people successfully promote products they don’t own. (And if you’re starting from scratch and don’t have the money to purchase multiple products then you’re probably going to have to wing it a little).

All Clickbank products have their own website page (the one any potential purchaser will be taken to when they click on your affiliate link). If you want to write a review of the product, that sales page is an excellent page to start. Most sellers do a pretty good job of promoting their products (if they’re at all successful) and you can use the benefits they’ve highlighted in their sales pitch to write your review around.

There’s a lot more to becoming a success as an affiliate marketer than the simple steps I've just outlined, but once you know where to begin, you can start pretty much straight away. Once you want more information, there are tons of books and resources online (many of which are free) which will help you in your quest to know more and become more successful.

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