AFF - Creating a Simple Affiliate Website

For the absolutely most simple website that you can set up to get going working from home, head over to Blogger, WordPress.com and set up a hosted blog. This is quite easy to do and totally free! To turn it into your own money making site, you just need to write a blog post about the item that you want to be promoting and then that is the job done! Just create an advert through whatever paid traffic scheme you want to use pointing to the blog page and you are in business.

But, this does not look very professional and will not convert the traffic the best it can. The next step up is to create and host your own blog along with its own domain name. You can either use traditional hosting or one click hosting, where you can install WordPress at the click of a button.

To get the look correct, just search around for some free WordPress themes and install a few and see which work the best for you. The advantage of using this method as opposed to the totally free version (you will have to pay for the domain name, website hosting and maybe database hosting) is that you have total flexibility over look and content and you ensure that you have your own domain name.

Lastly, you can look at creating your own website. You might like to do this by using a DIY website tool or even building a website from scratch. Either can be quite successful, but to be honest, if you are just getting started, then using a blogging tool is all that is really needed. It gives you the chance to have a good looking site, control the content and run the site.

So, what should the website contain? Well, you really want a page about you with contact details, so that anyone interested in paying you to advertise on your website can get in contact - it does happen and can be worth a lot of cash to you! Depending on your interpretation of the rules, you might also want a disclaimer page stating that you are advertising on your website.

Then you need to start creating the adverts. For this, just write a brief and honest recommendation for the product that you are promoting and add to the page a few affiliate links and a banner or two that the merchant will provide for you. Make sure that as soon as the page is opened it is easy for the visitor to see the links to the merchant. And once they have read your advert, there should be an accessible link there.

If the merchant provides a photograph that can be included, as a link to the product if you can work out how to do that.

So that's it! Just set up a blog, preferably using WordPress.org, then write a blog post about each item that you want to promote and send the traffic to the blog posts.