In most cases, you will need to create your own affiliate website in order to promote the products effectively. In fact, it will be very difficult for you to make money if you do not try to create your own website.
Let us talk about the reasons for you to have your own website. The first reason is that your website is one of your asset. As an affiliate marketer, the affiliate websites and the lists are certainly the most important assets.
Yet, it is also true that you can still make money by promoting the products on places such as forums and blogs. However, a lot of forums just do not allow affiliate links. To this end you will not be able to promote the products directly on these forums.
As a result, you will need to create your own affiliate site. In most cases, you will be allowed to post the link of your own site on forums, provided that you are contributing to the discussions. In order to create your site, you can use services such as squidoo.com and blogger.com. Of course you can also purchase your own domain and hosting services.
You may ask at this point what will be the difference between having your own domain and using services such as blogger.com. The main difference is that it is totally free to use services such as blogger.com and squidoo while you have to pay if you would like to have your own domain.
However, you should understand that you do not only consider the cost when you are building your affiliate website. You have consider a lot of other issues when you are building the site. Failure to consider these issues will make you unable to make money with affiliate marketing.
First of all, you will have less control on the page design if you are using free services. For example, if you are using squidoo.com, there will be somehow a set format for the page layout. You cannot really change the design.
You cannot hide your affiliate links yourself if you use free services like blogger.com. This is also true for squidoo.com. In fact, you can hide the links without any problem if you have your own hosting and domain. The problem of affiliate hijacking has to be addressed at this point.
As a matter of fact, there is nothing wrong with using free services. However, the best situation will be that you have your own domain and hosing. And at the same time you will use the free services. You can start an affiliate blog along with your main affiliate site so that you can further boost your conversions.
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