subject: Affiliate Marketing Steps [print this page] The most common way to get into affiliate marketing is to own your own website, but this is by no means the only way to be a successful affiliate marketer. The reason it is the most common starting point, is the process of building, optimizing, and marketing your site is like an affiliate marketing training course. If you decide to go this route, after setting up your website and adding all necessary information you want to promote it to increase the traffic to your site. There are different ways to go about doing this. Search engine optimization is a cheap and fairly easy way to increase the traffic. You can also promote your website on different blogs, forums, and social media networks. Once you have finished putting your together, it is time tosign up with an affiliate network and begin to start monetizing your site!
