Consider Setting Up Your Own Website

Which ever platform you decide on – WordPress or Joomla – you will need webhosting, a domain name and it will take a bit of time to get things set up.

Most affiliate marketers tend to go with either Blogger or a WordPress blog and self-hosting. Joomla is an option, but the learning curve is a little bit longer.

So, if you’re looking to get going, you might want to consider either the free services or WordPress.

Once you decide on getting your own blog, select inexpensive webhosting. Remember, webhosting should have cPanel or One-Click setup attached to it.

HostGator has cPanel and Fantastico and Dreamhost has One-Click. Both perform the same function – set up of WordPress with no knowledge of MySQL, WordPress or FTP.

This is the quickest way to get started with your blog.

Once it’s set up, you will need to look at article writing. If you’re not a writer, check out the freelancers at Elance, Guru.com and Rentacoder.

Getting Traffic To Your Site

Write down and plan the methods you are going to use to drive traffic to your website: Pay-Per-Click, Squidoo and HubPages, article marketing, social networking and the like. Then schedule when you will be posting to your site, and posting to social networking sites.

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