Are you new in the web marketing business, and you want to start your own business but don’t know how? Keep reading…
There are many kinds of web marketing today. You can promote your own product
online, perform SEO service for companies, earn money from google adsence, affiliate marketing, and so on. Here I want to introduce you the affiliate marketing which is very popular and easy to perform.
- What is affiliate marketing?
You will promote someone’s products or services on your website, and then receive commissions for leads or sales. There are lots of affiliate companies such as CJ , ClickBank , etc…, which you can find the products or services you want to promote.
- Step 1 Register a domain
If you do not have domain yet, you can register a new one or buy an existed domain. There are many domain companies as well, such as www.GoDaddy.com , domain.com, name.com, yahoo small business and so on. You can find some coupons when register the new domain, which will sometimes save a lot of money. The domain name may be better related to the product or service you want to promote.
- Step 2 Host the domain and build the website
The simplest way is to create a one-page landing page, which mostly can be hosted on the free space of the domain company. If you want to build a more complex or professional website, you need to buy a host first. Also, there are lots of host companies out there for your choice, such as godaddy, bluehost, hostmonster, justhost and so on. You can find the comparison of them in a lot of forums or blogs.
- Step 3 Promote your website to get traffic
There are many ways to promote the websites, included 
SEO, list building, PPC, PPV, etc…There are plenty of guides and video lessons for each of them. You will always find out a method working for you.
- Step4 Monetize
You can begin to monetize your website by put the affiliate ad codes on your website when you get more and more traffic. Sometimes, the product or service you choose will not convert as well as you expect, then you need to think about optimize the traffic source or change another similar product.
Finally, you can just wait the affiliate companies pay the money by check, or to your PayPal / bank account. Not so hard, right?
