Need some help to understand affiliate websites. I want to start one. Which are best and how to? Thank you!?

[Malik Potter]

Need some help to understand and run affiliate website businesses. Want to start 1 or 2 to make some extra money.

Thank you!

[Kristian]

I was in the same situation 2 months ago.
I join this Affiliate Marketing community http://goo.gl/SbmD3e

I now have these 3 sites under development http://howtolearnios.com

I have blogged about my first 2-3 weeks here http://freeswagsites.com/wealthy-affiliate

I have managed to do this whilst holding down a full time job and large family and I had no previous experience at all.

They will give you an idea of what can be achieved in a short time with the right help. They also provide free training and free WordPress subdomains and Live Chat access 24/7 to experts. There is a premium membership option, but no obligation to ever upgrade.

Importantly, you don't need to provide any financial information / credit cards to join - this is the only reason I trusted them since I have been scammed by these sort of things in the past. You just give your name and email address to sign up so it's perfectly safe.

Good Luck

PS. You can email me here at Yahoo Answers if you have anymore questions. It is very hard work, but great fun and you can potentially earn a living without having to answer to a boss (unless you are married like me!)

PPS. Watch out for people trying to sell you cheap tricks - they don't work. The route to success is writing great content but using simple legitimate SEO and social media techniques to attract visitors.

[Marlee]

I think the true path to "income" in affiliate marketing is not in content blogging (which I also do) but instead in promoting affiliate offers on micro-niche sites and also as you develop experience in creating squeeze pages (landing sites) and using various paid traffic sources to funnel them through your own opt-in site (where you get them on YOUR mailing list) and then they pass on to the offer you're promoting.

Having "blogged" for years and written so many articles at sites like Squidoo and Hubpages that I could've written a book, I don't think most people can expect a full living income from it. For those who have everything align, then sure, they can, but from my own experience and knowing many bloggers it isn't likely. I think a good income range for an average blogger who is doing it right on a content site is $500 - $750 a month, and that is writing every day or two with SEO optimized content so people find and visit the site. It is a lot of work to maintain a site and a mailing list (newsletter) when you consider the gain. I'm talking about "average" and not the few who do make a lot from content sites.

Lot's of affiliates make multiples of that figure with less work and stress with CPA and other offers that they promote on tiny Squeeze Page sites via paid traffic. I own over a dozen sites (several are content heavy blogs) as well and so I have years of experience behind my opinion. Anyone just starting out can do no better and for no less than Andrew's. There are others, like Google Sniper and Affilorama, but Forever Affiliate is tops in my opinion... because of Andrew himself if no other reason. Money Blogger has a pretty good review of the program.