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Introduction to Affiliate Marketing

New to affiliate marketing? Not sure what it's all about? Basically, it comes down to promoting products online to get a commission whenever a sale is made through your recommendation.

You'll make a website, which isn't as hard as you might think, and then you'll place affiliate links to the products you are promoting throughout that website. Then, when someone clicks on your link and buys the product within a certain time frame, you get a commission!

There's a variety of affiliate networks that you can join to find products to promote, and if you pick a topic (or "niche") that is interesting to you — first making sure with a little market research that it's also profitable — it can be quite a lot of fun to build your affiliate website.
There's a huge range of different methods for getting visitors to your website, including signaling to search engines like Google that your website is relevant to your topic, and spreading the word on social media. Because of the variety of strategies available to you, you'll be able to find something that suits your strengths to get the ball rolling for your own affiliate website.
The goal is to be making your own money just with your own efforts and a computer, setting yourself up for some great potential income.