“To succeed at internet marketing, you need a growing network of websites. These sites will feed each other traffic, pre-sell affiliate programs, generate adsense revenue, and grow you opt-in e-mail lists.”

There are several ways for you to do this, but here it is in a nutshell:

1. Get a domain name
2. Get a reseller account
3. Make your first site
4. Make your second site
5. Link them together
6. Promote them
7. Make another site
8. Link them together
9. Promote them
10. Repeat!

Step 1: Get a reseller or bulk hosting account

The first step to affiliate marketing success is getting your first website. Make this one a learning experience, but you should also set things up so you have room to grow NOW. Why would you pay 20 bucks to host a website when you can host 50 websites for just a few dollars more?

There are many hosting companies that offer bulk hosting or reseller accounts, for example, Bluehost, which allows you to host an unlimited number of domains with 1500 GB of hosting space.

You will need to register a domain name prior to order your reseller account. Again if this is new to you, don’t worry. Some hosting companies, like Bluehost, will help you setup your domain for free (with Bluehost, you have the added benefit of getting your first domain registered free for life).

Website Layout

Once you have your first website hosted, you will need to work on the layout. There are numerous options you can select from when it comes to creating your website’s theme.

1. Join a template membership site, such as Basic Website Templates.

2. Get Xara Webstyle4 – this is a great product with a very low learning curve. It is recommended that you get Xara Xtreme when you buy Webstyle4. It is one of the easiest to use vector based graphic system available.

3. Get Dreamweaver which gives you a lot of room to grow. There are dozens of books and on-line tutorials to help you learn about designing your website as well. Michael Worthington creates great videos on Dreamweaver as well.

4. If you’re on a tight budget and don’t want to spend any cash, you can try NVU - it’s free!

5. Get XsitePro – you will still need a template and one of the editors above, but this product can churn out so many optimised pages that it is worth the investment

6. If you don’t have the time, energy, or the skills to learn all that right now and want to get started, you can consider joining a program like Niche Site Special. It gives you completed products and entire websites every month.

7. You can also hire someone to make your website.  Digital Point Forums is a good place to get contacts.

8. If your hosting company comes with a program called “Fantastico” (Bluehost does), you can install several content management scripts, blogs, etc. to help make your website with just a single click. One of the extra benefits of fantastico is that you can keep your forums, blog scripts, and contact forms updated to the latest version without having to use a programmer.

9. Last but not least, you can code the sites yourself. It isn’t hard to learn HTML. There are thousands of online tutorials. Using a wysiwyg editor is the easiest option for new learners. If you want to take this option but you don’t have the funds for expensive software, tools, or editors – go back through this list and download NVU. You will need to learn a little, but NVU is a great alternative to writing your own code.