Selling, on other hand, is primarily task of affiliate merchant. This includes payment processing, delivery and shipment if applicable, and post-sales support.

Easy isn’t it? All you have to do is to enroll in an affiliate program, market products with your affiliate link, and you could earn wonderful commissions! Plus, you have option of automating everything through your site, or through some creative strategies that have worked for many people.

But this shouldn’t be taken to mean that affiliate marketing can only be carried out through your website. The fact of matter is, you could be a very successful affiliate even without benefit of having a website!

These matters we will reserve for another day, so again, I plead, bookmark this site and I promise that you will not regret it.

Affiliate programs can be fertile sources of plentiful earnings. All you have to do is to choose right one. Here are some points to consider in deciding on an affiliate program:

* Quality of products * Salability of products * Commission rate dependent of salability of products (a highly sellable product with an equally high commission is ideal, but a highly sellable product with modest commission is also good, as finding buyers would be easy) * Credibility of affiliate merchant * Support from affiliate merchant

Additionally, you could enroll in as many affiliate programs you want. But since you could only have 24 hours in a day to do marketing, there are risks in diversifying. So proceed with prudence before engaging in many affiliate agreements.

======== Pages Reported ======== Yahoo = Google = MSN = Pub Date Article 1 . . . 610 . . . 320 . . . . 436 . . May 19th Article 2 . . . 253 . . . 246 . . . . 269 . . June 1st Article 3 . . 2060 . . .1000 . . . .239 . . June 14th

. . Total . . .2923 . . .1566 . . . .944

That's a lot of pages. Now, some of those won't have any live link. Yes, it does happen even though it really shouldn't. A lot of sites it's on won't have much or any page rank and probably quite a few sites are not relevant. People aren't always careful about selecting relevant articles. Some will be on pages that won't pass rank. However, what's left are relevant incoming one-way links - some of which will be from sites with at least some authority. Say even 20% of links are relevant and/or from sites with some rank. That's a minimum (I believe I'm being pretty conservative with 20% figure) of over 1000 useful incoming links based on relevant content.

I was astonished. And then I felt really stupid - I knew this, but I really didn't GET it or I would have been writing and distributing from day 1. You're looking at truth behind power of articles and article distribution. No tricks, no fancy high powered tools, no big expensive anything at all.

Are you telling yourself you can't write articles? I'm telling you that you can. If you can talk, you can write. If you need help, there are lots of resources about how to write - some very good ones are free, some are quite inexpensive. Other tools are more expensive.

Ghostwriters are another alternative. A little tricky and possibly slightly expensive for really high quality work, but there's also a lot of information available on how to do it right.

My advice here is - whatever it takes, start publishing your own original content on your website and start distributing it now. For building long term success, there's very little you can do that will have anywhere near same results.