Once you have your website built, you will submit it to major search engines and every day set some time aside to promote your website. At same time, find affiliate programs that complement your content and ad their banner ads or text links to your website.

Working with a subject you love insures that you won’t become bored with website. The more content that you add to your site and more you promote it, more traffic you will get. It could take a good year to get site to point where you are actually surprised at how well it is doing. At that point, it seems to almost effortlessly improve itself.

The key is to draw your visitors to website because you have terrific content. It is even more effective to offer a newsletter that your visitors can opt-in to. This way you can send them monthly newsletters with articles that will interest them, convincing them to frequent your site over and over again. You can also include affiliate program links in your newsletters as well.

In end, you have indulged in promoting a topic that you are knowledgeable and passionate about; while at same time have initiated a residual income from.

Now you will have even more expertise and confidence, and next site will be a piece of cake!

Lori Redfield is a freelance Internet entrepreneur. She and her husband work solely from home and support their family of five comfortably – with plenty of time for play!

Some businesses develop more than one USP so you'll be able to choose one that you think works best in getting more targeted visitors to their site.

7. Try out support of companies you want to promote by asking questions.

This will help you to find out how long it takes them to respond to emails (if they respond to emails) and how professional they are.

8. Create freebies that promote your affiliate programs.

You could offer your visitors a f~ree email course, an ebook filled with your tips or articles or an ebook that provides your visitors with places to promote their businesses.

When creating freebies for an affiliate program that is 2 tier, increase your profits by letting your affiliates in your second tier use your freebies as a promotional item.

9. Create a directory.

Your directory could be an article, ezine, ebook or affiliate program directory.

List your own resources within your directory to increase your commissions. For example, you could add your own affiliate programs to your affiliate programs directory or your ebooks to your ebook directory.

Add a what's new section to your directory to garner more repeat traffic from your visitors.

You could also provide a tutorial on subject of your directory, or add things to your directory that your visitors can use on a regular basis to get more repeat traffic.

10. Run ezine ads for your affiliate programs.

You could purchase sponsor, feature, classified or solo ads for your affiliate program.

Choose ezines with subscribers targeted to be interested in products of business you want to promote.

Run your ads for multiple issues in a row when possible to maximize profit you get from your ads.

You can also run f~ree ads in ezines as many ezines offer f~ree advertising on a weekly, monthly or per issue basis to get more new subscriptions.

Running f~ree ads can help you find out which ads work best, and which ezines are most responsive before you purchase ezine advertising.