1. Jump Start Your Affiliate Marketing With A Blog! So, you have signed up for our affiliate program and maybe even some other affiliate programs as well. So, how do you start making the thousands per month in affiliate commission? First of all, you need somewhere to put up your affiliate banners and links and then let all interested parties click through the link to your affiliate merchant. If you already have a website or a blog, then congratulations to you, all you have to do is to host the banners you found in your affiliate account and then wait for the sales to start rolling in. If you do not already have a website or a blog and wants a quick way to start, then starting a blog must be your best way forward. Why is a blog preferred over just another website? 1. Blogs are the favourite of search engines these days and you will get indexed quicker than just another website. 2. Blogs are connected to a whole universe of other blogs in what we call a blogosphere. Bloggers can find, connect and link to each other's blog, driving a good source of extra traffic when you do it right. 3. Blogs can be about anything at all! It is simply your online diary where you can write anything to. 4. Blogs are easy to start. In fact, there are places where you can host a blog for free! So, how do you start blogging? Here are some simple steps to get started : 1. Get your own domain name. Yes, even though it is easy and free to get started with free blog hosts like Blogger.com, it has been noticed that search engines pick up and index blogs hosted with a unique domain name much faster than blogs hosted with a free host. You want to get indexed quickly so that you can start the race to appearing on search engines sooner. 2. Set up a blog as your index page or homepage. Most web hosts have an option to set up a blog as your homepage. It is extremely easy to setup and highly customisable. Web hosts like Yahoo! Domains allows you to set up a Wordpress blog simply by activating it. 3. Write about a relevant topic. Many of our affiliates simply host our affiliate banners and then write about their daily option trades and results yield from the Star Trading System. Nothing converts and convinces people to click through the banner more than your personal experience with the system. Some fantastic blogs by our affiliates are StayWealthy.com by WeiNi and MyOptionTradingRoom.com by Chamnan. 4. Join Blog exchanges. After your blog is up and running, it is time for you to joinTechnorati.com. There are many ways to drive additional traffic to your blog through Technorati.com and a simple search on google will turn out many of these materials. 5. Digg IT!!! After every post, make sure you join and submit each post to Digg.com!! This is an excellent source of free traffic to your blog especially if you post to your blog often. 6. Share Your Traffic! Nothing is more important to blogging than to share traffic through placing each other's link in your "Blogroll". Please feel free to use the feedback form below to post your blog address to this page so that all affiliates can link to each other! 7. Finally... After you have exhausted all these free means of driving traffic to your blog and have made a few sales, it is time to go pay for some targetted traffic using Pay Per Click advertising like Google Adwords. Also, make sure you showcase your email address in a prominent place on your blog so that interested clients can email you for some clarifications and reassurance before signing up with us! Follow the above steps will definitely help you get started in your affiliate marketing career with us on a high note. Copyright 2007, Jason Ng, Founder - MastersoEquity.com