Although it is normally recommended that you have your own website in order to promote programs from our affiliate network, it is still possible for anybody to earn affiliate commissions without having a website. As an affiliate, you earn some commission for each and every sale that you create, and all you need to do is to direct visitors to the merchant's website.
Affiliate netwrok marketing is quite appealing to people who would like to start making money online quickly. You don't really have to have your own product, and you don't need to worry about payment processing or product handling. When you have decided that you want make some money online with affiliate programs, you just sign up with an affiliate network marketing program and choose the products you want to promote and start making money!
Since it's so easy to join an affiliate program and start making some money, how can you start marketing these affiliate programs if you don't have your own website?
1. Use Pay per Click (PPC) advertising to drive site traffic to the merchant's site using your affiliate link. When the people you direct to the website purchase a product, you earn commissions.
2. Participate in relevant online groups and forums and have your affiliate link in your signature. As you make posts in the forums, you will probably be advertising your affiliate link and driving website traffic to the merchant's website. When these people you send to the merchant's website through your affiliate link purchase a product, you earn commissions.
3. Write articles and have your affiliate link in your resource box or author biography. People who will read your article will subsequently check out the affiliate program's website through your affiliate link, and this will earn you some commissions.
4. Write product reviews and post them on other people's websites. Many website owners can accept some product reviews on their websites if these websites are on related niches. At the end of your product reviews, include your affiliate links, and this will drive traffic to the affiliate program's website through your link.
5. Start a blog. Starting a blog is easier and quicker than starting a website, so you could start a blog. It does not cost you anything mainly because you could sign up for a free blog with blogger.com and start publishing on your blog straight away. Write posts relating to the affiliate products that you're promoting and add affiliate links to your posts. This is an effective way of promoting your affiliate products.
So, as you can see, you can actually still make money online with affiliate network programs even though you don't have your own website. In fact, you can start to promote your affiliate products as recommended above without having a website, and once you start making some money, then you can build a site.