Over the last couple of days I’ve been spending a lot of time on one of my favorite forums that deals with making money on the Internet.

Anyway, one question I notice that keeps coming up over and over again is how to start an affiliate marketing website if you don’t really know much or anything about HTML, PHP, MYSQL, CGI, you know the tech related stuff.

All this tech stuff can really put a damper on anyone who’s just starting out in this industry that is looking to pull in any kind of income, whether it’s part time or full time.

The way I see it you basically have TWO options:

  • 1) DIY - Which means start buying books on how to build a website and spending most evenings and nights reading and learning to write code.
  • 2) OS - Outsourcing which means you pay someone to do all the dirty work for you, which leaves you open to be more creative.

    • Both of these options have drawbacks but today I’m going to talk about option (1) DIY - the good, bad and ugly, just kidding.

    Building a website from scratch can be a daunting task in some cases you can say it’s like trying to climb Mount Everest when you have a heart problem.

    Anyway we know in order to create your first website you need to have certain skillsets, like how to use html, php, how to upload and download files, setup a domain, change DNS.

    Over the last few years I’ve been using and testing a few tools that doesn’t really need you have these skillsets in order to have your first affiliate marketing website up and running and making some kind of money in no time.

    Let me introduce you to Wordpress, it’s the best newbie website creator around and simple to install, configure and use.

    Here are just some of the things you can use this amazing platform for:

  • CMS - Content Management System
  • News - News site like an online newspaper
  • Blog - Both personal and business blog where you share your insights
  • Membership - paid Membership site where you share private content to customers
  • Magazine - Magazine type site like you see on your store racks, like forbes, newsweek

    • These are just some of the thing you can use wordpress for, the use is limitless and one of the key features of wordpress is the use of addons, which enhances your site to do even more amazing thing, like letting visitors to your site rate your content and leave comments, which keep your site looking fresh for the search engines.

    If you really want to get a site up and running in less than an hour you need to get wordpress just do a search on yahoo or google for it and the best thing is it’s opensource and free to use.

    Here’s what you need to get up and running:

    1) Your Domain
    2) Webhosting Account
    3) Wordpress Application
    4) FTP software to upload the wordpress files
    5) Text editor like notepad

    That’s it you are set and ready to rock and roll.

    Just leave your questions or comments I’ll do my best to answer each and everyone as best as I can or if you need help setting up your wordpress website just post telling me what i can do to help, cheers.

    –David

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