It is not difficult to make money with affiliate marketing. However, you have to work a bit in order to make money. You will have to have your own website to promote the affiliate links. In fact, you will be promoting your website when you are trying make money.

Let us talk about the reasons for you to have your own website. The first reason is that your website is one of your asset. As an affiliate marketer, the affiliate websites and the lists are certainly the most important assets.

Yet, it is also true that you can still make money by promoting the products on places such as forums and blogs. However, a lot of forums just do not allow affiliate links. To this end you will not be able to promote the products directly on these forums.

Now you should know that why you need to create your own website. There are a lot of free services on the internet so that you do not need to spend even a buck in order to start your own site. Blogger.com is certainly one of the example. Yet, another option is to have your own domain.

So, you have now two options in front of you. You may not really know which one you should go for. If you do not want to spend even a buck, you may want to go for the ideas of using services such as squidoo.com and wordpress.com. You will certainly need to pay some money if you go for the other option.

Due to this difference, there are marketers who will prefer not to have their own domains. However, the point here is that you should never consider this issue by considering the price only. You have to think about some other aspects before you make the decision.

You should first of all consider the graphic layout of the website. If you are using free services such as squidoo.com. You will have to follow the page format of the site. You cannot totally redesign the layout of it. And it may affect the conversion rate.

The problem of affiliate hijacking can affect your earning very much. You will need to find ways to hide the affiliate links to this end. In fact, you can hide the link easily with a simple PHP script. However, you may not be allowed to use such a script if you use squidoo.com or blogger.com.

As a matter of fact, there is nothing wrong with using free services. However, the best situation will be that you have your own domain and hosing. And at the same time you will use the free services. You can start an affiliate blog along with your main affiliate site so that you can further boost your conversions.