For Affiliate Marketing Is A Website Essential? By Derek Jones At Isnare.com Ezine Articles

It is an interesting question that is asked many times, especially by those new to Affilaite Marketing. The majority of Internet Marketers will tell you that it is best not to do it that way, but really do not give a definitive "no". Having a domain with hosting seems to reflect the shop (hosting) and the domain (shop window) where you can exhibit your products. Obviously when you have a product of your own to sell, this is the only route to go, but you do not have the same restriction with an affiliate product. It is not essential to show the product on your site, just to promote the affiliate link directly to the merchant's sales page and get paid the commission for the sale.

Even though it is true that having your own website can greatly improve your chances of success with an Affiliate Marketing Business. Can it can be done without one? The answer of course is "yes" and if money is a stumbling block when you start an Internet Business, then it is a viable alternative to the normal methods in order to get started.

The affiliate marketing process in itself is very simple. The affiliate link provided by the merchant for you to promote will issue a cookie that tags the person who clicked on your link and the tag will follow them to the merchant and if they buy, it will tell the merchant which affiliate to render the commission to. Other than promoting the affiliate link the affiliate does no more. The merchant has the responsibility to take care of the actual sales page, along with the payment and delivery of the product.

In actual fact there are some drawbacks to directly promoting Affiliate marketing links, as indicated below:

1. Many people do not like buying through affiliate links and will change the link to exclude the affiliate ID and buy the product directly from the merchant.

2. There are quite a lot of unscrupulous people on the Internet and they go one step further by removing your affiliate ID and replacing it with their own.

3. Google Adwords have stated that duplicate root domains in their results list for specific keyword will be relegated to the end of the list or not even considered.

4. The merchant will get the sign-ups to their list

5. You cannot pre-sell the product to support a low performing sales page.

The above is the list of negatives for this method of promotion, however, there is only the one positive which is your costs are reduced.

The absence of your own website will not stop you in your quest for online success. Most of the regular methods of driving traffic to your affiliate link will work, which include Article Marketing, Forums, and Ezine Advertising, and so on. So if your financial situation restricts your expenditure you can still start an Internet Business using Affiliate Marketing and then as finances improve get your domain and hosting to expand your promotion possibilities even further.

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