Make Money Online With Affiliate Marketing

Section 8: The "Pregame" Pt. 3 - Setting Up Hosting / Domain Name

Although many of the methods below won’t require a landing page (your own website), I highly recommend buying a domain and setting up hosting.

You can get really cheap web hosting at host rocket. Here is a link to get 6 months free.

But, if you are not setting up a website, why would you need a domain and hosting?
There are a couple reasons.

First, although you wont need a website, redirecting through your website will help speed up split testing. For example, without a website direct linking happens like this:

Ad on site -> Affiliate link -> Advertisers page (“the offer”)

Now, let’s say that you wanted to try a new offer. This means a new affiliate link. Now you have to resubmit new ads, wait for them to be approved, and restart from there. But, with a domain you could do something like:

Ad on site -> Your domain / redirect -> affiliate link -> Advertisers page (“the offer”)

Now, when you want to change the offer, your redirect page can be changed without having to submit new ads.
If you’re confused, don’t worry. It will become more clear as you begin to setup some campaigns.

Another reason for having a domain and hosting is being able to setup free tracking software that will help you to track your campaigns in much greater detail. This tracking software is free at www.prosper202.com. I HIGHLY recommend you get and setup Tracking202 or Prosper202 if you are serious about affiliate marketing.