If you want to make money from affiliate and pay-per-click programs and networks without spending any money of your own (that is, with no overhead), then you need to use a reliable free host and a free domain name. Do not use the free host's subdomains for your web site, because when the free host vanishes, all the links you created, the ones pointing at your web site, will be useless. Yes, you will be able to move your site to a new host (if you kept a backup), but your site's address (the URL) will change. For example, it might change from yoursite.freehost1.com to yoursite.freehost2.org.

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Forums are most often a waste of time for affiliate marketers. You not only have to muck your way through hoards of useless replies (moderators let users post a lot of stupid one liners), many or most forums do not allow affiliate links (except, sometimes, in your signature).

I hate it when forum posts/replies get top rankings in search results; I do not go to forums for trustworthy or authoritative information. I think most forums spam the search engines, in one way or another.

Google recently updated everybody's Pagerank on May 1, 2008, and as webmasters and affiliate managers, we are certainly concerned about how we rank on Google's search engine. Pagerank determines how close we are to the top in Google's search results.

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If you would like to promote your websites and share information with other surfers, then you might want to join a few of these social networks. That way you will also create a few natural links to your web sites and to your favorites. (And you can create networks of friends and business contacts by placing a link to your abbreviated Facebook profile -- for example, http://www.facebook.com/people/David_Maxwell/633321643.)

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Here is an affiliate program that pays you while promoting your links and building your community. In fact you can send messages and alerts to your members' browsers in real time.

I recently read that one of the best ways to start getting pagerank for your sites is to create links on some of the older, trusted sites on the Internet, sites like Wikipedia.com and Squidoo. You can take a look at my Squidoo Lens here.

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