If you’re only starting out, a blog might be the easiest way to get started and a WordPress blog is often the most highly recommended as it incorporates many free plugins that will enable you to be more apparent to the search sites.

Key phrase research is a very important part of any type of affiliate promotion plan of action. After you’ve selected the service that you wish to promote, then select the keywords that you are going to use to drive traffic to your link or to your site or blog. Again, if you are new, you want to choose less competitive keywords.

Go to the Google Adwords Keyword Research Tool (which is free of charge) and type in the general term that describes your product’s niche. The tool also provides you general statistical data on how often each term is searched, how competitive each term is, what folk are bidding on this term in pay per click ads, for example. As you begin to get more visitors, you can start using more competitive terms in your affiliate marketing strategy.