An Affiliate Link is bascially a website address like www.createyourfirstdomain.com however affiliate links include information about who is responsible for that link, most importantly you, the affiliate. If a customer clicks on a link you’ve posted and ends up buying the product you end up getting credit for the sale and receiving a commission. The affiliate link lets the website owner know who to reward for promoting his product.
Let’s talk about Clickbank links, since they seem to be the easiest to promote for the beginner. You will need a Clickbank ID when you register. It’s up to you what ID you create. You will use that ID from clickbank no matter how many affiliate products you decide to promote. There are two ways to create personalized Affiliate Links…at clickbank an affiliate link is known as a Hoplink.
The most common way is to create your Hoplink automatically using the Clickbank Marketplace. When you have found the product you want to promote, just click the ‘Promote’ button to the right of the product listing and it will generate your personal Hoplink. Then you can copy the Hoplink address by highlighting it and pushing the “Ctrl” button and “c” button on your keyboard. Now, put your mouse in a blank .txt notepad file and hold Ctrl and “v” together. This will “paste” what you just copied into your new notes file. Now you can save the file on your desktop. You can copy the Hoplink address and paste it anywhere you want to promote the product!
My Clickbank ID is 4045863. So, an example of a clickbank Hoplink for me would be: http://4045863.VENDOR.hop.clickbank.net <<<this is not a genuine link, just an example. If you decide to create your link manually to make the HopLink work, you just replace VENDOR with the vendor’s ClickBank nickname. Some ClickBank vendors will have their nickname listed on their product website if they have a page for affiliates.
As a final note! Be sure to TEST THE HOPLINK so you’ll be comissioned for every sale you make! To test your HopLink to make sure it’s working correctly, you can either enter your HopLink directly into your browser’s address bar and hit Enter, or click on your HopLink directly if you’ve already posted it somewhere online. Once you’re on the vendor’s website, click their Buy Now button so you’re taken to the ClickBank order form. If you scroll to the bottom of the order form, you should see [affiliate=yournickname]. Mine would look like [affiliate=4045863].
You ask, how can I promote this affiliate product if I have no list yet, and no traffic? This is a common question. If you’re a beginner to Internet Marketing usually you will have no list and no traffic. You want to immediately promote an affiliate product and get some $money$ coming in. Am I right? And you’re not sure how to get people to your new website. Right?
To be polite, but blunt, you’re looking at it from a backwards approach. The first and foremost thing you need to be focusing on is building your list of subscribers. The steps are simple but they must be followed in a certain order. You can have the best website and affiliate product in the world but if no one knows about it how can you sell anything?
You can’t. No way, nada. You need the list first. How you ask?
Sure a few people might stumble on your site from search engines but that doesn’t mean anything. You need is a steady stream of people to your website who are interested in your product. You must focus on building your list first. You build your list by having them opt in to your squeeze page, or on your blog etc. Anywhere you can put an opt-in form. Once you have this list of subscribers you can then send them to the affiliate products you want to promote. And yes, this can take some time. But with a little patience, and effort you will succeed! = Bliss 
You will be lost without a list. Period. Yes, there are other ways you can send bits of traffic to promote an affiliate product such as Pay Per Click etc., but to be successful in Internet Marketing you must have a large subscriber list. This is a given. To become good at Listbuilding, you will need to learn how. There are many ways to build your list of subscribers but the easiest approach is to put up a simple squeeze page. A squeeze page is a basic page that has an opt-in form on it, with a call to action asking the visitor to enter their name and email address. You are asking for one thing, for people to opt in. Once they opt in they are on your list and you are free to email them.
There are many ways to send traffic to a squeeze page. One of the fastest is by doing a teleseminar. Other ways include article marketing, blogging and pay per click. If this is beginning to sound confusing don’t despair. We can teach you everything you need to know in step by step videos over at http://www.CreateYourFirstDomain.com. My friend, Chris Farrell, has a membership site where we teach brand new beginners how to get started online in very easy step-by-step videos that even a child could understand! = Bliss
First of all, if you’re a total ‘newbie’ you’re probably wondering what in the world is an autoresponder? An autoresponder is a tool or email system that allows you to manage, organize and automate the process of collecting email addresses through opt-in and distributing information via email. Most companies, including all of the best companies use autoresponders! I use Aweber.com to handle my mailing lists because they are the most well-know autoresponder online and their features are wonderful = Bliss! They are one of the most highly respected companies known online. I highly recommend that you use them if you are serious about building your own mailing list.
Once you are signed up to an autoresponder service like Aweber you will have access to many of their services that include list building tools, you’ll be able to generate opt-in forms, tracking, analytics and even reports. You can simply create a new list, the paste the web form code on your web page, and and sit back and wait. The autoresponder will do the rest. You can send a series of emails that are sent out once a week for however many weeks you choose. It’s very easy. All you have to do is create a follow-up sequence of email messages, save them in in your Aweber control panel, and each time a new visitor signs up to your mailing list they will be sent the emails, all staggered at intervals that you choose. The feature and benefits of using a service like Aweber, far out weigh the small fee = Bliss 
Writing articles to drive traffic to your squeeze page is one of the best internet marketing tools you can have . It can seem like a lot of work, especially if you want to drive a ton of traffic…and of course you want to drive lots of traffic, right? So how do you do this without getting totally overwhelmed, and how do you do it in the shortest amount of time possible?
Well, I have an awesome answer…re-write your articles! I know this might sound a little nutty, but it’s not. And it will save you oodles (<-Carolism 
) of time. Here’s how this works…
You open an article you have already written and hopefully saved on your computer, go through it, paragraph by paragraph, and re-write each one. It’s really very simple. Just read the first sentence, and then say the same thing…in a different way. Here’s an example:
Paragraph Number 1. The quickest way to making money online is to build a list of people that want what you have to offer…and have come to know and trust you and your recommendations. Once you have a list built, you can find products and services that your buyers want and need and you can email them information and include a link for them to buy.
Now, let’s re-write that paragraph.
If you want to start making money online, you are going to need to build a list. Your list should be a group of people that look to you for info about products you recommend, and which services you use that they can also use and profit from. As you build a relationship with your list, they will trust that what you are telling them is true and feel comfortable buying the things you offer.
There you have it! You are basically saying the same thing, just in a different way. You are cutting your time and work in half but, the content is still there…you have already created it…now you are just going to say it in a different way. And actually, you can do this more than just twice. You can re-write an article three or four times. .
Article writing doesn’t have to take a lot of time. Neither do you have to come up with many different topics. If you use this method, you can write on four or five topics and end up with anywhere from seven to twenty different articles. This will put tons of articles out there to get you maximum exposure and drive a lot of traffic to your squeeze page. These are the best types of internet marketing tools—ones that are effective and save you time making you blissfully happy!
Email marketing to existing and prospective customers is one of the most important and powerful internet marketing techniques for creating long-term clients and lifetime income – bliss! The potential that these lists provide us as affiliates and internet marketers is well…bliss! If you’ve even been thinking about becoming an affiliate or internet marketer you should at least entertain the idea of building a list or at least understand what a list is and what it can do for you and your business.
Email marketing is exactly what it sounds like. You use email to promote your products or website to potential clients. If you’v ever made a sale without a list, have you ever wondered where your customer is? Will he ever return to my site? Does he/she know of my other sites? Probably not. Once your customer is gone, they are lost. If only you could contact them again. Would you be able to convince them that another one of your products or services is worth purchasing? Maybe they would continue purchasing from you if they were happy with the first and second? Here’s a hint…without email marketing and an autoresponder you’ll probably never know! Email marketing allows you to create long-term business with long-term customers. Bliss! It allows you to fully monetize all of your website traffic.
Example:
Your Website (with built-in form)>>>Autoresponder>>>Send Email>>>$$$You Earn A Sale$$$>>>BLI$$
