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Everyday millions of people all over the world make money with affiliate programs. Some of them rely 100% on the website from the affiliate merchant. Others have their own personal website they promote before sending traffic to their affiliate website.

Which is the BEST way to do it? In other words do you really need to go through the hassles of setting up your own website to make money online as an affiliate?

From my personal experience the best way to make money with affiliate marketing is to set up personal websites for specific affiliate products or programs. I know some people will argue with me on this point.

At the very least if you're going to promote an affiliate website URL you should purchase your own domain name and redirect it to your affiliate page. When you do this it opens up additional Internet marketing opportunities that you do not have when you promote your affiliate URL directly.

Article marketing and discussion forums are examples of this. Most article directories, and discussion forums, do not want people promoting their affiliate URL.

However, they will let you promote a redirected URL. You can purchase a .com domain name for less than $15 a year and you can get a .info url for $1.99 a year. This is cheap.

You can take it a step further and get website hosting for around $10 a month. Host Gator will let you host an unlimited number of domain names for the same $10 a month.

My point is money should not be an objection to hosting your own personal domain name. If you want to take affiliate marketing seriously this is really pennies on the dollar for the payback you will receive.

I do understand the primary problem comes in in designing your website and adding content to it. Fiverr.com is a site where you can find people to do things for you for $5 a project. Again this is very inexpensive to do.

To me the main benefit of hosting your own website is you can pre-sell your prospects before sending them through to your affiliate webpage. This will help increase your sales percentage because people like to hear from a real person before purchasing something.

The other benefit is you can build an email list when you host your own website. You can then offer other affiliate products to it which will help you make even more money.

Affiliate marketing is a good business model to get started making money. Using the company website will work initially for you, but in the long run you really need to get your own website!