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You sign up with an affiliate program. You get a coded link to their site, which they tell you, is YOUR web site. Now you are to promote it and get crowds of people coming to see it, and sign up and thus - you will earn commissions.

The main, the best way to do that promotion, is to have your own web site, which you can control and fill with helpful information, and where you provide interesting links to your coded affiliate site. Some of your visitors will click that link, and go check it out.

But what if you have no web site of your own? Then what can you do?

Well, I would highly recommend getting a little site of your own, but if you can’t, or you want to, but it will take some time, and you need to promote the affiliate link quickly… then, here are four ways you might try;

SURFING
1. Join surfing programs and list your affiliate site there. As you surf regularly every day, and see other’s sites, they will be seeing yours.

Proviso: they are getting fussy and will not allow you to enter programs that they know to be scams or on the shady side. Read the fine print.

FREE CLASSIFIEDS
2. Write up some good one, two and three line ads about your program. Then do a search for Free Classifieds sites, and copy-paste your ad into the appropriate spaces.

Proviso: Some classified pages will only allow you one line. Almost all owners of the classified sites will flood your email with their ads! So be sure to get a web mail address to use just for this, and make sure it is one that allows you to mark and delete large quantities of junk mail with a click or two.

SIG LINE
3. Create a catchy signature line for your emails with the link to that program’s site included. Send friendly emails to as many people as you can, and make sure your signature automatically is included each time. You can go visit forums and discussion groups and set your signature in your profile so that every time you make a post or comment, your signature with that link will appear.

Proviso: This is slower, one-on-one almost, but can be most effective. Use this method, no matter which others you choose.

BE A GUEST - LEAVE CARD
4. Be an outgoing, friendly visitor to as many other sites as you can find. Look for a guest book, or feedback form, and leave a friendly, complimentary note about the site and your common interests. Include your program URL under your signature.

Proviso: Spammers are also doing this, and causing people to delete their guest books. There is a danger you’ll be included with them, and banned or blackballed, so you’ll need to be extra tactful and gracious.