Affiliate marketing is an exciting way to create an income stream that is steady, reliable, and that allows you to create the lifestyle you desire, by providing a steady flow of income into the future. Affiliate marketing can be highly successful when you give it the time needed, and you do the work to build a highly successful website with a solid traffic flow. Because, without traffic you simply cannot have us a cesspool affiliate marketing income stream. To sell product you must have visitors. Let's look at what you can do as a new affiliate marketer to create a successful structure for long-term income growth.

#1 Build Your Website or Blog - It all starts here. First, you need to build a website or blog that will attract visitors. You do this by creating a site that has interesting and engaging content that is valuable to your visitor. When your website is up and running, you need to begin to create a traffic stream before you even think about pitching affiliate products. How long this takes will depend on how you go about creating that traffic stream. There are many tools that you can use to help improve your traffic flow, but always use legitimate methods, so that you can enjoy more than just short-term benefits.

#2 Create a Site That Offers Value to the Reader - We touched on this a minute ago. While this doesn't always help to increase traffic it does help to bring readers back to your site and to build a level of trust that you are going to need in order for your visitors to feel comfortable enough to buy any products whether they are your own or those associated with affiliate marketing. 

#3 Associate Only with High Quality Products - You need to try each product that you are going to sell through your affiliate marketing because if it's it’s junk you certainly don't want to marketing it to your customers or your readers. Your readers are going to develop a level of trust on the products you recommend, so make sure that you are worthy of that trust or you will lose your following and that will be the end of creating your income stream.

#4 Don’t Make Your Site a Sales Page - There is nothing worse than a visitor arriving at a website to discover it is nothing more than a sales page. They will hit the back button immediately, and you will lose them before you even get had an opportunity to build trust or show them what you have to offer. Instead, sprinkle your affiliate links sparsely throughout your content. Make your website a standalone site that people want to visit and then your affiliate links as secondary.