Affiliate marketing is one of the most “passive” forms of online income there is.

• No products to create.
• No customers to deal with.
• No shipping or refunds or anything.

Easy peasy. Well, once you get started it is. The hard part has been HOW to get started.

1. Buy a web design program for $300?
2. Hire someone to create a website?
3. Set up something free that you have no control over and could be taken away any time?

NOTE: Following content is guest post by one of my all time favorite Internet Marketing mentors Jimmy D. Brown of  “Affiliatenaire“.

If you look at the average site for any given affiliate, you’ll likely find a boring, tasteless smorgasbord of prefab content that was created more for search engines to read than it was for real people to read.

While that make aid in rankings, is it really going to do any good once someone sees the site listed and makes a visit?

Probably not.

What every affiliate needs to learn is simple -

** CONTENT IS KING ***

It’s content that leads to sales, not a strategically designed website that search engines temporarily find meets their ranking criteria.

So, let’s talk about that.