Your Questions About Affiliate Marketing Blog

how to set up a blog?

I would like to start a blog in which I would like to participate in affiliate marketing. I would like to use Google Ad Sense to be added to search engines?

Advertising on a WordPress Blog?

I recently became aware that you are not allowed to advertise or have affiliates in any way while using a blog at wordpress.com. I have searched the internet over for a question that no one has been able to answer so far. That question is:

If you use a host that you pay for, to host your blog- like godaddy or something, will wordpress still nuke you? I need to know this because I am dissatisfied using blogspot.com where my blog is currently at. I used to use WP but now want to switch back- but I don’t want to sacrifice my affiliates or advertising because I am using my blog for e-commerce and affiliate marketing purposes.

WordPress states, “Adsense, Yahoo, Chitika, TextLinkAds and other ads are not permitted on WordPress.com blogs*. If you would like to run ads on your blog, please look into running your own copy of WordPress with one of our hosting partners.”

^Does this mean that you can just set up a host and grab your own domain and they wont nuke you?

Any help would be great, and I really appreciate it.

Need help with a blog title?

I can write pretty good but for some reason i always have trouble coming up with titles and sub titles. Anyway, i want to start a new blog, the blog will mostly be about how to make money online with subjects such as article writing, article marketing, general marketing, affiliate marketing, blogging, possibly CPA, will not include PTC, PTS, MLM, and those types of methods.

Thanks for your help

Is it possible to hide/cloak an affiliate ID link without owning a website?

url shortners like tinyurl and bit.ly only shortens the url but it doesn’t hide the referrer once you click the shortened link. Is it possible to hide/cloak an affiliate ID link without owning a website? Most cloaking softwares and methods only work if you have a website or blog. Unfortunately I don’t have one. I use article marketing.

How do you generate affiliate sales in a “timely” fashion?

Here is another question I have for those of you familiar with the affiliate marketing business (where you promote other peoples’ stuff on your website or blog). I’ve been in the affiliate marketing business for a while (I primarily use Linkshare, Commission Junction, Amazon, Ebay, Clickbooth and Clickbank as well as a few tiered affiliate programs, such as Global Domains International). However, I’ve noticed that some advertisers (especially at Commission Junction) expect you to generate sales for them in a “timely” fashion (say within 6 months or less) and some may terminate you from their program if you do not generate sales for them soon enough. I currently have 2 websites, but they do have a low page rank at the moment (they are relatively new after all) and so I don’t get a whole lot of traffic to them. Anyways, is it possible to generate affiliate sales within a short time frame (say 6 months or less)? If so, what is the best approach to accelerating the process?