In the previous tutorials, we’ve covered choosing an affiliate product, registering a domain name and signing up for web hosting. Now, it’s time to create your site. And we’ll show you how to have it up and running  literally  in 5 minutes from now using the very powerful and user friendly “Wordpress” platform.

Why Wordpress is So Awesome

Wordpress is an incredibly popular platform not only for bloggers but for professional affiliate marketers as well.  The reason is that Wordpress is “open-source”, meaning that users and programmers can create their own additions, features and upgrades and then make them available for download by other Wordpress users, totally free, at the simple press of a button.

This flexibility and incredible number of options allows you, as a Wordpress user, to incorporate all sorts of really cool features, tools and upgrades into your site instantly with no programming or technical experience – all for free. (And these are things that you would otherwise pay lots of money for).

You can choose to run the simplest of blogs on it or you can opt for a full blown web site with all sorts of features.

In addition to its flexibility, Wordpress is great for the following reasons:

1.  As already mentioned, it’s 100% FREE (all you need is a web hosting account) and all of the downloadable upgrades and add-ons are free as well.

2.  It installs on your web hosting account literally at the press of a single button (see the installation video below).

3.  There are thousands of themes to choose from and they are fully customizable so you can get the look and feel that is best for your purposes.

4.  Features are web 2.0 friendly, making it very easy to integrate with social media websites like Twitter, Facebook, etc.

5.  Adding  fresh articles and content to your site is super easy and fast.

6.  Includes features that make it VERY search engine friendly resulting in much more traffic to your site.

7.  Oh, and did we mention that it’s FREE?

Web Hosting For Wordpress

Because Wordpress itself is free to use, your only cost to creating a Wordpress site is your web hosting account.  (Although there is a free hosted version of Wordpress available at Wordpress.com, it does not allow you to post affiliate links which obviously makes it unsuitable for affiliate marketing.)

Create and Install Your Free Site in Minutes

At this point, you are ready to go ahead and create your Wordpress site. As already mentioned, if your web host has the “Fantastico” script built into Cpanel, installing Wordpress is really as simple as pressing a few buttons. The following video will walk you through exactly how to do it.

===> Video – Installing Your Affiliate Marketing Website <===

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