What all you need to become an affiliate?

It requires nothing except a domain name along with a website ready and hosted, to become an affiliate. However, in true sense this is not enough and requires a lot of affiliate marketing knowledge and time to really get something materialistic out of it.

The affiliate marketing has become so competitive that it is very difficult for new players to even step into this field. New players without knowledge might land up losing money as well as time. As the main traffic source for affiliates is search engine so it is very essential for them to have presence on search engine. This can be acquired either by SEO or PPC. Now SEO is very long process and might take 5-6 months to achieve ranking at first page on search engine. But on the other hand SEO can be very effective and cost saving for longer run. PPC is a quick way to have presence on search engine but it can prove to be quite costly and affiliate might land up losing money. PPC requires a greater amount of attention, experience as well as money in initial stages and going forward can prove to be beneficial but can not say for sure whether it will be or not.

If one is really looking to start then affiliate marketing is the field where one can make handsome amount of money but requires knowledge, experience, hard work, time and money which are the essentials of affiliate marketing.

How to Get Started?
You will need to do some work to get things started. First of all you will need to book a domain. You can book a domain on any of the following sites.

* www.godaddy.com
* www.signedomain.com
* www.name.com

Now the question comes as to which domain to book. This depends as which category you want to promote or you think you can. The domain name should be relevant to the category you want to promote. For example, lets say you want to promote air tickets booking, you could book www.airticketbooking.com, www.bookairticket.com, or other extensions (.in, .info, .co.in, etc.) but this will depend on the availability of the domain as well.

Once you have booked a domain you will need to buy a hosting space (for example www.godaddy.com). This will cost you somewhere b/w INR 1500 to 4000 depending upon the type of hosting space you require.

Now have a website created and host it and you are ready to become an affiliate.