domain and seo

That is correct, however I would recommend purchasing your own domain and have a page that is JUST a squeeze page on that domain somewhere, it will greatly reduce the distraction that you will normally find on a blog that cause people to click away from the opt-in.

Go to aweber.com, sign up for an autoresponder account there. There is a tool on their site to build an optin box to go along with your mailing list. Once you have your squeeze page set up you need to come up with some good content to convince people to sign up.

An example would be a screen capture video with some killer content in it, give that to people on the squeeze page and tell them if they want more great content sign up for your list. If the content is good enough they will be happy to sign up for your list to get the next video.

In aweber you want to have a BUNCH of preloaded emails set up that are very friendly and conversational (like talking to a good friend). In the emails you want to get them to go to the link you give them(which will be your affiliate link). You set these emails to go out every few days and people will start clicking on the links in the emails if you write them good enough.

That is where you want to do your selling in the emails not on the front end by redirecting them to the affiliate page. By sending them emails every few days you can build a relationship with them and they will trust you a lot more. Epically if you send them killer content in free videos every few days.

Watch how all of the guru handle their mailing lists. They are using this same technique with you if you are on any of their lists.

If you are somewhat new at affiliate marketing than you should go to infomillionaire.com and sign up for the availability notification on that page. That product does a fantastic job of helping you start off off with affiliate marking and explains step by step how to set up your autoresponder, how to make a good squeeze page, and how to write the follow up emails.