New to marketing 1 week!

For ezine you are not allowed to use a hop link or direct affiliate link.

For those articles you will provide a link in the resource box using a domain that you own. That domain can go back to your site, or can be set up forward to the product you are promoting.

Yes, start with less products as to not overwhelm yourself.

Here is just one example of how you might create a funnel for your article marketing efforts.

Create a free blogger blog as your main site - or if you can swing hosting and a domain install a Wordpress blog. Take your initial product - l will throw one out there for an example:

Let's say I wanted to promote candle making and some candle making affiliate programs.

I just googled candle making affiliate program and there are some there.

Ok, I am going to go to the KW tool, and type in candle making to get some keyword ideas. This will give me a list of terms I want to be sure to include in my articles.

I will write my article, and submit to ezine. In the resource box I will say something like: For the best candle making kits be sure to visit my site http:// the best candle making website for you . com (or what ever your domain is)

#1, you are building backlinks to your site
#2, direct to a page on your blog where you give a bit more information on the product you are promoting and on your site you put your affiliate link or hoplink to the product sales page.

After approved by ezine, be sure to submit your article to more article directories. You might rewrite or alter slightly. This will generate more backlinks and traffic to your primary site.

Go down your keyword list and start knocking out articles for all the keyword phrases you'd like to dominate.

Highly recommended - do not sell the "make money online" niche until you have made money yourself. There are a MILLION niches out there.

Select just a handful of products to start with. You will need to track and test and see what converts, how and why.

There are of course more things you can do to those ezine articles to make them get noticed - IE social bookmarking, etc.

This is a very basic skeleton of one way to start your funnel, and is not the only way but hopefully gives you an idea of how to proceed.

Ha, you have 2 options here which unfortunately will lead to more choices and options. I will lay it out for you briefly, and then recommend you use the search function on this forum to read and get more information.

In godaddy you can go in and manage a domain. You can choose to forward the domain. This is where you would put your affiliate link that would go to the product. So on ezine it will look like http : // your domain here (which is a domain you own) but when the reader clicks through it will go directly to the sales page.

The benefit is a direct link to the product that does not show an affiliate link. The problem is you can only promote one product with that particular domain and once you decide to promote multiple products it will be costly in buying new domains for each.

In godaddy you can also manage your domain and change the name server. So, you would buy a hosting package on the web ( I recommend somewhere outside of godaddy) then you ask the hosting company what the name servers are, and you go into godaddy and manage the domain and change the name server. The domain name will propogate over to your host. In your host, you do some managing there to add the domain, and from there you can use programs (if it is included in your hosting plan) to auto install blogs and other types of sites. Auto install will take less than a minute.

I will let you know that it sounds like you will then be facing a learning curve to learn how to manage what ever platform you have installed. Installing wordpress is easy. Learning how to use it may be easy or hard for you - I wouldn't know.

On blogger, you don't need to pay for hosting, you'd just go get a free blogger blog and you can either use the domain you own to forward to the blogger blog, or within blogger I believe you can manage changing the name of the domain to your domain. You can also just use the direct blogger domain that you initially create - that is acceptable with ezine. I am primarily a wordpress user and have only dabbled in blogger so I would not be the best person to consult on this and give you the answers.

Perhaps the best advice I can give you on all of this is do create a funnel for your traffic, but don't over think the plan so much that you don't take some action.

When you don't know how to do something, google it or use the search on this forum. There are technical skills you will need, and there are also business skills you will need. By technical I am talking about creating simple html links, dealing with domains and hosts, and knowing how to manage or operate something like a blog. There is a ton of free material all over the web to help you do most of what you are looking for. The business side requires you to create a funnel or plan, and this needs to go beyond the thought that you will submit one article to ezine and get money immediately. I wish it was that easy but it is not.

It can be hard to visualize the big picture when you are wanting to just test something and see if you really can make money online. But as others have stated, you need to really look at what you are about to do as a real business. Any long term sustainable business online or offline requires planning in advance. It can be hard to decide if you want a blogger or wordpress blog when you don't know how these things even work and what is the difference.

If you get a chance, take a look at the bum marketing method (just google to find the site) to get a better idea of some different methods/plans to using article marketing.

Don't pay for ezine. Yes, your article will take up to a week to get approved, but honestly even if you did get an article submitted in one day it sounds like you are missing some of the other fundamentals to making that article worth that fast submission.