An affiliate web site is enough to make you some serious cash, and one does not really require to bother themselves trying to build a web site which will most probably look second rate anyhow, at least when compared to the frequently extremely professional affiliate web sites.

Yes, it has often been advised by experts for people to create their own sites to use to direct highly targeted traffic to their affiliate web sites. But that piece of advice was originally issued when the World Wide Web was a very small place. Even blogs did not exist. Today blogs not only exist and dominate the net, but they are so many that they're almost drowning most web sites out of existence.

The situation is made much more complicated where somebody is using promotional articles to market and promote their affiliate web site. It means that you will have to direct traffic from your article to your web site and then re-direct the same traffic onto your affiliate web site. That's quite a long journey and you are guaranteed to lose many along the way. Why not just use the articles to direct your prospects direct to your affiliate web site? This means that most of your time will be devoted to working on your content and not to trying to maintain a web site that has very poor traffic anyway.

This writer uses articles and also maintains various blogs, because blogs are really just very convenient vehicles for good content. I see no need to have cumbersome web sites, which I have had in the past and they have tended to be more of a bother than an asset.

By combining well distributed, quality articles and blogs to post the same articles at, one can make some very serious money from affiliate programs without having their own web site.