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Registering a domain name nowadays costs only about $8 to $10.
Some of the best registrars include:
 Godaddy.com
 Namecheap.com
 Internic.com
Next, you will want to get webhosting. This is also very inexpensive. A
full featured webhosting plan will cost you only about $5.00 to $10.00
per month.
 Godaddy.com
 Hostgator.com
 Dreamhost.com
Get an easy to use website platform. You don’t need to be an HTML or
Dreamweaver expert to set up a really nice site.
The platform of choice these days is WordPress, which is very simple
to setup by using Fantastico and cPanel, and there are tons of very
nice themes out there for you to use. Two other easy to use content
systems are Drupal and Joomla.
All three of these will build out a full site for you that has an admin
interface that is easy to learn and use.
Through the use of one of these platforms, you can accomplish a
number of essential things to the success of your affiliate sales:
Affiliate link cloaking: It would be nice to think that every body is
honest. However, this is not the case. As a result, you need to cloak
your affiliate link so that when a person clicks through your link and
buys the product, the commission goes to you.