1. Your Own web site:
Most affiliates put a redirect link directly to their affiliate
product. It is not such a good practice.
*Register a domain that closely resembles your affiliate product
website. For example, if you are an affiliate for affiliateproduct.com
web site, try to register affiliate-product.com or affiliateproduct.net.
*Follow the lay-out of your affiliate product web site.
*Put content on your web site (minimum of 10 pages). Like articles
and reviews related to your affiliate product. No need to say to put up
links leading the visitor to your affiliate web site.
*If you have a multiple different affiliate products, don’t mix them up
and put all of those links on same web site. Choose a multidomain host
and host your different affiliate web sites for cheap.
2. Your Own opt-in list:
You need your own opt-in list **no matter** what you sell and your own
or your affiliate product.
Start giving free ecourse or an ezine related to your affiliate product
and collect email addresses.
You need a follow up autoresponder or a maling list manager to manage
this process of collecting emails, follow up, sending promotional emails
etc. etc.
Here is a PHP script that you can use as BOTH follow up autoresponders
and mailing list managers: