Ok, so you want to blog about your affiliate marketing results or experiences, but you are not sure where to start?  Since AffiliateObsession.com is basically just that, I wanted to create this post to help you get started.

If you have a blog already, with your own domain name you can skip to step 4.  If you don’t have a blog, you should follow from here.

Get a custom domain name already…

The first thing you are going to want is a domain name.  A good domain name says something about you or what you blog about.  You see some big names just use their names and that works great for them because they are building themselves into a brand.  If you name doesn’t work in your opinion, you will have to do some digging and you might even have to get a little bit creative.  It took me about 4 months to think of this domain name and I am still not 100% impressed by it.

There are about 1,000 places to get a domain name registered, but let’s face it, we all go to godaddy.com.  It’s easy to use, the account back end is nice and you can have all of your information in ONE place.  You can get a .COM for under $10 and I think that’s pretty cheap for a custom domain.  With coupon codes all of the web, you can even save a couple more bucks here and there.

Who is going to host you?…

You will also need some blog hosting.  HostGator.com has some great plans and prices.  If you plan to have more than one website or blog, we all do, then you might want to check out what they offer.  On my plan I can have unlimited domains, emails and storage, just to name a couple things.  With all the sites in my portfolio and projects all over the place, it’s a nice package to have.

You can get hosting anywhere, but for the long run, make sure you know what you are getting into.  Tranferring a domain name and website can be a pain with some hosts.

Now we have a domain name and hosting, what blogging platform do we go with?

Wordpress.org is Best in My Opinion

I started out with a blogger blog, but it wasn’t very long that I realized what Wordpress.org had to offer.  If you are going to blog at all, ever, about anything, just do it right and get setup with Wordpress.  I am not saying that you cannot have a successful blog otherwise, it’s just that Wordpress offers so much more as a blogging platform.

Now we have a domain, hosting and a blog platform all setup, let’s get going on part 2.  If you didn’t already subscribe to my blog, you should do so, that way you won’t miss the rest of this series.