Part of the process of link building is to have a product that you can sell that will attract traffic. When someone searches for a particular product, they will find your site that has an advertisement for that product. One way to obtain a product to sell on your site is to become affiliated with an online merchant that is willing to have you market their products for them.

Online merchants will use affiliates to market their products. They contract with the affiliated site to drive traffic to their products and pay the affiliate a commission for each of their products purchased. To be successful at affiliate link building you need to have two things. You need to have a website or blog that will display that product and you need to have companies that have been willing to set you up as an affiliate.

The second step is perhaps the easiest. There are multiple online merchants that are willing to set you up as an affiliate. You simply need to search for the products that fit the site you are promoting and then see if that online merchant is marketing their products through affiliates. By contacting them and filling out an application, they will usually be willing to set you up as an affiliated site. The process of developing a site that will be able to market the products is a little more difficult but not impossible. You want to have your site or blog appear natural and not merely look like an advertisement. One method of doing this is to create articles in your blog that are informative but are also able to create links that will market the product. By using squidoo, you can also write product reviews that will promote the products on your site or blog. This is a very powerful method to use and is very natural. Join the different reviews together with keywords that you want to rank on and then link those keywords back to your site.