There are a number of things you need to have organised in order to implement my affiliate blogging system and two of the key things are

  1. web hosting
  2. blog software

For web hosting I always use Hostgator - and my recommendation is the Baby package. The hatchling package does not meet the requirements you need to run all the blogs you will create and the Swamp package is really not needed. With the baby package, you will receive 600GB – plenty of space and 6,000GB bandwidth per month, which is plenty.

Their price for web hosting is $9.95 per month if you pay monthly but drops to $7.95 per month if you pay for 3 years. As you are starting off, just go with the $9.95 per month plan until you get some income coming in.

For blog software, there is really no alternative as far as I am concerned, and that is WordPress. One of the good things about Hostgator is that you can use “Fantastico De Luxe” – one of the items in the Hostgator cPanel to manage your WordPress installation. Fantastico gives you an option to automatically install blog software and of course WordPress which is great.