For keen do-it-your-selfers, I strongly recommend James Martell's "Affiliate Marketers Handbook".

James is one of the real been-there-done-that super affiliates.

His instruction manual shows you how he builds highly successful affiliate sites using FrontPage software.

One particularly useful feature is his explanation of how he uses an innovative page-linking strategy to concentrate Google PageRank and send visitors to a small number of selling pages.

He doesn't merely show how to do all this, with 40,000 words and 107 helpful illustrations. He also shows you his own network of more than 50 successful affiliate sites.

You get 40,037 words of easy to understand text, 107 helpful illustrations and 245 pages to guide you through the EXACT process of building high-traffic web sites as an affiliated publisher for some major companies.

My only criticism is that he's a little brief one one aspect – researching and writing articles. I'd like to see more emphasis on building USEFUL sites rather than sites designed to be found in search engines.

The most important fact is that he's very successful, and shows you how exactly he does it.

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