One of the simplest ways to get started with affiliate marketing is to create your own website . However, you definitely don't need to have your own custom domain name and hosting in order to make money as an affiliate marketer. You can leverage existing platforms that already have traffic like... The Amazon Kindle marketplace - You can create ebooks and sprinkle relevant affiliate links throughout the content. Start a YouTube channel - Target specific keywords and siphon organic traffic to your videos from all the billions of visitors watching vides each day. You can then insert your affiliate links in the description of the YouTube videos. Create courses on platforms like Udemy and Skillshare - You can add your affiliate links to the courses in various ways. Additionally, you can also run paid traffic to affiliate offers. Now, most traffic networks won't allow you to direct link to your affiliate offers ( Bing Ads will though)...