For many people, affiliate marketing is the perfect way to earn a living. No customer service. No merchant accounts. No deal with the products. You are simply moving people from one place to another. Just directing people looking to buy something somewhere they can buy it, and earning a commission as a thank you.

Similarly, WordPress is now one of the most popular ways to run a website, whether that site is a blog or a static content site. The range of plugins and themes means that WordPress can now do just about anything and even the best WordPress sites tend to rank very well in search engines. The combination of ease of use, zero charge to use the software, and the way WordPress sites attract so many visitors makes it the perfect tool for affiliate marketers.

The basic concept of WordPress affiliate marketing is as follows. Create a website based on a specific niche or keyword phrase. Once you’ve chosen your niche, your next job is to create content on that topic. Fortunately, adding content to WordPress sites is incredibly simple.

Having a large number of articles on your site gives search engines (Google, Bing, and Yahoo) a lot to discover on your site. And the more articles you have, the more potential traffic you will have on your way.

Visitors come to your website after having found it in search engines, and then using a variety of techniques, you try to convince them to buy something. When they do, you get your commission.

WordPress is pretty easy to get started, as well as being free. The real skill when it comes to WordPress affiliate marketing is figuring out how to attract enough visitors to make a healthy profit, and how to convert those visitors into buyers.