Because there are so many ways you can go about making money doing it affiliate marketing is an interesting business model. One thing that is debatable is whether you should promote the replicated website or build an affiliate marketing site of your own.

In this article we will take a look at a few good reasons for creating your own website to sell affiliate products on.

1. When you host your own website you are in control of it. Even if you do not know how to build a website you can always hire somebody to do it for you.

The advantage of hosting your own site and doing affiliate marketing is you can make changes whenever you want to. You can never make changes and the affiliate merchant is in control if you are using the replicated website.

2. As you begin to develop more traffic there are numerous ways to make money with affiliate programs. You are limited to whatever the merchant is selling if you use the replicated website.

By hosting your own site you can add pay per click affiliate programs, cost per action affiliate products, pay per sale products, and so on. This gives you more opportunities to increase your income than you might have had in the past.

3. Another advantage that a high traffic website has is the ability to sell advertising on it. You can sell advertising in the form of text link ads, banner ads, solo ads and so on.

This is really easy money because you just place the ad on your site and forget about it. Many Internet marketers use a PayPal subscribe button were it automatically bills every month until it is canceled.

4. You should be building a mailing list for future follow up and that is easier to do when you host your own site as well. You can include a sign-up form to every web page you develop. You can put the sign-up form on the sidebar of your blog and it automatically is added on every blog post as well.

It is makes sense newbies are reluctant to create their own website. One of the draws affiliate marketing offers is you get your own website and product set up for you. However, so you can take advantage of the benefits I have listed here, I would encourage you to start your own affiliate marketing site as soon as possible.