Hi guys,

Now I feel like i'm really getting nowhere. I've read through Holly's book and a lot of other e-books, looked up some things here at the forums, seen some peoples sites and re-read holly's book again.

Now, its definately information overload, as at first I really didn't know where to start (im a definate newbie to all this, im ok with computers in general, but when it comes to this stuff..im a newborn)

Im getting really disheartened about it all as i just cant seem to get the ball rolling. I cant really pay for web hosting yet as i need to be sure i know what im doing first to be able to pay a monthly fee and not waste it, at this rate ill still be learning in a few months, not utilizing my web hosting.

So I just decided to stick to the K.I.S.S rule (keep it simple stupid) and just found a niche, (which i 'think' i have, but thats another topic thats caused me pain) hopefully it will work. So ive found my niche/subject/interest that im after, went to ClickBank to find a good product and got my Affiliate link.

Now not having a website or anything like that I thought i'd just try and use Forums and Classifieds to start promoting my affiliate, as all the Website stuff, Adword, Adsense, SEO and all that just hurts my head at the moment.

So using Holly's book as a guide I thought, 'great!, I can just start promoting my affiliate link in Forums, Classified Ads and Online Discussion Groups all I need now is to use that Link Cloaker that was provided in the E-Book', now as i've come to find out that this doesn't work anymore.

Now i would really like to have a link changed from http://www.disheartened.com/cmd.php?af=00100001 to something I can use in a signature like My Page I want You To See or just a www.myaffiliatepage.com

I've had a look though this section of the Forums on Link Cloakers but really havent found anything like what im after, it doesnt help that im on painfully slow dial-up either.

So if anyone can please help me with a program that will allow me to do this, it would be greatly appreciated as i just want to start slow here and promote affiliates on forums and classifieds for now, until i can get my head around doing something else that would be more profitable.

So id love to know if anyone can answer these questions for me:-

1. A Link Cloaker that does something like what i was after

2. Did everyone start like this? - feeling overwhelmed and not knowing where to start.

3. Being kind of desperate to start making money asap because of finacial situation, what would you all suggest to something that is simple technically speaking, may require hard work, but is the most lucrative and fastest way to earn a little bit of money to get going. (even $1.00 earned through this would be a boost in morale)

Sorry for the long winded post, i'm just feeling really frustrated at the moment and feel like i keep hitting brick walls and not making any progress.

Any help and/or advice would be so greatly appreciated.

Thanks guys,


Rob.

Fear not, young Buckeroo

Everybody starts out the same way pretty much.

Yes, I can recommend a good free cloaker

http://www.urlfreeze.com or

http://www.linkbrander.com



Also, since you can't have a website for a while.

Create a Squidoo Lens, Create a blog using a Blogger.com or Wordpress.

This is all doable. Personally right now I would recommend you start creating a few Squidoo lenses and find ways to drive traffic to those etc. Squidoo is very popular right now.

Also have a look at Craig's post on MySpace, you have lots of options here.

Hope that helps.

Davin

The Davinator wrote:
Yes, I can recommend a good free cloaker

http://www.urlfreeze.com or

http://www.linkbrander.com


Great tip, Davin...I'll check those out too. I've been trying out TinyURL, but the name seems so obvious, doesn't it? I mean, it's not long like an affiliate link, but it seems like lots of people must recognize that that's what it's usually used for. Or maybe I'm just a little paranoid?!

John

Hey Rob, I don't have any great words of wisdom for you but I just wanted to let you know your not alone! I too am limping along in this venture. Two steps forward one step back seems to be my record. Your right it is very frusrating but hang in there. Like Abraham Linclon once said FAIL-FAIL-FAIL-SUCCESS!
Press on, Robin