First, an eye opener. Making your fortune through affiliate programs on the internet is not easy. Some people would tell you different. It can be done, but it is not as easy as some would have you think.

Everything you learn about starting an internet home based business is so important. One day you know it all and you?re on cloud nine, and the next day you?re drowning in a sea of information overload. But until things become clear about this internet business, you need to keep applying the Golden Rules. Don?t give it up.

There is a long list of great affiliate program earners, earning well into the hundredds of thousands per year. They did not give it up.

How would you like to learn 7 eye opening golden tips that make these great affiliate earners so much in the know? I thought you would.

1. Follow your loves and build mini sites around subjects you are really interested in - Do you love to cook? Find a recipe book that is selling or some cooking utensils that are good sellers and build your mini site around these products.

2. Build sites that sell the products that people are buying, and the product needs to be something that is easy to build a site around - One example is to go to ClickBank and find products in different categories that are new and good sellers. These are likely to be products that are easy to build sites around and if you get to the product while it is fairly new, the sales are usually greater at this point.

3. Contrary to number 1 above, to build a money-making mini site, you don?t need to be interested in the product - If you find a great selling product that you don`t know anything about, read the product creator`s website to get some tips on what you can add to your own mini site.

4. Pick a domain name to achieve the highest hits. Your domain name should be keyword related to your site?s subject - You want to keep your domain name keyword related so the search engines will love you and your customers will find your web site listed