Hi I'm new to affiliate marketing and new to this forum as well. I am very impressed with the potential of this business so I have been reading a lot of forums and doing as much research as I can and have decided that I am nearly ready to act now. To start out, I will pick 3 separate niches (all of which are also of great interest to me) and make blogs for each of the three. The blogs will contain a fair amount of meaningful content and I will try to keep the quality fairly high. Exactly how I will advertise in these blogs I am unsure, I'm somewhat confused so I would greatly appreciate it if someone could give me a few tips. I will then also launch a fairly decent sized website which will focus on reviewing certain products and this will also have a forum. I know such a site with multiple products and a forum is not so easy to monetize, but I feel there should be some potential here. I will rely mostly on natural search engine traffic but will most likely also do some ezine articles. I am experienced in programing and web design so I do not feel that designing the sites will be an issue, but I am simply unsure on how exactly to advertise or monetize, so tips here would be greatly helpful. By the way, I have already determined the niches I will be focusing on. I plan to use mostly CB, CJ and amazon initially.