I have heard that you need a landing page for some affiliates, what is a landing page and how does it work?
Landing Page is the first page that your visitors see. It is important to have a good-looking and content-rich landing page to attract your visitors and make them stay on your website.
so as long as there is a page for my site and I'm not just forwarding people to the affiliate site I will be ok?
You can forward them to directly to the affiliate site or you can create a landing page and send them first there, it's up to you. But the benefits of having a landing page is that you can pre-sell the products you are promoting and send only targeted traffic to the affiliate site and also you can make SEO for your landing page and get free traffic from Google.
Good Information. Or you could just go to google and type in how to make a landing page and work it out for yourself, there is some good info all over the web you just have to find it.