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Chicken or the Egg?

SpiritRocker

Published on October 25, 2013

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Greetings all,I'm guessing that the answer to this is in a future training session. But my curiosity got the best of me and I just had to ask.I've done a bit of research on affiliate programs in preparation of my niche site. The site is built and I'm working on the main three page content. Now, one of the pages, actually two of the pages are going to be reviews and recommendations of items to purchase. In the affiliate programs I've seen and looked into deeply, they want you to have a good website already in place. But if the website needs or wants to feature a product to get commissions on, which happens first?

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