Everyone has lots of ideas. So many ideas that often you don't know where to begin! It just seems like there are so many opportunities and so little time.

I'm going to share with you one of the most obvious make money tips that there ever was, so obvious it's staring you in the face.

Build a big website!

Aim to build a site that is an authority in its niche. This will give you link juice that you can use to jump start your mini sites. But with no link juice, you'll build loads of mini sites all with a dead battery.

Building a mini site is a good idea. You build a five or ten page site, load it up with keywords and it's intended use is to convert a high proportion of the small amount of traffic it gets.

But a better idea, from an affiliate marketing perspective, is to build one authority site as your base from which all future life will spring. This will bring you many positive benefits.

The first benefit is that affiliate managers will take you seriously. Now that you have a great looking site, lots of content and growing traffic you can start to contact affiliate managers and ask them for their latest deals. They will take time to speak with you because they can see you are taking the business seriously.

There are literally thousands and thousands of "wannabee" affiliates who all say they are going to be the next best thing and then never get around to doing anything about it. Is it any wonder that the Affiliate Managers "cherry pick" who they want to work with.

Secondly, if you build a great site, it's a damn site easier to gain links for that site than it is to gain links for some poxy five page site that looks like it was made in the HTML template from hell.

Gaining back links is one of the dullest menial tasks that an affiliate has to do. But do it you must or your site will not rank for it's major keywords. It's an awful lot easier to present a perspective link exchange with a high quality site than it is to try and gain links for trash. Put it this way - if you had a high quality site and someone is pestering you for a link from some 5 page no hoper what are you going to do?

This is why so many people struggle with the promotion aspect, building a quality site in the first place gives you so many advantages further down the line.

In actual fact, doing it this way means that you will forgo affiliate commissions in the short term whilst you focus on building your quality site. For most people it's going to mean a years worth of work to get to that stage. But once it's done it's done and you get the benefits for a long, long time.

Building five or more "mini sites" may give you short term satisfaction but it's also going to give you long term grief trying to make them work.