I've heard in many places that affiliate programs are the best way to earn money online by placing ads of the companies you're affiliated to on a web-page of your own.
My problem is.........I don't actually know HTML or PHP or any other language required to build a website.
Can anyone tell me what to do?
1. I buy a domain from godaddy or something.
2. I apply for webhosting.
3. I build my website.............which is the problem for me.
4. Go to traffic exchange sites to increase my traffic.

I think I've got the basics right but I would be extremely grateful if someone could suggest a good way to complete step 3. like some site-building software or something.
Thanks!!!

Instead of using some site-building software, its best to try to learn the actual coding behind your site. Check out:

http://www.w3schools.com/
and
http://www.tizag.com/

On those sites, follow the HTML tutorials first, then move to CSS, and then from there choose the server-side language of your choice, PHP is my recommendation.

For a text editor I would recommend Notepad++ for windows, which is located at http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net/uk/site.htm, or Smultron on OS X (http://tuppis.com/smultron/).

I hope that helps!

You can always build your webpage in a WYSIWIG editor like Dreamweaver which has a free trial for 30 days.

You could also put together a page or two in Microsoft Word and then publish it to the web.

I sent you a PM regarding your hosting as well.

Don't go straight to a WYSIWYG with out learning how to code, and NEVER use WORD as a web page design program. Learn HTML and CSS, and build it by hand. You won't regret it, and you will learn how things work.

Definitely teach yourself the code, don't use a wysiwyg editor if you don't have to. And like one of the previous posters said, go with php - it's relatively easy to learn, and virtually universal

I use Dreamweaver, I just can't keep up with learning the code anymore. Of course, I also do keep learning and use the code editor within Dreamweaver, so in a sense it's just a way to automate basic tasks.

My recommendation is to do what I did - start learning the code, use Dreamweaver and always keep learning what's actually happening in each page that you're making... when you learn to follow what Dreamweaver is doing you can gradually phase most of it out and replace it with your own code.

2 options....Both good.

1. Download Kompozer (just google it).

This is a free WYSIWYG/HTML editor. HTML is the language of the code. WYSIWYG stands for
"what you see is what you get", meaning you don't have to write everything in code. It does
basically everything that Dreamweaver does, but not quite as sharp and not NEARLY as expensive.

2. Try Wordpress

You can make a sharper site in a fraction of the time with a fraction of the skills if you use the
wordpress framework for your site. I personally build ALL my sites in wordpress now, but the
code I learned messing with Kompozer has been very helpful.

You don't NEED to learn code to make a cool site. Just pick up what you need as you need it.
It does help to have a basic understanding of the structure of tags, syntax, etc.

Hi,

Danger! --> "4. Go to traffic exchange sites to increase my traffic."

If your website pages are SEO Optimized then you have NO NEED for link farming. Traffic Exchange sites are and never will be sites related to your Niche. Some are manual or automated timed views of your site. These are from thousands (sadly) of people that have no interest in your product/service, only to get so called "free traffic". Sure the traffic at time may be unique no doubt, but this kind of traffic is not what you want to get involved in EVER.

You want to make money online right? Of course, we all do here, I hope. With ANY traffic exchange program you will not or might NEVER make a penny. Well, at least with my bad experience many years ago, and at that time I was asking your questions. Your pages need to be SEO linked as mentioned from other replies to your questions. Learn your niche from the inside out to develop more knowledge of your niche and from that take thousands of notes to create unique content about it. When you have such SEO pages your ranks will rise on Google Search pages and also join alexa and add the toolbar as well as a google webmaster tools account.

For example, my site after 5 days was on google search page 39 #7 about 3 month ago. Now, today I struggle between page 2 #7 and page 1 #1 & #8. Learning HTML is not that hard, just dedicate more time to learning and applying the "new language" your about to learn and in the end you may become a "guru", lol. You see, if you want to make money online with your own website, your life style may or needs to change to make this happen, unless you have lots of money to hire some people to do it all for you. Commitment, devotion, lots of new things to learn if your willing and able. My intent is not to scare you away but just to tell you some hardcore truth about what you seek. Oh, and as far as tutorials go for html, I would suggest using youtube, I do, and it has saved me thousands of dollars of buying programs to learn about html, you can view these hundreds of free short/long movies.

Well, in short, don't get involved in any traffic exchange programs. If you want unique traffic (seo keywords and phrases) you can get this for free, but the downside is doing it yourself. Some of these traffic exchanges are on a blacklist that google has and if your website is associated with them, I don't think it would do you any good for free traffic with them. It may actually harm your url rank.

Kindly,

ezmullah