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Using wordpress to design a site that includes affiliate marketing?

I bought my first domain name today through godaddy.com. I then created my first site (or blog) using wordpress. After doing some research I found hostgator to be a better option than godaddy's host service so I went with them. With hostgator as my host I forwarded the traffic from the domain I bought through godaddy to the site I created with wordpress. Did a test and by typing in my domain name into the bar up top... what do ya know, I got to my site! I was happy lol. I still couldn't get to it through the search engine, even when I typed in my actual domain name, but I did that within seconds of signing up so I figured it may not be registered yet. I then signed up with commission junction to start posting affiliate links on my site. After searching around a bit I found a relevant program and decided to sign up with it. Tried to post on my wordpress blog and it didn't work saying they only allow advertising if you have a stand alone wordpress site through one of their approved hosting servers.. or something along those lines. And to my surprise... I didn't see hostgator on the list. Did I just waste the $10 dollars on hostgator or can I still somehow use my wordpress page through their host service and include aflliliate links on it? If so how do I do it? When I was surfing this forum I though I remember people saying you can use a webpage designed through wordpress with any host out there. -Side note, I'm a complete newbie to affliate marketing. I've been researching the topic for a few weeks now. I decided to go through all this; buying a domain, setting up a website, and signing up with a host as a learning experience.

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1. Sometimes the domain registrar and file hosting services can be confused, sounds like you have a goDaddy domain that you are hosting on hostgator (instead of godaddy hosting) For best search engine optimization, you Don't want to use forwarding, instead you have to set the Nameservers in your godaddy domain account to the addresses provided by hostgator. Wordpress is fine for simple affiliate sites, custom themes can make it not look like a blog, there are plugins for cloaking affiliate links and displaying and rotating banner ads that are particularly useful for affiliates.