You are right, you need to always be thinking about ways to generate traffic to your site and one of those ways id from link building. However when i say that i am not talking about reciprocal linking those days a nearly finished, you need to be getting links from within relevant content and not link directories on other sites.

Yes having a blog is now the norm if you are serious about marketing a business online. As David said you can then very easily interact with potential customers as well as share links and ideas with other bloggers.

Yes SEO is key to making your website more effective online. Many people seem to think that this is something that they can not do themselves but if the truth be known it is very easy to do if you look through all the myths that are all over the internet.

Thanks for your words of encouragement… I am very passionate about helping others and of course affiliate marketing so it is very easy for me to keep adding to this affiliate marketing blog.

Yes one thing that really stands out with any online business is the need to be organized and not place to many things on your plate at the same time this will only lead to distractions and less work being done.

It also helps if you can think outside of the box and not just follow everybody else with the same old marketing tactics which in most cases are well used and not as effective as they once were.