A Newbie-ish Amazon Affiliate Experiment

Hi warriors. I've been doing internet marketing for about 4 years, a lurker around these parts for most of those, a member here for a little while and as of today a future Amazon affiliate marketer.

I make what many would call decent income online through information marketing but I'm looking to supplement it by focusing on building a few niche authority review sites based on a handful of specific Amazon products.

I really enjoyed the information and tips given by wolfmmiii and enjoy his bum marketing-esq theory so I've decided to follow his blueprint which I've already picked up and gone through. Looks very doable and easily scalable once I get the entire process down.

Now don't laugh at me because I know this is a bit ridiculous....but I've never used wordpress before and have no idea how to set it up. At this point that's looking to be the hardest part of the process. Thank godness you only have to do that part once per site and there's tons of info online about how to do it.

I'm just getting started and my goal is to earn > $1000/month from Amazon by the end of the year.

I'm going to use this thread to document my journey through this process as well as my results in hopes that it will help someone like me who' wants to break into this thing too.

Wolfmmiii if you're out there and anyone else who's ever been in the struggle, I wouldn't mind a few words of encouragement and a few questions answered if you don't mind.

1. When you're setting up wordpress how do you choose a homepage keyword?
2. What types of keywords do you use as categories?
3. Where can I go to find some decent wordpress themes?

Thanks a bunch and can't wait to get the ball rolling.