You must have your own website if you wanna make big money online! No matter what kind of site it is, it can be CMS, forum or blog. But you must have your own website. You may have heard some people say that you don't need a website to make money. They say that you can make a lot of money using their methods. Well, the chances are, they are lying to you. They just want to promote their products. In fact, you can make money online with out a website of your own. But you won't make much. And it does not have long term effect.

Why a website is essential? The most important reason is that you can get passive income of your website. As soon as your site gets steady traffic, you can put your effort in other things. You can build another website while the former site is still making money for you. That's the secret to get rich! Another reason is that you need a platform to sell your products. Even with PPC or affiliate programs, you also need a platform to put them on. Take the affiliate programs as example, many people do it by the wrong way. They put their referral links on others' forums. By this way, you must work all the time. You must sign up to different forums and put referral links on them from time to time. This activity is always considered as spam, so they will be banned by the forum admin soon. The condition is totally different if you have your own website. You can put as many ads as you like on your site. Because it's your site, so you have the full control of it.

At the beginning, it is very cheap or even free to host a website. There are many free web hosts that you can find on the internet. You may want to upgrade your host when you website gets more and more traffic.