The part of my site to be sent to affiliate programs, and the need for SSL

[Susovan PAL]

Hello,

I'm just starting with affiliate marketing and am super novice. I bought a domain name and hosting for a year from HostGator. I'd appreciate if you answer the two folowing questions of mine:

1) Do I absolutely need an SSL certificate to start affiliate marketing? I'm taking affiliate marketing for the moment as a side hustle, say to generate an extra 300€ a month.

2) The part of my site where I intend to do product reviews (hence more related to affiliate marketing) is a particular page/section on my site/homepage, where I've reviewed just one product, for the sake of practicing. Now if I want to send my site to several affiliate programs, then, should I send my main site (so that the affiliate marketing site testers in say amazon affiliate program see everything in my site), or only the part of the site where I intend to do affiliate marketing/product reviews? My site also contains blogs that're blog and other information that'ren totally irrelevant to affiliate marketing, hence I as the question. P.S. I guess the intuitive answer is to send the particular part that has just one product review, but then will that be a problem, since it got only one product review? And this is why I was also thinking of sending the full site. I'm a bit confused here, please help me!

 

[Graybeard]

Just install a free Let's Encrypt SSL certificate.
I am sure all of there affiliate programs have cnn.com begging to peddle their products (<ROFLMAO)>
I am not sure what to do myself sometimes -- I just make ad creatives and landing pages for the ads these days and if they don't want the referral traffic they can look elsewhere -- and I'll move on.

 

[Graybeard]

see my <rant> on SSL in this post!
Chrome will block http-Content by February 2020

Paris 2015

**added as a side bar: I was just approved for a direct affiliate program that pays 40% CPS using a blank website page, on a SSL domain with a matching @email at the same domain using a DKIM sig
I guess they know I mean business. So, you never know ... use a domain email not a gmail or outlook public address (that helps a lot).