Plan and Build a Website

Plan and Build a Website:This is an essential step to make money online.

In the following section we’ll cover the steps you’ll take to plan and build a website.

But first I want to address the common question:

Do you have to have a website to be an affiliate marketer?

To be a "super-affiliate" for any product, I ALWAYS recommend that you write your own endorsements. Explain what you do and don’t like about the product, and how it will benefit your site’s visitors.

Post the endorsement on your website with a link to the product. Not only will you be able to list your page on Google Adwords, your conversion rates will SOAR!

It’s true. Well-written product endorsements should at least double your conversion rates, as well as your earnings which basically answers the question.

However, yes, you can set up an affiliate marketing business without a website. To learn how, go to the site below, which is frequently updated GoogleCash

No Such Thing as a Free Lunch.

Free domain names and Web site hosts are worth precisely what you pay for them.

Too many webmasters, including myself, have learned that lesson the hard way. Several years ago, I placed a recently completed site on a free hosting service. While I disliked the banner ads that showed up above and below my pages, I understood that was how the company made their money and the price I paid for the space.

So, my new site was up and I submitted it to the search engines to bring in some traffic. My efforts started to pay off and pretty soon the money was rolling in. Cool! I start working on new projects.

Sometime later however, I notice that the site stopped generating revenue, so I checked to see whether the site was offline or if perhaps the sales links were broken. I typed in my URL and up came a different site in my browser window. Thinking I'd entered the address incorrectly, I typed it in again. The same strange page comes up instead of mine. So I try it again... and again.

Nope, right URL, DIFFERENT site. My site was gone. In its place was a full page of advertising.

Why was this done? Well, of course I never found out, no one responded to my queries. Granted, this was a scam of the worst kind. Get suckers like me to build a site and bring in visitors, then steal their traffic.

Although the established free hosts like Geocities and Hypermart wouldn't pull such a stunt, here are 6 more drawbacks to hosting your site on free servers.

1. Lose Credibility: Would YOU buy from a business that can’t afford $7.95 per month to host its own web site? I wouldn’t. My impression of businesses on free servers is akin to street vending. I might buy an inexpensive little trinket, but never anything of value.

2. Banner Advertising on Your Pages: Nothing is really free. In exchange for space on their servers, the host places their own banner advertising on your pages. Their banners detract from your business.

3. Funky Long Address: Which address will your visitors remember? http://members.atsomefreeserver.com/~johnsbusiness/ or http://johnbusiness.com?

4. Lack of Features: Free hosts generally restrict the amount of space you can take up on their servers. The sites offer few, if any, of the most basic features necessary to run an ecommerce site, e.g. cgi-bins and shopping carts.

5. Slow Loading Pages: Most free server pages load very slowly. Slow loading pages are the primary reason people cite for failing to complete online order placement. Let's not chase our visitors away before they have a chance to become customers.

6. Customer Service: Non-existent. Your site is down? Tough luck!

   Although this was an unusual circumstance, I learned a valuable lesson – being that you get what you pay for. So I pass the lesson on to you. Register your own domain name and pay for a good hosting service. Both are relatively inexpensive, and they put your business on the right track from the start.

   Be smart plan and build a website that will be successful.
   

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