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I picked this up out of my email. I'd thought I'd share it.
It's thought provoking.

From the Desk of Eric Owens

A question that I frequently hear from my clients is:
"Do I really need to have my own domain name to get my distributor or affiliate link listed in the Search Engines?"

The one word answer is 'YES.' First, many search engines are 'truncating' distributor and affiliate links (reducing them to the basic link, which is often the company website minus your distributor or affiliate code), or even worse... search engines are banning affiliate links, and blacklisting sub domains of the parent company that contain certain obvious characters that are not obviously part of the base site.

Second, a very common practice is for YOUR VISITORS to cut off' or remove the affiliate code from the end of your link and just go directly to the parent company bypassing your rightful commissions.
The parent company still gets the same number of sales, but your commissions go untracked. Fortunately, there is an easy way to overcome this.



As a network marketing distributor and affiliate, there are a number of reasons why having your own domain name is a must:

1) When you have your own domain name, the address of your web site will be of the form http://www.EasyToRememberName.com.
On the other hand, if your website is just a company replicated website on one of the free servers, the address of your web site will be something like http://affiliatesite.com/cgi-bin/12...eyOffYou.htm

2) The only way to make money online is to build up credibility with your prospects and customers.
Having your own domain name is the first step in doing that.

3) When you have your domain name, you can have multiple email aliases of the form alias@yourcompany.com.
This allows you to assign different email aliases to different functions, all of them pointing to your actual email address.

4) Many search engines give a lot of emphasis to the home page of a particular domain.
So, other factors remaining the same, a home page of a domain will often rank higher for a particular keyword than any other page. When you submit your long, obvious affiliate link, your index.html page is the home page of your site, but not of that domain. In these search engines, your site will find it very difficult to make it to the top 20 or top 30, let alone the top 10 for some of the really competitive keywords. Just think of the amount of traffic that you will lose if this happens.

5) Many major search engines are now refusing to spider the web sites that contain obvious affiliate coding.

6) You will also find it very difficult to get an affiliate link listed in a major directory like Yahoo!

If you do not currently have a domain name to promote your affiliate program, are you convinced that you need one right now?
The small fee that you pay per year for your own domain name is peanuts compared to the benefits that you get. You can check out the availability of domain names and register new domains at (google new domain names and take your choice).


You can now also customize the Title, Keywords and Description tags for your domain. This gives you advanced search engine optimization for higher search engine rankings. Almost all affiliate links are NOT indexed by any of the major search engines. NameStick Domains are.
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Eric Owens is the Vice President of Business Development and Search

BobG

This is posted by Ricky Majtyka. The Author is Bob G.

Thanks for all these great and Useful Infos Bob.

Hope we get in touch sometime !

Again Thank You.
Regards, Roger

I think the key here is to build YOUR business not others. If you have YOUR domain and YOUR list, you can then send the affiliate links, but the people still are on YOUR list. Whereas if you focus on building THEIR links you really don't have anything to show for it at the end of the day.

Good advice although it's over 2 years old.... http://www.imnewswatch.com/archives/200 ... isitFrom=2

I saw you posted the same thing on the Warrior Forum... Maybe you aren't aware of forum etiquette?

Posting the same message verbatim to multiple forums is considered forum spam.

Pat

It's not my intention to spam any forum. It is my intention to inform. This may be two years old. Its the first time I heard of it. I've been internet marketing for 3 years. I just recently joined the warrior forum. This forum to my understanding is new. Not everyone knows of the warrior forum. I take the word spam very personal. If it is your intention to deface my character as an internet marketer. I think you better reconsider. I post topics that are worthy of any marketer. Be they my own thoughts or the thoughts of informed marketers. If you seen it some place else good for you. It is for those who have no knowledge of it.

Yup, brand new...Since 2003

the best way to inform and/or use any forum is to get involved with the members and interact before you try to inform. Most people look at this type of informing as spam, sorry but it's true. This forum is over 5 years old, it's not new and we've seen just about every type of marketer out there.

I appreciate you trying to inform but do yourself a favor and get involved in the forum first, let the people get to know you and you will be taken more seriously. We've seen thousands of people pop in and post an article just to put their link out there.. if it's not your intention, great, stick around and get to know us.

I'm not trying to 'defame' anyone, not sure what you mean by I better reconsider so I'll leave that go....

I've been doing this for over 10 years and the regulars in this forum have been doing this for 5-10 years themselves. Get involved is my best advice... and post your information after we get to know you.

PS. your introduction and welcome post says you've been doing this for 16 months.. which is it? 3 years or 16 months?



Pat

On a related subject, would

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Cause a search engine to index your link with out finding out it just bounces off a php redirect with your full affiliate link in a robots.txt disallowed folder.

I do that and wonder if I'm just fooling myself?

Search engines never indexed multiple ?xxxxxxx type pages, their not perceived as being real, which in fact they are not, their just a database output, there is only one actual page, its the values in the page that are changed as YOU see it. Its still only one page, even if its got your photo and your name on it ! The very thought of it is quite impossible really. Why If it were possible I could simply setup a script to add millions of usernames, or simply throw a few dictionarys into my database table, and have millions of indexed pages, just like that !

I think this topic is 10 years old, well worn, tired, ratty, Zzzzzzz ...