When you first start building an Internet Marketing business things can become quite overwhelming. There are so many directions that one can take. Yet, unless you have a mentor by your side – you have no clue as to which direction is going to lead you, where you want to go.
Today, I am going to talk to you about having a website to help build your business. All Affiliate Marketing sites give you a website to start you of. However, if you really want to build your business you need to have your own website or blog. From all the reading I have done - its okay to have a free website if you are just looking for a bit of pocket money.
However, if you wish to build a big business; then a free website will be detrimental to your cause and it will end up costing you money by way of lost time and effort. The reason for this is that free sites sometimes just close their doors and then all your effort and content goes to waste. Also, it definitely looks more professional if you have your own domain and your own website.
Basically in the creation of a website there are 6 steps involved.
1. Select a Niche for your blog/website. It helps if you are passionate about something as you can choose to write about this love of yours. You can choose this as the niche that you blog about. Only, do make sure that it is a niche that other people are also fond off, or else your blogs will not be read.
2. Obtain and register a domain name. There are many sites to choose from, just go into the Google browser and type in "domain names" and you will get a whole lot to choose from.
3. Set up an account with with a hosting service. Do the same thing with Google,as you did with Domain names; when searching for a Hosting site and choose the one that suits you the best.
4. Create your professional looking website. You can go to http://www.mybwbsite.com/1032472 for a free and easy website to use (if you wish to go the Free way). Or you can go again to Google and find other websites to work with.
5. Write a few blogs and product reviews to start you off.
5. Add on some Affiliate programs to promote. These allow for building a network which ends up in commissions for you. There are oodles of programs for you to join on the net and new ones being launched each day. My advice would be that you look only for those that are free to join and build, initially, or else you might find yourself completely out-of-pocket in a few months with nothing major to show for it.
I have found that there is so much on the net that is for free, that really, there is no reason to dip into your pocket, till you have really learnt to decipher the legit sites from those that are scams. Of course, free sites will take a while to build and there is work and effort involved - but they will not fold up on you some day as some programs have done even in the last few days.
Once you have set up your website, just keep updating it – don't let it stagnate without new entries. Every time you join a new Affiliate site that looks like it will be profitable, add it onto your site in the form of Text Ads or Banners/Widgets, etc.
Once people like what you say they will keep coming back and will someday click on your links – some may even join you and that is what a website is meant to do. It draws people to itself and encourages them to join you in your endeavours.
I wish you the best of luck in your endeavours. Please feel free to ask me any questions you have or to make any comments about my blog below. All the best.:)
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