That's great isn't it? Your very own website to promote business, and it also tracks your referrals and commission!

For example, popular program $1.67 A Day provides all subscribers with their own website, which looks like this:

http://akuma.167aday.com/

You Are Not Alone

The only problem is, every single person who signs up for $1.67 A Day gets same webpage, only thing different is that each person has their own name at bottom of page.

That means, even though you have your own webpage, it is not unique. There are thousands out there with same webpage as you.

Some of you might be saying that it's ok. That you can still promote your own webpage by emailing everybody (be careful that you don't spam!).

However, problem surfaces when you start considering search engines and directories, such as:

www.google.com www.yahoo.com www.msn.com www.askjeevevs.com Let's face it: vast majority of website visitors find website via search engines. Certain rare cases get visitors via word of mouth or brand name or via offline advertising. But numbers still indicate that search engines still provide most traffic.

And if you have thousands of other websites that look exactly same as yours, you're definitely not going to do very well in search engines. Most search engines look for how much value a webpage can provide to a search user. If your page is one of thousands that look same, it doesn't have much value.

As a side note, Google changed their search engine algorithm in November 2003, and a lot of commercial and affiliate websites appear to get hit hardest. It is now harder for these sites to rank well in Google.

Stand Out From The Crowd

a) Domains

So what you have to do, is be different from rest of affiliates. The first step is to get your own domain. Your domain is basically your internet address.

Consider following two URLs:

http://www.amazon.com/affiliates/cgi-bin/id?123456

and