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Posted By: Rick K. In Response To: Stone Evan's PlugInProfit Opportunity (Carol Herron)
Saturday, 12 February 2005, at 9:03 p.m.
All you have to do is promote a website that they
> set up.
That's the killer. Google and other search engines penalize duplicate content. In other words, if you join this program and use a basic template that has the same content and looks like 100 others, you will likely be penalized.
Most of these "mirror" self-duplicating websites are extremely difficult to promote. You need unique content, different keywords, and other factors to stand out from the others.
It would be well worth your time to learn basic HTML and build your own websites. You can then join an affiliate program and promote their product and get paid a commission.
Most of the self-replicating websites make the creator of the program money. For example, you may get 1 or 2 sales making a few bucks. They will get a percentage of your sales.
If 1000 others like you join their program, and make 1 or 2 sales, they get 1000-2000 backend or 2nd tier sales also. They come out smelling like a rose.
Also, the internet marketing field is extremely competitive and overcrowded. If you learn basic HTML, get a website template, and join a program that interests you, you'll probably do much better.
Say you love roses. You're a gardener. You grow the best roses on the block. You can build a website about roses. You write articles about how to care for roses, how to prune roses, rose diseases, ect.
You then have unique content that Google loves. So you join a nursery affiliate program and get a percentage of your rose sales. You offer books from Amazon about roses, making more profit. You join Home Depot and offer special tools used for roses and gardening, making more profit from those sales.
You put up Google ads that offer similar content, and make a profit off of click-throughs.
When you build your own site like this, you direct your efforts to benefit youself, not some self-replicating cookie-cutter website owner. Plus, you are doing something that interests you.
So, go for it. One of the best ways to begin is to download a free book by Ken Evoy called "The Affiliate Master's course." It's free, and explains step-by-step what to do and how to do it. The book also plugs his site-build-it system. You can join the site-build-it, but to me it is too expensive. You can find a free copy Here .
When I first started I learned the basics from his book, bought my own domain name ($9.00 at GoDaddy) and got webhosting for a year for $7.00.
Total cost for a year? $16.00.
If I remember right, site-build-it is around $25.00 a month. So for less than one-half the cost of one month using his program, I got webhosting for a year.
Good luck!
Rick K.
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