Why you should own your domain:
* Search Engines favor individually owned websites over affiliate sites
* Alexa will only accept domain pages. They will not accept affiliate sites.
Purchase your domain, then, build your own website. Or, upload a customized splash page to the domain.
Why you should host your own website on your domain:
There are a number of good service providers for free webpages. However, while these are good resources to use when you are perhaps starting out in Internet marketing, you really need to host your own website on your own domain. This goes back to the principles above.
* The site belongs to you, not some other company
* You have full control over content
* You have full control over optimization
* Alexa will index your page
Also, most free sites give you very limited bandwidth use. Uploading pages may not be an option. Plus, most free services put their own advertising snippets on you site. Some of those snippets are often loaded with adware, spyware and other items traffic exchanges will object to. Recommendation is to obtain your own domain and then find a good, reliable hosting service - one who has good, dependable customer and technical support.
Why you should build your own website:
* You can build it to suit your purposes
* You can optimize it for maximum search engine benefit
Online Marketing sites make excellent ownership or Admin venues:
Most of the membership venues found in RC make excellent ownership or Admin sites which you can use as a platform to build your own list. Safelists, Safeadlists, Pixel and Word Link pages (to name a few) can be very affordable internet advertising specialties and venues to lease. Many of our Network Providers also offer special rates for scripts and even hosting should you decide to own a program for yourself. These venues offer effective advertising solutions to others while providing the vehicle you need to list your business links and establish your own marketing list.
Once you have your own internet properties, you can pretty much write your own script as to what businesses and affiliate programs you embrace. You can use the Xtream internet advertising specialties and resources to not only get on the map with the search engines, but conquer them as well. You can also use the email marketing venues to run successful email advertising campaigns to bring people to you, your businessess as well as build your contacts and contact list.
Once you have your presence established and you are doing your online marketing, you can also network with various social network groups like WIN and the winoffice (aka yourwinoffice or Wealth Information Network) groups to introduce your sites to large groups of members.
