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Having your own domain name is a must. It's down to $70 now to register your own domain and around $35 a month to host it on a good host. First of all, having your own domain tells people you are serious. I'm sorry but being hosted on a free server is not good at all. Millions of people are already in the habit of passing over any link that leads to the free hosted sites. FreeYellow.com is not for you if you are serious about making money on the net. If you have to go with a free host right now do this....get free web space from sites that are not so well known like the big ones are. Some of our own Warrior members offer free web space. You don't want your url to look like 50,000 others on the net. Now...pick a good host and what have you got? Unlimited free autoresponders - Give them away and drive tons of traffic to your site. Put a small tag line in each autoresponder leading to your site. 100 Megs of Web Space or More - "You" can give away free web sites in exchange for a link from their page to yours. Another traffic builder. You can also create as many different sites as you want. Use more sites as lead-ins to your main site. Unlimited mailing Lists - Start one or more mailing lists. Send out your newsletter by sending a letter to one email address. I use site-works and they offer all this and more. Your Own Forum - Building a forum on the internet is hard. Let
me tell you a little trick used by a man to build his forum traffic fast.
He already had over 500 visitors a day to his site, but, as anyone who
has tried to build a forum knows, if visitors to your site go to the forum
and there are no messages - it won't be bookmarked. So to solve
this he went out every day to all kinds of forums and took the hottest
threads he could find and re-posted them on his own forum. Because
there where great posts there now, people bookmarked his forum and came
back, some started posting and from then on it took off.
Now his forum gets posts everyday and he gets tons of hits
to his banners. (I don't know if this could be considered illegal in
any way. Posts in forums are not copyrighted so I don't know if there would
be a problem with When you have your own domain name and it's on a good host you are unlimited as to what you can do. You can create links to your site in hundreds of different ways. Go to http://www.cgi-resources.com/Programs_and_Scripts/Perl/ and get scripts for your domain that will let you do all manner of things. Offer free classified ads, free-for-all links pages, your own banner exchange, set up your own auction, forums, password protection and more! Having your own domain will add power and credibility
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