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What are the Essential Tools Required in Learning to be Successful as an Affiliate Marketer -Part One
Jan 13th
Becoming a successful Internet Marketer, or Affiliate Marketer, requires the use of a few key tools to make your life easier, and to also save yourself a lot of time. I’ve listed some of the typical tools I use, and I’ve added an optional beside the title if it’s a tool you can pretty much get away without having, although they would be a ‘nice to have’
1) Website and Domain names. Initially when starting out as an Apprentice Affiliate, you can probably get started using various Web 2.0 site options. (Things like Squidoo lenses, and Hubpages) However these will limit what you can create yourself, and so having complete control over your own Internet Real Estate is essential. The best and cheapest option for obtaining the cheapest Domain names is Go Daddy, where you can get .info domains for as little as $0.89 with Godaddy. When it comes to selecting the actual ending suffix of a domain name (ie whether you for a .com, .net, .info, etc) it actually doesn’t make any difference to the search engines when it comes to ranking your site during Searches, although it can count when and if you ever decide to sell the domain (or website) and also when people remember your brand but not your suffix. They will often just search for the.com option first, which potentially means you could lose out on some good free traffic, and obviously some potential business as well.
When buying some Domain names though GoDaddy, just ignore all the hoops, and up-sells they put in your way during the buying process.
2) Website Hosting. Being an Affiliate Marketer with a bunch of cheap domain names requires a home, and certainly requires you to have a webhosting company that will host your various sites. The cost of web hosting these days is cheap (compared to what it used to cost) and there are a number of various web hosts that will offer to store an ‘unlimited’ number of websites for you for less than $100 for the whole year. It’s important to use a respectable web host that has been around for some time, and that a lot of other Affiliate Marketers use. Avoid the absolute cheapest Web hosts as the chances are they offer no support, (which is still essential from time to time) Some of the more well respectable web hosts around that can offer you good value for money are:
* Bluehost (This company is recommended by WordPress.org as the best host for bloggers)
* Justhost
