Very Important Notice !
Why You need a domain name.
Why You need a domain name.
If you market online and don't have a well chosen domain name already - you will lose sales.
Here's how;
How to get more sales + improve your click-thru
Ok, so when you join an affiliate program, you get what is called an
affiliate link, which will be something like
www.yourusername.theopportunityname.com or
www.theproduct.com/yourusername
Something along those lines anyway and the thing is, not only does it look messy and unprofessional, it can lose you sales for a number of reasons.
1) your prospect will see you as an amateur and will not want to work with you for that reason.
2) your prospect will just remove your username and go straight to the main merchant page, meaning you lose the sale.
3) your prospect will type it wrongly and get someone else's affiliate landing page.
4) your prospect will simply forget it as it was too long and difficult to remember.
Whatever the reason that you lose a your sale, the bottom line is the same, you lost it.
So before you put an affiliate link infront of a prospect, get yourself a domain that is relevant and catchy. One that has a name that will create interest in your prospects and get them to click on it.
Your ability to choose a domain name that will entice prospects to take action is something that will improve with practice, but anything is better than what a company will assign to you.
The most important thing to do, is get that domain and forward & mask it so that when a prospect sees your domain and clicks on it, they are directed to your affiliate landing page but they never get to see your affiliate link.
So how do you do this ?
Simple, first you need to create your account with a domain seller, the best I know is Godaddy, to get started, simply click here and once you've created your account, use the search box to find a related domain name that you like.
Then buy it and once the purchase has gone through go to your account link and then to your Domain Manager link where you will see your new domain listed.
Click on the domain name and you'll see a link somewhere in the middle of the page that then opens that says 'forward and masking'.
Click on this link and enter the destination url that you want this new domain to point to and select permanent forwarding.
Then go to the masking tab that is there next to the forwarding tab and put in the name of what you want your visitors to see in their browser window.
Click Ok.
Give it maybe 10 minutes to communicate this new instruction around the World's servers and check it's done by typing your new domain name into your browser until it successfully points to your destination url.
Done.
Something along those lines anyway and the thing is, not only does it look messy and unprofessional, it can lose you sales for a number of reasons.
1) your prospect will see you as an amateur and will not want to work with you for that reason.
2) your prospect will just remove your username and go straight to the main merchant page, meaning you lose the sale.
3) your prospect will type it wrongly and get someone else's affiliate landing page.
4) your prospect will simply forget it as it was too long and difficult to remember.
Whatever the reason that you lose a your sale, the bottom line is the same, you lost it.
So before you put an affiliate link infront of a prospect, get yourself a domain that is relevant and catchy. One that has a name that will create interest in your prospects and get them to click on it.
Your ability to choose a domain name that will entice prospects to take action is something that will improve with practice, but anything is better than what a company will assign to you.
The most important thing to do, is get that domain and forward & mask it so that when a prospect sees your domain and clicks on it, they are directed to your affiliate landing page but they never get to see your affiliate link.
So how do you do this ?
Simple, first you need to create your account with a domain seller, the best I know is Godaddy, to get started, simply click here and once you've created your account, use the search box to find a related domain name that you like.
Then buy it and once the purchase has gone through go to your account link and then to your Domain Manager link where you will see your new domain listed.
Click on the domain name and you'll see a link somewhere in the middle of the page that then opens that says 'forward and masking'.
Click on this link and enter the destination url that you want this new domain to point to and select permanent forwarding.
Then go to the masking tab that is there next to the forwarding tab and put in the name of what you want your visitors to see in their browser window.
Click Ok.
Give it maybe 10 minutes to communicate this new instruction around the World's servers and check it's done by typing your new domain name into your browser until it successfully points to your destination url.
Done.