This article will be very interesting for those who work with the internet, and specially for those who deal with multi-level marketing, affiliate programs, products and site promotion, etc.

Those who work with this kind of Internet Business, they know their success depend on how they get new contacts, new prospects interested to join their business, new affiliates interested to affiliate to their programs, new visitors and clients to their site or business.

So, to be successful the key point is to promote the best way they can, their business/site. If you do it well you´re gonna be succeed, if not you will fail.

Let´s see…

If you are in this kind of business, you surely have a site given by your company. Usually the url you get is something like this: www.yourcompany.com/YYY or www.YYY.yourcompany.com, in which YYY it´s your distributor number, affiliate number or ID.

The main advantage of this situation is that you “own” a site and you can start working and promoting your site right away.

But there´s a huge handicap. If you promote this kind of url (www.yourcompany.com/YYY) you will certainly loose a lot of contacts and visitors to your site and you´ll be working for “others”.

If you work and promote a url like this - www.yourcompany.com/YYY - what will happen?

First you will present yourself as a beginner (the real professionals don´t publish this type of url). You´re gonna be presenting your business and saying to people they will get a great income if they join to your business, and at least the smarter ones (those we really want in our business) will look at you and think: “What an amateur!” – Telling wonders of his business, saying we can get a great income and he doesn´t have at least a site/domain of his own.

People won´t see you as a real leader and besides you will never recruit real leaders to your business – because they know more than you and think you are an amateur – and no one wants to join amateurs.

Other important handicap is that you´ll loose a lot of money and contacts/prospects.

Let´s say you put ads through the internet, other sites, Google, etc. People visit your site and your url will show - www.yourcompany.com/YYY - and the result is that most people will erase “YYY” and go directly to www.yourcompany.com. This happens all the time and i´m sure you´ve already done the same. You´ll loose those visitors and those prospects who could potentially be interested in your business opportunity will never join you.

Who will be wining?

Obviously the owner of the main site - www.yourcompany.com – that can be your company or your sponsor, depending on who owns the main domain.

The same goes for journal ads, flyer ads, etc. In these cases, people don´t even get to visit your site. As they have to type de url in their internet browser, and because people are always in a hurry or because they are lazy, they will just type www.yourcompany.com - and they go to your company/sponsor´s site. You´ll be wasting money on ads and flyers for nothing. You´ll get no results and you will quit.

But there´s a simple and cheap way to figure out this problem. You´ll have to buy your own domain. This way you can choose the name you like for your site domain and you´ll own it. For example you can choose your name – www.yourname.com – or a name related to you business.

There are many sites in the internet where you can pay and register your own domain. It´s a very simple thing to do.

After you register your domain, in your account (site where you´ve made the domain registration) you can redirect traffic to your business site and mask the url of your business site.

This way you will promote only your domain url (the domain you´ve registered, for example www.yourname.com) and the visitors will be automatically redirected to you business site - www.yourcompany.com/YYY. As you´ve masked the url the browser will show your domain - www.yourname.com, and people will never see the real url of you business site.

So the visitors can´t “escape” and you will not loose your contacts/prospects.

It´s a very simple and practical way to solve the problem and you will start to see great results with your business site.