I take the first bit of your reply is advocating separate domains, rather than the separate folder approach I asked about. Question answered.
You lost me on the second part of your reply. It seems to presume that I am a complete newbie. I'm not. I have been designing and developing websites for six years. I've done extensive research on web and web marketing, search engines, SEO and SEM, and Merchant Affiliate Programs that focus less on hype and feeding on impulse and more on their ability to fulfil a specific, recurring need.
Despite this, I have never had an affiliate website until a few days ago. Suffice it to say that my technical abilities as a webmaster/designer have finally caught up with my ability to implement a program or project.
I can now code my own sites, integrate PHP with MySQL, research and obtain content, design my own graphics and handle any other aspect of my own custom-designed website package with static and database features. A "website-in-a-box". When learning that side of web dev became tedious, I would take a break from it to learn the "other side" of the process: marketing. So far, I have six years with more days logged at my datacenter (which has a desk and chair) than actually earning a salary. Hence the need to budget until my efforts begin to pay off.
My main concern was what to do with the TLD index page on a site that's full of folders of differing subject matter. How do I SEO a homepage that promotes several programs? Am I wording the question wrong?
Finally, congratulations on the blog, my2cents! I agree: Always be "unpolitically correct"! And always have fun!
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