1st Affiliate Website? Where to get it? How to build it?

[Linda Buquet]

With most free hosting I don't think you even get a domain. With many
all you get is a sub domain. Not sure if that's the case with freewebs.

The other thing with free hosting is the search engines don't like or possible even ban sites on free hosts. When is the last time you did a search for anything and saw a freewebs, tripod or bravenet or another other free host come up high or even come up in the 1st 3 pages? However if you want free, some of the social sites like hub pages and squidoo at least get decent rankings sometimes.

[eb5100]

Fireworks or dreamweaver are good programs to make web sites . If you have the layout for your page , the graphics and all the text done it only takes an hour to make a page and add the links. Something about free hosting. when you have enough webg sites you automatically get free hosting but it usually has their ads on it but it's ok because I have a free hosted web site on the first page of search engines. It depends on the search engine. Some like tons of content and some are fine with one page. After tons of research and trial and error, i think I found what makes them tick. I ahve 1 website on the first page of google, 2 on the first of MSN and 3 on the first of Yahoo, selling the same product.

[Linda Buquet]

Hi eb5100,

Welcome to 5 Star. You have sites on free hosts that are on all those front pages?
Wow I haven't seen a free host get ranked high for years.

The other concern about free hosts, in addition to the fact you don't own the site and they can pull it - is that the ads on the free hosts are leaks. Affiliates get REALLY upset with merchants that have other ads or adsense on their site because the affiliate looses potential sales. So I would think having ads right on your own site that you you don't profit from and could take people away from your site is even more of a leak. You're making money for the hosting company that could have been yours.

[bronnamdi]

Thanks for all the information you have all contributed in this thread. I have been helped by your contributions though I did not start the thread.

[pfitz]

For hosting I would start with Dreamhost. So incredibly cheap, its insane. They do have downtime though, so once your site starts earning, purchase some higher quality (media temple) level hosting for those high earning sites.

[fbeater]

The best and easiest way is to open a free account at blogspot.com, choose a template there, customize it according to your preferences and point it to the domain name you have registered (Blogspot provides such an option).