Frequently Asked Question

As an experienced, or novice promoter, yes.

As a total newbie, no, not right away.

Noobs, don't wait to share because you don't understand this yet or have a domain. Just share your 3Steppers and Alovea links with your contacts without delay as we want your team to begin growing immediately. Register a domain *after* you have shared your affiliate link with contacts (to get word out fast), and before you begin a broader paid advertising campaign.

My tracking link nightmare, and why I *always* promote through a domain I own...

I don't use tracking links anymore. Online, websites build a history, get pinged and stored in many search engines and databases. I never, ever promote other websites referral links, including tracking links. I learned that lesson almost 20 years ago.

You've got to visualize me as a total newbie back then, I didn't know squat, yet had good instincts. What happened was, I got all excited that a "guru" told me to use their tracking link service because, well, it's what you gotta do to promote properly and not waste resources, right? "Track EVERYTHING!" he said.

So, I listened intently, upgraded to this genius' tracking system, and proceeded to take out ads, over $200 in ads my first month, posting tracking links everywhere I could afford, generated 1000s of hits, and dozens of signups to programs. Boy was I excited! After all, I was doing what a PRO suggested.

Then, without an inkling of notice... their site went down 2 months later. All that money was wasted. Those tracking links weren't mine. I didn't control them. The time and money I spent promoting was just gone completely, and so was the traffic that was still coming in. Poof. Gone. All those links I promoted were now dead links. 

Only way to fix that was to go back and remember where I had posted all of those links, and change them to another. Impractical and I couldn't do it. My efforts were totally lost.

Owning your efforts...

Ever since then, I never ever promote or share any links that I do not own. I don't promote affiliate links, not even my own 3Steppers links (for most paid adverts). Had I used my own domain for that promotion, instead of the guru's ill recommendation, I could've logged into it and changed the site that is receiving traffic, so when the tracking link savant's website went down, those links I posted everywhere would still work for me and not be a total loss.

Does that make sense?

CyberWheelers.com at one time was just a domain that I promoted through. I created page frames with optimized meta tags for every program I was promoting. They looked like this ( these visual examples do not work):

https://cyberwheelers.com/site1.html

https://cyberwheelers.com/site2.html

https://cyberwheelers.com/site3.html

...etcetera.

After a year or two, hundreds of links later and moving up my learning curve, getting better at marketing, I hired a programmer, and put together my first referral system on CyberWheelers.com domain. 

Instead of starting promotions from scratch, I had an instant platform via the affiliate links I posted in hundreds of places for over a year, by making all of my previously posted links display my new member website on my CyberWheelers domain. I didn't have to go find all of those links and change them one by one. 

Instead, I logged into my domain, changed the page in those files, save, and in a couple of minutes, Wherever those links were showed the website I wanted them to show! Hundreds of visitors daily were instantly redirected to my new website without any additional effort!

This time around, I owned my efforts!

If I had been using tracking links, or just promoting affiliate links, none of the year's previous advertising efforts would have benefited me in the present moment. It magnified my new advertising campaigns by piggy-backing on previous promotions. No one explained any of this to me. Learned it on my own through trial and error.

Now it is back on you. If you cannot visualize the above scenario. If registering a domain seems like a giant hill to climb and creates stress in your brain, skip that step for now. Clearly, you are not ready for it, and that is perfectly ok. I didn't do it immediately either.

If you can visualize it, and it excites you to think about promoting trough your own domain, go for it! You are ready for that step.

As much as I like you guys promoting 3Steppers, CyberWheelers, BionicHits, i'd rather you move past promoting those links and promote them through *your own* domain and have more control over your own efforts from the very beginning.