Why Network Marketers Can’t Have A Network Marketing Website

If you’re a Network Marketer or an MLM Business Owner and you’ve considered using your own website to promote your business opportunity or your products and services, you’ll soon find if you haven’t already, that your Network Marketing Company doesn’t want you to have your own website for this purpose.

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These days most Network Marketing Companies are aware of the importance of having a website for their distributors to send people to so that they can promote their business opportunity as well as their products and services. Because of this the majority now provide their Distributors with what we refer to in the Internet Marketing world as an affiliate website.

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An affiliate website is simply a website that is used for anyone promoting a company or their products and services through that company’s main website. These affiliate websites normally allow you to list your name, personal information, and your contact information on them, but that’s about it.

In this model the same website is used by everyone. You’re given an affiliate ID or user name which is then used to give you a unique URL which you can have people enter into their browser to access your affiliate website. This unique URL then registers any visitors who go there, to you as the Distributor.

Generally these websites are very professional looking, have good sales copy, are very informative, are nicely laid out, and provide all of the information you would want, to adequately promote your Network Marketing Business. Designing a website like this on your own would literally cost you thousands of dollars, so in this sense they are a great deal.

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The downside to these websites is that they are being used by every other Distributor in the company. The only thing that set’s your Distributor Website a part from every other Distributors in that company, is your name, your personal information, and your unique affiliate ID. Additionally, most companies won’t even let you promote or advertise your affiliate website online.

The reason for this is quite simple. For legal purposes they need to control what you say about the business opportunity and their products and services. By providing their Distributors with these affiliate websites, the Network Marketing Company controls what is said on the website about their company.

This is completely understandable and very important because it not only protects them, but it also protects you the Distributor. Although this may sound very constraining to the Distributor, it is a good thing and it’s also absolutely necessary.

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From the Distributor stand point this creates several problems.

• You have no way of standing out because everyone has the exact same website.
• The search engines do not and never will index an affiliate website.
• Search Engines will only index the main website which does not include any affiliate ID’s.
• You can’t promote or market your website online because of these rules.

Your Network Marketing Company isn’t trying to stop you from being successful they’re just trying to protect their Distributors as well as themselves. The good news is that there are ways to get around some of these issues and still promote your business opportunity online. In my next blog post I’m going to cover them with you, so be sure to come back and visit this website in the next few days.

To Your Success!