Question & Answer

why do we need to buy hosting for our own website?
cant we just create a page on blogspot.com for free ?

and how do we get paid ?
can clickbank and those other websites credit into our paypal account ?


Buy hosting so we have full control over the site.
Otherwise when things get a bit awry we can't do anything.
For example blogspot.com decides to do something nasty to
our website content etc... that would jeopardize our whole business.

But if you are just starting... then the best bet is to use:

1) Free Blog (Blogspot / Bloggers / Wordpress)
2) Weebly
3) Squidoo

I've tried all three... the best in terms of SEO would be Squidoo.
I could get ranked for quite competitive keywords with only 5 backlinks
from ezinearticles in just about a couple days. Indexed within 3 houres.

The downside though... Squidoo employs too many Adsense and other
ads which could take away the focus of our reader from our promotion.


But now since I've budget... I just straight away get a domain name.
Hosting on hostgator can host unlimited domain name so I only need
to get it once.

And then create a wordpress websites and drive traffic there.



How do you get paid??

Major affiliate networks like Clickbank, Commission Junction etc.. prefers
cheque.

But some affiliate network do pay straight to PayPal.

Ofcourse... this does affects our business as we need to take into account
the amount of time before we can re-used the money and cycle it back
into our business before the profit comes.

But a word of advice for those who are new with PayPal...
they are quite rampant in 'freezing' accounts.

I got accused once for money laundering because of sudden influx in PayPal
account... and they freeze my account. That alone dealt a severe damage
to my business at that time.

A bit trauma with PayPal so I prefer check.