You Don’t Need a Website
You Don’t Need a Website to Make Money
By Dan Foley © 2006
You may think that you need a website to sell products
on the Internet but you don’t. If you have a mailing
list you can sell products through affiliate programs.
As long as you have a valid URL, you can use a naked
link like
myawesomeinternetsite.com/youraffiliatelink to
sell products.
A better way is to hide your affiliate link so that it
can’t be hijacked or bypassed is to have something like
myawesomeinternetsite.com/recommends/
greatebook.
You can then use the following script to redirect the
visitor to your affiliate. The script looks like this:
<html>
<head>
<title>Loading page…</title>
<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="2;URL=YOUR
AFFILIATE LINK GOES
HERE">
<script>
url=’YOUR AFFILIATE LINK GOES HERE’;
if(document.images) { top.location.replace(url); }
else { top.location.href=url; }
</script>
</head>
<body>Loading
<a href=YOUR AFFILIATE LINK GOES HERE>page</a>…
</body>
</html>
You can get free hosting for minimal sites. One such
example is www.doteasy.com/. I don’t know how
good they are because I have never tried them, but it
appears that they don’t have any gotchas or banner ads.
I also have no affiliation with them. They came up
high on the Google rank and that is how I found them.
You can also Google for "free hosting" and quite a few
sites will appear. Choose the one that looks best to
you.
You should copy the above script into notepad so that
it looks something like:
<html>
<head>
<title>Loading page…</title>
<meta http-equiv="refresh"
content="2;URL=http://www.crazysalesdays.com/jv/
horacegreeley_ad">
<script>
url=’http://www.crazysalesdays.com/jv/
horacegreeley_ad’;
if(document.images) { top.location.replace(url); }
else { top.location.href=url; }
</script>
</head>
<body>Loading
<a
href=http://www.crazysalesdays.com/jv/horacegreeley_ad
>page</a>…
</body>
</html>
Create a file on your new free webhost and give it a
name like recommends. Then
create a new file inside the
recommends file and name it something like
crazysalesdays.
Take the script you just modified, name it index.htm
(make sure it doesn’t come out as index.htm.txt or it
won’t work) and ftp it to your new file i.e.
crazysalesdays.
You can get a great free FTP program at
filezilla.sourceforge.net/.
It works better than a highly rated FTP program that I
bought for about $40.00.
Later on, if you feel like learning html and developing
web pages you can get more fancy with your offerings.
What I have described here, however, will get you going
with no money invested and you can start making money
immediately.
April 17th, 2007 at 8:44 am
Dan,
Nice article, but I was amused by this statement in your email post, “Because of filters, I have put this article on my blog.”
I sense a certain dichotomy there: you propose marketing _without_ a web page, but put the instruction _on_ a web page? Because of filtering? Gee, I wonder what would happen to my email marketing proposal [grin /]?