By Brett Smith

Today, you hear all the time about how simple it is to start your own online business. In fact, this is many people’s dream. To accomplish this, they turn to the Internet. Whether you want to do affiliate marketing, start your own independent business, or join a multilevel marketing organization, the key to your success is to drive traffic to your site, which in turn will convert to sales. There are many ways to help you do this. One product that claims to do so is what is called a “self-replicating web site.” However, these are not tools for success. Rather, they are more trouble than they’re worth, and you have no control over them.

If you go into business for yourself, then it’s likely that at least one of the things that attract you to this is that you have complete control over what you do. However, self-replicating web sites take this away from you. In fact, if you are given one of these sites within an organization, your site is identical to every other member’s site. In fact, the only difference between your site and the site “next door” is that your e-mail address and affiliate number is different from the other guy’s. People erroneously buy these self-replicating web sites because they think that it will help them build an Internet identification so that they’ll increase their own sales. However, in fact, they kill this very necessary Internet identity. This is why.

A few years ago, replicating web sites did everything they said they were going to do. It was a very easy way to get your business, your name, or your service a high ranking in the search engines so that when someone did a search with your keywords, yours would be one of the first sites to come up. However, the search engines caught onto this and thought that this was an unfair advantage to have. So they set out to even the playing field.

What search engines began to do was to give a poor ranking to any site that was an exact replica of another site that had already been indexed in that search engine. And in fact today, search engines are still thinking of ways to get rid of these replicated web sites. For you, that means if you have one, you’re not only losing your rank, but traffic you could have will never even get to you, because people will never see you.

Therefore, because search engines don’t want your site to be self-replicating, don’t waste your money or time on one. There are other reasons as well that you shouldn’t have one. For one thing, you can’t manage a self-replicating web site. You can’t improve the content or make it in any way unique. You can’t alter it in any way or add other types of advertising besides what are already on the organization’s other replicated sites. You can’t track your page, either. Therefore, this isn’t a plan for success, but for failure. You don’t want that, do you?

There are better options out there for your business. Whatever you do you’re going to need targeted effective search engine advertising. Don’t do anything that could hinder that.

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