Tuesday, August 26, 2008

What the heck is a C-Panel, and how to redirect domains

Dear Mika,

Okay, today the promised sequel
about C-Panel. At least the
starter version.

In your email from Hostgator,
you'll also get a link to your
C-Panel. When you click on it,
it will take you (after login)
to a place that's filled with
cute looking icons.

They also have labels, fortunately.

C-Panel is your command central of
your websites. It can do almost
anything you want.

That's where you set up your
email, where you can set up a blog,
and where you can set up all the
websites you want, and also set up
countless subdomains that you then
redirect to the affiliate links you
want to promote.

Say you have an affiliate link for
a dog training course. Ezine articles
won't allow you to use an affiliate
link in your resource box or anywhere
else for that matter.

So what do you do? You go to
Godaddy.com and buy a suitable
domain name. Let's say you buy
superduperdogtraining.com

As you go through the ordering
process you get to the place where
it asks you if you want to host it
elsewhere. You say yes, and then
you write in the DNS information
for Hostgator, and then you check
out.

Now, you go to your Hostgator
account, into your c-panel,
and you click on the top left
link, the one that says
"addon domains"

You'll see a place that says,
"new domain name" and you type in
your new domain:

superduperdogtraining.com

In the next field, where it asks
for username etc., you can
just click and it will put
in

superduperdogtraining

without the ".com"

In the third field, it asks
you to choose a password.

Let's pick dog123, just as
an example. Be sure you
remember the password.

Click "Add Domain," and it will
process this and take you to
another screen.

Wait till it's finished, and
then you can click "go back"
which is at the bottom.

Once you're back in the addon
domain maintenance area, you
can add another name or 10.

The beauty of hostgator is that
you can add on as many domain names
as you like.

Why would you want to do that?

Many reasons. Well go there later.

Next, the redirect thing:

Scroll down a bit below where
you put in the new domain names.

You'll see a place where it
tells you:

"setup redirection" and Redirect
domain to URL.

Go to the left field and scroll
until you find the domain name you
want, in our example it is
superduperdogtraining.com

Next, in the right field,
where it says "setup Redirection"
you insert your affiliate link.

That affiliate link is that funny
looking link you got from clickbank
or paydotcom.com or whatever.

Hit enter, and again you'll be taken
to another screen that confirms that
it's now being redirected.

You can then click "back" or
whatever it is and go back to your
addon domains to redirect some more
if you like.

And that's it.

Test it out now. Open a new browser
window and type in
http://www.superduperdogtraining.com
(or rather what YOU have picked)
and your affiliate site will come up.

Cool, isn't it?

That's it for today.

Again, if you haven't actually
gotten your hosting account yet,
it's about time, so here goes:

http://www.myfavoritewebhost.info

Okay, till next time, have fun
with redirecting affiliate links,
and a wonderful day!

Elisabeth

P.S.: Click here for your hosting
company:

http://www.myfavoritewebhost.info

Good luck!

Elisabeth Kuhn

P.O. Box 17912
Richmond, VA
23226
US


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