Monthly Archives: April 2012

Advice, Beginners, Q&A

Beginner FAQs

1 Comment

How do I make money?

GDI is an affiliate marketing program and you make income with GDI from referring other people to the affiliate opportunity, domain, and services. As a basic affiliate, GDI will pay you out $1 per month on each domain you help people register five levels down. We pay this out to you regardless if the people you sign up take advantage of the affiliate opportunity of just the domain. When someone you register does take advantage of the affiliate opportunity, not only will you get paid a dollar for the domains you helped register, but also for the domains they helped register, five levels down.

I am not internet savvy, how do I build a website?

If your .ws site is your first ever website, try using our SiteBuilder. The GDI SiteBuilder has some very easy to use templates to get you started. SiteBuilder templates allow you to personalize them in a number of ways allowing you to add photos, contact forms and more. For a basic website or your very first site, SiteBuilder is the perfect choice.

Watch our tutorial and get started.

None of my friends or family want to join. What do I do now?

You need to step a bit out of your comfort zone to build new networks and get connected with others. Reach out to old coworkers, local small business owners and entrepreneurs. They might be interested in GDI and they might put you in contact with people in their network. Don’t leave GDI just because mom and dad don’t want to sign up, branch out and tap into huge numbers of people.

Domains, WebSites

Four Reasons Everyone Should Have Their Own Domain Name

2 Comments

Some of you have come in contact with people who are interested in GDI, but do not want a domain name. To combat this problem, we shared a few tactics to work around it, but today we want to share the power of the domain. The next time someone doesn’t want a domain, share a few of these reasons why having your own, personal domain is so important.

Easy to Remember

Having a .WS domain gives you a chance to get a short, easy to remember domain name that represents you, your interests, or your brand. No matter what you want to do with your domain, a short name will be easy to remember and share. Unlike .COMs or services like tumblr, Facebook, and Google+, a personalized site doesn’t have to be a long name with numbers and letters. It can be whatever you want with a .WS. Easy remember domain names, like those GDI offers you, means more hits and more repeat visitors.

Easy to Find

As people search for you and your site, the right domain name can mean a higher search results. When you take the time to brand yourself and create the right domain name for your business, search engines respond. This domain is more likely to come up on a search engine than a Facebook page with no user name.

Safe Keeping

Maybe you don’t have a plan for your domain just yet, but someday you will. Securing your own domain name ensures that your brand and your name are protected from someone else snatching it up. Building a brand and a business is much easier when you are able to secure a straight forward logical domain name as opposed to having to get creative because your first choice domain name is always taken.

Credibility

Having your own site builds credibility and shows visitors you take your site and your business seriously. Think of all the websites you visit in a day, which do you trust?

Uncategorized

The GDI WebSite Contest: Next Steps

1 Comment

Thank you to everyone who submitted their sites to our WebSite contest. The contest is now closed.

What Now?

We are sorting through your submissions to ensure each one qualifies for the contest and is matched with the right category. In the coming weeks we will share the submitted sites on our Facebook page, giving you, your friends, family, team members, and GDI fans a chance to vote for their favorite site with their “Likes.”

How Does it Work?

Each site submission will be placed in a corresponding category based on the tools and services you used to build your site. Your submission will be placed in one of the following categories:

SiteBuilder Sites or WordPress / Hosted Sites

Each submitted, eligible site will be shared in a Facebook album for their category. Sites will be shared as a screen shot with a link to the site in the caption. Simply click the Like button underneath a screen shot to vote for a site. The site screenshots with the most votes will be the winners.

An album for each category will be shared for a one week time period. Winners will be selected based on the number of Likes their screen shot receives. There will be first, second, and third place winners in each category and a special GDI Staff Pick Winner that will be chosen from either category.

You will be able to vote for your SiteBuilder sites on Facebook April 23-29th. You will be able to vote for your favorite WordPress or Hosted sites on Facebook April 30-My 6th.

The winners will receive a cash prize, have their site shared on Facebook and a special blog post, and also receive a GDI Top Design Site badge to be displayed on their site.

The winners will receive a cash prize, have their site shared on Facebook and a special blog post, and also receive a GDI Top Design Site badge to be displayed on their site.

First Prize: $100 (one per category)

Second Prize: $50 (one per category)

Third Prize: $25 (one per category)

GDI Staff Pick: $100 (one chosen from all submitted, eligible sites)

So, starting April 23rd, head to Facebook, browse the album and Like your favorite sites!