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Multiple Income Streams: avoiding Starving Artist Syndrome

If you’re a creative, the chances are high that if someone is making a buck from your talents, it’s not you. We writers, artists and designers aren’t good negotiators. We love our work, and we’re happy that someone wants to pay us for it. It takes us a while to realize that while everyone else is doing nicely from our work, we’re not.

Why Use Multiple Domain Names?

It’s quite common for a site to be referenced by more than one domain name. In fact, most sites are referenced by at least two: a www version and a non-www version. These are usually set up to reference the index page on a site and produce the same results for a searcher.

It could, however, be argued that these are the same domain names. So the question remains: why would someone want to have more than one unique domain name for a single site?

Search engines – First, let’s take a brief look at search engines. In the past, it was a very common spamming technique to purchase dozens, hundreds or in some gross cases, thousands of domain names, all referencing exactly the same site. These were all submitted to the search engines, and many of them were indexed and blindly added to the results. This is how many questionable sites used to get top search results very quickly and inexpensively.

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