Using your own domain name on your social network profiles and various web 2.0 properties are more important than one might think.

Let’s take the most recent ‘Youtube Slap’ for an example, how many internet and network marketing professionals lost all their content and friends instantly when Youtube decided to terminate their accounts?

Losing all your content is painstaking enough, but what about all the links that you placed all over the web pointing to that profile? Where does all that traffic go? Definitely not coming back your way!

Now unless your intention was to spam (we normally spot those accounts before or by their first blog post anyway), we are not planning on banning any accounts or terminating any MLM Blogs.

Point still remains, you need to control your own domain names as far as humanly possible to avoid being at the mercy of any social site or to redirect your traffic to different sites when need be.

This is why you will see many marketers promote their Facebook and Twitter profiles with subdomains or their own domain names such as MyNameOnTwitter.com or MyNameOnFacebook.com.

That way if any of the social sites give you the red flag, you can simply direct the traffic back to a new social site of your choice.

That’s all good for social profiles, but what about satellite sites? (a.k.a remote blogs on web 2.0 properties)

This is where thatMLMbeat PRO Members take advantage of our domain mapping feature.

If you are blogging on thatMLMbeat and you would like to use your own domain name like yourname.com instead of yourname.thatmlmbeat.com, then this video is for you.

When you use your own domain name, your blog on thatMLMbeat acts as a complete personal blog, but you still benefit from your blog posts being fed to the front page… nice!

In a hurry? Do this:

1. Log in to your thatMLMbeat backoffice

2. Scroll down to the  Tools Menu and click on Domain Mapping (if this is not visible, you will need to upgrade to PRO)

3. Add your domain name

4. Go to where you purchased the domain or your domain host and add a DNS “A” record pointing at the IP address of this server (IP Address provided in the backoffice. Doesn’t make sense? Watch the video!)

5. Email me your domain name so that I can ‘park’ it on our server.

Although we park it on our server, your domain is still YOUR domain name. If you decide to use it for something else later, just contact us and we will ‘unpark’ it for you.

If you have any questions or get stuck, please ask in the comments section below.

I have to confess myself that it’s an honor for me too watching all the positive comments pour in, Tweets going wild and the Top 50 Network Marketing Bloggers take pride in their well deserved accomplishments.

It’s an instant justification for time really well spent. In fact, the reward is 10 fold!

To all the network marketers who left comments, shared, tweeted it and even did a blog post linking to our elite 50, thank you for paying it forward.

It all comes back to you and who knows, some of you might even be listed in the Top 50 MLM Blogs for 2010 next year!

John M Fogg expressed in his comment that he was surprised that there were so many blogs that add so much value. John was not the first to mention this.

I was probably the first one when I reached the dilemma of MLM Blog number 36. The list was getting significantly smaller after removing close to a hundred blogs and the thought crossed my mind that 50 is a big number.

Now don’t get me wrong, none of the 100 MLM blogs were bad. Some were simply outdated, Network Marketing company specific and others didn’t stay true to the criteria. The standard was set and had to be met.

But here’s the profound thing that happened at about blog number 48…

I came across several greater network marketing blogs. Even to the point that I was about to reassess reviews that were already completed and good to go.

Nevertheless, the final decision ended up with a bit of a juggle and really nitpicking at the last couple of blogs to determine the final Top 50 MLM Blogs.

Needless to say, what a marvelous motivation to do it again next year, but spice things up a little with a twist of interactivity and definitely relinquishing control over the voting responsibility to you as our readers.

Now wouldn’t that be cool!?

Within that said, let me share our mission:

To unite and promote as many existing and new MLM Blogs that deliver real value through their quality content and ensure that all bloggers of our community get the glory and publicity that they deserve.

To get the ball rolling, checkout the Site wide Posts (in the sidebar for now, but more on this later) with content streaming from new community members such as  Carlos Aponte, Dave Sherwin, Greg Martin, John Counsel, John Di Lemme,  Richard Bravo, Jhanna Dawson, Eric Goldstein, Angel Taylor, Kary Rogney and Troy Dooly to name but a few.

Why not join us?

If you have would like to raise your voice, share your content to an attentive audience be amongst this ever growing list of top network marketing professionals, be sure to add your existing blog or create a new blog on thatMLMbeat.

It’s free and if you need help adding your MLM blog to our network, watch this video.

What’s Hot This Week

We are still ironing out a few technicalities after a few important upgrades over the weekend, so don’t be alarmed if you run into a few things that are out of place.

If anything is completely abnormal, please be so kind to contact us.

Such great content is being poured onto thatMLMbeat right now by our active community members. We will be focusing on regular ‘update posts’ to make sure you don’t miss a thing.

We hope to be expanding the Recent Site wide Posts into an actual page for easy viewing as well as implementing a Global RSS feed that keeps track of ALL the blogs on thatMLMbeat!

We will let you know via brief blog posts as soon as this happens.

Have an awesome, prosperous week!