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It’s surprising, at least to me, the amount of Affiliates who aren’t aware of the value and flexibility that the ‘sub-domain’ can give their promotional website activities. Set up in the right way, a sing

According to USFDA, a combination product is one composed of any combination of a drug and device; biological product and device; drug and biological product

le domain through a host who includes multiple ‘sub-domains’ in their hosting package can fill ALL the online needs of even the busiest and most diversified Affiliate.

Firstly, for those who need to know

; or drug, device, and biological product and fixed dose combination would include two or more combinations of drug.

Examples of combination products may in

, a ‘sub-domain’ is simply a separate, individual web folder, which can be attached to a ‘main’ domain and treated in all respects as a separate entity online. It is similar to a ‘sub-web’, which most hos

lude drug-coated devices, drugs packaged with delivery devices in medical kits, and drugs and devices packaged separately but intended to be used together.

ing facilities include except that it is, in it’s own right, treated as a separate domain by the SEs rather than a sub-folder under a domain.

The way in which they are represented online as URLs is as fo

here is enormous increase in the number of combination products entering the market in the recent years. Combination products have proven advantages but fixe

llows:

For instance, if you have a domain name, ‘domain.com’ and you add a sub-domain named ‘bubble’, the URL to that particular ‘website’ (which is what each sub-domain amounts to, a separate website) w

d dose combinations are still in the process of convincing regulatory authority on their advantages over the single ingredient formulations.

Combination pro

ill be ‘bubble.domain.com’. No doubt, many have seen these types of URLs online and in promo emails etc. The ‘dot’ between the sub-domain and main domain is not to be confused with the ‘dash’ that can be

ucts have become life saving products for the pharmaceutical companies who doesn’t have many innovative molecules in their product pipeline and have been inc

sed as part of a main domain. For instance, ‘bubble-domain.com’ would need to be registered and propagated in it’s own right whereas, sub-domains can be created under a main domain in a matter of seconds,

easingly used in the product life cycle management. Even the companies having product patents are trying to extend their product life cycle through the combi

with their own FTP password, image, private and cgi-bin folders etc.

What makes them so valuable a tool, if it’s not so obvious already, is that an Affiliate can create a separate website for totally un

nation products and maximize the revenues. But the companies involved in this practice are overlooking that they are burdening the patients both economically

related products or services, fill each website with the necessary pages of content, links and facilities etc and promote each to the Search Engines and other directories, virtually as if it were a differ

and physically. They need to rightly judge the benefits of the combination products and they have to even look at the risks involved when combining the produ

nt main domain. As I’ve said, the SEs treat each sub-domain as a separate entity and categorize them as such. A very handy ability when it comes to Affiliate programs that supply a website or webpage for

ts. Some of the combination products were well accepted by physicians while others suffered. Companies involved in development of combination products are fi

their Affiliates to use and promote. In such a case, you can basically make that page or site your very own in every respect, optimizing for SEs and presenting it how ever you please (provided no agreemen

ding difficulty in defining their combination products and facing various challenges from selecting a combination to marketing it.

Following aspects would a

ts are broken).

Obviously, having a ‘generic’ main domain name is essential to getting the best out of this cost, time and trouble saving method of creating multiple websites. If you have a main domain

dd to the challenges in developing combination products:

Which markets to tap where the combination products can do fairly well?
Which combination prod

ame ‘pillshop.net’ (perhaps your initial Affiliate endeavor involved promoting this type of product) it is really only going to be useful for the one type of product or service. Alternatively, something m

cts are meaningful and rational?
Which therapeutic categories to select?
Which Combinations can address unmet needs of the patients?
Do combin

ore generic like ‘online-plus.biz’ is going to be useful for promoting almost anything because it has no specific meaning. For instance, in the case of promoting a Singles Dating Affiliate program, someth

tions increase the patient compliance?
What would be the developing cost?
How to tackle the risks encountered during combination product developmen

ing like ‘singles.online-plus.biz’ would work as well as ‘pills.online-plus.biz’ or even ‘dogs.online-plus.biz’. However, ‘singles.pillshop.net’ just doesn’t work, does it? (Although, I have seen some pre

t?

As combination products don't fit into the traditional categories of drugs, medical devices, or biological products, the USFDA is in the process of devel

ty weird URLs around!)

The only problem you will be presented with, concerns the traffic ranking facility Alexa. Alexa will read all sub-domains as their parent ‘main domain’, so the traffic ranking for

ping new procedures for reviewing their safety, efficacy and quality.

Professional from academic institutions, pharmaceutical industries, health care indust

each website will be the same, as will all the other Alexa information. However, this isn’t such a great problem when you consider that the total traffic indicated for each website will actually be the to

y and representatives from various regulatory agencies are working out to design the regulatory requirements for manufacture and sale of combination products

tal for ALL of them. In my opinion, not so much of a problem, at all.

So, for the Affiliate at least, choosing the right type of domain name and a hosting facility that includes multiple sub-domains in t

.

As there is an increasing trend of the combination products companies manufacturing such products should be able to tackle the problems involved in the de

eir package is very important, especially if there’s any possibility that you’re going to be venturing into promoting unrelated products and services. The first hosting facility I was involved with a few

elopment. They need to be wiser in analyzing the market trends and the regulatory requirements.

Companies that provide selfless information through particip

years ago, charged $10 to create each sub-domain. The one I've been with for the last couple of years, allows unlimited free sub-domains (contact me at one of my websites if you want to know who they are)

tion in industry events and feedback to regulatory authorities would be able to face the challenges and will be successful in developing combination products

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