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September 16, 2007
If you’re new and scouring the ‘Net for a place to register your desired domain name, you’ll likely come across websites charging anywhere from $35 a year to as low as $1.99 a year. More often than not, you’ll choose the lower-priced one because it’s cheaper.
There are literally hundreds of places where you can register your domain name with. There are so many around it’s enough to make your head spin.
But as the saying goes, you get what you pay for. And to whom you’re registering and managing your domain name with is no exception.
What many people who wish to ‘put up a website’ don’t know is they might have little control or ’say’ (or even none at all) over managing the domain name they registered. While it’s a reality many people don’t know and probably don’t care about this, what they don’t know can and might hurt them.
Whatever their reasons and business models, many hosting providers will give you a limited degree of control and access to the domain name and your website hosting. However, they can retain full control and even ownership of the domain name itself.
It’s well and good if you’re having a relatively good experience with your hosting company for your website hosting and domain name needs. But if you’re not happy with them and decide to cancel and transfer, then that’s where the unwanted headaches might occur.
Nowadays you virtually agree to your hosting provider’s terms the moment you sign up with them. Depending on the circumstances and the terms, they can deny you access to your domain name and even prevent you from transferring it to another provider of your choice.
If that happens, it can potentially cost time, money and effort to try to regain the domain name. And you don’t have any assurance whatsoever you’ll be successful in getting it back.
When browing through your potential list of domain providers, don’t be afraid to ask any and all questions you have regarding how they handle domain name issues. Their answer to your questions can help shape your decision as to whom to take your chances with.
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Copyright (c) 2006. Dave Zan is dedicated to helping the ordinary lay person understand how and why domain names work the way they do. You can learn and even get a free report at his blog at www.DaveZan.com.
August 29, 2007
How do you expect to be found by people who don’t know the name of your business? There are three categories of domain names to be chosen in order to make your domain name work for your website. I’ll explain each category and why you need one from each of them.
We’ll start with the old standby: your business name. YourBusinessName.com is great for printing on business cards and letterhead, vehicle signage and banners. This is the one that people will use IF THEY HAVE IT IN FRONT OF THEM. However, most people get stuck on using only this domain name. I’ll tell you why this is such a bad idea: most business cards get thrown away - why do you think they’re so cheap? Letters and invoices get filed. Your business domain name just won’t be in front of the people you want it to be when you need it to be.
Dot net or dot com? For the name of your business usually it doesn’t matter unless it’s a well-known brand. Remember, this is the one people will have in front of them when they go online. You could even try one of the lesser used extensions like .info, .us, .biz or .tv if it works with your business name.
Next is the most basic, yet underused type of domain name - ‘Your Name’. I don’t mean your business name, I mean YOUR name. A good reason to get YourName.com is to prevent someone else from using it. Even if your name doesn’t mean anything to anyone yet, we’re certainly hoping it will eventually as you gain attention. If you write and submit articles, press releases, contribute to blog posts or forums, you most likely sign your name not your business name. See, already you’re gaining notoriety.
Belong to a networking group or Chamber of Commerce? As you get involved in those organizations, people may not remember your business name (because you don’t use it to introduce yourself, do you?), but will likely remember your name. They may not always have your business card available, but will remember working with you. They may just do a search for your name to see what pops up. If your business or articles are among the search results, you’ve just accomplished the goal of this domain name.
If you give seminars or participate in other speaking engagements, your name is stickier than your business name. Are you in real estate? Your name is on every yard sign you set out, not the name of your business. There are many other industries where that will apply as well.
So what if someone already has YourName.com? Then find a domain name that contains your name and add a word or phrase onto it that is pertinent to what you do. Jane Smith has a cooking utensil web site called Cooking Stuff Online, so she could use janesmithcooking.com. Hyphenated domains work too: janesmith-cooking.com. This one should be a dot com if at all possible because that’s what people try first when searching almost anything.
The third type of domain is the keyword domain, and is undoubtedly the most important. Search engines give weight to a web site called frenchloprabbitpets.com that is about, and sells, French Lop Rabbits because the keyphrases for the web site are contained in the domain name. Most web directories will list links by category and allow you to search for a type of business, such as Pets. The goal here is to be found in searches of your keyphrase, type of business and product or service. The obvious thing to not do with keyword domains is try to use them for something they are not: sausages.com won’t do you any good if you site is not about sausages!
I recommend getting all three types of domain names to cover your bases. In the competitive world that is online marketing and search, you want every advantage you can get.
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Cindy Dykstra of CD WebMaker has been successfully designing and marketing web sites since 2000. Her company website offers information on web design, hosting and marketing to web site owners.
August 27, 2007
Registering your domain name is one of the most important steps to bringing your business online. This is the name that customers will remember you by
Choose a name that is:
* Available
* Easy to remember
* Easy to spell
* Conveys the nature of your business
How to pick a name:
1) Use the Thesaurus on Webster.com to find words that match your business model
2) Look up the domain possibilities by using the name spinner on www.whois.sc to see if the domain is available
3) After you have a list of possibilities, put the list aside for a couple of days. After a day or two, try to remember one of the possibilities. If you can?t remember any of them, your customers will have the same problem. If that is the case, Go back to step one.
Register the domain yourself. Do not have a web developer or anyone else do this for you. If you allow someone else to register your domain name, you run the risk of that person putting your domain name in their name. This means the domain name is their legal property, not yours.
To register the domain name, we recommend using either www.networksolutions.com, or http://www.g2apex.com/Domains.html
Beware of companies that charge a very low price for domain registration. Most of these companies have hidden fees or restrictions associated with the domain name, so pay very close attention to the contract before purchasing from one of these companies.
For help or questions about registering a domain name, contact G2Apex at conact@G2Apex.com or call 408-454-6543
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Alex Welz has over 17 years of experience in such diverse fields as computer engineering, customer relations, systemizing business practices, research and development, and business consulting. Alex currently owns and operates a Website sales and hosting business
July 6, 2007
Having trouble choosing a great domain name? Below, I will outline the secrets to choosing a great domain name.
Believe it or not, domain name can make a difference in your search engine rankings. I have done many experiments in Search Engine Optimization, and my results show that domain name which contains the exact keyword phrase of your topic tend to do better in search engine rankings.
1. Your Domain Name Should Contain Your Keywords
So for example, if your keywords you are targeting is about soccer rules, then your domain name should be www.soccerrules.com. Try not to use www.rulessoccer.com, try to use the exact phrase. That way, not only will you get better rankings in search engine, people will also remember your domain name easily.
2. Don’t go with the dashes ‘-’
People always come up to me and say that ‘But all the good domain names are taken, so I want to get a one with the dash, so I can get a good domain name.’ However, this is absolutely not true, because there are millions, if not more, great domain names available out there in the .com extensions. All you have to do is take your time and you can find great domain names. Also, it is much easier for the visitors to remember your domain name and type it in the address box. By the way, what will you say to your friends when they ask you your web address? Will you rather say ’soccerrules.com’ or ’soccer dash rules .com’?
3. Keep with the .com’s
You should always keep your domain name with the .com’s, since that is the most popular type of extension, although from experience, the extensions don’t really affect your search engine rankings. If you go for something like .info, or .cc, then most likely that people won’t remember the domain name easily.
4. Keep it Short and Catchy
Make sure you keep the domain name short and catchy. Try to keep it as short as possible. So instead of going for www.makingmoremoneywithgoogleadsense.com, use www.makingmoneyadsense.com or www.makingmoneywithadsense.com. Also, use some catchy words such as ’secrets’, ‘top’, ‘ultimate’, ‘killer’ etc.
By following these techniques, you won’t make the same mistakes again when choosing your domain name.
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June 22, 2007
In the distant Internet past, circa 2000, a very solid SEO strategy was to purchase a domain name with your keywords in the URL. This was said to greatly assist a web site in their rankings. While this strategy has met with limited success as of late, it is still a good marketing ploy to buy names which have your core competence terms as part of the URL. This has been made increasingly difficult as a result of cyber squatters, who buy and horde domain names for ransom, or just because they think they may someday want to use the name, but have no immediate plans to do so.
It is estimated that about 70 million domains are currently under registration from ICANN. It is further estimated that there are virtually no one and very few two-word phrases left in the English dictionary. This means that web site owners are going to either need to come up with some very creative words, which are not real words, or they are going to need to come up with very long domain names, which may be difficult to spell or have a high risk of mistyping by a user.
What does all this mean to the web site owner who is concerned with getting traffic to their new site? It may require more SEO work and less traditional advertising to get users to come to your web site. Why is this? In the past you could create a brand around one word, such as Yahoo, or Boston, and with a good marketing effort, have users simply remember your web site, type in your domain name and go to the site. This is not going to be the case with newer sites, as the domains names are going to get longer, and the extensions are not going to be limited to .com, .net and .org, but rather a plethora of domain name extensions will be needed.
So what is a web site owner to do? The marketing of sites will now fall to developing great content, getting others to link to you, making sure the web sites are defined properly and not allowing for sloppy programming. There is also the avenue of paid search, where no single keyword or keyword phrase is owned by a single person in perpetuity, but rather many companies can bid for the same term and based on a variety of bid management techniques and better copyrighting, you can purchase web site clicks.
The world is changing, and we are quickly becoming more and more a wireless web-based society. As such, TV, radio and print commercials have less of an impact on how we find the web sites we want to visit, but it seems as though the large consumption of domain names over the past decade may move us into that new medium far quicker than some of us might like. On the other hand, if you are skilled at SEO and SEM, you may be positioned to be a leader in an industry that you simply could not have bought your way into just six years ago.
This article was written by Michael Goldstein. Michael is the SEO Manger for Rock Coast Media.
May 4, 2007
Many people seeking to start internet business often ask themselves, ‘Why should I get my own domain name when there are plenty of free web hosting services around?’ Or they might say, ‘I have joined an affiliate program, and they provided me a great looking website. What do I need my own domain name for?’
I’m not going to knock free hosting, because that’s how I got started in internet marketing. The sites I created with free hosting services made money for me, and many are several years old and still making money for me. However, there are several benefits that I learned about when I got my own domain names.
1. The sites were neater and less distracting. A free hosting service will normally support its operations, at least in part, by putting banners on a site or by having popups, or both. Not only does this detract from the general appearance of the site, but it may cause visitors to your website to leave quickly and it may disguise your internet business in the sea of advertising which surrounds it. When I got my own domain name, all the clutter disappeared and my internet business became the only focus of the site.
2. I was able to improve the visibility of my internet business to the internet surfer when I got my own domain name. This actually improves visibility in more than one way.
First, I was able to pick domain names that reflected the thrust or intent of my internet business. For example, if a surfer is looking for travel agencies in New York City, the URL?s newyorkcitytravelagency.xxx or nycitytravel.xxx are more likely to catch the eye than iwouldreallyliketogetyourtravelbusiness.xxx.
Second, many successful internet businesses have used a ploy of catching the surfer’s eye with a funny or slightly unusual name that sticks even though it doesn’t exactly express the message. Don’t believe me? How about PayPal.com, eBay.com, Google.com, or even NoDiet4Me.com?
3. I was able to improve my search engine visibility, ranking, and results when I got my own domain name. Not only was having a domain name that reflected my internet business area of interest valuable insofar as the human surfer’s eye was concerned, but it could improve my search engine ranking as well. This is invaluable, because a properly selected domain name can both reflect the interest of the human while better meeting the requirements of the search engine.
Just for an example, if my internet business is selling free web hosting, having the domain webhosting.xxx may be good, but freewebhosting.xxx is going to be even better. If someone is seeking free web hosting, freewebhosting.xxx is probably going to catch their eye because it is exactly what they are looking for. Also, if they search for ‘free web hosting’, there is a chance that if I have done a good job of optimizing my website, the search engine they use will add my domain name into the factors it considers while fulfilling the request and will show my domain name first.
4. I was better able to market affiliate programs when I got my own domain name. When I started out in internet marketing all I knew how to do was join affiliate programs. If you have ever seen the links provided by many of these affiliate programs, you probably were appalled and wondered how anyone could ever use one of THOSE links to attract attention. They are full of question marks and strange codes, and they tend to be excessively long and often don’t say anything about the business that is being promoted.
Once I got my own domain names, I was able to redirect visitors to the affiliate site while using a perfectly sensible sounding, and looking, domain name. I was able to put recognizable and rational sounding domain names on business cards, which would have been impossible with the affiliate link. I was also able to design information sites under my own domain name which carried links to the affiliate site.
NOTE: Many affiliate links have other problems than just being ugly or unwieldy. If you have an affiliate link that looks like bobsbarbecue.xxx/?affiliate=joan or bobsbarbecue.xxx/afid=1234, some search engines will only recognize the root domain, that is, bobsbarbecue.xxx, and ignore everything else.
Many affiliate pages don’t actually have anything of interest to a search engine, such as titles, Meta tags, or content. This gets into another area, website design and search engine optimization, and that’s outside the scope of this article. However, having your own domain, even a free one, can allow you to more effectively promote the affiliate program you have joined.
Finally, most affiliate pages look exactly alike, so you have no way to stand out from the crowd even if the page is fantastically designed and optimized to the max. However, if I get my own domain name, I can either redirect to the affiliate page, but use my own title and meta tags (and even content), or I can create a page of my own which leads visitors to the affiliate page through anchor text and other linking or lead building techniques. (Which are ALSO subjects of interest in their own right).
5. Once I got my own domain name, I was able to begin branding myself and some of my internet business sites and interests. Since I write articles like this all the time which carry links to various internet businesses with which I am involved, I have been able to create a brand name of sorts and have been able to interlink these sites, interests, and articles, thus creating a more visible internet image.
Donovan Baldwin is a Dallas area writer and network marketing professional. A graduate of the University Of West Florida (1973) with a BA in accounting, he is a member of Mensa and has held several managerial positions. After retiring from the U. S. Army in 1995, he became interested in internet marketing and developed various online businesses. He has been writing poetry, articles, and essays for over 40 years, and now frequently publishes articles on his own websites and for use by other webmasters. Learn one way to get your own domain name.
April 17, 2007
This article will try explain step by step instructions on registering your own domain name, hosting space and how to upload.
Content:
Hosting Space
What is Bandwidth
What is the difference between Windows and Linux host?
Domain Name
So many hosting and domain registration websites, simple please
How to Upload a website
Hosting space:
For your website you need somewhere to store all your files. Documents, Images, etc. Pricings for hosting can vary from $3.95 up to $15 or more per month, depending on a few things (Number of Visitors, large files hosted, images)
What is bandwidth?
Each hosting plan you look at has a bandwidth limit, this is normally a per month limit, if you look at bandwidth like a bunch of cars on a highway it tells you how many cars are allow to go on a highway before you need to add another lane, it also means that only a certain amount of cars can go via that highway per month. If you have big video file (a large truck) it takes up more bandwidth. Smaller files/images mean smaller cars, meaning more traffic can go through, so try making files small if possible.
What is the difference between Windows and Linux host?
When you see on a hosting website, “Windows server” or “Linux server” then its giving you the option on what programming language your website is written in. Talk to your webmaster about this. PHP programming language runs on Linux systems and ASP programming language runs on Windows systems.
Domain Name
You buy your hosting or host it on your own machine; You need a simple way to point to your hosting space. For your website to look professional and easy to remember you can register your own domain name. A domain name is looks like: “yourname.com” or “tassiedevil.net” etc. They come in many extensions, the most common being .COM. Domain names are extremely cheap now days and I’d recommend.
So many hosting and domain registration websites, simple please:
I’ve used the internet for a while now and there’s hundreds and hundreds of hosting website and domain name registration places. Main thing that I’ve been caught out with is not enough bandwidth.
An example of a hosting plan:
Economy Plan:
• 5 GB Space • 250 GB Transfer
• 500 Email Accounts • FREE! Software
• 10 MySQL Databases • 50 Email Forwards
• Forums, Blogging, Photo Galleries • No ads
This particular one provides 5GB space for photos documents etc, and 250GB of Bandwidth, that is huge! But also includes extras like one click forum installs or photo galleries, look at for these as they may save you a lot of time.
How to upload a website:
If via the above plan, you can use the program “Microsoft frontpage” or FTP to upload your website. There are many free FTP clients such as a program called “smart ftp”. For full details on how to connect to your website host check out their website.
Grant Mannix
Cheap Domain Names and Hosting - http://www.cheapdomainseller.com
March 2, 2007
Unless you’ve been living in a cave somewhere for the past decade, you now know that owning a website and promoting it the right way can help you improve your freelance translation business. There are many steps that you have to go through when you finally decide to build a website for your business, but one of the beginning steps is to choose a domain name for your foreign language translation business.
There are many articles on how to choose a domain name, and most of them offer good general tips for people interested in building their websites. However, there are some things to keep in mind when choosing a domain name for a translation business.
First of all, a website domain name is usually the first introduction a person has to your website, and by extension, your business. If that person, a potential client, doesn’t have a good first impression of your domain name, there’s a greater possibility that that person won’t click on your website, and therefore you won’t have that lead. That places a considerable amount of pressure on just the domain name.
So what characteristics should your foreign language translation business domain name have? I think the most important thing is that the domain name needs to be descriptive of what your business provides. Many people in the translation industry use their name as the domain name for their business and while this isn’t horrible, it doesn’t do a good job of describing what your business offers. For example, if you are a Spanish translator, put some combination of the word ‘Spanish’ with another word, so that when people see your domain name they will at least know you work with Spanish and not something else.
Another thing to remember when choosing a domain name is to make it readable. Previously, people thought that dashes in domain names weren’t very professional and that search engines didn’t like them. Well, I don’t think that is necessarily the case anymore. The goal of search engines is to provide good results for human searchers and making a domain name easier to read by using dashes between words will help human visitors be able to read the name of your website and know what it’s about. In the world of the Internet, seconds do matter and if a (potential) client has a hard time reading the domain name for your foreign language translation business, you can forget about them spending extra time trying to read it. They’ll move on to the next site for sure.
Whatever you decide to use as your domain name, though, make sure it fits your business and that you make it easy for visitors to read it. Just by taking these tips into consideration, you will be on your way to then creating a website capable of attracting clients in need of your foreign language translation services.
Clint Tustison is a Spanish English translator interested in helping businesses and translators better understand the translation industry. If you’re interested in how to improve your translation business or your relationship with translation companies, check out his website at http://www.spanish-translation-help.com
February 20, 2007
Domain name registration is the first task in the process of launching a web site on the Internet. Internet Domain names are the web addresses that we are all familiar with such as mysite.com. These are the names that most browsers use to locate web sites.
Internet domain names function as pointers to specific IP addresses and we are lucky to have them since they are a lot easier to remember than a series of numbers.
Numbers and Words
Every website has what’s known as an IP address in the form 123.456.78.9. The domain name system translates these numbers into names such as mysite.com.
All Internet domain names are registered in a central domain name registration database maintained by InterNIC, a subsidiary of ICANN - the organization which certifies domain name registrars.
Domain names are filtered through specialized computers called domain name servers (DNS) which link the domain names with their corresponding numeric IP addresses. Each web site typically has at least one primary and one secondary domain name server - duplicates that increase reliability.
Master Your Domain
The very first step in domain name registration is to choose one! You can choose just about anything you like but, to be most effective, it should directly relate to the nature of your website.
If you are selling jewelry it would be smart to choose a domain name that has something to do with jewelry - BestJewelry.com, for example.
The requirements for domain name registration are straightforward - only letters, numbers or hyphens are permitted. Also, a domain name may not be more than 70 characters long, but it is wise to keep it as short as possible so that it may be easily remembered.
You are allowed to use upper or lower case for your domain name as case is ignored by DNS. Using both upper and lower case can make the name more recognizable. MySite.com is easier to read than mysite.com, but DNS reads them both as being the same.
Anthony Hamill is the founder of Web-Host-Watch.Com which helps online business owners master the basics of web hosting. Get all the facts you need to find affordable web hosting plans including tutorials, tips on avoiding common mistakes, a glossary of web hosting terms, and a web hosting review that profiles the web hosts who provide the best overall value in each hosting category.
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