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Free Websites and Blogs – Bad For Business
by admin on Feb.11, 2010, under General
by AJ Farro
Free websites and blogs can only take a serious entrepreneur so far. They’re a great sandbox for getting your feet wet and figuring things out, but they’re full of advertisements, gaudy templates and themes that reek of “free”. It’s like doing business out of the back seat of your car – with a Hannah Montana sticker on the bumper. Few people, if anyone, will take you seriously.
If you build your business on free sites, you risk losing everything because you do not own the site and it can be taken away from you for any reason.
In May 2009, Facebook disabled accounts with, what it “assumed”, were fictitious names. People with legitimate accounts that have spent years building personal or business relationships had everything disappear in the blink of an eye.
When I first started using free blogs, Blogger shut down one of my blogs and to this day I don’t know the exact reason why. It could have been because I was using it to pre-sell affiliate products. It could also be because I hyperlinked every occurrence of my main keyword to my main website and they considered that spammy. What did I know, I was a noob. I couldn’t get back into the blog to fix it. No amount of contacting them ever got an answer and I was forced to abandon it. Can you imagine if I had built an entire business around that blog?
I also know that using free WordPress.com blogs for business purposes is a violation of their terms and they will shut you down, too.
Many people starting out don’t know that because they never read the terms of service. Stay away from free blogs. You need to own your own blog or website. Always remain in control of your business.
Before you can run your own website or blog you need your own domain name and web hosting. The good news is, it’s cheap to get started and I’m going to give you my personal tips for doing it.
Warning: Do not take advantage of “free domain names for life” when you buy web hosting. They are only free if you keep your hosting account with them. Plus, you will not own the name, the web hosting company will. Always remain in control of your business.
Domain Registration
I’m not going to get real deep into selecting a domain name because that’s beyond the scope of this material. However, I will leave you with a few guidelines.
If you want to be found in the search engines, it only makes sense to include a keyword or two that people are using to find what it is you’re selling. So if you’re an affiliate selling outdoor furniture, incorporating “outdoor furniture” into your domain name is nothing but beneficial. BestOutdoorFurniture.com beats TomsDeals.com. No one is going to be searching for outdoor furniture using the words “toms deals”, but they will be searching with “outdoor furniture”, even “best outdoor furniture”.
Only use a .com name. Stay away from .net, .biz, .info and all the other dots if you can help it. People don’t remember extensions so when they type in your domain name they will be typing your domain name and automatically adding .com to it. So get found. Don’t be invisible.
Make a list of several domain names because the chances of finding something that isn’t already taken is going to be slim. Oh, and to stay out of legal hot water, do not use trademarked names in your domain name.
A great example of that is new businesses that come on board at Commission Junction or other affiliate networks frequently have no restrictions on their name. Then affiliates will go hog wild snapping up domain names with the vendor’s name in them and spend weeks or months promoting and establishing an online presence. Then sooner or later the vendor modifies its terms and suddenly bans the use of trademarked names. It’s happened to me more than once. It’s a knife to the core of your business.
Hot Buying Tip
- Get your domain name at NameCheap.com.
- $9.69 for a .com name, but use the coupon code and get it for $8.81.
- They don’t sneak stuff into the shopping cart during checkout like other registrars.
- They have a very easy to use Domain Manager interface.
- NameCheap is a great domain registrar, but don’t buy web hosting there because you pay too much. Just get a domain name.
- Be sure to enable the free privacy manager on the domain. It will hide your personal details from spammers. goDaddy charges $8.99/year for privacy protection. At NameCheap, it’s free for the first year and renews at only $2.88/year after that.
Web Hosting
In order for your new domain name to be seen online, you need to have it hosted by a web hosting company. It pains me to see web hosting companies take advantage of their customers, so I will only recommend companies with outstanding customer service and reliability. I also wouldn’t recommend something I don’t use myself.
Hot Buying Tip
I have accounts at both of these places and both are very reliable.
iPage Hosting- Unlimited green hosting with an easy-to-use control panel. Their “anytime guarantee” is the best in the business. Customer service is outstanding. Server response time is super. Free Carbonite PC backups. Easy blog installation.
SuperGreen Hosting- Unlimited green hosting with cPanel. Very reliable. My WordPress blogs run at lightning speed and customer service is quick and courteous. Easy blog setup.
I hope you found these tips helpful for getting your business off on the right foot.
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It takes guts to be an Internet marketer
by admin on Dec.27, 2009, under General
That’s right I said it! You folks suppose it’s straightforward being an Web Marketer? Do you know how several folks fail in this business? You would like to know why thus several individuals fail at online businesses? They fail as a result of they underestimate the sheer issue in creating and marketing a smart product. They misunderstand the whole concept of the Internet to start with.
How many folks have you known that thought they’d produce a nice web site and then once they did it, no one came to the site and purchased the product? People normally believe that if you merely build a website then the shoppers can simply start showing up. Believe me, I’ve owned domain names for years with no traffic to talk of.
Web promoting has become a lot of of a science and in some cases an art. We have a tendency to are constantly making an attempt to recreate and rebrand the same previous ideas so we tend to will sell them time and again again. If you don’t understand the technical aspects of Net Marketing then you may surely not pass the test. This is a job that takes a manor of talent solely learned through large amounts of reading and research.
There is one factor I continuously tell folks after they come back to me with their moneymaking ideas. I would say; “just as a result of you build a web site doesn’t mean that anyone will ever come to it. It’s like building an ice cream stand at the prime of Mt. Everest and waiting for purchasers to point out up, unlikely”!
Therefore yes it will take guts to be an Web marketer! It’s not all fun and games. Any of use that produces a true living on-line works exhausting at it. In all probability harder than most individuals working a nine – five job. I’ve got personally spent countless hours in front of a laptop screen day after day.
You see one among the keys to any success is that you want to kind habits. Smart habits of work and life. Good habits that dictate your every move. When you plan out your business ahead of time you will see the great and unhealthy before throwing money at it. If you are new to Internet selling you must keep your chin up. The longer you persevere the additional you may learn. You must really suppose about it as going to school at YOU University as a result of you’re the one who must be the driving force in your life. Stop trying for fast ways of getting wealthy on the Internet and start focusing on building a business.
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Get Ready for Custom Domains in 2010
by admin on Dec.10, 2009, under General
Searching for a method to interact on a more personal level with online customers? What could be better than domains on the Internet devoted solely to marketing your brand name?
Starting in 2010, that’s what you will be able to do Imagine your emails coming .your brand here. Or your emails coming from you.yourlastname! Will Apple launch a .mac community? Can your company create an engaging microsite on .your product name? Whether you are a consumer products reseller, technology company or healthcare organization you need to know how this upcoming domain registration change will impact your company’s online technology marketing efforts.
ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) will be allowing customized top level domains starting sometime in 2010. ICANN is instituting the change to allow more visibility and intuitiveness to domain names. After all, what does a “.com” mean to most people? A .nike would be much more intuitive. ICANN is reviewing its application process and will soon announce when in 2010 the customized top-level domains will be available. However, it’s not going to be as easy as buying a .com or .org domain name. The ICANN application process will require the following:
- A business plan including a marketing plan covering how you will maintain and promote the domain over a 5-year period
- Documentation of compliance policies
- Comprehensive documentation of community support (if the domain is for a community site)
- A competent and stable technology provider for registry services and hosting
This is not going to be a minor or cheap undertaking for most companies. It will demand a large budget and commitment to the project. In order to apply to ICANN, you company is going to have first decide if a top-level custom domain is worth the effort. Then you will have to get started immediately on the requirements listed above.
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Setting Up An Art Affiliate Site – Part 2
by admin on Dec.03, 2009, under Make Money Online
Step 4 – Choose a Domain Name
This sounds like an easy step, but you may soon find it can be surprisingly difficult. As mentioned before the majority of your traffic will hopefully come from search engines. To rank well in search engines one of the key factors is to obtain a domain name that includes one or more of your keywords. This can be a real problem because YourKeywords.com is most likely already registered. You can start by going to a domain registrar such as Go Daddy and enter the domain you want on the homepage. If it’s not registered already you can register it. If someone else has already registered it you will receive a list of suggestions of available domain names or and go back and try another domain. Depending on the term you chose you may or may not find a domain you want by doing this.
The second method I’d recommend is a domain name suggestion tool such as Name Boy. This tool will let you enter your keywords and come up with a large number of suggestions for domains based on those keywords. It will also show you which of those domains are still available. I used this tool to register the sample site TropicalArt.org. I normally do not register .org sites, and if this was a site I was seriously looking putting the effort into making profitable instead of a simple example I would make every effort to obtain tropicalart.com. For this example it will do though.
Finally if you just can’t find an acceptable domain using the first two methods you can buy one that is already registered from someone else. This can be much more expensive than the first two options but in some cases it makes sense to do. The two main sites for doing this are Sedo and Afternic. These sites work as a trusted third party to coordinate the sale and transaction between the buyer and seller, and collect a percentage of the sale from the seller for performing this service (much like EBay). I used these services to obtain this domain name, ArtAffiliate.com.
Step 5 – Build Your Website
This is a very important step and unfortunately one I can’t explain in enough detail in this section. For those of you who are already experienced web developers, you have most likely already decided how you are going to develop your site and can move on to the next section. The rest of this section is for those who do not have any experience in this area. You’re going to need to make a choice at this point to do it yourself or hire someone else.
Do it Yourself
If you choose to do it yourself and have no previous web development experience then you’re best bet will be to develop a static site. This means you will manually be creating pages for each product you wish to sell and listing them on your site. It will also require maintenance to make sure you keep the prices up to date and add and remove products as needed. There are several tools available for doing this and you can just search Google to find them, but most likely you already have one on your computer, Microsoft FrontPage. It is included with Microsoft Office and is a great tool for beginners.
Hire Somebody Else
This may sound like it would be way to expensive for some people, but you’ll if you are reasonable about the requirements it’s really not that bad and will definitely save you a lot of time of having to manually add products. The biggest benefit is instead of manually creating a page for each product, all the products can be loaded into a database and the pages generated dynamically. Periodically a new datafeed can be downloaded from the affiliate program website and you’ll instantly have the updated prices and current list of products.
So how do you find someone? You may already know someone who does web development, that will be willing to create a site for you for free or cheap. If so great! But developing the average art affiliate website will take about 15-20 hours worth of work and you may not be so lucky to find a volunteer. On top of that software development is typically a fairly high paying job so hiring someone locally to do it can cost a pretty penny. The method I would suggest is going to a third party website that pairs developers with clients such as RentACoder.com.
RentACoder and sites like it allow clients to list the requirements for their project and developers to bid on the project. You will be able to get your project done for a much better rate here because it’s typically individuals doing the work instead of companies and there is competition from overseas developers keeping the prices down. It’s very important that you be thorough on what exactly your requirements are. You also need to keep the requirements reasonable in order to keep the price down. Everything you ask for will add hours and cost to the project so if you don’t really need it, don’t ask for it. To give you a rule of thumb on what you should expect to pay, a no frills site such as the example Tropical Art should cost you somewhere around $300.
Step 6 – Find a Host
You are going to need a place to host your website. Your ISP may provide some web hosting space but typically this is a very small amount, so you’re most likely going to need to find a web host.
The first factor to consider when finding a web host is if they support the technology your website uses. For example if your site was created using FrontPage, ASP or ASP.NET you will need a windows host. For static html, php or Java you can go with a Windows or Unix host. If you site requires a database such as MS SQL or MySql you’ll need to make sure the host supports that as well.
There are several other factors such as price, bandwidth, reliability, etc that you’ll need to consider as well. You can simply search Google for “web hosts” and compare the results to get an idea of what’s available. I’d personally recommend StartLogic or PowWeb.
Step 7 – Optimize for Search Engines
It’s important that search engines know what your site is about. You want to emphasis the keywords you selected earlier to make sure they know that is the primary subject of your site. To do this you need to make sure those keywords are included as part of the title on every page. Every page should have a different title though. Notice how on Tropical Art the title on each page is different but includes “tropical art” as part of the title. You should do something similar.
You also should provide alternate text for all of your images. This not only helps search engines know what the site is about but also helps people with software to assist with vision disabilities to navigate your site. You’re keywords should also be contained within parts of the body text on your site, at least on the home page and preferably on sub pages. Just be careful not to overdue it, your page is made for human readers and should be designed as such. Search engines will detect over stuffing of keywords and rank your site lower as a result. It is also very helpful to have static urls such as /1234/subject.htm instead of urls with query string parameters such as /subject.php?subjectId=1234 . You can use url-rewriting to accomplish this with a dynamic site. It’s also beneficial to place keywords in the url.
There are many other on-site optimizations you can perform. I recommend visiting High Rankings for more advice. Also keep in mind that your primary phrase isn’t the only term you should target. If you have a subpage about a more specific topic, optimize that page for that topic not your main one. For example the page about the artist Carl Aagaard is optimized for his name instead of the more generic term “Tropical Art”.
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sulumits retsambew Contest-Is It Still Anyone’s Game?
by admin on Aug.26, 2009, under General
The results of the sulumits retsambew contest that managed to gather SEO talents from across the world are set to be announced on 15 August 2009. This means that less than a month is left for the winner to be announced. At this stage of the competition it is worth asking whether it is still anyone’s game or is a particular entry most likely to win. The answer to this question is both yes and no.
There have been a number of participants that have managed to stay in the top 10 list ever since the contest kicked off. In fact the top spot has not changed even once during the whole run of the competition. However the top 10 list has been seeing new names throughout and surprisingly it continues to do so.
Every day you find there to be some shift in the top 10 list. What is surprising to note is that even at this stage some new entries have managed to show their faces up in the top 10 list. Amongst them have been websites that did not even possess keyword rich domain names. Nonetheless it is quite unlikely for a new comer to secure the title from this stage onwards. The race for the title is restricted between the top five.
Although the top entry has not once fallen down from its position there is no guarantee that it will be able to maintain its position as the last one month. This is because the second, third and fourth ranking websites all have their eyes set on the top. It would be right to resume that these participants are putting in more much more effort as compared to the top ranking one. In fact the top ranking website may very well be overconfident about its performance through out. It has been noticed that the entry has been lagging behind in terms of fresh content update. Nonetheless its position hasn’t changed.
What is interesting to note is the kind of effort being put in by the entries that are following up. They are trying their best to make themselves the most comprehensive source for readers on one hand while working to get in the good books of Google on the other. This is perhaps what is needed for let’s say the third ranking website to move to the top. In other words interest in the competition is going to grow from now onward. It was observed that people stopped taking interest in the competition during the middle phase because it seemed like quite a drag. Now that it is approaching its finish more and more people will be keeping track of the competition.
Therefore it is very important to factor in your target audience which is more than Google it self, it is the readers that have an interest in the competition. Becoming the undisputed source of valuable information on the sulumits retsambew contest and search engine optimization in general can work wonders for the participants at this stage of the competition.
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