Welcome Back Nji
Here we will show you why a domain name is so
important and what you need to look for in a
website hosting service.
DOMAIN NAMES
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If you are establishing a website for your business,
we cannot stress strongly enough how important your
own domain name is.
If you are on the web to stay, it is essential
to have your own domain name for a number of
reasons.
1) How many websites do you lookat that have a URL
like this:
www.somefreehost.com/members/yourname/index.htm
Visitors will take you more seriously if you
have a URL such as
www.yourdomain.com.
2) Promotion - if you spend hours and hours
promoting your site and you get listed in the
search engines top 20 and suddenly for some
reason, your free service provider decides to
change the way they host their members, all your
work might be in vain. Or maybe you will be
dissatisfied with one hosting service and want to
change. If you don't have your own domain name
you will have to start all your promotion efforts
all over again.
3) You will not be happy about pouring investment
into a website (time is a big investment) until
you know you have a domain name that you
are in control of.
Therefore I would strongly advise you to get your
own domain name before you do any promotion. If
not, you must be prepared to stick with the URL
you already have because all the promoting you
will be doing in the coming few months will be
based on promoting this URL.
Imagine if you get a high ranking with a free
domain name and then the free host goes out of
business or they decide to rearrange their members
on a different directory. When someone searches
for your original free domain name they will
get a "Page Not Found" message.
Just imagine all the sales you could lose !
If you are reading this we know you must be
committed to your website, so give it a good
start by getting your own domain name and
arranging virtual hosting with a dependable host.
Also some tips on choosing a domain name:
a) Try and find a catchy name that people will
remember.
b) A domain name with a keyword in it can improve
your ranking on some search engines - for example
www.discount-shoes.com if you are selling shoes.
(Note the hyphen is needed for the search engine
to recognize this as two different words).
c) Once you have an easy to remember domain name
you can register more domain names which will
point to your primary website - if you do not
have keywords in your primary domain name and you
want to improve your search engine ranking.
Recently the INTERNIC allowed domains with 67
letters in them whereas previously only 23
letters were allowed.
Register your domain now before someone else gets
it.
Try and get a .com domain name. When someone has to
remember your URL, they normally first think of using a
com extension when typing it in the browser.
If you would like to use existing software which can
generate catchy domain name for you, we collected links to
the most useful sites in that area in our Freebonanza Directory.
Go here to check it out.
http://www.freebonanza.com/Business/Services/Domain_Name_Generator/
You can reserve your new domain name after creating of
your free web page builder account here.
http://www.adlandpro.com/redir/freewebsitepackage.asp
Once you enter all the details, and your account has
been created, your web admin page will open and then
click link which say "Domain Name"
AdlandPro has partnered with VZN Technologies, Inc. to provide complete
e-commerce solutions.
You can start with a free website to see what kind of support
and options you get and upgrade it later to any of the
five available packages.
Read the section below to get more information about offered
solutions.
WEBSITE HOSTING AND E-COMMERCE
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Once you have designed your website, you need a
web host. This can be your ISP or a specialized
web presence provider. Here are some things to
consider when choosing an ISP.
HOW TO CHOOSE A WEBHOST ?
Ask yourself what the purpose of your site is. If
it is a fun or family site you can host it on a
free web hosting service. Most of the major
search engines offer free 'home pages'.
However if you want to use your site for
business, you need to look deeper into what the
web presence provider offers.
SOME CONSIDERATIONS.
- Does your web host offer a means for you to manage
and upload new files or photos without any knowledge
of HTML and FTP?
- Does it give you the flexibility to make your own
directories and use advanced features if you want?
- Does it give you site statistics and the information you
need to make promotion decisions to get your site
to the top?
BUT MORE IMPORTANTLY . . .
What options do you need or might you need in the
future ? - Does it offer an easy upgrade to more advanced
hosting solutions when you require them?
Trying to change a domain name from one host to another
can create a lot of headaches later!
You are taking this course because you want to
have a successful website. To do this you need to
get things right at the beginning, or you will
waste a lot of time.
Basically you get what you pay for. It is worth
paying a monthly fee to host your site with a good
hosting provider to get the peace of mind
that your site is up 99.9% of the time and that
visitors can access your pages fast.
This is the problem with some of the free web
hosting services. They try and squeeze too many
sites onto a limited bandwidth with the result
that your pages can take a long time to load -
especially at peak times.
That is why we have developed an AdlandPro
free hosting solution to get you started.
You can start with a free website and then upgrade later
to a fully functional e-commerce site when you need
the more advanced features.
Get your free website here:
http://www.adlandpro.com/partner.asp?386298&pg=fw
If you already have your own website but need to be able
to accept credit card payments
- How about Free Merchant Account for your site?
You will be able to process credit card payments for purchases
made online and in-person. Your Business Account will enable
you to accept payments from everyone.
Check for details here
https://www.paypal.com/mrb/pal=GQ2TH323NRN9L
TAKE A BIG STEP
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We have focused the Domain Name and Hosting details above
on a level that will suit those who want to start slowly
and work their way into their learning and earning experience.
For those who would like to take a more major step
at this time, we recommend a more advanced package that
takes in not only your Domain Name requirements and website
creation and Hosting - but also provides you with:
- point and click site building tools
- powerful graphic tools
- marketing tools
(newsletter publishing, traffic stats and click analysis etc)
- traffic building tools
(search engine optimization, automatic search engine submissions
and tracking... and more)
- support and guidance
This package gives you a complete framework to establish
and grow your online business activities that will meet your
needs and integrate seamlessly with the other components
of this course that leads towards YOUR Website Success.
Highly Recommended!
http://buildit.sitesell.com/adland.html
That's all for today folks. Tomorrow we will
show you how to make sure your website design is
not letting you down.
Bogdan Fiedur.
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