What is Domain Parking?

Domain parking is the practice of registering a domain name and then allowing a third party to place ads on a site located at the registered URL, so that any key-in traffic is captured and converted into revenue as people click on the ads. Some domain name registrars, like GoDaddy, park newly-registered domain names as a matter of course until those names are built out. I like to refer to this type of parking as passive domain parking. The registrant (owner) of the URL does nothing and receives nothing.

The next level of domain parking is what I call “affirmative” domain parking. It occurs when a third party actually takes active steps to create content on the “parked” name. Companies like Sedo, Trafficz, Fabulous, and Skenzo have been doing this, with varying degrees of success, for many years. Included in this level of service are companies that attempt to add content through social marketing and through automated means. They theorize that by generating unique content, they can increase their traffic and get better conversion on ads. The URL owner gets a portion of the proceeds.

In all domain parking, the exclusive ultimate source of revenue is ads.

Why Would Domain Parking Be in Danger?

Ad-sites have traditionally relied on two sources for traffic: search engine referrals and key-in traffic. Both sources of traffic are under attack.

Google and the other search engines have always been suspicious of ad-sites, but in recent history, Google has increasingly devalued (for search engine purposes) any sites that do not give Google patrons exactly what they are looking for on the first click. (If you’ve ever clicked on a search result and experienced the frustration of landing on an ad-site, you know why Google has moved in this direction.) In other words, Google wants its patrons to go from the Google results page directly to a one-stop site that either sells customers the product or gives them the information they want.

For product-specific sites, Google is looking for several things that indicate an actual one-stop site. First, the site must have a lot of content, so that Google can be confident the shopper will find what he or she is seeking. Second, the site has to continually be updated with new content. (In the real world of retail, inventories circulate and change.) Third, the site needs to contain elements that show an actual ability to sell products. In effect, Google is looking to see if there is an active shopping cart and check-out system, terms of service, shipping policy, security certificate, Better Business Bureau seal, and a list of credit cards accepted, along with hundreds of other indicators that the site is actually selling products to customers.

All these factors make it almost impossible for domain parking services to get Google’s respect. Sites parked with parking companies will never accept credit cards; they will never have a Better Business Bureau seal of approval; they will never list an 800 number or offer instant messaging with customer service representatives; in short, they will never do a thousand things that every actual product site does. Consequently, a parked site alone can never achieve great ranking in Google.

To make matters worse, Google has also dealt a severe blow to those parked sites that rely on key-in traffic, like URL’s that are either “keyterm.com” sites or slight variations or misspellings of commonly-searched keyterm URL’s. These sites do not depend on Google’s search engine for traffic (users type the address directly into the address bar), but they do depend on Google and other ad-propagating companies for the ads that are served up to their sites. In mid-2008, Google announced that it would allow advertisers to opt out of ad-sites. Presumably, these sites were directing poor-quality traffic to the advertisers, and they wanted to be able to avoid paying for those clicks, and the result has been devastating to domainers.

How Bad Is It?

Just visit any online forum for domainers, and you will feel a boiling sense of frustration as domainers seek a better return on their names. One almost detects a hint of desperation as some domainers try to find a service that will provide a return anywhere similar to what domainers received in the past. Switching from service to service, they often experience a temporary jump in revenue before dropping off again, leading to even greater frustration. Many are wondering if it’s just their portfolio, or if it’s bad for everybody. And if so, how bad is it?

2008 was especially bad for domainers for two reasons. First, Google’s “opt-out” decision gave advertisers a way to focus their advertising dollars, and many chose to avoid parked pages. Second, the overall economy was just dismal, and everybody is suffering. Summing it up, Michael Mann of WashingtonVC.com noted, “The most significant event for the domain industry in ‘08 is Google changing its relationships with bulk domain parkers so they earn less due to blacklisting, advertiser opt out checkboxes, and lower rev shares all around; secondly the crash of the economy overall has been limiting domainer portfolio valuations and corresponding liquidity options.” Commenting on the difficult year behind us, Ron Jackson of Domain Name Journal added, “The PPC (pay per click) business was the first to run aground, falling by close to 50%, according to most accounts.”

This is a stunning reversal, worse than the stock market crash, although few want to admit it. But the proof is in the proverbial “pudding.” Oversee.net, one of the leading players in the domain parking business, recently announced an 18% workforce reduction to go along with last summer’s 10% reduction. Other players have been acquired or have simply disappeared. Truly, the domaining industry is bad all over.

For many domain owners, revenues have not even justified continued registrations. Monte Cahn of Moniker.com speaking to DNJournal.com about domain portfolio owners in 2008 noted, “For the first time, many began to ‘cherry pick’ through their inventories and allow domains to expire that they normally would have renewed.” In other words, revenues had fallen so far that the costs of registering many of these domains actually exceeded those revenues.

Sedo CEO Tim Schumacher was particularly pointed in his comments to DNJournal.com about declining revenue numbers in 2008 and prospects for 2009: “With the negative trends accelerating towards the end of the year, registries like VeriSign posted lower registration numbers . . . and domain investors as well as domain companies saw their advertising revenues and their domain sales decrease. . . . While we at Sedo truly believe in the value of domain names, advertising numbers will continue to be weaker than expected unless the advertising providers will give the domain channel the dedication, transparency and freedom it deserves. . . . The theory that ‘domain names will always grow in value’ is a myth. Instead, smart buying and smart selling always was and always will be the choice of the successful ones. It’s pretty simple: if someone offers you a 100x (yearly!) multiple on a domain name, because he likes or needs the name, and doesn’t care about the traffic, go for it. A few smart companies have already made this a revenue stream, and more will follow.”

Is there a Cure?

The pervasive opinion in the industry seems to be that domain owners will never realize the full potential of their domain names until they start to develop their properties. Ari Goldberg of ESQwire.com told Domain Name Journal, “A significant trend I see is that domainers seem to universally recognize that in order to reap the super-value of domains they must ‘develop’ them. With domain parking revenues down across the board, the move toward development has become relatively less risky and costly (i.e. less parking revenue to lose). On the other hand, the type of development and a domainer’s capability to develop a domain is an entirely different story.”

He commented further, “There are great opportunities for a domain-less individual with industry-specific experience, technical know-how and connections to link-up with domainers lacking these qualities.”

In other words, for domainers, one great option is to find an individual or company that has the technical expertise, industry experience, and desire to build out domains for the URL owners. The company also needs to be willing to maintain and support the site, since most domainers are not interested in taking on a 24/7 job. To the extent there are any vendor relations or customer service, the company should commit to carry that burden, as well.

Of course, such companies are going to want a large part of the action, and the domainer choosing this path has moved completely away from domain parking to the relatively new field of domain profit sharing (DPS).

Domainers considering DPS should ask themselves, “what is my end goal?” If the end goal is to make money, they should compare the parking revenue to the supported projections advanced by the DPS company. If their agreement with an experienced DPS company ensures they can continue to control their URL’s, guarantees a minimum income stream (at least equal to current ad revenues and with performance benchmarks along the way), and offers a large upside, then domainers should seriously consider making the leap.

The best DPS companies take on the entire cost of building and provisioning a site and pay domainers a percentage of “total sales.” Domainers should avoid companies that offer only a cut of the “profit,” since profit numbers can be manipulated. Domainers should also be able to log in to their account to determine rolling sales numbers.

A DPS company should also have experience in the entire process. It should be experienced building websites, and it should be skilled at marketing those sites through every online channel, including search engine optimization. The company should have a history of working with manufacturers and providing top-level customer service and product support. It is even better if the DPS company has all these functions in one place, preferably state-side and in-house, where the teams can communicate and work together.

A domainer should especially make sure the DPS company has a history doing business online and that it can perform its promises. The total percentage payment should not be the sole governing factor. Remember that ten percent of $5,000 in sales is much less than 3% of $200,000 in sales.

There is No Cure

Mark Twain lived for 13 years after newspapers first reported his death. Unfortunately for many domainers, it seems that the prognosticators may indeed be correct this time. Domain Parking may truly be dead. However, for individuals with great domains like product.com names, domain parking will not be missed, as such domainers will partner with DPS companies to convert those great names into truly productive properties.

Doug Marks writes for ClickShops.com, which operates dozens of product-specific websites and offers Domain Profit Sharing services to its clients at DomainProfitSharing.com.

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Your web pages anchor text and structure is one of the MOST important aspects of SEO, for two big reasons. The first is for the web site visitor. If your site is tough to navigate and/or confusing, you will lose visitors. The second reason is that many of the search engines not only give the linking (anchor) text a lot of weight, but good navigation helps their indexing robots or “spiders”. If the robots get stuck or have no where to go, they will stop indexing.

So let’s begin with static text links.

Here’s an example:

My Link Text

This is basic enough. Now you should again add your keyword phrase inside the anchor text linking to a RELEVANT web page.

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Note that the link text, AS WELL AS THE DIRECTORY (named SEO) AND THE PAGE NAME it is linking to, have the keyword phrase. This will help your SEO greatly. If you search for anything on Google, you will notice that the key search terms (if present in the url) are highlighted as well as the key terms “striped” from the URL’s body content. This says to me that naming your links with the key terms for THAT web page is important. I would suggest adding your keyword/phrase 3-5 times in the link text (with 15-25 INBOUND links present). In other words, 1 time for every 5 links.

Now let’s take a look at a good way to implement the links into your body text.

Example:

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Search Engine Optimization Inc. has been developing SEO software and tools for webmasters around the world. Founder John Schmit who… Pleasebrowse through our large selection of SEO tools Note that the text link is now embedded inside a readable paragraph but DOES NOT take the place of the other key terms in the paragraph text. SE’s like this. We will still need a “menu” for navigation that will contain some of the same links.

I will now be covering good navigation for both your visitors and search engine robots.

Every “important” page on your site should link to every “important” page on your site. Here is what I mean. First, “important” refers to pages (for example) that DO NOT include “thank you pages” after making a purchase or submitting a form. Pages like this have one purpose so you wouldn’t want to link directly to them (but link FROM them for your visitors). If every important page on your web site follows this, the search engine robots will have no trouble indexing your site.

What if I use a fancy JavaScript or DHTML menu? This is OK, but use both if you decide on the fancy menu. Search Engines do not read the content within tags. There systems could crash, so they just don’t do it. And if possible, place the static text menu toward the top (but if it looks bad, it’s not worth it. Visitors are more likely to trust a professional looking web site – I do, don’t you?).

Another very important tool is the “Site Map”. Every medium to large site should have one. A site map is a page that contains every “important” link to your site. Make sure the layout “makes sense”. This allows your visitors to find what they want easily, and search engine robots will eat them up. I would add a link to your site map on every page on your web site. You can build a “fancy” looking site map, that is search engine friendly. Only the users see it as fancy, but to the search robots, it is just static links.

IMPORTANT NOTE: Search engines are RELUCTANT to index dynamic pages with query strings. Dynamic pages are WRITTEN to the browser using scripts like ASP, CGI etc. Query string contain special characters like “?”, “&” and “=”, which are read by the these scripts. SE’s are reluctant, but DO index them SLOWLY. They do not want their robots to get trapped and crash. But once they index one dynamic page and things go smoothly, they will index more, but still in a conscious manner. If you must use dynamic pages, then create static links to these web pages for the robots to follow. And try to keep the query strings short.

Here is an example of a static link to a dynamic web page:
My Link Text [http://www.dynamicPage.asp?id=12&Resource=QueryString]

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The company having an account of such a service can get the site files uploaded and have their websites displayed online. This type of service enables its clients lease the entire system and is not shared by other clients of the web hosting company. It then acts as the web hosting provider for a website.

Such dedicated service provider hosts only your website. Most companies with growing web presence hesitate to avail of this service arrangement. This is because they are of the view that these systems have to be housed and managed personally. However, this is not the case in reality. The truth is most of the websites, which are run by these types of systems are housed on the premises of the web provider company. It is also managed by the expert technical team and provides round the clock support and service.

How can a company be sure of the fact that the server is used for their website needs only? Managed dedicated server is the only answer to such confusion. Moreover, it will also be a beneficial choice on the part of the company. These types of services help in protecting and managing vast databases thereby adding an additional layer of data safety. This type of service also allows the company to control of the company.

When the website owner wants to concentrate on the content development or want to design for the site then this web hosting service can be beneficial to him. The owner need not concentrate on the technical aspects of the site. Instead, he can leave these to the technical expert staff who are always ready with their tips to solve the problem. This expert team looks after the management of the site and solves the technical issues if any.

A company may use the shared system to gain web presence if it is new or have minimal presence on the Internet. However, once the website grows and the traffic surge is high then dedicated servers are the ultimate choice. Therefore, have more control on your server and grow globally by harnessing the full potential of dedicated server hosting.

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Selecting the right domain name, hosting provider and website design, plus website development is not a small job.

The domain name market

A study of internet businesses showed that most of them spend less than 2 hours choosing their domain name, web hosting providers or doing a detailed plan of their website requirements. This can only lead to problem later on in the website development process and could cost you a lot of money.

The report also said that 45% of those businesses thought that they had chosen the wrong domain name and could increase sale with a better name. No surprise there when they are putting less time into the decision than they do deciding on the venue for the office xmas party. Using domain names that are complex and too long for your customers to remember and you will miss out on traffic and valuable business emails.

Although there is much controversy around the whole domain name business one thing is for sure…can you really afford to let someone else capitalize on your company domain name or names. The number of domain names is increasing with most of them linked to geographical locations such as .nl for Holland, .de for Germany and .FR for France.

These local TLD’s or Top Level Domains help to categories the internet and help the customer find a supplier in their own country.

Every country in the world has been supplied with a Top Level Domain and so you can imagine the choice of TLD’s is vast. There are also continental TLD’s that are now available such as .eu and .asia, again this allows you to have a presence in a specific area of the globe.

There are other TLD’s that are Global such as .com and .net and these tend to bee used by people or businesses who require a global presence. Of course this will also make them very sort after and extremely valuable.

There are constantly new TLD’s coming online all the time for example we now have .mobi domain that are primarily for mobile devices .xxx for the adult industry.

Many other domain names are in the pipeline and I’m sure will eventually cover most categories from .clothes to .cars. This idea is generally to help make addresses more relevant.

How Domain Names Work

Domain names are a shortcut to a designated Internet address. The internet works by giving every device that is connected to it a unique identification number called an IP address and packets of data sent to and from that device are marked with that ip address.

IP addresses are not the most friendly of address to remember and can bee up to 12 digits long so the number is converted into something we all understand, “domain names” They are used as direct links to web and e-mail servers. If you Type 216.109.112.135 into your browser you will find that this takes you to yahoo.com as a good example.

The domain names and IP Addresses that are relevant to your searches are stored in a domain name server or (DNS). So when you type the URL you want to find into your web browser, your computer sends a request to the DNS at your Internet service provider in order to find the IP address of the web server.

Once it has the correct address it can talk directly to the web server and you can search the site for as requested. I quick way to find the ip address of any web site is to use the ping command. Go to Start – Run and type, for example ping yahoo.com into the box.

A small window will appear with the IP address of the web server. There are also many great domains that supply this service and more, try ip-adress.com and see what I mean. Knowing this can help you understand why you will get delays when you register a new domain name and web site or any changes you make to an existing web sites dns settings.

The DNS information need to propagate correctly and this can take up to 24 hours for all the DNS servers globally to update and list your new domain setting that hold your website.

Who Controls Domain Names?

Domain Names are controlled by an organization called the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers or ICANN. They are responsible for deciding how the internet TLD structure should look and what TLD’s should be used.

ICANN is a non-profit organization acting under the authority of the US Government, Department of Commerce.

Although ICANN make the big decisions on what TLDs are available, each TLD or country has its own domain registry.

Nominet for instants looks after all .uk domains and decides on the structure and release of the UK’s second level domains. Second level domains can be useful for a country and can include many variables such as .co.uk, .sch.uk and .me.uk.

Registering A Domain Name?

To register a domain name, there a few thing you need to know. First need to check that the domain name you want is still available.

The easiest way to do this is to just go to the top of this page and use the domain name search box supplied. Anyone can register a domain name within the framework of allowed suffixes provided it isn’t already taken.

There are some restrictions on TLD’s such as .eu, .us and .Asia requiring to registrar to reside within a specific geographical location. But be careful in your choice of domain name, although there a few restriction on registering a domain name this does now mean that someone may not consider they hold title of the name.

This could result in a person or company taking action against you through the disputes tribuneral in order to protect their names and trademarks or worse still take over your domain name. This is known as cyber squatting – where an individual as registered a domain name purely in the hope they can sell it on or cause disruption or brand damage to the rightful owner.

Domain Auctions

If the domain name you want is not available it’s still possible you may bee able to buy it. If the domain name does not have a web site you can find out who owns it and contact them about the possibility of purchasing the name from them. There is nothing stopping you doing this and it is perfectly legal to do so as long as both parties are in agreement.

To find out who owns a domain name you can do a search on websites like whois.net A search with Whois will show you details on who registered that domain, their name, address and contact details. Once you have decided on your domain name or names you need to contact a domain registrar. Domain registrars are approved companies that can register domains on your behalf.

It pays to shop around when choosing your domain registrar and often several are needed depending on amount and type of TLD’s you wish to purchase. Prices can vary widely due to the global nature of the web. It doesn’t really matter where the domain company is based and big saving can be found by selecting a registrar based overseas.

Once you have successfully acquired your domain name you will want to setup your web site, before you can do this you need to research web hosting providers. They will supply you with a web hosting and email hosting package. This basically means that you have hired web space on that companies web servers.

The beauty of owning your own domain and setting up a web hosting account is that it will give you full control of how you want you domain structure and control over the email for that web site and domain name.

Web hosting providers and the services they supply could be a whole article in itself but I will not go into to much detail here. Basic web hosting packages supply you with about 50MB of space and usually there will bee bandwidth restriction on the amount of data you can downloaded per month.

You need to spend a little time working out exactly what your site will be doing and what kind of services you require. It’s no use paying $100 a month for a dedicated server just to run a word blog that’s updated once a month.

New category-based TLDs are coming online all the time and available for the general public to register. When a new TLD becomes available, there is a period of time where businesses get the chance to apply for domains to register that they consider as their trademarks ahead of the general public.

The .asia TLD is going through this process now. During this ‘Sunrise’ period, companies and individuals have the chance to apply for specific names or trademarks before the general public. The sunrise period lasts for four months and names that are not allocated in this period are opened up to the general public on a first come first serve basis.

There is now an entire industry setup to help you get your name from these situation and it is called the pre-registration scheme. For an extra fee you can be top of that companies attempt to secure your name. Depending on the name and amount of interest this process can be a good way of ensuring your domain name or names.

Some companies use a slightly different approach and start a pre or post auction on the domain name they manage to acquire. Great business when you think of it, if they manage to register hosting.eu or hosting.asia for $15 then auction it to the highest bidder they can make themselves a lot of money for very little work.

This in itself is a very contentious issue but until the different governing bodies get their act together you have little choice to play the game. If you do find a company that will pre-register your domain name for a fee make sure they ensure a full refund of all fees if they are not successful in registering your chosen name.

The pre-registration service is not officially recognized by the domain registration organizations and so you have no rights to that name until it is fully registered.

Brian Harrison is a writer for Bee Ltd a domain acquisition and development company that has many years experience in the domain name and internet market. You will find many useful articles and advice on all manner of subjects associated with domains names, SEO and web development at our site: Bee.eu

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You want more sales and more listings and they want you to
believe that they can give that to you.

If you haven’t already gotten calls, emails or letters from a few real estate SEO
companies telling you that they can get your real estate website into the top ten of
this or that search engine… get ready, because they’re coming…

A lot of real estate professionals struggle with whether or not to make an
investment in a company to manage their SEO campaign.

Will it be worth your investment? Will you get burned?

There is no right decision, but there are smart ones and dumb ones.

Here are a few things to think about as you make your decision about real estate
SEO:

1. SEO is just one piece of the internet marketing puzzle. Hiring a
company to optimize your real estate website for the search engines is not
necessarily a bad thing, just understand that it is only one part of your internet
marketing plan. Focusing too much on SEO leaves a lot of money on the table.
Having good rankings makes it seem like your website will be a successful generator
or real estate leads. Not so.

In the past, search engine optimization WAS pretty much synonymous with internet
marketing. SEO WAS marketing on the internet – that was all you needed to do to
get noticed and get leads. Times are different now.

Understand that your marketing has to be right FIRST, before you even set foot onto
the internet and spend time and money bringing prospects to your real estate
website.

That means you need to identify your market, create a message suited perfectly for
them and deliver that message with the media that they are known to respond to.

That must be done before you even think about SEO.

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2. There are no SEO guarantees. Many SEO companies that are out there
cold-calling realtor lists often guarantee results or give the impression that there is
some guarantee of results.

There are no guarantees. Results-based guarantees from a Search Engine
Optimization company are a good sign for you to run the other way.

Don’t even waste your time talking to them.

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3. Listen to exactly what the company you are speaking with is offering.
Most SEO companies that call you will make bold promises about improving the
rankings of your website. Many of them are very good at what they do. Sounds
simple enough, right?

But what exactly is your goal – Good rankings or more real estate business? Don’t
get caught up in the myth that better rankings = more sales or more leads or
listings. Better rankings equals better rankings. That’s it.

In a nutshell, know that SEO is important and good search engine rankings are
important… but SEO is not a silver-bullet for your real estate business. It will not fix
your marketing and although a well optimized real estate website might bring a
flood of prospects to your door, what good is it if they never knock and ask to come
in?

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4. Marketing is marketing is marketing… Always has been, always will be.
The internet hasn’t changed anything about that. What the internet does do is give
you a very efficient delivery system to use for your marketing message.

Whether or not you seek outside help for your internet marketing campaign, the
important thing to remember is that you don’t abdicate responsibility for your own
marketing by “outsourcing” it. Outsourcing your own marketing, even on the
internet, is not a smart decision. After all, marketing is by far the most leveraged
activity you can possible engage in.

Marketing IS the business you are in.

You are the mastermind. You come up with the plan… THEN you hire someone to
do the implementation.

Jason Leister, the Real Estate Technology Guru ™, is owner of Computer Super Guy, LLC, a Chicago-based technology firm that helps real estate professionals profit with technology.

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In the web hosting industry, you will find that you as a customer will have two options when it comes to Dedicated servers. The first is Dedicated server and the other is Colocation hosting services. Let me explain the difference between the two.

Dedicated is generally chosen by customers who have good amount of data and have high traffic on the websites. If the server is leased from a professional hosting provider, it is generally known as Dedicated Server Hosting. In Dedicated Server Hosting, the hosting provider provides the server to the customer and the customers pays for it according to the billing cycle preferred and the charges of the Server which depends on the hosting provider you choose.

The cost of the Dedicated hosting also depends on the server configuration you choose and the hosting platform you select for the Dedicated Web Hosting service. Hosting platform basically refers to the operating system you select for the Server. Mostly, Linux and Windows are two different operating systems which are preferred for a server. If you choose a Dedicated web hosting with a provider, you do not have to worry about the Security, maintenance, configuration and other aspects of the Dedicated Server hosting.

Alongwith these services, you will also get root administrator access to your server which allows you to install the applications you need and the changes you need to make to your dedicated servers. You will also be able to choose a control panel with the server which actually enables you to complete many administrative tasks. Basically, it allows you to manage your server very well and hence it is recommended that you consider a control panel with the server.

Now, it is time for Colocation hosting services. Basically, Colocation services include the hardware of the customer and the hardware is placed in a data center which is provided by the Colocation service provider. Hence, the customer should have his own hardware to choose these services. In this service, the customer actually needs to make sure that the server is maintained and secured in the data center space provided by the Colocation hosting service provider. Some of the data centers do have measures for security, however, these measures are only for the hardware security and the software of the server and hence the software components have to be purchased and secured by the customer himself.

In short, if you consider a Colocation hosting services, you will only be provided with space and redundancy from the hosting provider and you cannot expect the Colocation hosting service provider to upgrade the hardware or any of the components of the server. Due to these reasons, Colocation service is actually very expensive in comparison to dedicated hosting and hence only some of the webmasters in the hosting industry prefer Colocation server in comparison to dedicated server hosting which is widely preferred in the web hosting industry.

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You can add $50 a month to your income, hosting your client sites with more ease. You don’t need to get a dedicated server and you don’t need to worry about trying to compete with web hosting companies. What most people think is just getting a website up. They contact the web designers first, without really knowing that there are web designers and web hosts. Terms with “web designer”get more searches per day than terms with “hosting”. People are looking for web designers to get their sites on the Internet.

Web designers and developers can incorporate the sale of hosting into their web development and design projects. As a web designer you can bill your customers for the hosting fees within the design and then host the account for a year or on a month to month basis. You will be surprised at how much extra income you can generate from your web design customers.

Providing hosting for your web design clients will give you greater assurance that your customers will come back to you to make changes or update their site. This allows you to keep generating income from your work and customer base. Let’s look at some numbers, and how billing for hosting on top of your web design work can make you some serious money. Let’s assume you get paid $500 – $1000+ for a site design. If you charge your client for hosting as well you could generate up to $50 extra per site, per month in hosting fees. You could make up to $1100 to $1600 per site, per year instead of just $500 or $1000 per site. With 100 clients this could equate to $110,000 or $160,000 per year instead of $50,000 – $100,000 per year. On top of this, remember your client is more likely to come back to you to update and maintain your site which means more money for you, for easy work.

With a little effort and focus you could generate a very healthy income in your web design business. With tools like Joomla, WordPress and other highly customizable content management systems you can make the hard work incredibly efficient so you can focus solely on the design. Right now there are a myriad of powerful web applications, content management systems and shopping carts you can quickly install in your reseller web hosting account and produce a design for very quickly. There are also a myriad of ready to run, specialist applications written in ASP, ASP.Net and PHP that you can bolt on to your customers site, customize the design for and really impress your them. With these easily installable web applications you can very quickly impress your customers and raise the value of your web design fees – and the fact that they are specialist customized web applications you have put together, your web design customer will be happy to pay your hosting fees.

For your design business you don’t need anything fancy, you don’t need dedicated servers or specialists billing or server management systems. You can utilize the cost efficiencies of shared hosting to maximize your profit. One way to do it and a lot of designers do this, is get a new shared hosting account for each site they design and charge the customer more than they pay.

The better way to do it and really maximize your profit is to get a reseller hosting account where you can host all your customer sites in the one hosting account. This works out much cheaper than getting a separate account for each customer site. A good reseller account will give you far more room to move and even greater cost effectiveness which means even more profit and less effort.

Getting up and running with a good reseller hosting account is easy and incredibly affordable. For just a few hundred dollars per year you can host 50 or more sites. A quick search on reseller hosting will give you plenty to choose from. In our experience Windows hosting reseller packages are a good idea as a Windows reseller hosting account will give you the freedom and choice to run ASP, ASP.Net as well as PHP sites with MySQL or SQL Server databases. Linux hosting is incredibly efficient and gives you some of the cheap hosting options available but does not support ASP or ASP.Net applications. For an extra few dollars a month you can get Windows hosting and dramatically increase your options for your web design customers from a wider array of available web applications and freely available code in ASP and ASP.Net.

With Windows hosting you can use all your favorite web design tools and you’ll have the vast resources of Microsoft development products like Visual Studio at your disposal. As a reseller looking at Windows hosting accounts make sure the host offers Multiple IIS sites and not just unlimited domains. To properly host multiple sites on Windows each site needs to have it’s own entry in IIS (Internet Information Server – the Windows web server). Many hosts say unlimited domains and what they really mean is running unlimited domains on one site. All you get with unlimited domains on one site, is your multiple domains show the same site or requires you to write code to detect the domain and redirect to a directory. This is not a great way to run your customer sites.

With each site having it’s own entry IIS means you can have separate application settings, assign it to different application pools and maintain separate log files. This means you can have more control, more flexibility and produce a much better solution for your client. Being able to put your customer sites in separate application pools means that if one of your customer sites get’s busy or some crazy bug causes a problem it will isolate it to just that site and you wont end up with all your customers screaming at you that their sites are down.

After 12 years working on the internet. Through booms, through busts, good times and bad times web designers and developers quietly rule the web. Businesses of all sizes look for web designers first and in our experience they really don’t want to know too much about hosting. As a designer you can save your clients from the complexity and confusion of hosting and make money from it. To make money from hosting your client work you really don’t need to leap out and set yourself up as a web hosting provider with billing systems, hosting plans and support systems and processes. Start off by hosting all your sites in one reseller hosting package and you’ll be surprised at just how much extra money you can make for very little effort. The best thing of all you can keep your focus on why you became a web designer – designing web sites!

Dolson Ifegwu is a professional webmaster and a systems engineer. He has designed several websites for companies, organizations, etc. Check out his website, http://www.kifecwebsolutions.com for more details.

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Domain name business is one of the least known way of making easy money, and that too very quick. You want to be a millionaire, and you can’t wait, that’s the reason you are here. Let me help you out. First and foremost, forget everything you know about domain names business, and start from scratch.

The term given to this business is Domaining. It is business of buying and selling domain names for making money. The reselling of this type is actually comparable to real estate. You invest in the property, seek a potential buyer, and then sell it to him at a large price tag. Thereby making profit. The only difference is that “domain reselling” is much easier and much cheaper as it requires very less investment and normally gives great returns, if used accordingly. Many people even make there living by this. Beleive me, it means lots of money and that too easy.

The domaining often occupies building up of the domain name portfolios, or else accumulation of the domain names, in accordance to various criterias. This domain name portfolios frequently consist of profitable generic dictionary word domain names, or domains whose registrations have lapse but they still retain practical traffic. The more traffic, the more money you earn.

I will move step by step in helping you through the complete process.

1. Domain name

This is the first step in the process, you need to finalize on the domain name you want to invest in. Buying a domain name depends on various factors like:- What is your budget, Which market you are targetting, who is the potential customer. You should answer these questions before buying a domain name. Also some other points to keep in mind are:- The domain name should be short, as it is easier to remember and creates a greater possibility of the traffic to return again. The domain name must be easier to memorize, good for your business. The domain must be brandable, and must cater to the needs of some particular niche. Try and avoid domains which contain hyphens and numbers. Go for a .com extension for your registration.

2. Buy a Domain name Before buying a domain name, check out the traffic the niche receives, more traffic implies that your revenue generation will be more. So make sure you check out the quality of the name and the traffic the domain gets, before making an investment. The keyword here is “research”, and you need to do some of it before making an investment.

Try and look for a cheap domain, as they are the best buys. The cheap domain don’t cost you much, moreover if properly aimed at a niche then they produce good results. Make sure you go for a cheap domain, else you have a hefty bank balance.

Now here is point that you buy a domain name for reselling or you register a new domain name for reselling. If you don’t want to buy an existing domain, then you may try creating a new domain name, it norrmally comes free along with some web hosting packages. Web Hosting implies that you rent some space on a server to host your web site, and they provide you the domain name registration for free, though it may change from vendor to vendor.

3. Domain registration If you plan to create a new domain, then you need to register it, for registration of domain you need to find a registrar, that provides you the name. The second option is that you go for a web hosting domain package, where they provide you the space at some cost, but provides the domain name registration for free. Make sure that you register your domain with a “com” extension as it is higly valued in the market. If you really want to make money then this point counts much.

4. Sell the Domain name Now that you have got a good domain name targeted at a particular niche, you may seek the help of various sites for finding a potential buyer for you. Sites like DMOZ.org is a great source for this. Just prove to your customer that he is getting the best buy and you are the winner. Make cash from your resell and go ahead for a next buy.

The stuff till now was for getting you started, now regarding the strategy part of the business, most domainers try and make a long term investment. They buy and own names, they park on web sites… Oh I forgot to tell you about Website Parking. Website Parking is the way of making money when your domain is sitting idle. I will clarify this, Now that you looked for a cheap domain, if unable to find then you register domain preferably with a “com” extension. Then you buy domain using a seller or via web hosting domain packages. Now that you have got all but not a profitable client, in that case you can park your website. Website Parking implies that the site on which your domain is parked, will use your domain for putting up ads, some people type the name of the thing they required, without knowing that it exists or not. Like if a person needs a plumber, then he may type plumber.com without knowing that the site exists or not. Website Parking makes use of this benefit and earns from the normal domain name traffic that may occur. And if a person clicks on an add then you earn. Isn’t that great, you earn money without doing anything.

Some more points to consider while buying a domin name includes, if you think that some technology is going to take off, then get a domain name that pertains to it. The more relevant the name, the more money you will make. I will close this article with an example, Schwartz sold Men.com for $1.3 million in 2003, and he had bought the domain at $15,000 in 1997. Mind Blowing isn’t it.

So Domain names reselling provide a great oppurtunity for making large amount of money, and that too very fast. So guys for more info on this and this type of articles keep buzzing http://ways-to-make-easy-money.blogspot.com

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In a general terms search engine optimization is the process of improving website in a such way that web page rank high in SERPs( Search engine Result pages). Read some important aspects of SEO and what the need of SEO.

Why SEO?
Every day, millions of people look for information on the Web via search engines. It’s estimated that more than 350 million English language Web searches are conducted every day.

Statistics indicate that almost 90% of Internet traffic and are responsible for 55% of e-commerce transactions. SEO has shown to deliver the highest ROI, compared to any other type of marketing, both online and offline. Search engines bring motivated buyers to you and hence contribute to increased sales conversions.

SEO offers an inexpensive entry point for marketing your website and a valuable way to promote your business online. SEO makes for a long-term solution, is your access to constant free traffic and a source of building brand name and company reputation.

Advantages of SEO

o economical source of regular, appropriate web traffic
o Results in a higher click through rate as compared to any other program
o Gives highest ROI in the long run as compared to any other online marketing program
o Higher natural rankings build trust among searchers
o Results in a higher website conversion rate

In a normal scenario 97% of all people do not even go past the first page when searching the Internet. Website optimization is the key to return market value for your site. If your website should rank in first page of search engines on your targeted keywords you should definitely get good clicks for website and website is in proper designing then you will get good conversion also. So overall SEO is not a only single process for ranking only. It also comes for website designing also. Effective SEO should start from the website design and almost never ending process. Working on all area of SEO you will assure to get good business.

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Author regularly write articles on SEO Services and benefits of Search engine optimization.

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