When I try to register my domain name I keep getting error message (999) saying we are experiencing difficulty and the request cannot be processed. I would like to get in on this special, it expires June 30.
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Important Factors to Consider When Getting a Web-hosting Company?
Sunday, May 2nd, 2010So, you want to start up an internet business. You are now ready to approach a web-hosting company for hosting your website.
Be selective when choosing your web hosting company. Web Hosting isn’t like buying groceries. Why, because there are a lot of areas that you have to consider even for a simple and straight forward web page.
It would be helpful to you if you could consider the following areas when approaching your potential web hosting company I have also included some of the rational behind just for your knowledge.
Any sound customer support systems in place?
Nowadays, there are many web-hosting providers in the market. Some of them serve their customers promptly while some don’t.
One of thing you could do here is to ask some pre-sales questions. Wait and see their response period. The industry standard calls for 24hrs respond time. If they don’t respond within 24 hrs, you may likely do not have a good services in future if you subscribe to their host.
Knowing their Server systems, technology, Data Centers, and Back-up schedules.
Web-hosting provider typically uses a server to host the websites which forms his basic infrastructure. Back-systems are scheduled to run automatically and these servers are backed-up as frequently as daily with some hosting providers.
Check out with your potential hosting company what kind of technology they use and whether they have any reliable back-up systems at traceable data-centers. You could also check out whether they are equipped technically and whether they have technical people on roll.
Understanding their company data, financial standing and profitability:
You must be thinking what is it to do with the web-hosting provider’s financial standing. This is just to make sure that you will not be talking to that fly-by-night operator.
Checking the scope of service provided
Of course, you must also know what type of services your potential web hosting company can offer to you. Do they have the range to suit your requirements with your allocated budgets?
If you intend to expand your internet business, you may like to check with them different application platforms such as forum, shopping carts, autoresponder, etc
Some of the web hosting company may have difficulties providing autoresponder.
If you intend to add in video, audio clips, and those interactive contents into your webpage, you will need to more about the bandwidth that they will be providing.
Hosting reliability and up-time guarantee
This is the most important areas that you should be consider. What is Up-time?
Up-time is the time (expressed in percentages) the host is available to access through the Internet.
You would have seen a lot of hosting providers mention a 99.9 % up-time guarantee. But then, you ought to realize that any hosting application environment calls for maintenance too. You should ask how the web-hosting provider manages to shuffle this time efficiently and how do they manage their maintenance.
Written By:By Patrick Sia
Getting Your Domain Name
Saturday, May 1st, 2010
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3 Things to Look Out For When Getting Domain Registration
Tuesday, April 6th, 2010
Domain registration has been becoming harder and harder of late, as interesting as it is, it seems that the available space on the internet has begun to shrink. While the mathematical permutations of how many domain registers and unique online names there can be are possibly limitless, there is the problem of the human overlap; where people are jostling for the same domain name. The entire .com revolution has seen a receding progress chart of late, as internet powers that be have decided to extend that into even more uniqueness. It is sort of adding another number to your telephone number so that another few million combinations can be achieved – but of course it is a little more complex than that.
When you are looking for a domain name register, you need to be aware of some technical limitations and features that you need to have on hand. One of them is how much security the domain name host is prepared to give you and with the rampant amount of hackers online, you need some security on your website, especially if you have secure information or sensitive bio data of your consumers. The last thing you need on your hand is some upstart hacker ploughing into your website and stealing all your information. Because of the nature of online transactions, residual information can be retrieved, and this includes stuff like credit card numbers, pass words and emails – things you need to keep under lock and key. Have a gander at what server they are using and the strength of the firewall that is going to back up your system.
The other thing that you need to look out for is the price versus performance. Many of the web hosting solutions out there are pretty standard fare when it comes to how much you have to pay for them, but it is always a question of you should get what you are paying for. If you just need a basic solution for your internet needs, some dot com real estate on the internet to place your pictures and detail your life in a personalised blog, then the price should be just as basic. But if it is a business solution, with an infrastructure that can complement payments, transactions and advanced software for things like customer tracking, then the server should cost quite a bit. The last thing, and the most important thing when it does come to getting a domain registration is of course the customisability of it.
Some of them seem pretty German in nature, straight to the point with zero flexibility in their packages, but people should be able to tailor their domain solutions to the type of things that they want. Of course the price will fluctuate from there, but at least the choice is there. With that, those are the three things anyone needs to look out for when getting domain registration on the internet for any type of solution – business or personal.
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Instead of getting a host is there a way to get a domain name that works?
Tuesday, April 6th, 2010Is there a program, free or free trail, that lets you create a domain name and a website and it just puts it on the internet? I’ve heard people say that there is a way but I’m not sure. Maybe a website that shows you how.
What i mean is no host at all, i host it my self, no site does it for me.
Using A Domain Name To Help With Getting More Local Traffic
Tuesday, April 6th, 2010
Using Domain Names to Enhance Local Search
As of this writing domain names tied to geographic locations still seem to be available, for the most part. Many are “premium” domains, if purchased through GoDaddy.com, the world’s largest domain name registrar.
Getting a domain name that can help your local search results is dependent upon two things:
1. Your product or service and
2. Where you live
Every product and/or service is a different market, some are more saturated than others. If you were in the insurance business or an attorney, you would know that your industry is extremely competitive and may be at a high saturation level in your geographical area.
As a rule, the larger the city, the less chance you have at getting a domain name for local search.
Before we go any further, let’s talk about a local search domain. I am referring to a domain that is designed to exploit local search as much as possible. Let’s say you own a pizza place in Denver, Co., this is a highly competitive industry and market, and Denver is a very large city. The ideal domain name we would want to buy, and probably can’t get, is pizzadenver[dot]com or denverpizza[dot]com. A domain name for local search would include two items, 1. your product or service and 2. your location (or where you want to pull business from)
Smaller cities have not been gobbled up yet. I was able to buy redlandswebdesign.com about a month ago at the regular price, not premium price. Redlands is a small town east of Los Angeles. I was also able to buy socalwebsitedesigns.com a couple of years 11ago. With “socalwebsitedesigns.com” you can see another strategy, a nickname for the area you live in, this will work the same as the formal name of the city.
The first step to take is to check keyword popularity in either Google or Wordtracker free tool, and confirm that your product/service combined with the name of where you live are getting sufficient traffic. I wouldn’t consider buying any domain for traffic less than 1000 queries per month or so, it is up to you and your own discretion.
Check variations of your product name also in the keyword tools. “pizza place” may be useful in lieu of “pizza”. “auto repair” or “auto service” are two variations that can be attached to a city name.
If you find the domain you are looking for and it is a premium domain, in GoDaddy.com, the price can be negotiated. The harder you negotiate, the better price you will get the domain for. As a rule, they will reduce the asking price by about 30%, so don’t let the listed price throw you. It very well may be a good investment.
After you purchase the domain, to get full impact, your homepage must match the domain name. The closer it matches the better. If it is www.denverpizza.com, there must be references to “pizza” and “Denver” throughout the homepage, or landing page. Don’t put in an abnormal amount of references or keywords, keep it natural, doing otherwise is called keyword stuffing and it doesn’t work.
The main page the domain points to doesn’t have to be the homepage, it can be an interior page or landing page. This strategy is used for multiple domain names, names of a specific product tied to names of small areas, cities or towns. This is a viable strategy. These pages must match the domain name as well, to maximize effectiveness.
A major part of the Google algorithm is relevance. They measure it in many ways, one of the ways is via the relationship between keywords in the domain with the keywords in the landing page. Not only are the specific keywords checked, but also related keywords, as per their search data. Meaning, not necessarily keywords you think are related, they use their data. Without being privvy to their actual data set, it would be reasonable to assume that their data would be very close to the data shown by their free keyword tool, so I use that to find related keywords. I adjust prominence in relationship to popularity.
There are many free things you can do to help with your local search results, which I will address in future articles.
Getting Traffic to Your Domain for Free
Saturday, April 3rd, 2010
Copyright (c) 2008 Paul Smithson
You’ve just launched your new web site using your favorite web building tool, and then published it to the Internet. The next thing you’ll be wanting is traffic – and ultimately lots of it.
You’ve thought about using pay per click ads to get the ball rolling, but having to pay for traffic means your bank account takes a hard hit and then your profits are decreased every time a visitor clicks through to your website. How about if you could attract people to your site by using traffic generating techniques that don’t cost a thing!
Free traffic is sometimes viewed as being less effective because you don’t have the ability to fine-tune it like you can with an AdWords ad, honing in on specific keywords and phrases that are only shown to an audience that would care, but it is an avenue you should seriously consider, whether it is for your primary method of generating traffic or in addition to various other methods.
While free traffic options may not let you pick and choose the keywords in the same way as Adwords would, you can however still create content built around specific keywords and phrases so that the pages automatically get indexed for your target audience.
Take a Squidoo lens, as an example. Squidoo allows you to have multiple free accounts (so that your expertise isn’t diluted) and an unlimited number of free lenses (pages) per account. Take full advantage of this opportunity and point every lens toward your own website and you have a frenzy of feeders that funnel visitors from Squidoo to your domain through text links and banner ads!
Article marketing allows you to do the exact same thing. Write an article based on keywords and phrases you want your web site to be searched and found for and then submit it to the various high-ranking article directories for inclusion.
A press release can achieve similar results. While many online press release sites charge a nominal fee for inclusion, some have free options – and they create RSS feeds so that interested publishers can find the content that is relevant to their niche.
Forum posting can also act as a conduit between your target audience and your website domain. Join the forums for your topic and then include a link to your website in your signature file. Don’t give your web site obvious plugs in any posts you make, this is usually looked badly upon (unless it is relevant to a particular thread on the messageboard), but the inclusion of your web site url in your signature (i.e. The part that appears at the very bottom of each of your posts) is usually fine.
A side benefit of the forums is that as you participate in group discussions not only will your traffic will steadily increase, but your reputation as an authority figure to your target audience will be given a massive boost too. Don’t forget to add a link to your web site into your forum profile, too! Profiles are the perfect tool to help channel people to your domain.
The above are just a handful of ways that you can generate a stream of free traffic to your web site. Unlike paid advertising, the response will not usually be straight away, but over time, and with enough effort, you will generate a constant flow of traffic to your web site and it won’t cost you a thing.
Getting To Know Multiple Domain Hosting
Friday, April 2nd, 2010
On the web, running multiple domains is possible through shared hosting. Under a single hosting plan, multiple domain hosting allows you to host several domains. Currently, in the web hosting industry, it is easy to create your own website due to cheap domain name rates. This is a result of the competitive market on the net. Your selected web provider will provide you all the tools necessary to launch your own website. Most companies would only allow one domain registration. It’s not an issue for a single user but it is for those who need more than one. Getting multiple hosting accounts is a lot more expensive than having more domains.
Per hosting plan, you will be able to house all your domains. Domain management can be convenient and you can easily modify the settings if you are doing it from the same control panel. With lots of things that come with website hosting, this is indeed an advantage that you will truly enjoy. The advantages of getting access to your own control panel with features all in one location is key. In the future, you may have bank accounts associated with your website to collect the money you have earned online. Misplacing one password and not being able to verify your identity because of the confusion caused by having multiple passwords for several web hosting accounts, may lead to a monetary loss on your end.
If the purpose is to market your business, with multiple domains effectively managed, you are able to increase profitable opportunities. In addition to the benefits of having multiple domain hosting, you also get a lot of features you will surely need like an FTP account, email address, webmail, and subdirectories attached to each domain. The outstanding service that you can get from these packages are infinitely helpful in trying to run a business. Not only will it increase your ability to be seen on the web but most importantly it lets you market your business which will yield the most desired results on the internet and marketing industries. Flourish your growth revenue potential by signing up for a multiple web hosting plan.
Getting Familiar With Vanity Domains
Friday, April 2nd, 2010
A vanity domain is a domain name in the field of Domain Name System or DNS, usually a sub-domain, with the aim of showcasing the identity of the person to whom the name was registered and is used in web hosting. This is different from the domain names which are used to identify organizations or the services that the organizations offer.
Vanity domains may be likened to vanity car registration plates that emphasize and identify the owner and gives him distinction from the others, and not just depending on another organization’s services in web hosting. A sub-domain is at times referred to as a vanity domain, particularly when it is a sub-domain of an Internet service provider named after an individual user account. Some other descriptions of vanity domain are:
1) In domain registration, “a domain you register for the sole purpose of having your own domain so you can have an easily remembered URL and email address”, according to the Free Online Dictionary of Computing.
2) According to the Jargon File, a vanity domain is “an Internet domain, particularly in the .com or .org top level domains, apparently created for no reason other than boosting the creator’s ego.”
Vanity domains are applied primarily to ordinary domain names that are registered at the highest permissible level instead of sub-domains, although in essence, a second level domain name is in fact a sub-domain of its high-level domain in domain registration. Since vanity domains are used for and in behalf of specific individuals, these normally would not impart the full services of an organizational domain name. Vanity domains, aside from being easily remembered, especially when registered as a top level as allowed by the registrar, give the feature of personal mobility, which means they continue to be related to the person even if that person transfers to another Internet service provider.
All About Vanity Domain Names
Very similar to vanity car plates, vanity domains are becoming well-known and an attraction to many web hosting users. With the trend of web hosting companies permitting multiple domain-pointing, it has become easier and more convenient to use vanity domains.
Instead of the regular domain names which make use of either a person’s name or a company name, vanity domains use famous key words and phrases that describe the person owning the domain. Vanity domains can seize the opportunities of the prevailing market trends and also motivate and inspire visitors to the web site.
Some vanity domains are created even if it leads to a site that is totally unrelated to what its name implies. A customer clicks the site with a given domain name but is led to another, totally different web site. Although this is not too ethical, and may violate standard codes and procedures, many companies engaging in web hosting use this method and come out with successful results. Still, there are several other ways to use vanity domains and come out successful altogether.
You could analyze the prevailing market trends. When you come across popular events that somehow correlates with your web site’s products or services, you can register a domain name that coins the essence of such events. A lot of people have succeeded using this method of exposure. You could also take the time to analyze and evaluate the usefulness and suitability of your domain name and change it for the better if you have the chance.
Vanity domain names can also be used to shorten lengthy domain names, and vanity domains can offer catchy words and phrases that easily get the attention of customers and visitors. It would not replace your regular domain name, but rather, it would complement it as it would also direct you in your registered web site.
Another option is to purchase an already popular domain name. There are several domains that are for sale on the Internet. You can choose a popular domain name for sale, provided it matches the products and/or services that you offer in your web site. In web hosting, this would only work if the domain name you decide to buy is related with your web site. Of course, you will have to make the necessary notification that the domain name you purchased is now owned by you to avoid any confusion.
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Where can i buy a domain name without getting them to build the site for me?
Thursday, April 1st, 2010I just want my own website name, like ebay.com (just an example) but i wanna hire someone else to design it for me, so where can i get a domain name? another question once i get a domain name for example (foryou.com) that means no one else can have that name besides me right? and for how long can i keep the name?
thanks