Posts tagged Website hosting
How Much is Your Website Worth?
Dec 3rd
So you are one of those guys who loves making new websites every summer. Someday, you might start thinking, “what should I do with all those old websites I made earlier?” Here is the answer.
Have you ever thought of selling your old unused websites? As a website gets old, it gets more and more valuable. They say - “Old is Gold” and rightly so. If you worked even a little hard in building your website and took care of some basics while designing such as linking the pages properly, using H1, H2, H3 level headings properly, using a standard font etc, then your old websites which you don’t update anymore can fetch you a good deal of money.
Old websites usually have good number of backlinks. Even if you have something say 200 backlinks (Which you must have built earlier or can build in a month or so), and an average pagerank of 2, you can get paid handsomely if you sell it. Yes, you can sell your website. (I knew you never thought of that!!! 
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But how to know what your website is worth?
A website’s value depends on a lot of factors. But the most important of them are PAGERANK and BACKLINKS. I recently came accross a tool where you can quickly find out how much your website is worth. It is Websiteoutlook.com.
There were many more actually but I found it very accurate as per the calculations. Give it a try and check out how much your hard work can get you.
How to Create Your Own Website in Minutes
Nov 23rd
If you think that creating a website of your own is a very difficult task and it is only for computer professionals, you are absolutely WRONG!!! Creating a website about any topic is a very very easy task. you can create a website in just a day or two. Trust me, I am not lying. The previous version of our website, MyArticlesHub.com, was also made just with the tools I am going to tell you about now.
So How Can You Do It?
1. Get An Automatic Website Making Tool.
There are many FREE automatic website designing tools available on the net. But all of them are rubbish. When I was planning for t his site, I searched and downloaded a dozen of such free automated website designing software’s but all of them were either full of their own ads or they didn’t allow me to use all the features.
Then I got this SUPERB tiny software…NAMU6. I was amazed by the speed and simplicity with which it works. Even the website of Namu6 is itself made by this small software!!!
Some of it’s great features are -
- A small file size (Just 3.7 MB)
- Absolutely FREE
- Very easy interface
- Auto publishing feature, i.e., you won’t need an FTP client to publish your website
- No Ad of Namu6 Website on your site. What impressed me the most is that there is only a small link pointing to their website and saying “Made by Namu6″. But the great thing is that they give you an option of removing that link too!!! Now that is called FREE!!!
Namu6 saves your whole site as a namu6 file. You can publish the whole site on your own server directly at the push of a button. You can also publish the website to a local folder on your computer and later publish it via any FTP agent. Get Namu6 HERE
2. Get a free hosting account
I have hosted my website on Awardspace.com. I really found it very simple and good. It gives you what it shows. No forced ads, free subdomain names, easy interface, and so on. I will STRONGLY recommend you all Awardspace.com as your hosting service. You can name your site with a FREE subdomain name once you create an account with Awardspace.com. You can put Adsense codes in all the webpages on the server itself as Awardspace.com allows for HTML editing also.
3. Get An FTP Agent
If you want to use an FTP agent, use FILEZILLA.
It is FREE and very easy to use.
4. Upload Your Website
After you finish making the website, just upload it onto the server. Awardspace.com provides you with all kind of help for uploading your files on the server. It is as easy as uploading a file on any file sharing service.
And you are Done!!!
Personally, I will give all these three utilities Namu6, Awardspace.com & and Filezilla 10/10 marks for their performance.
Do let me know how did you find it after you make your website with these tools.
Why You Should Have Your Own Business Website
Nov 19th
Creating a web site is crucial to your home business success and your efforts to make money online, regardless of what home business method you decide to go with. In fact, aside from determination and will, your own website(s) is the single most important factor to your success.
I initially operated my blog My Articles Online. But then I realized the importance of doing your hard work on your own custom domain. So I switched to MyArticlesHub.com. Having your website on your custom domain has many advantages.
With the advancement in web programming, you can easily create a working web site using many of the free web site generators or software. We will explain how to get started building your web site in a minute. First, let’s review some of the benefits of having your own web site.
One of the biggest hurdles a home business company has is reputation and trust. Why should anyone trust you with their money, especially when there are much bigger more reputable companies around. With online shopping, internet users can easily go to websites like Walmart.com and buy almost anything they could possibly need. Having a professional looking web site is one way that you can combat the “big guys”. A web site is your chance to talk to the customer without the customer feeling pressured.
On a side note, did you know that over 95% of all Internet users use the internet to search information only? Your web site should be designed to educate the customer on your product or business. Tell them everything they could possible want to know in an informative and non-pushy manner and you will not only fulfill their need of more information but, you will also gain some credibility in the customers eyes. If they see you as an expert in your field or product, they will be more likely to buy from you. In addition to creating a “professional” impression of your home business, a web site allows you to generate extra income with little to no effort. Affiliate marketing is a good example of how any business can make extra cash just by having a web site.
Let’s look at an example. Bob Shoemaker in PA started his own business as a personal finance consultant. He traveled around to his friends, families and referrals assisting with debt management and retirement planning. He built a web site so that his potential clients could get more information after his sales pitch (if they were still uncertain). His potential clients would use the business card he gave them, log on to his web site and further educate themselves about personal finance. Why should they use his services? What other options could the look into? What about credit card debt? Bob was able to answer all of these questions and more without pressuring the client. Even if the potential client did not hire Bob as their finance consultant, Bob knew they were still in the market for something.
The fact that they were visiting his web site proved their interests in personal finance. He then added affiliate links on his site that linked to credit card and debt consolidation companies. By including these affiliates, Bob was able to get up to $20.00 per client that signed up with each one of his affiliates links. If Bob ended up losing a potential client (they did not want his services) at least he was able to make some money of the person. In the end, Bob was earning half of his income from personal consulting and the other half from his affiliate campaign.
So the crux is that having a business website of your own is not very difficult. It just requires a basic knowledge of computers and can bring out some very decent results to your earning potentials.
How to Choose a Good Domain Name?
Nov 18th
The domain name is the most important thing which you must keep in mind while planning a website. Choosing a domain name for your new website can make a HUGE difference in the amount of work you will need to do later on.
Have you ever thought why one of the best social media websites today have pretty amusing domain names? Why twitter chose twitter? Technorati, spurl, Digg, Plaxo, Propeller etc etc. The list is never ending.
One thing that is common in all these websites is that before these were invented, if you had searched any of these names in Google, it would return only a few results.
I will explain it to again. Say for example you want to start a website on how to make money online. You choose a name say mymoneymakingwebsite.com.
Now, if you open Google and search the keywords “make money online” or just search the name of your website, it will return more than 4 billion webpages. Before I started my other website Tenomania.com, I was in a dilemma so as to what should be the name. It is based on 10 ways to do things. I thought over and over and searched many potential domain names in Google. With the name Tenomania.com, Google just returned over 400 results. So, I just have to compete with 400 odd people and in that too many wont be taking things that seriously. So SEO becomes very easy.
So always remember, keep in mind that it is the content that you have to offer and the tags and meta data you use that ranks your website in search engines and not only the name. Choose it wisely and make your life a hell lot easier.
