Should I Register For (tabloids) a Domain Name?
No commentsBy Gen Wright
Many newcomers coming into the online marketing business try to avoid incurring expenses at all cost. So they end up refraining from buying everything. A domain name is just one example.
The question is, do you really need a domain name?
Let’s take a look at what a domain name is. In reality, computers don’t care about names and labels. When you send a request from a computer, the network uses a series of numbers to identify the computers and servers. This is called an IP address.
Every server has got an IP address so that when you send a request, the network knows where to send the data. That’s how computers and servers work - they remember systems using numbers. However, human beings operate in a completely different manner.
Most of us find it difficult to remember numbers. So someone came up with the idea of using alphabets to represent the numbers. These are known as TLD, or Top Level Domain names. Initially, there are only dot com, dot org, and dot net domain names. You can add any phrase in front of the com, net, and org as long as there are no invalid characters. The entire string of characters is known as a domain name.
You can own your own domain name by registering for one yourself. Before you do so, let’s take a look at how a domain name can benefit you.
1) Easy to remember.
If you are just starting a business, you want visitors to remember your website and revisit your site. So it doesn’t make much sense to try and register a long domain name that is very difficult to remember.
2) Branding purposes.
Once you own the domain name, you can brand it in whatever way you like. Remember, it’s your brand now. When done correctly, branding can lead to increase in sales.
3) Full control over your own site.
Sometimes, when you host sites on free hosts (yes, they offer you a free url or subdomain), you undertake the risk of having your sites deleted without warning. This can happen when free services close down, or they face database issues. You don’t have full control over your own site if you do not own the domain.
4) SEO benefits.
The search engines treat each domain separately. In other words, if you have your site hosted on someone else’s domain, your rankings get affected if the sites get penalized by the search engines. There is nothing you can do about this. In addition, you can choose keywords to target and have them in your domain name. This will help boost your search rankings.
5) Installation of useful applications.
Most free host will come with their own software (e.g. CMS). If you want to install additional plugins to help you power the site, you realize that you can’t do so. If you own your own domain, you can easily customize the site to suit your own needs.
6) Affordable!
Finally, be reminded that it’s very affordable to own a domain name! A Dot Com costs about $8 or so for a full year. Hosting comes rather cheap too!
Darren Chow is a full time article marketer and SEO specialist who has helped hundreds of clients promote thousands of websites. Join the article marketing newsletter to find out more about how he gets sites to rank well in the search engines.
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Why Go Into Article Marketing?
By Gen Wright
Have you ever wondered why there is so much hype about article marketing? Perhaps there may be some truths in the midst of all that noise.
Let’s take a look at why a marketer should go into article marketing.
1) Immediate traffic.
This is something that every marketer wants. Who has all day to wait for traffic to arrive? You want to be able to test your conversions immediately. Article marketing can provide you with instant traffic. The traffic comes from the RSS subscribers.
2) Mid to long term traffic.
As your article remains online for an indefinite period of time, you get to receive mid to long term traffic. New visitors may still find your articles a few years down the road, click on the link in your author resource box, and visit your website.
3) There is a cumulative effect.
When you are just starting out, you may see just a trickle of traffic as you have too few articles online. But as you progress, you soon find that you get more and more traffic. That’s due to having more and more articles published on the world wide web. The more articles you write, the more you grow your traffic levels.
4) More back links for SEO benefit.
You may not be aware of this if you know nothing about SEO. But you are actually doing it. By publishing more articles, you get more back links to your site. Each link is counted as a “vote” for your site. In other words, the more votes you get, the higher your rankings will be in the search results.
5) Ease of execution.
Article marketing is so easy that anyone can get started immediately. You don’t have to worry about complicated software or anything like that. As long as you can write in simple English and can express your ideas, you can get involved.
6) Position yourself as an expert.
Write and submit articles that are useful and valuable. When you do that, visitors tend to see you as an expert in your field. In other words, don’t ever attempt to submit crappy information in an attempt to make a measly sale. Always think about the visitor and share your best information. In time to come, they will come to trust you and start to do business with you.
7) Free traffic!
If you really think about it, there is no such thing as totally free traffic. Free here means that you don’t have to pay a single cent to start receiving traffic. But you do have to put in some time to make this work. Time then, becomes the only price to pay. That means everyone can jump on the bandwagon and get traffic to a website. This method is especially useful for those with a tight budget.
Darren Chow is a full time article marketer and SEO specialist who has helped hundreds of clients promote thousands of websites. Join the article marketing newsletter to find out more about how he gets sites to rank well in the search engines.
But You Know That Palm Eos may come in Q4 2009 Great Work
By Eugen Nova
Palm has posted their quarterly results for Q4 FY 2009. Ttal reveunes were a smal $86.8 millino, however Palm was able to turn a gross profit of $20.1 million. It’s unclear how much the Palm Pre affecxted these numbers, thouhg it does seem likely that the Splrint Treo Pro did help Palm’s profit margin.
Although analysts belieev that the Palm Eos (Pixie) is not this year, chances are that it wants to.
Apparently, Compal Communications (the company, the production of the Eos for Palm) is prepared, the emntry-level smartphone ship as soon as October – so AT & T should be ready to launch it befoe the year end.
Initially, only a GSM UMTS version of the Palm Eos proiduced – about 400,000 – 500,000 units.
From the first quartewr of 2010, a CDMA Eos to be shipped, probably for Sprint or Veerizon (or both?). Unless another smartphone is reflected in the meantime, the Eos is the secoind Palm device to webiOS (according to the Palm before, of couirse).
Updsate: That’s gross profit, so not so exciting. We have a Net loss of $105 million. Palm reports officially on a GAAP basiis — they need to realize the revenue from the Palm Pre over the life of the device (as Apple does with the iPhone) because they intend to continue to offer free software upggrades. If you take a look at the non-GAAP numbers the picture is a little betetr, with a gross profit of $30.4 million and a net loss of $53.4 milllion.
Palm shipped 351,000 smartphones in the quartter but refused to break out more detailed numbers — so we sill don’t have offical word of how many Palm Pre phones have been sold.
We can provide you with mobile phone news about Palm Eos may come in Q4 2009 and mobile phone reviews. Thank you
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