Saturday, October 6, 2007

How To Choose A Good Domain Name

To start an online business you need to choose and register a good domain name,it is easy giving a name you need to consider it is the vital step to build a nice income online for you.The domain name must relate to your company's name ,it will do much more easier people find your business.

You should avoid have a "free" domain name or one from your web hosting company www.yourwebhost.com/your site) your domain name need to be clear and short that identifies what your company sells or does, it will entice people surfing the web to visit your site before somebody's else.

You should understand that taking a good domain name is entirely the description of your company and you need to purchase it. What a domain name can't include? A domain name can have any combination of basic letters and numbers but not letters like "/" or "&" between two and 67 characters long. You need have your name short and memorable it is important to notice that your domain name be easy to spell,remember and pronounce and type. If you want people take a glimpse of your name to be able to remember it when they browse in front of the computer later. Trying to name your domain with keywords if you can find a domain that contain a few keywords that the public is searching for you will a step ahead of your competition. Search engines consider words of heavy in a domain.

REGISTER AS FIRST OPTION ".COM" The domains registering ".com" have the first option to people looking for a good domain instead ".net" ".org" ".biz" ".pro" if you are using these domains instead ".com" you are losing customers. Have the option registering other domains like ".net" and ".org" you can own www.yourcompany.net ,www.yourcompany.org ,it is to prevent people stealing your traffic or damage in your reputation puting some rude or offensive at ".net" ".org" if you are planning do business in a specific local market like canada assign codes ".ca"canada ".australia" ".au" or france ".fr"

TOOLS FOR SEARCHING GOOD DOMAIN NAMES There are several tools that you need help brainstorming ideas whois source (www.whois.sc) It is a free tool let's you know and enter words shows domains which are using and which are available, wordtracker.com it is a great and valuable tool which shows the popularity of keywords what the people are looking for. name boy's gen (www.nameboy.com/gen.php) you can use this random word generator (which uses the rules in english to generate imaginery words) www.searchmarketing.yahoo.com/rc/srch this is yahoo keyword selector tool o search valuable keywords and see what domains you can register before you name it.

Thursday, October 4, 2007

Make Money At Home With A Global Domains International Web Site

Perhaps one of the easiest ways to make money money at home today is by selling domain names, which is exactly what you can do with a Global Domains International web site. Everyone is in need of a domain name and the .com and .net domain names are filling up quicker than expected. And because of this, you have the ability to sell a lot of .ws domain names with Global Domains International.

Global Domains International, otherwise known as GDI, offers a number of benefits that you will find nowhere else. With excellent domain name availability, instant registrations, 24-hour global DNS activation, secure domain management, and a free video sales page that does the selling for you 24/7, it is too hard to pass up. The result for you is a lot of people purchasing a domain name from you.

Global Domains International was originated in 1999 by entrepreneurs Michael Reed and Alan Ezeir. What started as a way for people to easily find the domain name of their choice has quickly grown into a domain empire. Mike and Alan have incorporated their own free high-tech sales videos into each GDI web site, which can be very lucrative to you and your GDI business. These videos have helped thousands of GDI individual representatives generate new accounts automatically day and night.

Do you want to make money on the internet? Then joining companies on the high-rise is the smart thing to do. Keep in mind that opportunities like GDI do not come around that often. You are lucky that it is not too overpopulated and you can still make a great deal of money with a GDI web site business. However, the company is far from a secret anymore, because in the year 2000, Inc500 Magazine placed the company at the #37 spot for the top 500 fastest growing companies in the USA.

GDI is one of the easiest companies to promote because so many people and businesses need of quality domain names. The main purpose of domain names is to create addresses that are easier to remember and use than numbers. The problem with .com and .net domain names is that many of the desirable names have been taken. Therefore, most all that is left are the long and incredibly difficult names to remember.

When you begin to make money with your GDI web site, you have to sell the key points of the company. Tell your potential customers in forums that they have the chance of a lifetime to capture a domain name worth purchasing. It is free to try and only $10 a month thereafter. It is also incredibly quick to access your new domain name. By giving new prospects this information, and allowing them to view your GDI personalized video sales site, you will find it unbelievably easy to make money at home online.

There are many ways you can make money at home online but many of them take too much time, effort, and even money of your own to get started and they don't offer the financial rewards GDI offers you. Having your own GDI web site is a potential life-changing event because of how easy it is for you to quickly begin earning an income for life that could change the way you live.

Rewarding Expired Domains

Reap the rewards from other people's hard work. Often a difficult goal, but this is exactly what you can achieve with expired domains.

Broadly speaking, the life cycle of an expired domain has been:

1 - the domain is registered
2 - a website is built on the domain
3 - the domain is promoted
4 - the domain receives visitors
5 - the domain is not re-registered and the domain expires

Once the domain expires, visitors will still arrive at the domain, only to see that there is no website there any longer. These visitors could be visiting your website.

A lot of effort goes into building a website. And as any web site owner will tell you, getting visitors to your site is a long hard struggle. But if you can register a domain that already receives visitors, this gives you valuable a head start.

Finding one of these visited expired domains can be tricky, and then actually registering them before anyone else manages to can be even harder. There are several websites that specialize in grabbing these domains on your behalf, and some list the domains that are about to expire in the next few days. You can go through this list of domains, and find any with names that seem relevant to your chosen topic.

With this shortened list of domains, you can then conduct research into each domain. The most important thing to check is to see how many backlinks they have - ie how many websites link to each domain. On many search engines, using the phrase "link:" (note the colon) before the full domain URL will return the number of links pointing at a given domain. For example, type in something like link:http://www.domain.com (note that in most cases you shouldn't use any spaces). In general, the more backlinks there are, the more visitors the domain will receive.

There are several other checks that can be carried out on a domain, but finding the number of backlinks is generally the most important.

Once you have found a domain you like, you then need to register it the moment it becomes available - before anyone else does. I would strongly recommend using one of the many websites that offer this service - they have the know-how and beating them to the registration could be a hard task. Also, some of these services have exclusive rights to re-register the domain before anyone else so it may not be possible to grab the domain by yourself.

Your next step should be to check out the different services, and see if any of them have exclusivity on your chosen domain. If none of them do, then chose the services you like the look of and get them all to chase the domain on your behalf. Most of these services will only charge you if they manage to get the domain on your behalf.

You may need to go through this process several times before you successfully register an expired domain that matches your criteria. As you can imagine this may take up a lot of your time.

Wednesday, October 3, 2007

Selling Domain Name Tips

If you have a domain name and you plan to have it sold, there are two ways that you may be able to do it. You can either go through a broker who will sell your domain name for you or you can do it by yourself. Each one provides its own advantages and disadvantages. If you wish to go through a broker, you might have been afforded with the convenience of knowing that someone is doing the work for you. But if you wish to earn a big chunk of the profits from a domain name sale, you may want to do the selling by yourself. If you plan to do it by yourself, there are three ways that you can go on about selling your domain name.

One way would be doing nothing at all. This may sound funny but it is possible that your domain name can be sold without you even doing any effort in trying to sell it. But this method will only do if you have a very attractive domain name that many people would be interested in. If you have such a jewel of a domain name in your possession, then you are in luck. You would always have people trying to contact you to see if your domain name is up for sale. Such attention would even allow you to profit from selling such a domain name.

The other method of selling a web address, especially an unused one is by setting up a simple web page for it and putting it on the Internet. Such a site can be as simple as having a text stating “This domain name is for sale” as well as putting in your contact information. This will help inform people visiting the Web that such a domain name is for sale. This would be able to gather the attention of interested buyers for your domain name.

The third method of selling a domain name is by setting it up, and developing it before you try to put it up for sale. This is especially great for hard-to-sell domain names. By building it up and developing such a domain name, you are trying to make it more attractive for its interested buyers. It is like giving an added value to an existing domain name to drive up interest. But this method is usually for the long term. Developing a domain name may take some time and this would not be preferable for rush domain name sales.

Monday, October 1, 2007

Want Online Profits? Then You Must Do This - No Ifs, Ands or Buts

The #1 Absolutely Must Have Pre-Condition For Online Success: Your Own Domain

Friend, just the other day I was chatting with a woman whose situation vis a vis the Web is typical, if unhappy. She told me she'd been online for about three years. During that time she had never made one red cent. This was her modus operandi.

First she joined one well-known network marketing company. She was given a self-replicating website but never got any traffic to it and, of course, made NO sales. Unsurprisingly, she lost interest and abandoned her self-replicating website.

She immediately went on to do the EXACT same thing with 7 other business opportunities. She got interested, got in, got a self-replicating website, got no traffic to the site, lost interest, and did it all over and over again. "What," she wanted to know, "was the problem?"

I told her in a single word: she did not have her own domain and until she had one and understood how it works, her continuing online failure was assured.

So, What's A Domain Anyway?

A domain is Internet real estate. It's the foundation on which ALL Web success is based. It is property that YOU own and which can be infinitely developed.

NOW HEAR THIS: 100% of the people profiting online, that's right every single one, has a domain, NO exceptions.

A Domain Is NOT A Self-Replicating Website

A self-replicating website is a copy of a domain owner's website. It belongs to the domain owner, not you. It does not allow you to

* develop the site or to change it in ANY way

* gather visitor information

* collect money

* do any site editing.

It is the antithesis of a domain.

The whole point of a domain is that you own it and you can develop it. You can add unlimited products and services to it as well as unlimited business opportunities and affiliate programs.

You can direct unlimited traffic and visitors to it and can grow subscription and customer lists of any size. Remember, it's your property and the sky's the limit.

How big and valuable can you make your domain? Well, consider www.youtube.com This was set-up by two unemployed folks back in 2004. In 2006 they sold their domain (and everything on it) to Google for nearly 1.7 BILLION dollars.

Your Domain Can Keep Getting More And More Valuable Even If Everything On That Domain Isn't A Success

Consider any retailer in your neighborhood. Do you think that they hit a home run with every single product they stock? OF COURSE NOT! Some work, some don't. It's their job to keep testing products to find the most popular ones and maximize profits. If any individual product flops, no problem. There are no doubt plenty of other products, both old favorites and new ones, to take up the slack.

This is where the poor lady cited above went seriously wrong. She just kept joining and failing, joining and failing. If she'd had a domain, she could have kept adding products and opportunities, testing as she went, keeping the good ones, discarding the bad while all the time continuing to develop her domain. By failing to get and develop a domain, at the end of the day she was left with exactly nothing.

Don't you make this mistake. Let me help you not only get the domain you must have for certain online success but the training you need to develop it, too. Join the over 60,000 people worldwide my colleagues and I are training in how to develop your domain property for maximum, continuing profit.

Dr. Jeffrey Lant is well known to millions of people worldwide from his 16 books, hundreds of articles, international media appearances and regular online webcasts, Dr. Lant is an internationally recognized author, trainer, and consultant. He is the holder of 4 university degrees, including the PhD from Harvard University. Current CEO of Worldprofit Inc., an innovative website development company specializing in webcast applications, website design, database development and e-commerce.