About Domain names

The importance of domain name is critically important. Most of the great domain names are taken and I still see them doing little use at all. Some people just bought them for ages and finally they gave up using it because they did not really have a business plan or model to implement it. On the other hand, I saw some people bought unimaginable domain names and also failed with terrible domain names. So, I will discuss a little bit about domain names that comes to my mind.

As long as it takes domain names

Try to avoid it. Some people thought it is extremely important to have keywords in the domain names. It is true in branding, for example, Zytech or Microsoft, they are not really meaningful as a matter of words, but they are meaningful to the brand name. If you are building your brand, it is good to use long domain names, but of course, up to the limit where people can accept, not like cheap-best-reasonable-online-shopping-place.com is too much to remember. The ideal selection is to have not more than 12 letters without the TLD domain names (.com, .net, .tv, .org, .us).

Shorter domains

It is actually good to have shorter domain names, because when you use email promotion or even someone has to email you, you would want comfortable and easy to remember email address. Another tip is to use short form like infomm.com which could actually mean a long meaning, but also fairly easy to remember.

Dashed domains

I do not like dashed domains, be realistic, why do you use dash? The odds are, someone has already registered the name already without dashed, therefore, you need to have to dashed, consequently, that means you will possibly lose your visitors to that domain without dash as well. For example, onebest.com versus one-best.com, the name is fantastic, easy to remember, fits most of the businesses with quality and quantity, unfortunately,  people may not type – (dashed) all the time and it might lead your potential visitors to another website.

Multiple domains

One domain costs basically less than $10, if you are going to do a reputable and good business, why not spend a little bit more for your domain related and use additional parked domain which is now very easy to do so. For example, if you have bestchef.com and someone can actually buy bestchefs.com for your possible traffic and potential income. So, never feel that is not required to spend, perhaps it will be your best $10 spent in the future. Also, if you have several domains that are not used, just parked to the domain that is in full functions, or, you can actually park and display ads with Google AdSense as well. The bottom line is, do not let your domain unused at all.

So, good luck with your domain names, I will write more about domain name and its related topics soon to give you more depth. It is best when you click and read my particular topic rather than just reading through because at the end of the each post, you may find related posts that are very useful and relevant to my main post. Thanks for reading.

Well, I am not a super blogger and can’t write many blogs anyways. There are actually two reasons regarding this.One, I don’t produce my articles on daily basis and I don’t write much unless there’s something I can definitely deliver to my audience.

I love to visit some websites and blogs just to learn more because there are fantastic people who write absolutely wonderful articles about other things.

Anyway, today, I stumbled across this blog article about domain registration length and SEO (search engine optimization), and it is actually intriguing. The article is actually part of their 30 days SEO training. I am against with duplicate content and love to credit to the original author. So, credit to thekeywordacademy.com, here is the post about Domain name expiry date vs Google SEO.

Extend Your Domain Registration Length For Better SEO

I absolutely love it, what do you think?

Today, I just login to my AdSense account and see that I can now link up my AdSense account and Analytics account to each other. So, without further ado, I linked them up.

It is a good thing overall, I have a feeling google will integrate everything to Google AdSense for publishers little by little, past 4 months, i saw google integrated parked-domain ads and adsense for feeds.

The advantage is, you can actually see more detailed stats about your earning, but disadvantage is Google can track you even better whether you have duplicate AdSense accounts, your office/home IP address, and your web browsing behavior. Just my 2 cents.

Ok, Last week, I got an email for my hosting, as a member there, I can give you discount coupon code, but sadly, I cannot actually register myself as my hosting can track my IP address.

So, here is what I received in my email

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So, if you are planning to have a new web hosting or not happy with the current one, take an advantage, normally, they actually can help you migrate from your old servers for FREE as well and all these deals include free domain name for life starting from 1 domain to many more. So, be sure to check out and if you are keen, enjoy your promotion.

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What’s the catch for me?

As a member there, I now enjoy 2TB disk space and 20TB traffic a month for unlimited domains and you can only upgrade after you become first level client. I have been using this hosting since 2004 and I did not have much problem with the hosting, simply put, that’s why I am still using this hosting.

Get the best offer while you can. Any comments and suggestions always welcome.

I was helping out a member on Digital Point forum and I got this idea, why not just blog it since it became a little bit too long. I am working in IT field with software/hardware integrations, so I know information has a huge value in IT world. This time, I will share how to decide whether you have a good web hosting or not.

I do not want to be stereo-type person to comment, but if it is a good web hosting, following things are generally good reliable hosting you can consider as;

1. They have live support, so before you sign up, you talk to live support and see how knowledgeable they are. Live support is not easy for the provider because you need constant availability and most of the live support people are of course good and knowledgeable. At least, they must answers your questions in a professional way.

2. Google for coupons, for example, if your webhosting name is “supercool”, google “supercool hosting coupons”, good hosting always have coupons for new sign ups.. small ones? very unlikely.

3. Always use 1 month money back guarantee opportunity, if u face unhappy performance or service, always get the money back within 3 weeks.. Never wait until 1 month. Make sure you sign up to the hosting that offer 1 month money back.

4. Check whether they give you minimum 1 free domain name when you sign up, reliable hosting usually have affiliation with domain registrar and they would give you ONE free when you sign up.

5. Always use the word once you decide to sign up, “I am currently a customer of xyz hosting and want to move“, and most hosting would even help you with data migration and maybe also give you further discount.

6. Always look for forums from hosting company, good ones usually install vbulletin (costs 150 bucks for license), if you don’t see vbulletin forum from hosting company, it isprobably, they might be gone in a while.. and remember, if you are member in forum, it’s very good that you can get lengthy questions answered, also, you can have your signature indexed at your hosting forum. Most importantly, hang out 1 week and ask any questions you want before you sign up and look at the response time, normally, if they help you in 12 hours, it is considered good.

7. check the PR of hosting company, sometimes, they do pretty good SEO work and partnership programs, that means they value their hosting address and they want to keep it that way, consequently meaning stability of the company.

Well, there you go..  life is a research, so use your research to get it all better in each and everyway of your life. One hour/One week research will save you one year of trouble.

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Well, many of you do not know how good your webhosting is, because you don’t really catch when your hosting was down because you were sleeping or going out. But you need to know how reliable your hosting is. And this is one of the most important solution you will ever need.

I have published one article about how to solve web hosting dilemma, because many people chose wrong web hosting and they always paid for one year advance which is 90% non-refundable. Some hosting are not honest enough but always keen to show their uptime at 99.99%. Can you wait and see how reliable your hosting is? Nope, Can you check whether the ping and network latency is reliable or not? Nope. But you can monitor your website if something went wrong.

I use FreeWebMonitoring Dot Com for my websites, I am using FREE service, you can use premium service at paid subscription for more comprehensive reports. The service is absolutely fantastic, even for FREE Monitoring service. For Free Service, you can have up to 3 domain names and limited report (still cool for me and informative), but at least, you know how many hours your site was down continuously. So far, the reports are quite great. I had one site down for 2 hours in non-US data center country, I get to know instantly and then weekly. Hence, I can consider whether I should continue their hosting service or not. So, you can have FREE Decision Support System while you were on vacation or sleeping. I think it is fabulous offer and all you need is to receive email once a week, maybe a couple more if you site was down. Now, the websites I host on US Data Center has no issues at all. Why? Because I choose my hosting service with freewebmonitoring.com, and it saves us a lot of research for web hosting services. Okay, here is my compiled list of what FreeWebMonitoring is.

Q. what if i have more than 3 domains?

A. you can create another with another email LOL, I am just being honest, or you can buy premium service for bigger VIPmonitoring, which can monitor up to 10 domains. FREE every hour test, PAID every 20 mins test.

Q. how to check the domain status?

A. you get emails if there’s a problem everytime it happens, FREE just to one email, PAID up to 6 emails, like reporting instantly to IT manager and Network manager even it is sunday, or maybe directly to their blackberry or iPhone email accounts, so it’s basically handy for companies and corporations. For PAID service, instant messenger reports & cell phone SMS available too. cool huh?

Q. Weekly reports?

A. Yes, you can weekly reports, false alarm protection, many sort of alerts in FREE version.

So, my suggestion is go for it, and get to know your website and web hosting better.

Please feel free to write comments or suggestions, thanks for reading.