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How
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| Articles
on starting a website - Check this link for articles
on how to start a website, content, and also webmaster
tools. |
| Domain name registration |
| It is best to try
to find a domain name that your target audience will relate
to. One example is theLabRat.com for biotech and pharmaceutical
sciences. The best domain name is one that will be remembered
(and not to difficult to type in). Cybersquatting and
typosquatting (registering domain names that are common
typos of high traffic sites) will disqualify you from
many affiliate programs and is strongly discouraged. |
Dotster
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Dotster Inc. is a leading ICANN-accredited
registrar capable of registering your .com, .net and .org
top level domain (TLD) names. By choosing to register
your domain names with Dotster, you are guaranteed many
value-added features that make registering domain names
even easier and more enjoyable. NameSpin, multi-year pricing,
and our dotPartner and dotAffiliate programs are only
a few of the special services they provide. |
| Affiliate programs |
| An affiliate
program is a program that will pay you for referring of
a customer to another website for a product or service.
This is how small websites like this one actually make
enough money (hopefully) to cover their expenses. There
are three types of affiliate programs: pay per click,
pay per lead, and pay per sale. The pay per sale usually
generates the most revenue, but the product needs to be
of interest to the visitors of your site! One thing to
watch for is high minimums! You may sign up for a program
that offers 0.01 per click but has a minimum of $100.
That would mean 10,000 clicks before you get paid! Unless
you have a high traffic website that could be a long time.
Check out the affiliate programs below. I use all of them,
but prefer Google adsense since it targets the ads based
on keywords present on your pages and thus relevant ads
are always placed resulting in a high click thru rate. |
| clickXchange.com |
clickXchange.com
is a leading affiliate marketing solution provider. Web
publishers maximize their revenue and site content providing
advertisers with traffic, leads and sales. Currently 6
commission structures supported . |
| Google AdSense |
Click on the banner below to join Google
Adsense. Definitely the most effective advertising that
I use on my websites. It is an easy way for website publishers
of all sizes to display relevant ads on their website's
content pages and earn money. The ads are selected based
on the content of the page they are on, resulting in a
high click thru rate. It also allows a way for webmasters
to provide Google web and site search to their visitors,
and to earn money by displaying Google ads on the search
results pages. |
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| Website hosting |
| You
want to try to get an estimate of how much bandwidth you
will need. Most sites can exist fine on free or low cost
hosting. Higher traffic sites may need a system which
allows unlimited bandwidth (to a limit). To limit your
exposure, you may want to start out on a free or low cost
server plan and then upgrade as necessary. |
| HostRocket |
HostRocket
provides the most complete and cost effective packages
available anywhere on the internet today. With faster
servers, technical support, and a no questions asked 14
day money back guarantee, we provide a package that can't
be beat and you are certain to be happy with. |
iPowerWeb
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Hosting
from as little as $7.95 per month! iPowerWeb is a respected
leader in the IT/ASP industry, which includes product
lines such as hosting, access, total Web solution, e-commerce,
content, marketing, and financial services. iPowerWeb
provides all these products as an ASP in a co-branded,
private label fashion and directly to the consumer with
a commitment to the highest quality, reliability, service,
and customer satisfaction. |
Lunarpages
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They
provide top quality web hosting at affordable prices,
including 20 GB of bandwidth, 200MB storage, MySQL database,
POP and web-based email, and the latest versions of PERL,
PHP, ASP, JSP, and PYTHON. Not to mention 24 hour support,
fully redundant broadband ready network, data center which
is secured by patrolling security 24 hours a day, streaming
media capable, toll-free phone number, and NO Setup Fee. |
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