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Domain Names and Search Engine Ranking

Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008 | SEO, Web Hosting, Website Promotion with No Comments »

Does the length of your website’s domain name registration affect search engine optimization and results?

Should you renew your domain name for a long period of time?
And if so, how long is long enough?

If you want to stay ahead of your competition, then you might consider looking at the length of time your competitors have registered their domain names. If your competitors have generally renewed their domain names for one or two years, you might consider registering your domain name for 5 or 10 years. While putting off your domain name’s expiration date might help your search engine rankings, keep in mind that this may be only a small victory when it comes to search engine rankings.

Its good business sense to register a domain for at least 10 years. You don’t want to deal with the process annual process of renewing them every year. It’s best to obtain the domain names that you want to keep for a while and renew then on a 5 to 10 year plan.

If your domain name expires, there’s a good chance that someone will register your domain name immediately after it expires. If, for whatever reason, you don’t renew your domain name, someone watching a ‘watch list’ of expiring domain names will try to capitalize on the online business that you’ve built over the years. They know that there is potential website traffic they can have simply by renewing your old domain name. By renewing your domain name for several years, your domain name won’t expire for a while, and it won’t be opened up to expired domain name buyers.

If you really want to stay ahead of the competition, you might consider registering or renewing your domain name for 100 years. Currently, Network Solutions (www.netsol.com) is the only registrar offering the 100 year option, which costs $999.00. GoDaddy (www.godaddy.com), currently offers to renew or register a domain name for 10 years, at a discount of $6.95 per year.

Yes, you can lose critical positioning in the search engines if you don’t reregister your domain name in time. You may have to start the SEO process all over again!

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Picking a Good Web Hosting Company

Saturday, May 24th, 2008 | Web Design, Web Hosting with 1 Comment



Picking a good web hosting company is important to keeping your website open and your costs down. There are many to choose from, as well as different pricing plans to look over.

Depending on the amount of sites that you intend on building, you may want to consider a larger web space in the long run.

You should start with the smallest web space that you can get to test the waters, just in case niche website Internet marketing does not work out for you. You may want to add on later, so make sure that your provider offers that option.

You will want to choose a provider that has a reliable service. If your site is down or takes to long to open up when visitors are trying to get in, it may lead them to click out of your site and move on to the next one. They will also more than likely not visit in the future since they will remember their bad experience. For this reason, it is probably best to stick with a well known company who you can check reliable references on. There are many small hosting providers that offer space for as low as $.50 to $1 per month, however, you never know what you will be getting and many of them want you to pay for at least a years worth in advance.

You will also want one that has the most affordable hosting. If you can create your own small site or have one made for you, then you will probably be able to find space for as low as $3 to $4 per month. However, if you need to choose a company that offers a What You See Is What You Get (WYSIWYG) website builder, then you will probably end up paying $10 to $15 per month for the smallest amount of space. But if this is the only way that you can build a site, then it is necessary.

Some web hosting providers may also offer a deal on a yearly URL or other products when you make a web hosting purchase.

Ultimately, whatever web hosting provider you choose will depend on your individual needs and what you can afford. Hopefully you will be able to snap up a well known provider at a low price who will allow you to upgrade your service as needed.

PotterIT delivers uncomplicated and affordable domain name registration services, web hosting solutions, and web design packages to suit your business’s requirements.

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Make Money With Lunarpages

Tuesday, January 8th, 2008 | Affiliate Programs, Web Hosting with 1 Comment


Lunarpages.com Web Hosting

The Lunarpages Affiliate Program works as a referral service, where they reward you with $65, just for spreading the good word about Lunarpages Web Hosting and referring your friends, family, clients, coworkers, in fact absolutely anyone to our hosting plans!.

With the Lunarpages Affiliate Program, they offer:

  • $65 base commission rate
  • $5 2nd tier commissions
  • ready made banners
  • a unique, close-knit staff
  • incentives and commission raises at 100 referrals/month!
  • tailored landing pages at 150 referrals/month

The best part is that you don’t have to run a website or even know HTML in order to make money and they’ll work with you to make your affiliate experience a great one. Refer just two friends and you’ve already earned $130. Keep in mind; our biggest affiliates earn more than $50,000 every month!!

Lunarpages is so confident they are the best host for your referrals they are willing to negotiate higher commission rates to qualified affiliates as well!

Signup to Lunarpages today!

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