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Web Hosting – An Investment Or an Expense?

November 7, 2009 by IBI · Leave a Comment 

Is having your own website an investment or an expense?

The following article will help you gain clarity on this issue.

First of all, let us consider the costs of having a website. A domain name with sufficient amount of space (that also includes a database support for interactive websites) costs under $30 per annum. This is roughly $2.5 / month.

Then comes the designing and maintenance costs. Depending on your requirement, web design can cost as little as $50-$100. There is no upper limit; it can go into several thousands depending on what exactly you want and who is doing it. Ideally, you should ask your friends and associates to refer web designers who have done a good job for them and also charged reasonably. Prepare your requirements in advance before taking quotes. Be very clear on what exactly you want for your website. This will save you a lot of pain. Be sure to cross check the quotes with sites like elance. Discuss the maintenance charges also, if you need to update your site often.

There is another option where you can save on web design costs if you don’t need a very fancy / customized design. Most hosting providers will offer you site builder options at a nominal cost. In fact, you can even use a blog platform like wordpress or a CMS platform like joomla and drupal. Most hosting providers will offer fantastico support, which enables you to install these opensource softwares with a few mouse clicks. I would advice you to first go with one of these options, preferably the wordpress / CMS option before you spend on web design.

Once you’ve worked out these costs, you now need to consider the returns. Business is all about ROI (Return On Investment) and you should seriously track all leads and / or orders you receive through your website. First of all, you need to accept the fact that you won’t start getting orders the moment your website is live. “If you build it, they will come” doesn’t work here. You need to work towards promoting your website.

There are several online and offline ways to do this. For offline promotion, you should include your website URL in every piece of communication as you can, like visiting cards, yellow page ads, invoices, quotations, etc.

For online promotion, you should first make it a point to include your URL in email signatures and forum post signatures. Next, you should consider spending a little on PPC (Pay Per Click) ads. The most important online promotion is free traffic from search engines. If you want to win the SEO game, there are only three things that you really need to concentrate on:

1. Unique content: Don’t ever copy content from other websites, create your own. If required, hire a decent copywriter, but first start on your own.

2. Updated content: Search engines love websites which have new content added regularly, so make it a point to add something new to your website at least once a week. If there are no new products or services that you add, consider adding some latest news in your industry. Or you can simply add useful tips that cater to your industry.

3. Backlinks: The more websites that link to yours, the more weight search engines give to your ranking. So try to get more websites linking to you, preferably from related content sites. You can also write articles that are beneficial to your targeted audience and submit them at article directories. Remember to add your website link in the author’s bio (you are seeing this in action right now; check out the bio following this article).

These are the three pillars that SEO stands on. If you do nothing else except follow these, you will get much more targeted traffic than your competitors. You don’t even need an SEO consultant.

If you can generate enough business from your website, it makes sense in continuing it. It then becomes an investment with good returns. You should give it a try for at least 2 years, to track proper ROI. Once you’re fairly successful, you can think of other ways to improve your website. If you’re making more than you’re spending, its time to take your website to the next level. Start by hiring / outsourcing people to write content for you. Use lead generation tactics by giving away free reports in exchange for people to signup to your mailing list.

While your website is certainly an investment worth making, you can also claim the costs as business expenses! Consult your accountant for details.

Nirjara Rustom looks after the web hosting support staff at http://www.awareindia.net and ensures that clients receive prompt service at all times.

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Web Hosting An Investment Or an Expense?

November 7, 2009 by IBI · Leave a Comment 

Is having your own website an investment or an expense?

The following article will help you gain clarity on this issue.

First of all, let us consider the costs of having a website. A domain name with sufficient amount of space that also includes a database support for interactive websites)costs under $30 per annum. This is roughly $2.5 / month.

Then comes the designing and maintenance costs. Depending on your requirement, web design can cost as little as $50-$100. There is no upper limit it can go into several thousands depending on what exactly you want and who is doing it. Ideally, you should ask your friends and associates to refer web designers who have done a good job for them and also charged reasonably. Prepare your requirements in advance before taking quotes. Be very clear on what exactly you want for your website. This will save you a lot of pain. Be sure to cross check the quotes with sites like elance. Discuss the maintenance charges also, if you need to update your site often.

There is another option where you can save on web design costs if you dont need a very fancy  customized design. Most hosting providers will offer you site builder options at a nominal cost. In fact, you can even use a blog platform like wordpress or a CMS platform like joomla and drupal. Most hosting providers will offer fantastico support, which enables you to install these opensource softwares with a few mouse clicks. I would advice you to first go with one of these options, preferably the wordpress  CMS option before you spend on web design.
Once youve worked out these costs, you now need to consider the returns. Business is all about ROI Return On Investment and you should seriously track all leads and  or orders you receive through your website. First of all, you need to accept the fact that you won’t start getting orders the moment your website is live. If you build it, they will come doesnt work here. You need to work towards promoting your website.
There are several online and offline ways to do this. For offline promotion, you should include your website URL in every piece of communication as you can, like visiting cards, yellow page ads, invoices, quotations, etc.
For online promotion, you should first make it a point to include your URL in email signatures and forum post signatures. Next, you should consider spending a little on PPC Pay Per Click ads. The most important online promotion is free traffic from search engines. If you want to win the SEO game, there are only three things that you really need to concentrate on:

1. Unique content Dont ever copy content from other websites, create your own. If required, hire a decent copywriter, but first start on your own.

2. Updated content: Search engines love websites which have new content added regularly, so make it a point to add something new to your website at least once a week. If there are no new products or services that you add, consider adding some latest news in your industry. Or you can simply add useful tips that cater to your industry.

3. Backlinks The more websites that link to yours, the more weight search engines give to your ranking. So try to get more websites linking to you, preferably from related content sites. You can also write articles that are beneficial to your targeted audience and submit them at article directories. Remember to add your website link in the author’s bio you are seeing this in action right now; check out the bio following this article.

These are the three pillars that SEO stands on. If you do nothing else except follow these, you will get much more targeted traffic than your competitors. You don’t even need an SEO consultant.
If you can generate enough business from your website, it makes sense in continuing it. It then becomes an investment with good returns. You should give it a try for at least 2 years, to track proper ROI. Once youre fairly successful, you can think of other ways to improve your website. If you’re making more than you’re spending, its time to take your website to the next level. Start by hiring  outsourcing people to write content for you. Use lead generation tactics by giving away free reports in exchange for people to signup to your mailing list.
While your website is certainly an investment worth making, you can also claim the costs as business expenses Consult your accountant for details.

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Wordpress – Blog Software Second to None

November 1, 2009 by IBI · Leave a Comment 

It’s smart to start your blog on good footing. It’s difficult to change software and begin all over again. Blogging with “free” blog hosting? It’s true what they say, “You get what you pay for.”

Pay for website hosting for your blog if you can afford it and verify that your server can support Wordpress.

When weighing your options as far as which company should host your blog, make sure that WordPress (and Fantastico unless you are quite computer literate) are included with the hosting that you select. Fantastico will automatically install Wordpress for you. If it does not have Fantastico, you will have to do the difficult task of downloading and installing Wordpress yourself.

Wordpress does not require you to be a programmer. You can start it immediately after it is installed, and begin blogging in no time.

For what reason should you use WordPress, and not another type of blogging software? WordPress is the top brand. It has existed for quite some time. There is an wide variety of themes available through WordPress. (The appearance and feel of your blog can be altered with themes.) There is no need to know how to design or code, unless you want to make a change to “canned” functionality.

Plug-Ins – You can add intriguing functions to your blog by using the plug-ins. You have the option of selecting a third-party plug-in or, if you know PHP, then you can make your own. The WordPress website has plug-ins available. They have a wide variety and they offer multiple functions, including a plug-in that will generate an XML sitemap of your site for Google.

You are provided with complete control over your blog through WordPress. Your options are limitless. Great user management is available through WordPress. For instance, articles can be written by authors, and upon approval, those articles can be published by editors. Administrators can even alter the design of the blog.

Don’t waste hours of your time only to have to tear it all down and convert it over to Wordpress.

Stephen Grisham, Sr. is a copy writer for InfoServe Media, LLC. If you are looking for web design in Houston, or if you just need a few changes to an existing site, InfoServe Media also offers website maintenance. Fast and Affordable.

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Wordpress Product Review Template: Setting Yours Up

October 29, 2009 by IBI · Leave a Comment 

Tired of messing with your HTML to make your website look like a professional review site?  There’s a simple solution.  Install Wordpress to your site, then find a Wordpress product review template.  There are three ways to find review themes: pay for someone to make it for you, pay for a ready made theme, or find a free theme online.

If you have your own hosting, you probably already know how to install Wordpress.  But if you need a brief overview, here’s how to install Wordpress using Fantastico.  Open Fantastico from your cpanel.  Then, look down the left hand side where it says blogs.  The third option is Wordpress.   Click on Wordpress, then select new installation.  Choose the domain you’ll install it to, choose your user name and password,  and press Install Wordpress.  After that, you can log into your wordpress site by going to http://yourdomain.com/wp-admin.

Once you have Wordpress installed, you need to choose a theme.  You can go through the Wordpress site, but none of those fit well into a review style theme. You can also have a webmaster design a theme for you, but that will cost you at least $500.  If you’re just starting out, that can be too much money.  Instead,  I advise you to search online.

You’ll find both free and paid templates online.  Free is great, but most will have coding errors or not be easily customizable, so you’ll need to know HTML.  If you can find a good paid template, I’d advise you to look into it.  Most run about $70-$100.

However, I’ve found one I really like for much less.  It’s easy to customize, looks professional, and even comes with a choice of headers.  Plus the price is unbeatable.  Interested?  Go watch the video of it in action here.

 

Mr sunjie Who is a student from Harvard University. He is interested in Make money online, writes about Blogging Resources ,Wordpress Themes, Technology and Make money online.

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Learn More About The Benefits Of Choosing A WordPress Friendly Blog Hosting Provider

October 28, 2009 by IBI · Leave a Comment 

Is the blog hosting service you are reviewing WordPress friendly? This is a question that is frequently overlooked when it comes to deciding on a web hosting service.

If you hadn’t considered installing WordPress on your present domain, this is easily overlooked. As well, many might assume that if the provider supports the installation of WordPress, that WordPress friendly blog hosting features will not be an issue.

Much to their regret, many bloggers find that despite the fact that their blog hosting provider supports the installation of WordPress, their servers are not setup in a WordPress friendly manner.

The criteria for supporting the install of WordPress at this time, are as follows:

  • PHP version 4.3 or greater
  • MySQL version 4.0 or greater
  • Apache mod_rewrite module (optional)

Cpanel, which includes the Fantastico option for installing WordPress quickly and easily, is offered as the user control panel by a large number of blog hosting providers. The presence of Fantastico only means that the provider is setup with a means to easily install WordPress. The presence of Fantastico does not guarantee that the server WordPress is being setup on has been configured to be WordPress friendly.

Only if you, the user, are able to edit and make changes using the WordPress interface without the need to first change file permission levels, would a blog hosting service be classified as WordPress friendly.

If the server you are assigned to is not WordPress friendly, a great deal of extra time will be required to work with your WordPress files.

The procedure many are required to follow when working with a non-friendly setup of WordPress is as follows:

  • Access files on your server
  • Identify the files requiring permission changes
  • Record the current file permissions
  • Change file permissions to a level that allows you to work
  • Return to the WordPress interface and make the required changes
  • Reset file permissions to their original levels
  • Repeat the next time that changes are required

As you have probably gathered by now, this method can become very time consuming. It also presents an opportunity for error where you may not properly record the original permission levels, or where you may fail to reset the file permission levels and leave your files vulnerable to hackers.

If on the other hand, your blog hosting provider has setup its servers in a WordPress friendly manner, you would only need to login to the WordPress dashboard interface to edit files and manage themes and plugins.

Yet another consideration would be the fact that many hosting services allow you to host multiple domains on your hosting account.

The fact that many hosting packages also include the ability to add multiple domains is yet another reason to determine if the hosting service being considered is WordPress friendly.

WordPress as a means of providing content to readers is continuing to rise in popularity. Even if your current plans do not include the use of WordPress on your primary domain, it may be something you will be interested in using on another domain, sometime in the future.

Ensuring that the blog hosting service you choose is also able to provide friendly WordPress blog hosting will allow you to leave your options open and meet any future needs you may encounter involving WordPress in the future.

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3 Blogging Tips

October 27, 2009 by IBI · Leave a Comment 

Setting up your blogging site is incredibly easy, although if you have no idea how to do that this can be a tricky and frustrating thing to figure out. You’ve landed on the answer to your problem here so take a deep breath and let’s get started down the road to success shall we?

I will take you through a three step process that will enlighten you very easily and open your awareness forever. You will see just how simple it is in a moment.

Step One: Setting up Your blog site

Setting up a blog site is as simple as getting a domain name and a hosting package. Even the cheapest (in the hosting world cheap never equates to useless just less than another hosting package with more features) hosting has a blog script built in that will get your blog infrastructure going for you. All you have to do once you set up your hosting package is to go into the Cpanel (make sure it has this type of panel actually) and click the “fantastico” icon. This is a packaged and generic (but extremely customizable group of blog scripts).

Inside you will find a series of scripts that you can use to set up your blog atmosphere. The blog script of choice with many marketers is wordpress for reasons of being easy to use, highly customizable, and upgradable with plug-ins.

These scripts are built into your hosting already so you just follow the prompts after double clicking the icon for wordpress and it will guide you through setting it up. Wordpress has a large community forum base you can visit if you need help setting it up. You will in time learn all about how to play with it to make it your own design.

Now that you have your blog site set up let’s set it up to generate money once we put content on it, this is step two -

Step 2: Monetization of your Blog property

There are some very intriguing ways to generate money with your blog property. You can play around with them and see which one works best for you. The only way to see which will work for  YOU is to test market. You can always switch back to one if the other fails.

1. AdSense textual or pictorial ads

AdSense is a popular way to monetize your blog property because what happens is you essentially add a piece of code where you want google to drop relevant ads on your page usually on the side bar or at the top of the blog pages. When people write articles on your blog site their articles will become laced with these ads wherever in the template you put the code. Again you can use the forums at wordpress to learn how to insert this, there are many ways to do this. When people click the ads you get paid, simple as that. It is a numbers game. The more blogs you write or get others to write and the more traffic you get to your site the more money will pour into your AdSense account.

You sign up for your adsense account at google.com.

2. You can place your own advertisements on the blog as well which will appear on every page just like the ads. This is a more advanced form of monetizing so you may want to start out with AdSense first to get a feel for how it works. If you do go with this option you will simply put banners on the site with code and offer to rent the space. The person paying for the space will supply the banner and will pay you for an agreed upon rate for the use of your blog space (primarily your traffic will determine how valuable this space will be).

3. You can use a method that is a cross between options one and two. Click bank is an affiliate site and offers a banner revolver that essentially puts your affiliate ID on all of the ads and every time the page is refreshed a new ad is displayed. The products in the ads are essentially being advertised so they go to a sales page. If anyone clicks through you don’t get paid but if they buy the product you get a usually high commission of around 60% of what the product sells for. It fluctuates between sellers but this could be a valuable way to generate an income stream.

4. You could incorporate a few different ideas such as adsense AND clickbank. You may want to check with the respective sites to make sure it’s ok to put both on the same page as sometimes they have rules against this sort of thing (to avoid competition).

Step 3:  Build Traffic, your bread and butter

Now you have your property set up you need some blogs to give people a reason to be there (and hopefully they will click an ad). You can write your own blogs or you can invite others to do so. Many people when starting a blog site will outsource hundreds of articles to instantly populate the blog site which invites others to write write on it. For every blog page you put up you should do a rewrite of the blog of about 400 words and insert a linkback to the blog site and publish this rewrite (make it different and unique from the original just recycle the concept not the words) to an article submission site to get linkback traffic. This will raise your search engine ranking thus bringing more traffic to your site.

That’s it. Publish, rinse and repeat!

Submitting to various article websites is a must for good quality backlinks to your website. Your first spot is AuthorsLog.com. Click here.

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Wordpress Blogging Advantages and Web Hosting

October 26, 2009 by IBI · Leave a Comment 

Blogging websites and web sites that have Wordpress blogging software attract more traffic because they are search engine optimized out of the box, make more money and are more interactive than traditional websites without blogging capability. I know this about blogging websites from my own experience. I am so glad I not only have blogging websites, but that I use Wordpress for them. In fact, I use this platform for over a dozen sites that brings tons of visitors each and every month. Are you convinced yet that a website using Wordpress blogging tools is the best option?.

The great thing about Wordpress is you can make your blogging website look like anything you wish…even a traditional web site. This blogging website tool can be found for FREE with many of the discount web hosting providers we review right here.

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Installing Wordpress blogging websites can be accomplished in two simple and easy ways:

1. You can install Wordpress blogging websites with one click through Fantastico ( a bunch of free scripts) located in the cPanel-control of many discount web hosting sites like BlueHost, HostGator, Host Monster and LunarPages.
2. You can install Wordpress through an FTP program. This second method is a little bit harder, but gives you a little more control about where to place your blogging websites files.

Overall, Wordpress is the blogging program that will help you the most if you are looking to build a website that not only attracts visitors, but also can help you make money online writing about the stuff you love and are good at.

David Butler, the author of this article, is a Christian businessman, and has several web hosting sites, Affordable Web Hosting 4U, HostGator Reviews and Bluehost Reviews.

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