How To Buy a Website Online
Buying a website can have advantages over building one. It just depends whether you have the knowledge or resources to do so. When you are looking to buy a website, make sure it’s a complete solution. Some advantages of buying a website are it could be already producing income, ranking for certain keywords or just plain save you a lot of time.
Once you have bought a website, promoting your website will be the key to it’s success along with the content that is in your website. Those are the things you will focus on if you wish to have a successful online business. This is where the work starts. This is what will demand the most of your time, because if you do not promote your website, the customers will never come your website. They won’t be able to find you out of the millions of websites that are out there.
There are several things you will be doing with your new website. First and foremost, you will be writing articles like this one about the products and services you sell and topics related to them. You will also spend time submitting these articles to websites that offer free content to webmasters.
A lot of website owners are hungry for good original content. They go to these content providers and pull articles related to their products and services and put those articles into their websites. Since your article, like the one I am writing here, has an author bio section at the bottom with links to your website, every website owner that inserts your article into their website is now another website that links to you.
That increases your link popularity, which in turn helps you get better listings in search engine results for your keywords. Writing at least one article everyday will move you up in the search engine rankings before you know it. This is my fourth article for the day, just to give you an idea of how much I’m willing to promote my website.
You can also post a lot on blogs and forums that are related to your products or services. In the signature line you put a link to your website. In this subtle way you not only create another website that has a link to your website, but by participating in the forum or blog you may just have users there want to see your website and might want to buy your product or services.
Just remember that when you buy a website, make sure to pick a niche that you are interested in as well as finding a seller that will provide additional information to help you along the way.
Where to Find Cheap Hosting
To save money on hosting you can look for a hosting company that offers a free trial for 30 days. This allows you to install your website and test out the features and functions that they offer.
If you go this route then make sure you test out their customer service department. See how long it takes for a support ticket or question to be answered. Can you call them or do they have an online support chat system?
During this time look into the features that your hosting company offers. Do they allow you to install a shopping cart or PHP scripts? Try to think ahead about what features you may require in the future and see if they cater to them.
Another way to find cheap hosting is to look for specials from hosting service providers. Many times you can find a coupon code that can save you a lot of money on hosting services.
You can also reduce your hosting costs by pre-paying in advance. Normally the more months or years that you pay for the cheaper your hosting becomes.
For example at Hostgator if you commit to a 3 year plan your costs will work out to just $3.96 per month. This gives you unlimited disk space, bandwidth and a shared SSL secure server.
You do need to be careful when looking for cheap hosting. The saying you get what you pay for is very true. Some hosting services may offer cheap, cheap prices but there is normally some downfall to this somewhere. They may not have a very good support system. If you encounter problems you will have to try and fix them yourself. This has the potential of having your website offline for hours if not days.
The best method for cheap hosting would be to look for coupons to use. If you can possibly afford to pay months in advance this is another very good option. By doing your homework you can compare various hosting providers and narrow down your choices. Plus don’t forget to ask fellow online marketers or businesses what hosting company they recommend. Word of mouth referrals are very powerful!
Is Free Hosting Reliable?
A free hosting account will allow you to set up your webpage quickly so that you can start sharing content with your family and friends. However, if you are running a business bear in mind that a free hosting service will often place advertisements on your site. These ads cannot be removed and can make your site look less professional.
Hosting reliability should be a key concern when choosing any type of hosting account. You want to be certain that your website is always up and running. Of course even the best hosting companies can have downtime. But you want to use a hosting provider which offers the least amount of downtime as possible.
Free hosting can suddenly disappear for hours or even days on end! Is this something that you are prepared for? Plus if you haven’t backed up your content you can lose everything. This could be valuable photos of family memories or important business documents.
All hosting providers will have certain terms and conditions that you must adhere too. With a free host you are not contributing to their monthly income. So if you unmistakably do something outside of their terms they can easily shut your site down.
One good use of free hosting is for running an experiment or test. If you want to experiment with a certain feature or product you can this at no cost. Once you have compiled your results you can decide whether or not you want to go with a paid hosting service.
Mind you free doesn’t not always mean inferior. You can get free hosting with sites like wordpress and blogger. These hosting companies offer great looking websites with thousands of themes available for users. But even these have ads on them. Plus it is quite common for people to suddenly lose their blog overnight for no apparent reason.
If you truly want peace of mind over your website and want to wake up each day knowing that your site is there, then a paid hosting service is your answer. For any information that you want hosted on the web on a temporary basis then by all means use free hosting for as long as necessary.
Understanding Hosting Fundamentals
Remember with a free website you have no control over how long it will be hosted for. You can easily wake up one morning and the site is gone, along with all your hard work!
Hosting can be confusing so to help you understand why you need hosting I will try to explain the concept of hosting fundamentals.
Every webpage or blog has pages full of content including text, images and videos. For people to access these pages the entire site has to be accessible. This is done by purchasing a domain name and then hosting the name on the internet.
The hosting portion is done by a hosting company. For a fee they will allow you to upload your content and make it viewable for visitors.
Hopefully you now understand why you need hosting. It allows you to have secure web pages on line and gives you control over how your site looks and what type of content you place on it.
Choosing Your Web Host
Of course there are plenty of hosting companies to choose from. To help you narrow your choices down take the following points into consideration. You will then be able to make a wise hosting decision.
- Is this a personal or business site?
- Do you have a budget for hosting?
- How big do you plan or growing your website?
- Do they offer Cpanel?
- Are you uploading lots of images?
- Will you require a shopping cart and payment method?
- Do you plan on installing a forum?
- If running a business will you need to set up an affiliate program?
- What type of security does your site require?
- Does the hosting company offer website templates?
- Will your account allow for growth or upgrading if and when you require more space?
- Is there a support desk and an online customer service system?
As well as thinking about what features you want for your site you need to think about how much work you are prepared to do if things go wrong! Does the hosting company offer free support or will they charge you extra to go into your account and fix something?
Each web hosting company offers different packages and features. Be sure to check each one at and make comparisons before making your final decision.
Why You Need a Good Hosting Service
Unfortunately hosting services come with a multitude of options and features. Sometimes trying to decipher these can be frustrating. To narrow down your choices you want to compare various hosting services. This way you can clearly see what options you are getting with each.
Hosting services are available for free or as a paid service. Now free is often good and there is nothing wrong with this option. But when it comes to hosting your own website I would highly recommend you go for a paid hosting service.
Free hosting would be suitable for testing out a site or service first. Or if you want to just put up a family page you could choose free hosting. Just remember with anything free it could disappear on you though, just a friendly warning!
A good paid hosting service can run you anywhere from a few bucks up to hundreds of dollars. With such a difference in the price range you want to look at the features each hosting service is offering.
This is where it helps to try and plan out your website beforehand. You can then calculate just how much bandwidth and storage capacity you need. If you are running a business then having your pages load quickly is important. So is having the capability to allow people to download gifts or products from your site. You don’t want to run into issues because you suddenly get too many visitors to your site!
Some of the top hosting services are Hostgator and Blue Host but there are hundreds of others to choose from. Some of the key items to look for include looking at reliability issues. This includes things like customers complaining about too much downtime or having major security issues.
Customer service is another crucial element. If something goes wrong you want to know that your hosting service will fix it quickly. Having access to a ticket support system or online customer service support should be among your top priorities.
Make sure you fully understand the type of hosting service you are buying. Can you install multiple domains or only one? Plus I would advise you on having the ability to upgrade your account easily.
By taking the time to think and plan your website you can choose your hosting service accordingly. You definitely don’t want to have to move services!
Tips For Getting Traffic To Your Authority PLR Blogs
Let’s face it, building out an army of niche websites can be time consuming (and boring) which is why PLR blogs are such a great solution. These premade blogs are already loaded with articles, affiliate products and a great design so instead of taking several days to get your site up, you can literally be in business within an hour.
However, getting traffic to a PLR blog is a bit more of a challenge than a unique website simply because other people have the same content. But, you should not let that dissuade you from using them, because I’m going to show you the exact things you can do to easily get traffic, and profits, from your PLR websites.
WordPress 3.3.1 has now been released and is ready for download!
On January 3, 2012, the developers of WordPress released version 3.3.1 (security and maintenance release), which fixes 15 bugs/issues and also closes the zero-day cross-site scripting vulnerability that was found early this week.
The Cross-Site Scripting XSS vulnerability in version 3.3 could only be reproduced/tested using an IP address (not a domain name) via Internet Explorer
The XSS vulnerability that affected WordPress version 3.3 has been patched in version 3.3.1.
WordPress 3.3.1 Files Revised:
- wp-includes/nav-menu-template.php
- wp-includes/version.php
- wp-includes/functions.php
- wp-includes/user.php
- wp-includes/functions.wp-styles.php
- wp-includes/capabilities.php
- wp-includes/script-loader.php
- wp-includes/class-wp-admin-bar.php
- readme.html
- wp-admin/users.php
- wp-admin/includes/dashboard.php
- wp-admin/includes/update-core.php
- wp-admin/includes/template.php
- wp-admin/includes/ms.php
- wp-admin/js/common.js
- wp-admin/js/common.dev.js
- wp-admin/load-scripts.php
- wp-admin/press-this.php
- wp-admin/about.php
A big thank you goes out to the WordPress Team for closing the vulnerability so quickly and addressing the other 15 bugs/issues!
We recommend that you update your WordPress blogs to version 3.3.1 as soon as possible.
Motivation, Or Lack of it
This year (2012) I plan to get over this and boost my motivation and focus. One of the ways I have doen this is joined an Amazon Mini Sites coaching course and network group. This is a group of like minded IMers run by Lisa Gergets who I have admired for a long time. They have regular skype group meetings where you can rant and share your problems which seems to help “recharge my batteries”.
The second thing which I am really bad at is organisation. When my brain is all scrambled with things related and not related to my business, it doesn’t help when my notes and files are all over the place and when my desk looks like a warzone. I therefore plan to spend more time in 2012 to make sure my desk and computer is organised so that I can ike me and things you downloaded on your PC stored all over the place 
I also plan to set up some kind of to do list which may be via the skype group I belong to so everyone can see what my taks for the day is and help inspire me to work