Effective Advertising and Info Management

Great, you are ready to joing the millions of business doing business on the internet and broadcasting their information to an even bigger number of possible clients; you are now faced with some other details.

A Domain Name

First things first, if you own a business called “Pedrito Market”, you should buy the following domains:

pedritomarket.com

pedritomarket.net and

pedritomarket.info

Is not time for the “smart domains”

Use the words that describe your business and create something like these..

orlando-grocerystore.com

orlando-grocery-store.com

grocerystoreinorlando.com

grocery-store-orlando.com, etc

Get a couple of those domains as well, just get .com, dont worry about the other ones right now.

Ok now, here is the trick…
When you get a hosting service, give them one from the “smart domains” list. This, believe it or not, will help you with the search engines.

You might be asking what do you do with the domains using your business name…

Simple, have them redirect the visitors to the domain you are actually hosting.

How will this help you with the search engines?

Easy, search engines log the url (http://grocery-store-orlando.com)when someone types in “orlando grocery store” or any variation, the search engine detects those words within your url, which happens to be on every single page of your entire website! Of course, the search engine optimization of your website is also important.

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In the E-World your domain name is your first assessment of what your site
is about. It’s not just your site name but it is the first criterion of your
success on the Internet and when it comes to a point of success you must
hold it tight. It can make your business stand out in the crowd, or just float
aimlessly in space. Well many of us think that it merely plays any role but it’s
not the truth. Think if nobody remembers your site name or see no visual
look of what your site is about.

The temptation of a good domain name is so powerful; that’s why some
companies even paid ridiculously high prices to get the name they want. The
domains Loans.com and Wines.com were both bought for $3 million each.
Telephone.com was acquired for $1.75 million, while Bingo.com sold for $1.1
million.

So the main question is, what points we should consider when we choose a
domain name. For better results, your domain name should be memorable and
easy to remember. Remember the following tips when creating a domain
name.

* The domain name should be short.

* The domain name should be simple.

* It should be suggestive of your business category.

* It should be unique.

* It should be easy to interpret and pronounce.

* It should be personalized.

* It should not be difficult to spell.

* It should not be difficult to remember.

Domain names can be registered through many different companies (known
as “registrars”). You can register for 1 to 10 years - prices can vary
anywhere from $10 to $20 per year. Most web hosting companies, will handle
the registration process for you, but make sure that you are properly listed
as the owner of the domain when it is registered.

If you have registered a domain name for a specific period, make sure you
renew it in time. You can be surprised at the number of cases, where site
owners have let a domain name slip by if they have not renewed in time.

How to use expired domains:

Did you know you can use expired domains to skyrocket your traffic? Let me
tell you about expired domains first. Thousands of webmasters invest time,
effort and money to promote their site and build up traffic. Many of them
then lose interest and move on, leaving their site active. That means that
although they still own the domain, they’re not actively promoting it.

All the automatic marketing systems they’ve put in place are still bringing in
traffic. The site runs itself. Now, at some point the ownership of those
domains is going to expire. If you snap up those domains once they come
back onto the market, you’ve got a pre-built stream of customers. You can
either rebuild the site, or redirect the traffic to your domain. You could set
up an affiliate program get paid for users someone else paid for.

Its that easy.

Websites such as www.expiredtraffic.com or www.deleteddomains.com are
doing great job for expired domains. They actually do all the legwork and let
you reap all the rewards. Even you can back-order a specific domain name
also.

Do be careful when using other sites though. There are some swindlers out
there that will sell you subscriptions, provide you with outdated lists, take
your money and keep the good domains for themselves.

There are tons of options, and lots of easy ways to make lots of money with
very little effort. Opportunities like these are everywhere. All we need a
strong determination to succeed, and a good mentor.

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Marketing Encyclopedia” covers almost every topic of Internet marketing.
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thousands of dollars each and every month, visit:
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The toll free number 1-800-Get-Rich belongs to the Resorts
Casino Hotel in Atlantic City. Perfect vanity number for a
casino, right? Well apparently not. Their website shows the
actual numbers, 1-800-438-7424 for the marketing department
of Resorts Atlantic City. Those NUMBERS are nowhere near as
memorable as is the mnemonic device of letters representing
those numbers on the telephone keypad. It makes you wonder,
did the casino have bad luck (no pun intended) or receive
bad publicity for their 800-Get-Rich phone number?

Doing a Google search for 1-800-GET-RICH returns several spoof
articles using the toll free number to make light of get rich
quick schemes. Seems as well suited to a casino as to satire,
since gambling represents the ultimate get rich quick scheme.

But on the web there’s a another element to toll free numbers
you must consider. 800 numbers are used as domain names which
seem to stick in our memory as a web address just as well as
a phone number. Resorts Atlantic City Hotel Casino should buy
the domain name www.1800getrich.com from the current owner and assign their marketing department toll free 800 vanity number to the Casino instead.

The domain name www.1800GetRich.com is for sale as of this writing if you visit that web address. You can be certain that the current domain
owner knows that the toll free vanity telephone number is
owned by Resorts International Hotels www.resortsac.com which
matches the domain www.1800getrich.com. It has to be enticing
to think a large international hotel corporation may want his domain.

The casino owns the toll free number but isn’t using the
mnemonic for the numbers (GET-RICH for 438-7424). Makes you wonder about the history of the domain name, since WHOIS records show it was reserved only
this past May of 2004, AND the history of the vanity number
since it is going unused, at least on the web site. Hmmmm…

There are vanity phone number resellers online that actually
specialize in providing 800 numbers with matching domain name
for those seeking the consistent branding for their business.
Clearly this is simply a marketing ploy by savvy 800 number
vendors, as those domains may be full of hyphens and may cost
more than they should due to the perception of value-added.

An interesting aspect to toll free numbers as domain names is
that of 1-800 copyright and trademarks. Take for example, the
well known flower retailer 1-800-FLOWERS.com where they use
both the domain name and the toll free number. Both are copy-
righted and trademarked names and essential to the business.

Legal precedent allows trademark owners to confiscate domains
from “cybersquatters” who buy domain names containing trade-
marked or copyrighted words and phrases hoping to sell that
domain back to the trademark holder. But it is less clear an
issue when it comes to descriptive toll free and vanity phone
numbers. How about 1-800-PINDROP.com - which you would think
would be registered to Sprint Communications? Curiously, as
of October of 2004, this domain was available. What do they
use? www.pindrop.com (without the 1-800) goes to Sprint.com.

It appears there are wide inconsistencies in using toll free
800 phone numbers as domain names but they can be memorable,
which is one measure of a good domain name. They also aren’t
limiting as to word length. I’ve always felt it’s a bit odd
to type in 1800keywordphrase.com as a domain name, but only
because there is no hyphen in it. 1800 looks like eighteen
hundred and is just as strange as typing 247 for domains as
a suggestion they are always open, more often seen as 24/7,
but domain names can’t have that slash mark in them.

As a matter of fact, I’ve always disliked numbers of any
kind in domain names - especially those using numbers in
place of the words “to” (up2me.com)& “for” (good4you.com)
But, as owner of http://website101.com I’m at odds with the
dislike for numbers in domain names. Still, it works better
than 1800website.com or 1-800-website.com, both owned by
Verio Web Hosting and both purchased in August of 1996, but
neither have web sites configured at those addresses. They
must not have been a worthwhile domains, yet they keep them.

If it offers you another option for a memorable web address,
800 number domains may be worth considering.

Mike Valentine operates WebSite101 domain name tutorial
http://WebSite101.com/Domain_Name/
Free domain lookup tool to find out who owns domain names at
http://website101.com/Domain_Name/Domain-WHOIS-database.html
This article written for 800 Numbers Toll Free
http://800numberstollfree.com/toll-free-800-number-index.htm

Must ICANN decide your and my ‘dot com’ fate? Going by recent reports, it seems very likely. But before embarking on the issue, let’s hark back a little.

Some time back, at the second World Information Summit at Tunis (16-18 November, 2005), a widely-held apprehension surfaced rather unceremoniously. The issue was whether ICANN (Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers), a non-profit entity operating from California, US that maintains and controls a master list of generic domains, should continue to hold sway like it has so long been doing.

There indeed was strong opposition from third-world countries to let ICANN maintain its monopoly, especially with respect to the fact that ICANN is supposedly controlled by the US government’s department of commerce. Ultimately though the issue lost steam mainly because there was no unanimity as to how a multi-lateral system would work, should ICANN’s monopoly be shunned.

In this backdrop, when it became known that ICANN is reportedly entering into agreement with VeriSign that virtually allows the latter a perpetual monopoly over the .COM registry, it came as a rude jolt to the internet community. Countless people allover are aghast at the turn of events and worried that their internet business (related to .COM domain) will henceforth be at VeriSign’s mercy.

Let’s not forget that ICANN controls not only generic domains, but also country-specific suffixes like .in, .br, .jp and so on. That being so, what guarantee that ICANN won’t pass on their control to any third party? Folks, it’s tough time out there. If anyone is willing to join the issue, do click here.

Let’s remember this is not time to stay away when someone else’s house is burning. Next time it may well be ours.

Using the results from a domain search can help you to select a
good name for your online business. A domain name is part of a
website’s URL (Uniform Resource Locator). Essentially it is the
“name” portion of a website address.

Doing a domain search, to see what domain names are available
prior to naming your business makes good sense. If it is possible
for your domain name to give some indication as to what your site
is about or to contain your business name or brand identity, it
will much more memorable to return visitors to your website.

A domain search is the first step in selecting your own domain
name to purchase. If you are serious about doing business on the
net, it really is important that you buy your own domain name
rather than using a free one. Lots of web hosting companies offer
free domains that include their domain name with your name at the
end of it. While that may be advantageous for a personal website,
a business site will lose its credibility in a heartbeat if you
use a free domain. Your business can also be easily disrupted if
the web host ceases to exist or if you decide not to do business
when them anymore.

By choosing and purchasing your very own domain name after doing
a domain search, you will ensure the stability of your domain and
you’ll have a lot more flexibility. Once you’ve completed your
domain search and decided on the domain you want, you register
it. Even after it is registered, you can change web hosts without
having to change your domain name.

Search engines change their rules often about how much weight is
given to various components of a website. It’s a common belief
that the domain name is given some consideration in regard to how
a search engine ranks a website. For that reason, many website
owners try to include relevant keywords in their domain name.

To get some good ideas about keywords that may be useful for your
domain search, check out Wordtracker at www.wordtracker.com .
Wordtracker is a nifty online tool that tells you how popular
specific keywords are. It is undoubtedly the best keyword
research tool around. When you search for a particular word in
Wordtracker, you’ll get a list of suggested keywords and keyword
phrases that are similar. The reports Wordtracker generates will
tell you the popularity of the suggested keywords and keyword
phrases as well as giving you great ideas for niche phrases.

It is best if you can choose a name for your business that has an
available domain name in your domain search results. Otherwise,
people who are looking for your business by name, may be
misdirected to someone else’s website if they hold the registered
domain name. If you choose a business name or you have one
already that doesn’t use keywords or isn’t terribly relevant to
what your website is about, you should still register the domains
for your business name. You can also register domain names from
your domain search that are relevant and do contain keywords.
Multiple domain names can be set up to redirect traffic to your
active website when they are input into a browser.

If you really want a specific domain name that is not being used
but your domain search shows that it is unavailable, you may be
able to buy it from the registered owner. There is a “Who Is”
service that you can use to find out who owns a particular
domain. To access this resource go to www.whois.sc . Using this
domain search service you can find out who the registered owners
of a domain are and you can track domains to be informed when
they expire and buy them then.

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Imagine you’re the owner of a successful Web site, but when you logon one day all you get is an error message. Or worse yet, the domain name now points to a site full of advertisements. That’s right. You’re out of business.

This happens every day because of a perfectly legitimate process known as “drop catching,” where people quickly snag the domain names owners have let expire and try to resell them or use the links associated with the names, which could be extensive, to create Web sites loaded with advertisements. You can easily avoid becoming a victim of a drop catcher by better understanding how the domain registration system works to protect your domain name.

Your Web site, with all the content you have so painstakingly added, sits on a computer with a unique address called an IP address, which is simply a series of numbers. A domain name is an address forwarding service that directs visitors to the site using this IP address. Domain names are used instead of numbers because most people find it easier to remember a name rather than a bunch of numbers. It’s as if you could dial your friend’s name into the telephone instead of his phone number.

You can purchase a domain name by registering it with a provider of domain services such as GoDaddy.com , the largest on the Web, or any number of other registrars. The name can be registered for just one year, for about $10, or for as long as ten years, for around $80. Many register for only one year because it’s cheaper, or they only want the site for a limited time.

At the end of the year, the registrar usually sends an email renewal notice to the owner. If the owner doesn’t respond to the renewal notice, the domain name will eventually be made available for purchase by someone else. Roughly 20,000 domain names become available every day because the owners allowed them to expire, or the owners didn’t realize that their domain name was up for renewal

According to the rules established by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers(ICANN), domain registrars have 45 days after the expiration date to notify the owner that their domain name is going to be dropped from the registry. If the name is dropped, the guidelines then call for a 30-day grace period during which the owner can still claim the name. After this grace period and then another five-day holding period, the name is dropped from the registry and anyone can claim it.

Since 2004, however, a number of domain service providers, starting with SnapName.com, have created an auction process for expired names which bypasses the original drop process and makes the names available in as little as thirty days. GoDaddy.com begins the auction process even before the names have officially expired, although it does warn the auction participants that the owner could still claim their name.

These providers of domain services each have tools on their sites to make it easier to grab expired names. They provide constantly updated lists of expired names, various auction services, search engines, and other free tools for anyone to quickly and easily find available domain names. Some sites also offer software for sale that further simplifies the search for expired and soon to be expired names.

With the surge in online advertising, drop catchers will continue to seek out domain names from sites with good traffic, anxious to exploit the established links. Protect your site and your business by checking the expiration date of your domain name. Relying on the registrar to send a renewal notice that could easily be sent to an old email address or get lost in the spam catcher, could cost you years of hard work.

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The Federal Trade Commission realizes that the Whois Data Base information can be hidden from view for only $9.00 per year for domain name owners. Many scam website frauds can therefore hide for weeks until a court order is issued to turn over that information. This helps Spammers, Phishers and Identity Thieves pull scams.

But critics say that if people allow their listing then they get bombarded with Spam too. Spammers scour the Whois databases and collect email addresses to Spam us all with. So it is a Catch 22 in that the FTC needs to get to these Spammers websites and find out who-is-who, but privacy people say they are not happy with the Federal Trade Commissions request and cite that the FTC has been unable to stop Spam anyway.

Therefore why is the FTC violating privacy rights, when they are suppose to stop Spam, which has gone up some 3000% since the Federal Trade Commission started to attempt to go after all the Spammers?

Meanwhile, now there is a legal battle brewing and the FTC is looking rather incompetent these days as they had two-lap tops stolen in Scottsdale AZ with 110 personal identification information on of employees? Ouch? So is the FTC on its last leg these days or what? Dah? Talk about incompetence? Consider all this in 2006.

Lance Winslow

Each and everyday you hear stories about some name getting thousands of dollars from the buyer. You also jump right into the game of domaining and hope for that lucky day to arrive when someone might get interested in your domain name. Right?

The main problem with newbies over here is that they do very less research and start spending their money on useless names. After 6 months or a year their moral goes down the drain and they are back where they were but with lighter pockets then before.

Some people get into the trademark mess. They get sued by trademark holding company and then they show their temper openly on forums and other message boards.

Some can’t even monetize their domains to get the renewal fees for the upcoming period.

If you have 4 or 5 domains then you can surely shed the amount from your own pocket. But when the figure goes around 100’s and 1000’s it is very hard to renew the domains for the future.

My advice to newbies would be to stick at 25 to 50 domains. They can earn for 10 or 20 renewals per year if your names are below average. Some domain might get you more revenue and it can fill the gap for you. Ultimately the main thing is to not lose a domain for nothing. You should at least get its registration fees from it. This will not start downfall of your domain empire which you want to build. 1 dollar loss is also a big loss if you have more then 100 or 500 domains in your domain portfolio.

So what kind of domains you should buy?

Choose wisely on which name you are putting your money. Three characters .com’s are creating a lot of chaos right now in the market. Their prices goes sky high in domain name aftermarkets. Generic dictionary words are also long gone. New TLD’s are not so stable right now, dot-com still rules the internet. You might get lucky in some other TLD’s but I wouldn’t advice you if you are new in the game.

4 letters have 456976 combinations from AAAA to ZZZZ. Of them only around 5000 are left. Which is of course the garbage.

What do we do now if we still want to get out feets wet in this?

Look for some guy who is willing to sell his domain for less. There are plenty of places to find this kind of domains available for sale at lower prices. You can go to forums specially created for this kind of discussions. If you don’t know any then here is the one http://www.nameslot.com Go there look for some domains which might fall under our category and then approach the seller. Here also lookout for trademark issues and blacklisting for that particular domain. You can generally get this info from doing a whois search for that domain here http://www.whois.sc

Keep your eyes and ears open for latest news. It might shed some light and you might be the lucky one who grabs that name for just registration fees and sell it for 1000’s. Work on them and get every cent out of them. This will keep you in the game. The main thing over here is not to win the game but to be in it and be till the last.

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So many people have websites that simply sit out there in cyber space collecting dust when they could be generating a fair amount of money. The problem is that typical domain parking doesn’t help one get any traffic to their site to sell services, generate money from ad programs, or anything! Many of us settle for the terrible or even mediocre traffic that we get coming and going through our website, even when the seach engines aren’t helping us out any. Despite adding links and other things to your websites, you just cannot seem to drive traffic to your website. This is a common enough problem, no doubt. You can change all of this if you want to. If you are willing to think outside of the box and forego traditional domain parking you’ll find that your websites can be far more lucrative than they are now.

The reason that so many websites cannot seem to generate an interest or even steady traffic is because traditional domain parking does not provide you or your visitors with anything new or unique. There are literally thousands of identical parked pages on the Internet right now. Additionally, there is no content on your webpage for the search engines to follow or for visitors to read. The problem with the fact that your webpage doesn’t attract visitors or search engines is that those that do come only come once, and never return because the webpage doesn’t have anything to offer them.

If you are in this situation you need to change things up in order to find a better solution to your current problem. When you visit www.whypark.com you’ll find that you can change your website so that it is totally unique and will attract both people and search engines who will return again and again. WhyPark.com breathes life into old, dull, and boring webpages that have never attracted more than a few lost web surfers. WhyPark will provide your website with fresh, relevant content that is directed toward your target audience. Because you get to choose the keywords, you know that you’ll always have the best information as well as real content that is attractive to both the average web surfer as well as the very important search engines that will help bring you more traffic. Because you have great content, new and old visitors will return again and again because your content is ever changing and reliable.

Keyword rich content, keyword rich titles, and easy to follow index pages will make your website a favorite of search engines. This means that you will have more traffic, that you will rank higher with search engines, and you will simply be more visible, which is great for any webpage. You won’t have to worry about duplicate content or content that doesn’t make sense, this is the real deal, and it’s easy, affordable, and will pay off immediately as you see your websites rise through the ranks in a matter of days. Your website doesn’t have to continue to attract dust from non-use; it can become very popular very quickly with the help of www.whypark.com.

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A good domain name can be like prime real estate; the most valuable ones — the ones with easy name recognition — may already be taken. With a bit of creative brainstorming, anyone can come up with a good, memorable, available name. Here are three tips to get you started.

====> 1. MAKE IT EASY FOR CUSTOMERS TO FIND AND REMEMBER.

o Can they say it?

o Can they spell it?

o Can they remember it?

o Shorter is better.

o Focus on names that end in .com and .net (and .org if you’re a non-profit)all the other endings are useless.

o Be careful about punctuation and numbers: BlueToo, Blue2, BlueTwo, BlueTo, BlooToo, and Blue-Two all sound the same to the customer.

o Register common misspellings of your domain name.

Can’t think of a good name that isn’t already taken? Try this domain name suggestion tool: http://www.nameboy.com

====> 2. MAKE SURE YOU OWN IT.

I regularly talk to small business owners and even larger companies who are suprised to find out they don’t own the domain name where their own web site is located. Check “WhoIs” (http://www.networksolutions.com/whois/ or http://whois.opensrs.net) and see who is listed as the owner of your domain name(s). You should be listed as the owner, not your web site designer (although it’s fine if they’re listed as a technical or administrative contact). If your web designer registered your domain name on your behalf, get this resolved right away. Make sure:

o you own your own domain name;

o your contact information is correct and current; and

o you have the current login and password to your domain name registry.

====> 3. GET IT CHEAP.

o GoDaddy (http://www.godaddy.com) offers names as low as $8.95 per name, per year.

o 000domains.com (http://www.000domains.com) — the company I use — offers names for $13.50 per year.

(c) Copyright Jamila White. All rights reserved.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
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