20 July 2011 ~ 4 Comments

Amazon.com Fails the Customer Service Test

Anybody want to know why I don’t use Amazon.com more? Because their website prevents me from doing so. The last time I used Amazon.com to buy anything the address I was living at was different. usually on any online vendor like Ebay or Itunes you can retrieve your lost password by requesting a change code sent to your email. But not Amazon.com.

So in three different “custom service” queries, my zip code did not match my email login and my last four numbers of the credit card. Why the hell the password just didn’t reset it anybody’s guess. There is no option to fix this. very single way to get a forgotten or lost password is tied up in a transaction I executed 6 years ago.

Unlike websites with far more commercial savvy, (like Godaddy), and I kept going through the “customer service” queue, there was no other option except to get stuck in this endless trap. This is a bothersome and frustrating effect.

Why can’t Amazon.com operate their password retrieval operations for customers in any manner that doesn’t end in a hassle and frustration? This is a word to the wise both for shoppers at Amazon.com and those who would furnish an Amazon store online for their site visitors. Because those online users sharing my experience aren’t going to be clicking on any Amazon store products anytime soon.

When a website makes it this hard for you to spend money, run. Whatever business they are in putting the customer first isn’t it.

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09 July 2011 ~ 7 Comments

Domaining Trends & Traditions

Remember all those people who said the domain name game was falling into disuse and only a few big players would or could afford to be around this time this year? Well, all that conventional wisdom can be thrown out the window with a review of the news from the domaining landscaper of today. Some if it sounds new, some it sounds familiar. If it sounds like you’ve heard some of the news before, it means you are a card carrying domainer.

Make no mistake, the big names still govern the world of domains, and when Frank Schilling vends his millionth name or Google tries to partner with Skype, the headlines are about search engine movings and shakings. Yesterday Google was trying to establish specific infrastructure to take over the online world with categorical strategy, yet in the face of antitrust probes Google is suddenly a baby-faced child with no evil intentions whatsoever.

Online privacy has become an increasingly thorny issue, with major hackings taking place one servers in a disturbing frequency of instigation. When the ICE gets involved in domain names and hosting issues, commerce has arrived in the domain sector. The issues continue to make domainers wonder how much say they should have in their own industry. New precedents are being set every day for how domain name portfolio owners should make decisions about their names in the context of laws and ICANN regulations..

ICE claims that because servers are located in the United States, the material and code on those servers operates under American governmental jurisdiction. United States law enforcement has been in the news recently seizing potentially hackworthy servers, which should be more than enough to make rogue coders and sniffer system operators go dark. But does this mean clients of less than savory websites will simply seek out web hosting that is globally redundant? This makes the “redirect” of any webmaster to placing the hosting and domain name on separate servers of critical importance.

Some domaining debates will never grow old. Where does the value potential of country code top level domains really lie? Can peer domain name appraisals and monetization assessments be trusted? Do language barriers between character based alphabet lexicons interfere or enhance search engine results? Does a premium domain sale commission equal highway robbery? How far from cybersquatting is copyright infringement, and how much is a domainer liable for finding out? The argument over the efficacy of parking programs evolves endlessly and further again.

The perspective that domaining is an investment commodity market becomes more concrete when news about domain name sale commissions cloud the actual profit from any resale or auction purchase. Every domainer has to burn through a learning phase where backlink checkers, affiliate programs, web hosting complexities and comparative auction returns get examined. The fact that a modern domain name owner might have to wade through news feeds, purchased clicks, and paid posting is now a norm.

Domainers are now specialists in SEO, short names, numericals, and typo names. The establishment of a keyword domain name or a brandable domain can still make news when it resells in an auction frenzy. Flippa, SEDO, Godaddy and WhyPark are the talk of the domaining town. Traffic and parking programs have gone from performing a sidewalk shuffle to requiring approval to introducing innovative options again. Are domainers the customers of parking companies, or vice versa?

The exotic fringe of today’s practicing domaining professionals dance through a maze of traffic control, statistics manipulation, and illegal practices experimentation.Will the day come when actual Internet “Coast Guards” patrol the Web, actively chasing down smugglers of illegal clicks? International law works well in theory but when does a website operate in international waters?

Domainers may need to become astute in setting the deal terms in place when multiple continents are involved. The good news is that ideas become fresher and minds become more open to new website and domain based concepts as business online every day. Given the success of many nonsense words that became global brands that control online commerce today, the ability of anyone to select and leverage a domain name is now just a registrar shopping cart away.

Who knew that one day the Internet, not the sky, would be the limit?

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07 June 2011 ~ 7 Comments

WordPress Shopping Cart Options

Most new website customers or pickup webmasters will know how to use Wordpress and resist learning complex newer website applications. The use of an app like wpStoreCart is also a safe recommendation to make for any new or startup enterprise business user that had a catalogue or extant products to utilize the database plugins. This enables any Wordpress blog to become a shopping cart, with varying functionality on the back end.

The concept that a blog can be used as a sales tool is a common one, but many of those entrepreneurs who might most benefit from their domain hosting a blog based shopping cart. The website hosting account that has installation options for WordPress can also integrate its workings with the saved database information resident in the web hosting account. This transforms any historical blogsite into a content rich network on deep linked content that continues on to product listings. MarketPress,  RapidExpCart and QuickShop work too.

For diet-sized websites, the FatFreeCart allows instant creation of the “View Cart” and “Add to Cart” buttons right in your WordPress blog posts. This make affiliate reviews very readable content.

The Cf Shopping Cart application is an option for those who want a more customized look to their shopcart without sacrificing plug and play adaptability with Wordpress uses. Some Wordpress blogs can be started and compiled, publishing daily to garner new fans and new bookmarks.

These content rich posts can be historically embedded into the SEO machine online as soon as possible. Only later, when the fine tuning of the web catalogue and the more stringent social network strategy gels, can the website user become more proficient at administrating the more complicated functions within the shopping cart administration.

Many new vendors, Ebay  sellers and other online vendors believe they have to developed a full fledged custom website for a sales portal. This is neither true nor time efficient. A simple solution to how to sale items online with pictures, descriptions, shipping details and specifications is to install a shopping cart software application. But the unfamiliar names of these shopping cart applications will seem strange to the very people who need them.

Avactis, CF Shopping cart, MiniKart, Duka, and others provide options for Wordpress users to form an entire sales platform inside a Wordpress installation.

Beginner WordPress users will be looking for a shopping cart plugin that they can install and understand the use of easily. The complexity of the offerings of many shopping cart softwares aren’t even needed by most users. But the advanced know-how required to evaluate the Wordpress software is more than beginners can muster. They must know the ease of use values in relationship to the business uses the Wordpress shopping cart  is for, which only comes with the very experience that takes away the need for a cribbing.

Beginner uses looking to adapt a Wordpress into a shopping, or add shopping car functionality to an existing website have choice beyond Amazon.com and Ebay plugins. These work with custom fields in a database used currently by the business owner. Since any spreadsheet can be made into a database using Access, the import of the item number fields, inventory information, and financial transactions can be implemented into an existing WordPress blog.

MiniCart is another WordPress compatible shopping cart for integration with blog engines.
Allows embedding items into posts and can be used for donations. Avactis Shopping Cart uses sales affiliate widgets for discretionary application within WordPress. One basic tip when merging databases is to create a unique record identifier that will always the shopping cart administrator.

Using DukaPress is another way that Wordpress blog users can customize the way their cart looks when incorporated into a Wordpress. For more advanced users, the DukaPress plugin creates the backend inside the Wordpress architecture for those who don’t want to read a huge manual. If the domain name is also one with the word “store” in it, additional content can be quickly added to that site if it is installed as WordPress or has a wordpress directory on the file tree.

For hand on data users, posts mentioning certain products can also incorporate the post ID as the product code. This happens automatically with YAK, a funny word for a workhorse open source e-commerce plugin.  YAK is a WordPress Shopping Cart that supports posts and pages as products, allows multiple purchase options and supports item categories.This makes an excellent addon for xisting sites where the webmaster does not want to tinker with existing architecture too much.

FoxyShop is one option if the domainer is looking for something a little different. The application for FoxyShop is actually a  WordPress Shopping Cart owned plugin. The free Plugins can be easy to install or nightmares, depending on the template. FoxyShop is one that connects to the FoxyCart shopping cart service.  With FoxyShop you can user WordPress for inventory management. This plugin offers a full API that allows developers to create a custom ecommerce solution.

Wordpress Simple Cart is just what it sounds like. Items from a resident worksheet or online file app can be combined using the utility of a Wordpress interactive menu. If you or a domain owner, or website client want a massive utility for vending wares added or linked to from another site. A simple WordPress installation will also enable a shopping cart that supports WordPress Multisite and BuddyPress.

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02 April 2011 ~ 1 Comment

Facebook Era Marketing

Many domainers can exercise options in their Facebook account for their own business benefit. The use of Facebook as an online graph of the social appeal and marketing utility of their brand message is part of the new business model of e-commerce and promoting services online. But for many business process vendors and business to business product launches, the challenge of effecting Facebook conversions is daunting.

Facebook is an excellent testing tool for promotion since it already has a high guaranteed traffic of all demographics. The graph of traffic from a variety of social users can be as useful as a domain value assessment, and these instruments of measurement can be website based applications themselves. This is a business-to-business type of domain development investment. B2b domains furnish portals for sales vectors into mass purchase business product sales to all kinds of companies.

But the identification of a domain name as a potential business and the development of the website to support that domain name does not complete the business model of bringing a contemporary product or service to the online and e-commerce market. Tangents of message overlap, vectors into mass entertainment and publicity channels for viral marketing, and entrance into key networks of likely customers and buyers is critical.

Professionals in the online domain industry can testify that unique url addresses do not guarantee user purchase volumes or visitor traffic without consumer sensitive development of a website and promotional campaign to alert potential customers of their offering. But domainers can market their domain and use Facebook to test the appeal of the domain name. The sale of any domain name might include a Facebook account for that domain name with a marketable number of Friends.

But FaceBook is a very broad amphitheater of public taste and communication. Narrowing the channel of focus between technology and business professionals can slim the chaff from the overly spammed profile of every online business social network user. Long term use of hand edited use groups on Facebook can make any domainer a public relations end user and broadcast channel all by themselves.

The appeal of a website or a domain name can stem from the country of origin, the language of a domain keyword, the number of letters in the domain, the country code or top level domain dependent after the domain word, or previous ownership and page ranking in the search engines. But since Facebook is now worldwide, the need to be effective in broadcasting the message for your product or domain market is spread over multiple languages.

Using Facebook as a global touching point for marketing and promotions means any person in any country that can navigate the Facebook search bar or user interface can find your brand product or service. Promotion of a domain name for sales of that domain or website or even the social network conduit itself can now be done using metrics of usership and visitors. And a domain is the very best way to pique the interest of any online browser.

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24 October 2010 ~ 2 Comments

Top Websites Online

1.        Earth.google.com    www.earth.google.com
2.        Facebook.com        www.facebook.com
3.        Youtube.com        www.youtube.com
4.        Yahoo.com        www.yahoo.com
5.        Live.com        www.live.com
6.        Baidu.com        www.baidu.com
7.        Hu.wikipedia.org    www.hu.wikipedia.org
8.        Blogspot.com        www.blogspot.com
9.        Qq.com        www.qq.com
10.        Twitter.com        www.twitter.com
11.        Blogger.com        www.blogger.com
12.        Yahoo.co.jp        www.yahoo.co.jp
13.        Taobao.com        www.taobao.com
14.        Google.co.in        www.google.co.in
15.        Sina.com.cn        www.sina.com.cn
16.        Amazon.com        www.amazon.com
17.        Google.de        www.google.de
18.        Google.com.hk    www.google.com.hk
19.        Wordpress.com    www.wordpress.com
20.        Google.co.uk        www.google.co.uk
21.        Linkedin.com        www.linkedin.com
22.        Microsoft.com        www.microsoft.com
23.        Ebay.com        www.ebay.com
24.        Bing.com        www.bing.com
25.        Yandex.ru        www.yandex.ru
26.        Google.fr        www.google.fr

27.        Google.co.jp        www.google.co.jp

29.        Google.com.br        www.google.com.br

31.        Craigslist.com        www.craigslist.com
32.        Conduit.com    www.conduit.com

34.        Flickr.com    www.flickr.com
35.        Craigslist.org    www.craigslist.org

39.        Myspace.com    www.myspace.com
41.        Google.es    www.google.es
42.        Imdb.com    www.imdb.com

46.        Youku.com    www.youku.com

48.        Paypal.com    www.paypal.com

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18 September 2010 ~ 14 Comments

Domain Calculation Beginnings

Have you gotten bogged down with everyday activities and missed a prime domain name deleting from your hosting or registrar account? Assigning an old email address, spam filtering, and the wearying upsell chain of emails from your hosting account and registrar can make even the savviest domainer skip any subject lines from those domain auto-generation lists.

Make a spreadsheet or get a small notebook. On each page (or in each column) write down the name of the domain you bought, the place you purchased it, how much, and the expiration date. If you have the Paypal address or the email contact and name of the person who sold it to you, this could be queried later on if there is a contested name change.

If you used an online forum, resales portal or auction house, get the user name and note whether or not the person exchanged proper trader rating data. Selling a domain name can be something that domain owners trumpet to the skies, especially if they made a profit. Following the purchase, Google the domain name to see if any comments (or protests) regarding the domain name sale have been published online.

The domain purchase price becomes the new start value for the domain. Every marketing cost or time investment must evaluated for change in domain value from here on in. Don’t use any other projected values discussed in the negotiation phase of acquiring the domain. Those are not concrete. Your goal is to change this domain name purchase value and increase it until the name can be marketed for resale.

Create  a page in the notebook or spreadsheet for domain traffic and SEO measurements. It is worthwhile to note online metrics generators searches for the name on such and such a date, and tabulate changes at these same generators for the name later on. If you jump around using sweetheart sites to get the values you want, the data validity won’t be as strong as all values over time.

As stated, the domain purchase price is the establishing value. This value can be inserted into a variety of formulas. These formulas can be used to generate reports for domain name auction or resale data later on. By establishing an origin data point for all your domain calculations from then on, you can make a quarterly growth table for all the values. These would be traffic, new user signups, offer inquiries, or ad responses and Google revenues.

The notebook domaining method can be used if you only have one or two domains and don’t feel a need to mechanize the data. But it gets easier as you buy more domains to just add the basic information and let legacy formulas through the sreadsheet take over the work for you. Also, exporting data be  comes easier to cut and paste into a computerized spreadsheet, especially if you are catching up.

Regarding domain name expirations; If you outline the Expiry date in red, or sort regularly once a week to check domain name expirations in the spreadsheet, you do a quick check for renewals due, So, when the panic strikes in the middle of the night your most valuable domain is slipping away through the droplist, you can flip pages or scan the top dates for calmness.

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29 July 2010 ~ 6 Comments

What Would Google Do?

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Reading a book about Google was inevitable. This book was an eye opening primer in basic domain wisdom. But the knowledge inside the tome “What Would Google Do”‘ goes much further than any one online market segment. Written all the way back in 2009, much of the simplistic approaches to online business can be tooled especially to a domainer profit model.

Making smart mistakes, joining networks, and concentrating on delivering best product and nothing less is a welcome refresher. The concept that “life is  a beta” may be a soft sell to hard nosed domainers. References to the Google economy and the concept that middlemen are doomed may be up for debate or at least a half-hearted shrug.

The idea that “free is a business model” and that “nothing can compete with free” is being proven right now in realtime clicks and mortar stores with Panera bakeries. Neighboring eateries can’t compete with pay as you go prices. And Panera polishes its franchise with every chopped price. Google didn’t write the book (NPI) on business success but they do enjoy co-opting the brand.

Being collaborative is nothing new, neither is the concept of making mistakes well. Most industry advice books, especially in the tech related fields, emphasize trial and error. But this can be expensive for the everyday domainer. Thinking inside the gift economy, grabbing the freeware of the open source portal, and embracing the gift machine that is the Internet are all included.

Jeff Jarvis in “What Would Google Do” encapsulates and expands on his blog material from buzzmachine.com. If you are stranger to the blog this is all new news. Google and the Internet are indeed social media.And Jarvis explores several cases were the internet media is exploited incorrectly for public relations and profit motives. Jarvis preaches against being “evil”.

But somewhere the case is lacking that Google is guardian, the last bastion of a business seal of approval. The perception that a business operating outside the Google envelope needs to be “reformed’ may meet askance by several industry watchers. But Jarvis’ approach has brought new life to old company models. Is any business Google proof? Is that a good thing or a bad thing?

Domainers can best use this book as a tool to learn to think three dimensionally about to puncture and exploit captive domain traffic markets. Jarvis suggests giving control, respect and organization to customers, (which I seem to be alone in wishing more mobile customers of websites were on the receiving end of).  Information is power, but the idea that FaceBook is a “fake’ currency is intriguing.

Domainers can read this book and enjoy how Jarvis road maps certain domain markets and reveals potential domain name investment values to invest in. For a domain speculator to buy geo names or real estate names is nothing new, but it’s nice to hear a SEO expert say so too. Jarvis reports that the real estate market online is ripe for explosive development, and he’s right.

The application of Googlethink may not always heal. The case studies are contemporary, however, and deal with extremely relevant and updated business profit models such as airlines and “vanishing” newspapers are food for thought. Turning the customer experience around can make a domain (and its corresponding website) pay.

But a book spent evangelizing Googlification and Googlethink is not necessarily captivating reading. The success story wears thin because readers can’t start their own Google in the basement. Some readers may wonder how much of Jarvis’ advice can relate to markets where Google does not dominate, such as insurance and law. But maybe that’s for the next book.

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24 July 2010 ~ 30 Comments

Making Domains Mobile

After all the industry-speak and techno-blather about mobile apps died down, I was hoping these terms could die the death of so many over-hyped computer and Internet lexicon casualties. But it took an experience with a mobile device and a website that failed the mobile test to help me understand just what a mobile domain could deliver. Domains need to furnish mobile shortcuts to cellphone users beached on an overcooked website.

I was at a Starbucks trying to log into the Starbucks mobile website on my cellphone. I was trying to log into my Starbucks account and reload my card. Usually a website will make it very easy for you to spend money there. But not Starbucks. I navigated the website for 25 minutes and was not able to log in or reload my card. The Starbucks site simply wouldn’t allow it.  So much for the “rewards” program.

The problem is that Starbucks has not designed a website with mobile users in mind. It has designed a website that includes every coffee type to order, every philanthropic program, every possible non-coffee option jammed on the front page. Mobile users will burn minutes navigating this nightmare using the mobile internet access afforded by cellphones. Logging in is a challenge or a chore.

The Starbucks mobile experience was a joke. The Starbucks staff couldn’t help me do it. Every coffee type, promotional gift gimmick and rebranding idea was stuffed up front on the mobile menu. Starbucks thinks people in a hurry want to read about growing traditions in Costa Rica while thumbing the ‘reload” button. Too bad the site couldn’t handle it.

When a website stands in the way of the loyal customer repurchasing goods, there is a problem. This got me started thinking about a shortcut to set up online to access my favorite mobile apps. This would be a domain or site to use when trying to get online at my preferred sites. But could my web links enable logins where the mobile site destination architecture failed?

If you are a website designer or webmaster, you may have noticed lately that even the most titanic brand and websites have gotten simplified. The mobile version of many websites should not be necessary. Only four or five main navigation pathways should be functionally necessary on any website. Categories of links should sort them in navigable order. Vending goods or services should have priority and a clear path to mobile access.

Using the alphanumeric keypad for my cellphone’s internet navigation portal is troublesome and not particularly intuitive. And when Googling results I often have to take the luck of the draw just to speed navigation to a particular site. But what if a domain name or site set up a one stop shopping spot where I could navigate favorites without storing them on my cellphone? And what if somebody put up a panoply of websites with links to the immediate business send of the these websites, so I wouldn’t get lost in navigation limbo?

Food for domain thought. When reviewing the drop lists and thinking up new mobile names, think about the types of sites people want to access most. Think about how many of these portals are loaded with too many bells and whistles, overdesigned web sites and landing pages crammed with every conceivable public affairs message and brief. There are too many.

Closing the distance between the point mobile users want to get to and where they start can reap big rewards for clever webmaster domainers. Domain buyers should keep an eye out for quick typeable short names that deliver custom link pages or sorted quick links to popular and difficult to find necessary links. There could be traffic in it.

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09 June 2010 ~ 4 Comments

Basic Online Domaining Skills

Domaining is one of the best things about the World Wide Web. Anyone can do it. There is no ethnic tabu or gender restriction, educational bias or language barrier. The web allows individual users their own path to domaining success. The domain name game is a custom career with no checklist or required curriculum to start or actively participate in online.

And it is a myth that every domainer webmaster or site designer has to know all the code types and applications administration tasks in the beginning. the learning curve of a domainer is both a challenge and a reward. Domainers make excellent peer advisors. Learning to navigate the basic starting points of owning a domain and promoting it for resale can be the start of many lasting online relationships.

Online web travelers from all over the world use the internet every day to traffic in domain names and related products. Being able to make websites, engineer hosting account setups, and administrate open source applications are some of the skills needed for domain name careers. Hosting account ownership and registrar commerce is a must for domainers. Studying the interactions and execution of domain purchase, registration, transfer and hosting of names and websites are pivotal domaining skills.

A robust Internet connection with some tolerances for crisp security and ISP access is suggested. Facebook access and experience using Twitter is a bona fide asset to any domainer working online today. Niche skills like language or industry core competencies can lift a newby domainer into the advanced level of his group of interested name promoters and owners.

Domaining can be as multifaceted as the individual operator decides their business day online needs to be. Working offline editing HTML code or participation in domainer chat are equally valuable domain name development inputs. Photo editing, graphic design skills, and overall adherence to web standards is a valued set of skills that can become domaining sidelines for other domainer clients.

Basic computer skills and word processing facility is very much utilized in domaining and basically any online editing of text and material. Indexing a numbered list, or formatting a bullet point in the code might be needed one day and then never again. Some spreadsheet analysis may occur using traffic statistics but graphic representation of these reports is commonly available.

People generally want to know what to expect when they break into the domain name game and how the industry works. The individual domainer will produce his own agenda and set his own standards about how their day or   week or month will progress in terms of domain acquisition and resales. Redesigning or editing sites for user ease of use is a common task.

Domainers usually hire subcontractors to get little things like code editing or site patches done, as it is not a good use of their time to learn a skill from the ground up when it can be done by an online domainer professional. The skills domainers learn ramping up in the job make them feasibly able to perform these tasks for others as well. Search engine optimization and link building are almost domain industries of their own.

The schedule of a domainer can be arduous or part time. The domainer can spend all their time scanning drop list auctions, reading technology tutorials, or building social network relationships with other domainers. All can be equally valuable. The underlying trait of a successful domainer is the willingness to learn and the ability to actively participate online in business areas relating to domain name commerce.

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31 May 2010 ~ 116 Comments

5 Name-Free Careers in Domaining

Domain name careers can scare off some of the newbie domainers because they sense  a ton of hard money has to funnel into those bursting domain portfolios. Those domain names took time to buy and resources to amass. Many domainers started small. And some concentrated  effort has been done buying and selling names  instead of developing core competencies in domain services.

But getting in on the ground floor of a career with website developers and name owners is the most available free occupation opportunity and career education online. Here are some ways to earn money in the domain space without ever owning a domain name. The domain world is one where the ramp up to any point in the compass to profit starts on its own tilt.

1. Template Maker

For every open source application or freeware website type, each website owner or blogger wants a custom look for their template. The template is the group of files that organizes and projects the two dimensional look of the site. Because the application is open source, every like programmer will have a site that looks exactly the same. Templates can work on standard or custom designs and releases.

The scope of freedom to create a template is limitless. Downloads can be conveyed from a portal website free, fees charged for bulk access, custom design purchased, or donation-request vended basis. The designer can decide how much they want to charge for each. Sometimes a design is a feature a domain owner will invest more money in to make the site experience better.

2. Content Writer

Minisites and content articles are the development manna in answer to a domainer’s prayers. A college student, retired person, senior citizen or housewife could make 5 templates a day for a minisite and rework the keywords later. A minisite is an HTML file with areas of text added in. The density of repetition of certain key words serves search engine result dynamics, or SEO.

Article writers can earn page view money at Associated Content, Triond and other websites. Sites like Helium encourage a social network approach to writing earnings. Constant-Content orders work from selected writers. No college degree or topic restraints are resent. Writers can speak to the topics they are most qualified to author on or research new material and publish it.

3. Graphics Designer

Along with a logo and banner, most new websites will want avatars or iconic symbols to enhance their visual website brand in color. Devising a background image or set of icons for a website can be a creative outlet for many people just starting out in website illustration. Often a standard size for each application type has the same specifications, which allows for uniform fit in graphic design for websites.

Introduction to graphic design can be self taught. Online courses and college training classes are available now. Many free and basis graphics programs are available for download online. Resizing and recoloring many types of the same images in a class or category can provide some webmasters with choices when laying out their site.

4. Link Building

Link Building and site url promotion is one of the fastest developing careers online. Cementing search engine relevance of a site by planting posts with link backs and track backs all over the Internet takes time and skill. Knowing which highly SEO rated web directories can help a site get boosted to its highest optimized result is a knowledge few can claim. Doing this quickly for best results makes an online professional shine.

5. Site Marketing Guru

Organizing all of the above services from start to finish for a domain name is a business in and of itself. Writing press releases, finding new members, signing up for affiliates and publicizing the website for a given domain name is a full time job just for one name. And many domain name portfolio owners need to get active marketing for multiple domain names they want to promote.

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