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Get One Year Free Hosting – If You Hurry (Ends Aug 31)

Friday, August 7th, 2009

If you’re serious about earning online in the next couple of years, you know you need to set up your website in your own server, by getting a hosting plan you control. If you share the same belief, then you’re going to like 1&1’s latest offer…

HOT 12 Months FREE Web Hosting Offer. Insane 1&1 Internet August Special. One Year Free Hosting Deal Ends August 31st!

This is applicable for the second shared 1&1 package, which includes 2 free domains (free for life as long as you host with them) and larger web hosting space compared to the ‘beginner package’. Now you might be asking “what makes this 1-year-free promotion special?”

1. You can use the two free domains to set up different business models.

The first domain can be your blog, and the second can be an affiliate site. The best thing about this deal is that you can test drive both ideas for one year before the hosting meter starts to officially run. If you’re on the fence about this, try availing of 2-year plans elsewhere and check the price tag. Right now, getting another domain means you can set up another blog that isn’t hosted in a free server and have another revenue stream (monetize with SR, RM and CB)

2. Think of it as paying for hosting every two months, or paying half of the regular monthly price for 2 years.

You’re renting space online every month so you have an “overhead” cost to think about monthly. This means your blog or affiliate website has to earn higher than that amount monthly to cover the overhead and to show profit. Now, with this plan, you can ease that pressure slightly because the “rent” is cheaper.

3. You can finally own your “own name” domain

Because there are 2 free domains included, you can use one to get a keyword rich domain name, and you can use the other one to own a site that has your name on it. It’s no secret that we would rather prioritize the “earning” site than something that is truly ours. Now if you have an extra domain you can use for anything, you can finally put up a portfolio page that you can link to if you work as a freelancer on elance and getafreelancer.

Here’s how you avail of this offer until Aug 31: Click this special promo link and order the “1&1 Home Package” 24-month minimum contract term ($4.99 setup fee).

2 Ways to Sabotage a New Blog’s Success

Saturday, May 23rd, 2009

Blogging is still a hobby for some people, but the more savvy ones have learned how to use blogs to earn online. Can you really earn off a blog? You can, if you start correctly.You may have heard of ways to earn from blogging, but unfortunately, there are also many ways to sabotage your own blog’s success.

Here are the 2 ways to kill a blog without really trying.

Mistake #1: Using Free Hosting THEN transferring to a hosting account  that you don’t own

Whether you’re dabbling at this online marketing thing, or you’re seriously looking for a day job alternative, get your own hosting account. I recommend the Platinum Package from Bluehost. You’ll get a free domain, and all the space you need to accommodate your blog data

That last bit is important because active blogging means storing an ever-increasing amount of data in your database. If you go cheapo on your online business and you won’t pay 7 dollars a month to own server space, you risk losing this data if your host suddenly decides to cut your hosting.

About free blog spots: these are OK, but….

When you start blogging, you also start making friends online. People who like your blog will link to you and use your FREE subdomain’s url. As your blog grows, you’ll lose track of who’s linking to you and who’s been telling their friends about your blog. If you change your blog’s URL because you finally decided to avail of hosting, you risk losing the link love from those who sent traffic your way in the past.

Mistake #2: Publishing Unrelated Content

Your visitors read your website for a reason, and they will come back (via their bookmarks) in the future for the same reason. Your topic is your main selling point. If you write about sales, all your posts must be related to sales. You may write about other things, but you should always find a way to link any topic to your main one.

Let me reiterate: people come to your site because they are interested in what you have to say about a particular topic. Try to maintain an acceptable level of consistency.