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What’s in a domain name? Your domain name is going to be integral to your brand, and a good one will help people to remember and return to your site. It’s probably more important for your domain to be memorable and brandable than for it to be relevant to your subject matter. If it can be both that’s just icing on the cake, but don’t get too hung up on relevance or keywords. According to Christopher Heng at thesitewizard.com your site should be named after your domain, and I completely agree.

Here are a few guidelines to help you choose a domain name:

• Unless you are targeting traffic outside of the United States Try to get a .com domain if at all possible - it’s the standard at this time and some American users will insist on typing in .com and will have trouble finding your site if you use another TLD. Even worse the site that they do find will be your competitor with the .com domain. [Read more →]
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To make money on the internet you need to focus on a subject with these properties:

• Reasonably high (user) interest, either now, or in the future (ideally both)
• As little competition as possible
• Related market(s) with high value
• You are willing and capable to write about it

If your site is going to make money, it will have to sell something. You can either sell something directly from your site, or you can make money from advertisements. Even if you hope to get donations, that is also a sale. [Read more →]

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Why do so many people blog about blogging? Anyone who plays in this highly competitive space probably has their own reasons, but there is one very good reason to write about any aspect of webmastering or website development - metablogging speaks directly to the people who create links on the internet. Even if you only reach a few people with your metablog, they will almost all be people who already have a website or are thinking about building one - the linkerati. If you are reading this then you’re probably one of these people, and we all need each other to achieve our goals of high rankings and world domination. So, participate, comment, get to know your fellow bloggers and webmasters.

Another reason to blog about website development is that because of the following reasons metablogging is a growth industry with an ever-growing number of potential customers - readers like you.

• New people worldwide are constantly obtaining Internet access or faster Internet access - directly growing the audience for new media.
• Everyone would like to make some money on the Internet - preferably a lot of easy money. And a few bloggers seem to have done exactly that.
• Being a self employed, self-sufficient blogger - working from your laptop at poolside or in a coffee shop sounds pretty sweet - even if it’s largely a fantasy. [Read more →]

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If making money while learning about new things and helping other people to learn about the things that interest you sound like good ways to spend a few hours a week then you should consider building a website / blog.

1) How much money can I make? Darren Rowse at ProBlogger says “bloggers are earning anything between nothing at all and millions of dollars. The upper end of the spectrum is of course rare and those earning very little are in the majority” and yet a few talented and hard working bloggers have established incomes over One Hundred Thousand Dollars per year [Read more →]

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