Archive for 'Domain Names'

Namecheap Coupons for July 2011

Tuesday, July 19th, 2011 at 4:55 pm  
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July's coupons for Namecheap are out! Here they are:

  • Enjoy discounts this month on your first year registration of brand new com/net/org/biz domain names with coupon code DOTHOT
  • Get 10% off the first month of shared/business/reseller hosting with coupon code HOSTSHINE
  • Take 10% off your first month of VPS hosting with coupon code VPS10

Use this affiliate link, then enter your coupon code(s) at checkout. Easy peasy.

August 2010 Namecheap Coupon

Monday, August 9th, 2010 at 7:15 am  
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It's finally here! Namecheap puts out a coupon every month, and August is no exception. For discounts on domain names and hosting, use NEWSNAMECHEAP.

If you're a good sport, use my link :)

List Building 101 Tip #11 — Choose A Good Domain Name

Thursday, June 3rd, 2010 at 9:17 am  
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Choosing a domain name might seem way too basic for a guide on list building. However, if you don’t have a trustworthy domain name it can affect your list building abilities in a negative way.

Your domain is important because you’re going to place your list’s opt-in form in several different places. Having a good domain will ensure that people visit your site in the first place, and see your opt-in form.

Some tips. Choose a domain that…

1. Ends with .com or .org (not .biz or .info)
2. Has no numbers, if possible.
3. Is easy to spell.
4. Is short.
5. Is not hyphenated.

You can purchase domain names at www.GoDaddy.com

Quick How-To Set Up a WordPress Blog

Monday, December 21st, 2009 at 1:11 pm  
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Lynn Terry, one of the top affiliate marketers that I follow, just wrote up a post on how to set up a WordPress blog. It's solid advice.

Read it and then come back here to read my specific tweaks to her set up.

Here are my specific tweaks:

  1. I use NameCheap for my domain name registrar. I usually find a slightly better price on .com names here than at GoDaddy. I do have some legacy Godaddy-registered domain names, but all my new ones are coming through NameCheap. They also have monthly coupons that give you a little discount (usually about $1 off the current $9.69 price).

    I will say that I've never had problems with either of them.

  2. For web hosting, I use BlueHost. They're very similar to HostGator.
  3. Support is very quick and updating name servers between either GoDaddy or NameCheap and BlueHost is extremely quick (minutes not hours). Again, I've never had a problem with these folks.
  4. For installing WP, I used to use Fantastico, until I tried SimpleScripts. It's a part of my cPanel on BlueHost. I'm not sure if HostGator uses SimpleScripts, but if they do, I highly recommend them.
  5. I have used many themes over my blogging lifetime and I have to say that I really like the free Eximius theme. I'm not using it here (I'm using FlexSqueeze, which is totally awesome but not free). Eximius works out of the box and hasn't presented any issues thus far with any of the plugins I use.
  6. Keyword research is the most important thing you can do when building a brand, site, and especially a niche site. Check out Market Samurai. It totally rocks.
  7. WP customization. The most important thing I do here is install some really effective plugins, the most important of which is Jeff Johnson's Traffic Getting SEO PluginTM 2.0 – Free Version. You will have to sign up to his mailing list to get the plugin, but I highly suggest you do it; besides, Jeff is a traffic and SEO master. You'll love his how-to videos.

    Jeff's plugin actually incorporates quite a few plugins (it's kind of like a meta-plugin) and then tweaks them to perform optimally together.

That's about it! Now, get out and do it!!!