Jul
29
Hosting your site Free VS. Paid
Filed Under Main Content, Work From Home | Leave a Comment
Good Evening Everyone!
Today’s post deals with the issues of web hosting. If you’re going to have a web site you’re going to need a hosting provider. Your main choice will be to go with paid or free hosting.
When most internet marketers are just starting out, monthly expenses play a large part in how they go about setting up their E-Commerce site. Hosting from an internet hosting service is a recurring expense that many feel they can avoid by choosing a free hosting service.
While there are many free hosting services available, it is NOT in your best interest to choose one. As tempting as it may be to avoid that $25 - $50 dollar a month expense, it’s definitely not the choice you should make.
In a few circumstances it may be unavoidable to go with free hosting to start with. But for the most part paid service is going to be your best bet.
When you are trying to convince someone to part with their hard earned money, trust and credibility are probably the two main points you need to develop with your potential customer. Now most of your free hosting services obviously are not free out of the goodness of their hearts. They are in this to make money, just like everyone else. So if they are not charging you for their service where is the money coming from?
Advertising, first and foremost if a site is offering free hosting service, they are getting at least part of their revenue through selling ad space. And where is that ad space? On your website. It can be in the form of banner ads, pop ups, or a variety of other ways. But somewhere along the way your site will be advertising for the host company or for someone who has paid the host company to run their ads.
Now your main goal here is to make sales and collect the cash, right? So why do you want to advertise on your site for someone else? Especially when you are getting no benefit from it? The only ads that you want on your site are your own affiliate ads, where if someone clicks on that ad you are getting income from the click or from the purchase they make when they get to the advertisers site, or your own ads for your own products.
When someone comes to your site, and it’s a free hosting site, 9 times out of 10 the visitor is going to be able to tell it’s a free hosting deal. Do you really think that person is going to be willing to purchase something from someone who can’t even afford the price of monthly hosting, or going to trust the products you are selling? Probably not.
If you absolutely have NO money to start with I suppose a free site is better than no site, but do yourself a favor, as soon as you can, make the switch to paid hosting. Your credibility and integrity will improve by leaps and bounds over the free hosted site.
Another disadvantage to free hosting is the lack of good support as well as all the bells and whistles that usually do NOT come with a free hosting package. So if you absolutely have to go with free hosting to start out with, then do it. You can always upgrade to a paid hosting plan as soon as finances allow it. Remember lack of taking action is the number one reason why many internet marketers don’t get off the ground. Don’t be one of the ones sitting around all day “thinking” about making money online, get off your rear end and do something!
Well that’s it for today, good luck and remember all my subscribers get free one on one help with all their internet marketing madness. So head on over to my site I Love Working On The Web.com and sign up for my free newsletter, and get your biz going!
cya!
Mike
I Love Working On The Web.com
Jul
2
Good Evening Everybody!
Many of you who are familiar with my other articles will notice this is a bit off the regular path for me as I usually write articles dealing with home based businesses and setting up websites. The reason for this article on computer maintenance is this. If you are doing Internet Marketing of any type then you are going to be using a computer. And if your computer breaks down, then your business breaks down along with it. So with that in mind, todays article deals with keeping your computer up and running smooth and trouble free. Many people use a few of the methods listed below, but if you use all of them regularly you will go a long way towards keeping your computer up and running like it was meant to.
1 ) Anti-Virus Software: One of the most important ways to keep your computer happy is good anti-virus software. There are way to many viruses out there today. You can find many free anti-virus programs online with a little research. One I recommend is AVG Free Version. AVG will auto update it’s definition file as long as your computer is online. AVG will also run virus checks in the background, with a minimal effect on you system resources. You can download it from the Grisoft Web site here:
http://free.grisoft.com/doc/2/lng/us/tpl/v5.
2 ) Anti-Spyware Software: Anti-Spyware is also available for free online. Two I recommend are Spybot Search & Destroy and Ad-Aware by Lavasoft. Spyware and malware can slow down your computer tremendously as well as popping up unwanted ads all over your desktop, even when you are not online. These 2 free programs, while they work very well, have one drawback in my opinion. Auto updates are not available. Which means it’s up to you to remember to check for updates on a regular basis. Both programs do have a “check for updates” option right on their main page. You should have them check for updates at least once a week. Spybot and AdAware can be downloaded here:
Spybot: http://www.safer-networking.org/en/download/index.html
AdAware: http://www.lavasoft.de/ms/ad_aware_free.php
3 ) Disk Cleanup: The disk clean tool up will help you to keep uneeded or no longer used files off your computer. You will have a gradual build up of uneeded files over a period of time in your temp folder, cookies folder from internet surfing, and various other places on your computer. You can access the Disk Clean up tool in your accessories folder under system tools. Run this once at least once a month.
4 ) Windows Update: Make sure your Windows Update program is set to check periodically for updates for you operating system and the drivers and such for your other installed programs. There are new updates made available on a regular basis from Windows. Many of these will fix security problems and other issues pertaining to you computer.
5 ) Air Flow: Many people try and hide their computer tower away under a desk or in a cabinet, etc. Although the tower may not be the most visually appealing item in the room, you should try and provide room for good air flow space around it. Heat is a major contributor to many computer problems. Hiding it away under a desk or in a closed space just compounds the problem. If you must keep it tucked away somewhere consider putting a small fan by the tower to help the air circulation.
6 ) Reboot: Memory problems can slow your computer down drastically. As programs are opened on your computer they request a portion of your installed RAM, (random access memory). Now ideally when you shut a program down it should release that RAM to be available for other programs. Unfortunately that doesn’t always happen. As a result over the course of the day as you open and close various programs your available RAM dwindles. By doing a reboot or restart periodically throughout the day you will force the computer to release RAM that was still being held for programs that were no longer open. If you use many programs over a few hours time frame it’s a good idea to go grab a coffee or coke and tell your computer to reboot while you are doing that. You should notice a change in speed and accessing programs and internet surfing when you reboot.
7 ) Disk Defragmenter: This is another program available in your accessories/system tools folder. Imagine your hard drive is like a file cabinet. As you create and edit files you just toss them in the file cabinet. Then when you go back to your file cabinet to find a particluar file you have to sort through all the files piled up in the file cabinet. So you take everything out of the file cabinet and sort and organize it in an easy to find system and put it all back in. This is basically of what happens when you run Disk Defragmenter. There are also many free and pay programs out there that work quite well. I use a program from a company called AusLogic which is a free disk defragmenter program that works quite well. You can download AusLogic Disk Defragmenter here:
AusLogic Disk Defrag: http://www.auslogics.com/en/software/disk-defrag/download
By following the above maintenance suggestions your computer should remain in tip top shape for a long time. Remember that it’s up to you to implement these suggestions and keep up with updates and actually using the programs for them to keep your computer, ( and you), happy and healthy!
Well that’s all for tonight, my daughter is having a pool party / sleepover and I have to go make sure they are not all drowning or getting ready to burn the house down with the bonfire. Have a good night everybody. Cya next time!
Mike
I Love Working On The Web.com
Jun
18
The Underground Training Lab
Filed Under Main Content | Leave a Comment
Back again….I just wanted to post a quick note up here to let you guys know if you need help or information on monetizing your blog the best site I have found is Jeff Johnson’s Underground Training Lab.
In my opinion it’s the best place to go for information on getting the most out of your blog. He even offers SEO optimized versions of Wordpress that his merry band of marauders has customized to make them as search engine friendly as possible. All you need to do is head over and sign up for his free newsletter. You will get an email with instructions on where to go to download the his free customized software and tutorials.
Jeff has tons of how to tutorial videos available for your viewing pleasure. So get on over there and get your free SEO optimized version of Wordpress today!
I’m out,
Mike
I Love Working On The Web.com
Jun
18
The blog is back…
Filed Under Main Content | Leave a Comment
Hello!
Well after much madness I have completed the switch in hosting companies. And in the process:
a: The web site was down for the count for a few hours yesterday and
b: I managed to lose all the previous posts from this blog : (
So I guess I will start all over again…oh joy…..oh well…I am going to run here for a bit, have to go pick up my one daughter. I will be back later on this evening to begin trying to redo at least some of the previous posts.
Cya!
Mike
I Love Working On The Web
- Case Study Is Making Ten Times As Much Money
- What the Hell is Jeff Johnson’s Underground Training Lab
- Tapping Into the Viral Power of Facebook Video Tutorials
- free facebook tutorials
- How To Use Openx To Make More Money in Your Business
- Using RSS Feeds for Content
- Internet Marketing With SEO, youtube, Myspace, Facebook, RSS Feeds and More
- adding rss feed buttons to your blog
- create your own ad serving network with openx
- free 25k book
-
