I'm giddy with excitement after this morning's shopping spree. What kind of shopping spree, you ask? Why, a domain name shopping spree, of course!
I've mentioned in a few posts that I'm getting my feet wet with my very first niche website. The site is hosted through SBI. While I can't say enough about SBI for newbies (a group of which I am still very much a part), my strategy is to maintain one SBI site and use all the great tools and techniques found there to build future sites as cheaply as possible.
A recent blog post by friend and eHow guru WriterGig describes her similar adventures – great minds think alike, it would appear. (I stand in her shadow…) If WriterGig's doing this too, then I must be on to something!
The strategy I've chosen is to buy domains at godaddy.com – if you buy 6 or more, they're $8.99 each per year. I have a hosting account at hostgator.com, which costs me $9.95 per month for unlimited domains. I could get hosting even cheaper if I paid for a full year at a time.
Along with domain registration at godaddy.com and hosting at hostgator.com, I'll be using wordpress (free!) to build my static sites. My friends at the wahm.com forum tell me this not only possible, but quite easy once you get the hang of it.
I'm discovering that creating the content is actually the easiest part of earning money writing on the web. The real challenge is the fairly steep learning curve in setting up a website, and targeting high value keywords. This is why I think SBI is so worth it for newbies – it provides a systematic education in building niche websites for profit.
At $299 per year, it is a bit of an investment. But, when you figure that's $25 per month for a great quality education that's even used in colleges in universities, the price doesn't seem unreasonable at all.
I've mentioned in a few posts that I'm getting my feet wet with my very first niche website. The site is hosted through SBI. While I can't say enough about SBI for newbies (a group of which I am still very much a part), my strategy is to maintain one SBI site and use all the great tools and techniques found there to build future sites as cheaply as possible.
A recent blog post by friend and eHow guru WriterGig describes her similar adventures – great minds think alike, it would appear. (I stand in her shadow…) If WriterGig's doing this too, then I must be on to something!
The strategy I've chosen is to buy domains at godaddy.com – if you buy 6 or more, they're $8.99 each per year. I have a hosting account at hostgator.com, which costs me $9.95 per month for unlimited domains. I could get hosting even cheaper if I paid for a full year at a time.
Along with domain registration at godaddy.com and hosting at hostgator.com, I'll be using wordpress (free!) to build my static sites. My friends at the wahm.com forum tell me this not only possible, but quite easy once you get the hang of it.
I'm discovering that creating the content is actually the easiest part of earning money writing on the web. The real challenge is the fairly steep learning curve in setting up a website, and targeting high value keywords. This is why I think SBI is so worth it for newbies – it provides a systematic education in building niche websites for profit.
At $299 per year, it is a bit of an investment. But, when you figure that's $25 per month for a great quality education that's even used in colleges in universities, the price doesn't seem unreasonable at all.
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2 comments:
Creating content is my favorite part (yeah, the easiest thing, heh) too, but that's because we're writers. Trust me, some great internet marketers out there wish they found creating content easy. ;)
Congratulations on getting your domains registered. The HostGator account sounds like a good deal (I have a reseller account too and have 15 or 20 domain names and sites set up on it, so it's definitely more economical than paying for individual hosting accounts).
Thanks Lindsay. Great stuff on your blog. A huge tip of the hat to your guest blogger Olivier for walking us little greenies through the process of setting up WP as an article site.
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