Showing posts with label Web. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Web. Show all posts

Monday, September 7, 2009

Earn Money Naming Domains

A domain name represents a website. Some domain names might be hard to remember for various reasons. Very often, an easy to remember domain name is going to receive more traffic than a long domain name. Long domain names that consist of random letters and not words, are going to be very hard to remember. That is why having a short domain name is a great idea. You should also preferably choose a domain name that reflects the topic of the website. Many webmasters are willing to pay a lot of money for an easy to remember domain name, because a domain name represents their business. To earn money from this observation, you can be a contributor to sites like pickydomains.com that help find domain names for customers who are willing to pay $50 for such a service.

You can also offer your services on your website and forums so that there will not be any middleman involved. If that is what you decide, you might be even able to earn more money this way. When it comes to your own domain, remember to choose it wisely. If you are able to register some attractive domain names then you might make some money by reselling them. One of the most important things is that domain names should be easy to remember. Short domain names are usually easy to remember; however, sometimes that is not the case. If you have a short domain name that is composed of random numbers and letters, then it might be easier for visitors to remember a longer domain name that is composed of words.

Wednesday, September 2, 2009

Accessing Restricted Websites

The tips I am about to present to you will be especially helpful to you if you want to access some of the pages from your workplace and the administrator banned them or restricted access to them. Another possible situation that comes to my mind is that maybe the government of your country banned some of the sites so that its citizens do not have access to certain “politically incorrect” sites. Such situations occur in China and in some other Asian countries. There are at least two methods to access your desired websites:

1. Search the banned website through Google or other search engine. After finding it, enter its cache copy. This is a very popular method and it is very easy to do. However, this may not work for websites or pages that were never cached. That should not be the case with popular websites.
2. In Google or any other search engine type this keyword: ‘cache:URL name’. This will take you straight to the cache copy of that website. This method is very similar to the previous one.
3. Try to connect using a proxy. This may not work for all websites, but it may trick many servers into believing that you are from a different country.

Monday, August 17, 2009

Craigslist

Have you ever wondered why Craigslist achieved such a success? The site is the seventh most viewed site on the Internet. Not bad, is it not? Even though the website is originally based in San Francisco, it operates worldwide. The idea behind the website is very simple. People like to buy and sell used things, and Craigslist allows them to sell items in a very convenient way. There are thousands upon thousands of classified ads on their site, no wonder that the site has so many visitors. People will always need to be buying and selling various items, and this is why sites like this will always stay popular. These days Craigslist is so popular that almost everyone knows what it is. I remember seeing Craig the founder of Craigslist on TV some time ago. While he seems like an intelligent person, he is also in many ways an ordinary guy, which proves that anyone can achieve success on the Web. Of course, not every online entrepreneur will achieve success, but it is definitely worth trying. Do you have any ideas for an innovative website? Who knows, maybe your website will become one of the most popular sites on the Internet?

Tuesday, August 11, 2009

Google Trends for Websites

Websites are a crucial element of the World Wide Web, and no wonder that webmasters like to look at trends and statistics associated with them. In order to compare different websites with each other, you may want to visit Google Trends, as you will be able to analyze some pretty interesting information. First of all, you will be able to see the search volume of keywords. You will have access to data displaying daily unique visitors for many sites. This way you can compare two different websites and see which one is more popular. While I encourage you to use this tool, it does not have as much data as other visitor tracking tools such as Alexa. That is why you should not only depend on Google Trends for traffic estimates.