Domaining Tips
by Lord Brar
Archive for the ‘Developing Domains’ Category
Ask Lord Brar - Should You “Fool Around” with Your Domains? Must Read Mindset Information Inside.
Author: Lord Brar18 Apr
Blank Czech, using Ask Lord Brar service, asks:
If I have a good domain, do you think it’s worth fooling around with if it’s my first real domain? Or do you think I should try and make a long term (>3 months) development plan for the domain. It currently gets 20-30 hits a month.
How to Choose a Host Without Getting Ripped-Off — 6 Practical “Rules of Thumb” to Remember.
Author: Lord Brar17 Apr
One of the most critical components component of your success on the internet is your web-host. If your web-host keeps giving you troubles, you will not be able to concentrate on developing, promoting and monetizing your websites. Also, if your website is down, you will not be able to show any ads and that would translate into zero revenue for you.
Sure — you can go with the top-of-shelf hosts which provide 100% uptime but they cost an arm and leg. Since our objective is to keep our costs minimum, we are going to use cheap shared-hosts. However, a LOT of these cheap hosts often resort of tactics — which I call “Dirty Games” — to squeeze every bit of profit from their customers.
Read this post to find out how most of these hosts try to rip-off their customers and “Rules of Thumb’ for identifying and avoiding such hosts. And yes, I will have host recommendations from my personal experience with some companies. Let’s get down to business, shall we? (more…)
6 Ways Not to Go Broke Developing Domains — Lessons That I Have Learnt the Hard Way.
Author: Lord Brar11 Apr
Ever since I made my Domaining Strategy post, I have been getting a lot of comments and questions from you all. First of all, thanks a lot for your comments and messages — that is exactly what keeps me motivated to write here.
Most of the questions which you have asked will be covered in upcoming posts about traffic, revenue, outsourcing, hosting etc. In this post, I am going to answer two important questions -
1. How to minimize your development costs?
2. How to Scale-Up this strategy?
This post will be one of the most important — if not the most — posts in the series as it describes the mindset you need to succeed in the game. These points are essentially derived from my own experience developing domains over the last 9 years — so yes, they are street-tested.
Let’s get started, shall we? (more…)
