Posted by admin on December 5th, 2009 — Posted in Buying + Selling Domains, School of SEO, WWW
Finding the Proper Hosting
Aside from money issues there are a lot of features to look at when choosing a hosting company. The first matter to be alert of is what kind of website you are starting to operate on the server. If you’re preparation to operate a dot net or ASP web site you must select a Windows IIS solution and if you program to operate PHP or a Word Press web log, you must choose a UNIX based Apache Server.
After choice of the right platform you have to make sure you have infinite bandwidth and transfer and often it is also for your advantage to be able to setup limitless e-mail accounts. If you run dot net or ASP you must have access to a MSSQL server and make sure the price for that is fair. Operating PHP or Word Press site requires a MySQL database and naturally a PHP5 installation.
Uptime is important, 99.99 % uptime is essential, no host will promise you 100 % uptime. You will also need to look at the servicing and backup from your hosting company to properly run your site as easy as possible, which is also needed for Google optimization and SEO in large.
Word Press is advocated for a affordable and flexible web result and hosting your site on a UNIX dependent host running Apache and MySQL is an canonized web hosting answer which is easy to keep up without programming skills and cognition and Word Press is also simple to optimize for search engines like Google and Bing.
Your World Wide Web ISP is the base of your WWW presence and it is very important to choose the correct web host from the beginning. You can change server subsequently, but making special research to retrieve a serious hosting company from the start is the most intelligent move, especially if you plan to get a vast number of traffic which should be able to establish without the downtime which will occur during change from one server to different.
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Posted by admin on November 10th, 2009 — Posted in Buying + Selling Domains
Websites offering domain name appraisals are increasingly common, but are all services equal? And is the result actually worth the expenditure?
=== Why Get a Domain Name Appraised? ===
You’ll fall into one of two categories - either buyer or seller. For someone wishing to buy an existing domain name, an appraisal should indicate whther the asking prices is realistic or not (bearing in mind that you may also paying for reputation etc…). For the seller of a domain name, an appraisal can increase the potential sale value and/or your bargaining position in the sale.
=== Are all Domain Appraisal Services Equal? ===
Domain appraisal services can cost anywhere between a few dollars and a few hundred dollars, and it is generally true that you get what you pay for. Many of the lower-priced appraisers use the same software, which given the rate of change of the Internet world, is very quickly outdated. This software also only appraises a few top level domains (TLD) e.g. .com excluding holders of most other TLD e.g. .uk. The software is also very subjective, meaning that two different users can declare very different values for the same domain. Higher priced services tend to appraise each domain individually, and take more factors into account, such as current market conditions, comparable sales and relative searches in addition to factors such as name length, commercial potential and whether the name is easy to remember and spell.
=== Choosing a Domain Name Appraiser ===
When having a domain name appraised, ensure that your TLD is on the list! If the appraiser doesn’t accept country level domains (such as .uk) and charge a low fee, chances are they are using the subjective software described above, and the appraisal will not be worth the expenditure. On the other hand, if you are selling a well-known, highly-trafficked domain, a higher cost and more in-depth appraisal will be money well spent.
Finally, if you are buying a domain name and are shown a copy of an appraisal by the seller, find out where the appraisal is from, before believing everything you see before you!
=== Conclusion ===
Domain name appraisals are a useful tool, but their value depends on how the appraisal is generated, and the actual price of a domain name will ultimately depend on market forces, whatever the appraisal certificate says.
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