Blogs are very useful nowadays because they showcase one’s talent to the world. Even a blog which is built around your hobby could turn eventually into a serious business. This is exactly what happened to Ashley Qualls (whateverlife.com) who turned his passion into a full-blown business. At the age of 17, she is now the CEO of her very own business. A website or a blog has made her possible to turn an $8.00 website into a million dollar idea. What is very inspiring about her story is that even at that young age, she already knows how to handle a real business. With all the money that she has that will enable her to buy anything she desired, she prefer to pay herself $3000 every month and invest a portion of her earnings back to her business.
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A domain is what distinguishes your site on the web. It is a name you want to call your website. A good domain name should be short, easy to remember and as much as possible relevant to the theme of your website. Domain comes in a lot of different forms — .com (short for “commercial”), .net (for internet service provider), .org (organizations), .edu (short for educations), .gov (for government institutions), .tv(short for television), .mobi (short for mobile, website browsable on a mobile phone), .name (domain name after an individual), .biz (for companies), and many others.
Domain names now comes in very cheap prices from $3.00 to $25.00 per year depending on the form you would want to use. The problem is most of the one-word, easy-to-remember domains are now taken especially the .com’s and .net’s. But don’t worry, there is still something you can do to come-up with a domain that is search-engine friendly.
If you want to rank high in search engines, you may try to combine two to three keywords that your customers would be using to find your website. Example: if your site is all about dog food, the first domain name that will surely come-up with your mind may be dogfood.com. Unfortunately, at the time of this writing, dogfood.com, dogfood.net, dogfood.biz, dogfood.info, dogfood.name, dogfood.us are already taken. So the best thing you can do is to add another word before or after these two-word combination –”dogfood” to produce some other domains which would still be search-engine friendly and relevant to your site. Some words you can add after “dogfood” are words
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