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How To Earn Back Your $10 Domain Investment Every Time by Nathan Falkne

January 17, 2008 Reply

Nowadays, it’s not uncommon to be able to buy a domain name for about $10 from a domain name registrar.

What you do after you buy the domain name is the 64,000 question, because most people have a tendency to not be entirely sure what to do next.

At a minimum, your goal should be to earn back your $10 domain name investment before you have to renew it again in about a year. This isn’t terribly difficult to do, IF you follow my advice.

1) You need to drive targeted traffic to your domain name. That’s critical. No traffic, no money. Sure, you can try to sell the domain name on an auction site, but it’s unlikely that you’ll find any buyers given the fact that you’re probably trying to sell a domain name that’s not really very memorable or notable.

2) Once you start driving targeted traffic to your domain name, you need a way to make money. You should setup a website so that whenever someone clicks on a link containing your domain name, the visitor is presented with relevant advertisements and/or a reasonably relevant product menu. This is typically what I do.

Remember, your goal is to earn at least $10 within 12 months, and that works out to about 0.84 cents PER MONTH!

About the Author

Nathan Falkner recently purchased a decorative foil related domain name and is revitalizing it using the techniques outlined in this articles.

What Is A Website Content Management System (CMS)? by Dan Parks Sydow

January 17, 2008 Reply

A website builder is software that enables someone with no computer programming knowledge and no website design skills to be able to create a website with a look and content tailored just for that person. The heart of any website builder is a content management system, or CMS. As a software engineer, I know about the technical details of developing content management systems. As the author of numerous programming books, including several books in the “For Dummies” series, I know about describing technical information to non-technical people. In this article I’ll skip the programming aspects of a CMS and instead provide you with some basic, generalized information about content management systems.

A website can be created without a content management system (CMS). In fact, most small websites don’t use a CMS. A website developer defines a web page by typing the content – the words that are to appear on the web page – in a text file. The developer applies tags – special sequences of characters – throughout the file to provide the desired formatting. The formatting can be effects such as adding bold or italics to text. This non-CMS approach to creating a website is fine and dandy for a very small website that is meant to be static. A static website is one that doesn’t change. Once the look and content of the site is established, the site is basically “done.” If at a later date the website owner does want changes to the site, making those changes can be time-consuming. The website owner needs to manually edit the files that make up the website pages, typing in additions and corrections, and making sure that any changes don’t negatively affect the layout, or look, of the site.

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