4 Marketing Styles That I Hate!

Posted on by April 29, 2013

angry man cartoonDuring your planning, learning and research phase, you will have been exposed to large numbers of internet marketers, all peddling their own particular ‘secret’, ‘wonder method’ via emails, webinars, and coaching courses.  Pretty soon you will be able to recognize and categorize the different personal styles and marketing strategies.

One common marketing strategy is where several high profile marketing, so-called Gurus, create networks (exclusive clubs) of people (usually men) who are all affiliate linking with each other, promoting each other, and their products.  ALL of them, are trying to get you to part with a percentage of your hard earned cash for a course, or a set of DVDs, or an e-book. They tend to hunt in packs. Continue reading →

Hostgator Hosting For Only 1 Cent!

Posted on by May 9, 2013

No, it’s not a trick! It’s possible to get quality website hosting for only 1 cent with Hostgator’s 1 Cent Coupon discount code.  So how do you claim it?  Here’s how it works.  Hostgator are promoting a special offer Coupon deal for all those potential bloggers (you) who are thinking of starting up a website or blog.  The normal full price of Hostgator’s Baby Hosting for 1 month is $9.95.  So if you click on the banner ad 1 cent hostingbelow, and sign up for 1 month of Baby Hosting, and then type in the special code startblogfor1cent during sign up, you get a $9.94 discount, and you only have to pay 1 cent. How cool is that!

Read on for detailed instructions. Continue reading →

How to Add Banner Ads to Your Blog

Posted on by March 2, 2016

add hostgator banner Adding Banner ads to your blog is something you will want to know how to do if you plan to make money with your blog. You can add your Affiliate Banner Ad to your sidebar areas using widgets, or you can add them to the text part of your Posts, like the Hostgator Banner Ad I’ve added at the top of this Post.  Both of these slightly different tasks are really easy to do…….once you know how. Continue reading →

How To Choose a Good Host

Posted on by January 24, 2014

Choosing a good Host is more important than choosing a Registrar.  Why?  Because your Hosting company is your Blog’s Mission Control. Your Host gives you access to your blog’s day-to-day running andcar mechanic maintenance.  Your host is like the mechanic who lives under the hood of your blog, and more – it supplies your car, your engine, and it knows how it works (or doesn’t) and how to fix it when it goes wrong.

Your choice of Registrar is important, but not as important as your choice of Host. Why? Because once chosen, your Registrar has no real role in the day to day running of your blog.  You just want your Registrar to stay open, and not go belly up.  A Registrar is like the garage where you park your car all day. It needs to be safe and secure, but that’s pretty much all that it has to do.

  How to Choose The Best Web Host – What To Look For

Your Host is where you go to ask for help, when you don’t know what to do, and you don’t know how to fix any problem. Its job is also to carry all the data of your blog, safely on its servers, and provide you with the tools, and the means, of running of your blog, every day. Continue reading →

Tips For Choosing a Good Registrar

Posted on by January 24, 2014

Here is soldwhat you need to do – the steps you must take if you want to own your own bit of real estate on the World Wide Web.                  

                    Buy A Domain Name

Research, and find, a Domain name that you want to buy, then buy it.  The company where you purchase your Domain Name, is called your  Registrar.  Why?  Because when you buy your Domain Name, that company will register you as the registered owner of that Domain Name.

If you are not sure what a Domain Name is, see my article, What is a Domain Name and How Do I Buy One.

Where Are Domain Names Registered?

Your Registrar will register your name on the database of the ICAN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers), where all Domain names are recorded (i.e. registered).  It will be registered to you personally.  You now own it, and no one else can buy it from you, or anyone else – unless you want to sell it. Continue reading →

Is It Spam? How to Check

Posted on by September 3, 2014

Have you been keeping up?  I hope so…

A couple of days ago I allowed a Comment to be visible on the blog page ‘So You Want to Set Up a Blog’, which I had my doubts about.  Why?  He (or she) listed a long list of their site’s categories as their link for their comments, instead of a website URL (www. etc), which is not what you are supposed to do.  It’s still visible as a comment, with my reply, on that post.

 But naturintrepid female sherlock investigating spamally, before deciding if I should publish this comment 2 days ago, I donned my Sherlock Holmes hat and went investigating.

1. I visited their site and took a look around.  It’s an article-publishing hub.  That is a website where writers, bloggers, or anyone else, can publish articles that they have written. Usually this is done by website or blog owners, who are trying to increase traffic to their own website.

2.  How does that work?  When you publish your article there, you dazzle readers with your incredible knowledge, wit and skill (of course) about whatever subject you choose to write about.

3. These mesmerized readers will then want to know much more about you – right? So off they toddle in search of more of your highly desirable information – by clicking on the link to your site that you have helpfully given them there.  Then (you hope), you get lots of lovely new traffic, and wait for the cash to roll in.  Easy! Continue reading →