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John Motson is a professional domainer and author of renown domaining ebook Domaining Manifesto. John runs a domain name forum and blog at DNXpert.com.

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  • Build Traffic Via Forum Posting
    [Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Traffic-Building] You can drive hundreds of targeted visitors to your website by participating in forums frequented by members interested in your niche. In order to get targeted traffic from forums you need to participate in forums that let you include a link to your website in their forum signature line.


  • Increase Website Traffic by Submitting Articles
    [Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Traffic-Building] Even though it's been said a lot over the years, some people still haven't fully grasped what can be achieved with quality articles submitted to online article directories. An informative article distributed to the most influential spots on the web will get your website a lot of attention and pull visitors from search engines for a long time in the future. Ok, now, you might say that article writing takes time and effort and that article traffic building takes time to show results.


  • Types of Blog Posts
    [Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Blogging] Writing a blog can sometimes get tedious. We have all been there. No matter how much you love your blog and love blogging on your topics of choice, there comes a time when you simply get writer's block and can't put together a worthwhile post.


  • What is RSS? - Syndicate Your Blog Content
    [Internet-and-Businesses-Online:RSS] A Blog feed allows "Feed readers" to access a site automatically looking for new content. Syndicating your blog via an RSS feed is a great way of allowing your readership access to all new posts from your blog without them having to keep visiting your blog.


  • How to Change Domain Nameservers
    [Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Domain-Names] There comes a time when you decide to either start a website or transfer a website from one host to another. On both occasions you need new hosting and you need to transfer your files to the new host. You also need to tell your domain name where to point to - you need to change your Domain Name Servers or DNS.


  • How to Register a Domain Name - A Simple Guide
    [Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Domain-Names] In order to register a domain name, you need an account with an ICANN (Internet Corporation For Assigned Names and Numbers) accredited domain name registrar. Getting an account with a domain name registrar is easy.


  • Domain Expiration Explained
    [Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Domain-Names] Domain names expire. Registrars are allowed to provide a domain name registration with a duration period of between 1 and 10 years. After your domain name registration period elapses, your domain is set to expire. You are usually notified by your registrar of any pending domain expirations. If you opt against renewing that domain, the domain eventually expires and is dropped into the available domain pool.


  • How to Transfer a Domain Name
    [Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Domain-Names] A domain name transfer refers to a change of ownership of a domain name or a change of registrar. There is a set procedure you have to follow when transferring a domain name.


  • Using a Favicon on Your Blog
    [Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Blogging] Trivial as it may seem to some, a lot of people fail to use a favicon on their blog. A favicon (aka shortcut icon) is an icon associated with a blog or website. Browsers that support favicons display them in their URL.


  • Keeping Track of Blog Stats
    [Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Blogging] In order to professionally run a blog for business or profit you need to be aware of all facets of your day to day blog running. An important facet of your day to day blogging are your blog statistics. It is imperative that you are constantly aware of your statistics and are making an effort to tweak and adjust various blog segments in order to optimize and maximize your blog traffic.


  • An Introduction to Domaining and Domain Names - What is a Domain?
    [Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Domain-Names] Domaining is perhaps best described by the "real estate of the web" analogy. One-word dictionary domains are your beach-front villas. Premium keyword domains are your two-story homes, the LLL.coms (Letter Letter Letter) are your land lots etc.


  • How to Save Money on Domain Registrations
    [Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Domain-Names] You can save a lot of money if you approach domain registration wisely. You might not consider a saving of $1 or $2 to be a lot. However, if you are registering in bulk, these $1 or $2 can quickly turn into $50 or $100, which is quite considerable.


  • How To Find Available Domain Names For Your New Website
    [Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Domain-Names] People always look for new ways to find available domain names. This article outlines an easy to follow, step-by-step approach to finding new, available domain names to register for your website ventures.


  • How To Find Expired Domain Names
    [Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Domain-Names] According to most sources there are over 90,000 domain names deleted every day. That is a huge number of domains you'd have to traverse in order to find gems that you might be interested in registering. If you try and do this by trying to register domains one domain at a time, you will get disheartened and give up quite quickly. That is why a systematic approach is necessary.


  • How To Avoid Purchasing Banned Domain Names
    [Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Domain-Names] If you are in the business of buying and selling domains, catching domains on the drop, or collecting domains you think might be valuable in the future, it is important to make sure the domains you are purchasing are not damaged goods. Domains have been known to be banned by search engines like Google for breaking their TOS ( terms of service ). Domains have also been known to exist on global spam blacklists.


  • WhyPark Review - An Alternative Approach To Parking Domain Names
    [Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Domain-Names] Talking to people from the industry it seems more and more people are turning to unconventional parking providers like WhyPark these days to monetize their domain names. With the Yahoo based parking providers including Parked.com abitrage ban - which basically means that if your domain has traffic coming from sources other then search engine or direct type in traffic, you will not get paid - people are searching for alternative domain parking services to pay for their clicks.


  • Domain Extensions Explained
    [Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Domain-Names] A domain is classified by it's extension or TLD (Top Level Domain). A domain belongs to a TLD. There are three types of TLDs presently in use on the internet. This article defines domain extensions ( TLDs ) and the types of extensions that exist.


  • 10 Websites That Regret Their Explicit Domain Name
    [Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Domain-Names] People should be careful what domain they chose for their online venture. This list of the top 10 explicit domain names used by general public websites is proof of that. Be careful what domain name you buy!


  • Branding Your Business With a Domain Name
    [Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Domain-Names] It's been a while since any reasonable dictionary word domain name has been available. This does not mean you should give up in your quest to find the perfect name for your business.


  • The Future Of Internet Marketing
    [Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Internet-Marketing] I've been thinking in recent times, about the rise in popularity of everything web based - welcome to the present some might say. But seriously, every new business report indicates that more money is being poured into online advertising. I even read a recent article where the Times and Post both experienced a strong loss of income due to dwindling sales of hardcopy.


  • Registrant Search Released By DomainTools
    [Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Domain-Names] An excellent new domain tool has been released by DomainTools. It allows you to search domains by registrant information.


  • Domain Name Scams - Be Warned
    [Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Domain-Names] There are a number of techniques domaining scammers use to get money or information from you, or even to jeopardize your actual domain name. This article outlines those techniques and provides you with ways to combat them.


  • Domain Dropcatching And Backorder Service Review
    [Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Domain-Names] Domain name backordering and dropcatching are probably the only way you can get a domain that you really want. The other way is do approach the owne directly and get rejected or be charged a crazy fee. By backordering a domain you give yourself a chance to grab that domain name when it expires and drops.


  • Domain Name Marketplace And Forum Review Part 4
    [Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Domain-Names] DomainState is a domain name marketplace. This articles reviews the advantages and downsides of using DomainState as a venue for your domain name sales.


  • Domain Name Marketplace And Forum Review Part 3
    [Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Domain-Names] Sitepoint is a large Australian based website. It features a prominent domain name forum. This article reviews the benefits and downsides of using Sitepoint as your outlet for domain name trading. I hope you will gain valuable domaining advice from reading this article.


  • Domain Name Marketplace And Forum Review Part 2
    [Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Domain-Names] NamePros is a quality domain name marketplace. This article reviews the cons and pros of using NamePros. as your outlet for domain name trading. I hope you will gain valuable domaining advice from reading this article.


  • Domain Name Marketplace And Forum Review Part 1
    [Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Domain-Names] DNForum is one of the older domain name forums around. This article reviews DNForum from the domain name marketplace aspect outlining its features and listing its negative traits. I hope you will gain valuable domaining advice from reading this article.


  • Domain Name Appraisal Scam
    [Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Domain-Names] There has been a recent upsurge in domain name appraisal scams. Domain name appraisal companies approach domain name owners to urging them to pay for a domain name appraisal in order to finalize a domain name sale.





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