Registering a web domain can cost from USD $8 per year. It is certainly possible to get a web domain for free but you do have to read the fine print to be sure of what you are actually getting.

Free Web Domains From Web Hosts

Most free domains are… Read more…

As a business owner or blogger, you understand that the internet is a very powerful medium in any industry. You want to tap into the huge market of potential customers that could really take your business to new heights. However, you also know that the first step in doing any… Read more…

The domain name is a very important part of your online business. You will want to have a memorable name that people will remember easily. A terrible domain name only makes your business look bad and hard to find online. Here’s a list of dos and don’ts I personally follow… Read more…

A web domain is simply the sequence of letters or words in front of an extension and is usually categorized by those extensions. In the example “website.com,” the word website is the domain and .com is the extension.

The three most popular extensions for web domain names are .com, short… Read more…

I really messed up my home page of my Oasis Fanatic web site. What I did in the beginning was I redirected the default home page “/index.php” to “/home/index.php”. I initially put the home page in its own directory “/home/”.

Over time, I began to realise the dumbness of this… Read more…

I just upgraded my blog to WordPress 2.5. I really like the new admin interface but I found a few bugs with WordPress 2.5.

1. wp_list_pages function does not excluded sub pages from the exclude list. I posted this WordPress 2.5 wp_list_pages error at… Read more…

I have never really understood how to use nofollow links until last night. I guess I must have been very slow to pick up this technique of preserving your Google Pagerank.

On Wikipedia’s entry on nofollow links:

Search engine optimization professionals started using the nofollow attribute to control… Read more…

This NetAudioAds (Voice2Page) thing is such a disappointment because I have not received any audio ads at all. I thought 1 February 2008 was supposed to be the official launch but it turns out that it was only a partial launch. I believe that should have been specified clearly… Read more…

This is a nice article about Voice2Page from Wall Street Journal Online.

Using V2P Communications’ coming audio ads, which will pay blog publishers a 25% commission on ad revenue, a site that gets 2,000 unique visitors a day with an advertiser paying $14 per 1,000 plays would earn $7… Read more…

I emailed Larry Host, the CTO of Voice2Page with the following questions and here is his reply.

1. How much can I earn every time an audio message is played?

Our pricing is based on a cost per thousand impressions (CPM) and one ad play at a CPM of… Read more…

NetAudioAds (Voice2Page) is launching a new advertising model for webmasters. Simply embed some code to the end of your HTML body tag and it will launch a 5-second audio message to your visitors when they visit your web site.

NetAudioAds (Voice2Page) will only start paying advertisers from February 2008 after… Read more…

Google just released a blog post about why meta description tags are important. One sentence caught my eye and this clarifies a lot of misconceptions people have about meta descriptions.

Google says:

“Accurate meta descriptions can improve clickthrough, they won’t affect your ranking within search results“

Visit Google’s… Read more…

DealDotCom is like a discount web site for internet marketing related products. There is an internet marketing product on sale everyday and it lasts for only 24 hours. If you miss it, you won’t get another chance.

Product creators may submit their products to be sold on DealDotCom. The… Read more…

I recently signed up for AuctionAds to test if it will earn more money than Google AdSense for one of my sites. So far my results have not been good due to the fact the AuctionAds keyword rotation system seems to be broken.

AuctionAds is not a contextual… Read more…

I tested hundreds of article directories back in the day when I fell for the hype of the effectiveness of article submitters. My belief back then was if I had more links pointing back to my web site, the better my site would rank. I was expecting an avalanche of… Read more…