Finding the best domain name, host and graphics for Maximum
profit
Using this method you will be able to find the best domain name,
host and graphics to generate huge profits with your eBusiness
Domain Name
A domain name is the word used for the actual website address.
When someone keys in the domain name they will find your
website. It is important that every e-Book you write and has a
new and different domain name. This makes you e-Book stay in the
memory of the customer and makes it a far more professional
looking.
Your domain name must describe what your e-Book is about. For
example if your e-Book was about building garden sheds, you
should have a domain name like www.buildingardensheds.com . You
might notice that my domain has ".com" at the end. I would
recommend this as it looks a lot more professional than
www.buildingardensheds.co.uk
There is one main way where you can search for a domain name.
You first need to come up with phrases and words that help to
describe the e-Book. So our main word would be "Garden shed",
while other words could be building, creating etc.
The next step you need to take is go to the website Checkdomain
Then just type some ideas in the search engine and see are these
domains available. Try a whole bunch of different domains like:
www.buildagardenshed.com www.build-a-garden-shed.com
www.yourowngardenshed.com www.your-own-garden-shed.com
www.guide-to-building-garden-shed.com
As you can see it's a lot easier to read the domain with the
hyphens, therefore if your domain is more than two words long, I
recommend using the hyphen.
Once you have found a good domain name that has not already
been registered (checkdomain will tell you this), you can sign
up for that domain. There are a huge amount of domain registrars
which you can sign up with.
Over the years though, I have found that the easiest way is to
sign up the domain with your web hosting company. Therefore I
would recommend when you are registering for your hosting
company to sign up for a domain name also.
Hosting
For your website to be viewable on the internet you must have a
hosting company. This is effectively renting web-space. We will
then make our sales website and upload to our new web hosting
server. Don't panic though, ill show you how to upload it in due
course.
Choosing the right hosting company isn't easy, as I myself have
found out in the past. I would certainly be well aware of the
"too good to be true" web-hosting company's. Some company's can
turn out to be very unreliable.
We need a hosting service with excellent uptime (the website is
up and running 24/7). There is no point having a sales website
when no one can see it.
The software that I will be recommending later on, will require
your hosting company to have the following specifications
24/7 ftp access MySQL Perl 4.0 or higher PHP 4.3 .x(or higher)
So you can check your potential web-hosting company to see if it
has those specifications. One of the best tips I've ever
received from an e-Book is from an immense e-Book publisher
called Richard Adams In his chapter on web hosting, he mentioned
that he lived in the UK but since most of his potential
customers lived in the US it would be a lot better to have a US
based hosting company. This means that if someone from the US
goes into your website it will run smoother and faster coming
from a US based hosting company.
You're probably saying to yourself, "how am I going to find a
good web hosting company". This is where a very handy website
called tophosts comes in. They have a huge database of
web-hosting services. If you go to the ecommerce hosting
section, it gives a list of the top ecommerce hosting services
and, trust me, they are all pretty good.
As I mentioned earlier Mr Adams mentioned a website called
host4profit in his e-Book. It was the first hosting service I
ever used and I still use it today as it's extremely reliable
and designed for e-Book sales sites. The website supplies
unlimited autoresponders, newsletters and a site creation tool.
It also supplies unlimited resell rights for a number of e-Books.
Now here is the great thing about host4profit. They charge a
monthly hosting fee of around