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Where do I start on registering a domain name on my own? I’m not asking for GoDaddy or any other domain registrars to register it FOR ME. I want to know where can I register/claim a domain directly. To try and make the question simpler, where or how does GoDaddy register domain names for people who want that available domain name?
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When choosing the right web hosting company for your site, you obviously want to find a quality company that will offer you the best service. However, since there are so many web hosting sites vying for your attention, how do you weed out the bad ones?
Five traits make up a good web hosting company. If you look for a host that exhibits these five traits, you will have a satisfying experience and a web host that you can count on.
The number one trait of a good hosting company involves customer service and technical support. Quality web hosts will provide their customers without excellent customer service and support. Look for a host that offers support that is available twenty-four hours a day. You never know when you might run into a problem.
Do not just assume that a company that states they offer quality support and service does not mean that they actually do. Look for customer ratings and reviews to find out the truth. By far, real customer experience will give you a true image of what the hosting company really offers.
Another trait to look for in a good web hosting company involves what they can offer. Look for companies that provide several package choices with different amounts of bandwidth and storage space.
Make sure that you always have the option to upgrade your bandwidth and storage space. The amount that may suit your needs now could quickly become too small as your business and website grow.
A quality company will offer you more than enough bandwidth, which is key for a good, quick loading website.
Third, a good web hosting company will offer dependable uptime percentages. Since you need to know that your website is always available to customers, you need to know that it will be up. Although all web hosts will have to spend some time down, a quality company will be able to offer you 99.9 percent uptime.
In order to get a true image of a web host’s uptime, you can visit online sites that will allow you to analyze the web host’s domain name.
A fourth trait of a quality web host is ease of use. Look for a web host that offers user-friendly tools with which you can design or maintain your site. Also, look for web hosting companies that provide easy access to ecommerce tools.
One last trait of a quality web hosting company would be ftp and email access. Both ftp and email can be very useful and downright needed, so make sure the web host you choose offers plenty of ftp and email users.
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My friend ever told me: Don’t purchase and host your domains with the same hosting company. Because if you do this you risk your website being taken down if you have a payment dispute or they suspended your account and you lose all control.
Also, when looking for hosting make sure that the provider’s servers are located in the geographical location where you want to rank high on the search engines. For example 1and1 (The UK’s biggest hosting provider) has servers located in Germany. If your TLD is a .com rather than .co.uk your site will be interpreted as being German based and you might do ok on Google.de but shit on Google.co.uk.
But I definitely have to disagree with him.
First it really does not matter where you purchase your domain. It is more important to ensure the domain is registered in your name NOT in the name of your web host.
Many people who fall for the “Free Domain” marketing used by a number of hosts find their free domain is actually registered in the name of the web host.
If they ever plan to switch hosts it can be expensive to have control of the domain transferred. Some of these hosts charge double or triple the typical registration cost of $10 – $15 per year to transfer the registrant information to your name.
As to geographical information that is nothing but crap. Speaking from a web hosts perspective it really does not matter where your hosts servers are located. One of the hosting company inform me that they have thousands of clients from around the world, and their servers are located in datacenters in Canada and the United States.
Many of their international clients do extremely well in their home countries despite the fact their site is hosted in the US. They have american clients hosted in their Canadian data center that dominate google’s US serps for some extremely competitive search terms.
Then, my friend dispute back that the first point he make about domain and hosting is that if your relationship breaks down with the hosting company for whatever reason they can take down your site and you can’t access your control panel – He ask me to trust him as this has happened to him when they tried to take a re-occurring fee from his credit card but his card had expired. He was unable to get a support ticket or Support ID code located in the control panel. He was also unable to change the nameservers to point to his new hosting company. It took about three wekks to sort out and he lost money during the down time.
I start to ask around and with more and more information collected, I knew my friend is right instead.
The other concern regarding geo targeting
My friend then told me that he would love to hear other peoples views on the location of servers – this information was highlighted in David Viney ‘The SEO Expert’ author of ‘Get to the top on Google’. He could be wrong of course.
Being suspicious, I went through some research on this and it confirms that server location is very important if using .com in a non us country.
There is however a workaround provided by google.
“Over the last few years, website owners have been facing issues while specifying targeted geo location of their website. They have been previously relying on I.P address of web hosting or using country specific domains. This feature will help website owners to specify their target geographical location for their website, or sub-domains.
Suppose, your business is based in Netherlands, but your website is hosted in US. This could result in seo ranking issues, since your website will score higher rankings within Google.com (US), rather than Google.nl (Netherlands).”
From google:
“If your site targets users in a particular location, you can provide us with information that will help determine how your site appears in our country-specific search results, and also improve our search results for geographic queries. You can only use this feature for sites with a neutral top-level domain, such as .com or .org. Country-specific domains, such as .ie or .fr, are already associated with a country or region.”
Finally, everything is clear out from the thin air.
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Let’s put this rumor to rest: It’s rumored that Google retains rights (copyright) to your content that you blog with them. This is false. You have the rights to your content, but Google keeps the rights for their intellectual property. Their terms of service explains this in detail. http://www.blogger.com/terms.g
If your content does not remain within their terms of service, then Google has the right to close down or limit your account. WordPress allows you to host your own blog on your hosting account. While you may have more liberty concerning your content, you must still adhere to the guidelines or Terms of Service (TOS) set forth by your hosting company (unless, of course, you own your server).
Ease of Installation: Blogger is usually simpler to install. If your hosting company doesn’t have Fantastico as part of its web hosting service, you will have to install WordPress by hand, which can be difficult — especially if you aren’t very adept with your server control panel and FTP.
Google is the winner for customization. It’s easier to edit template layouts, styles, and color with Blogger than with WordPress. If your template isn’t quite what you wanted, “right out of the box,” you will need to know PHP and HTML to accomplish very much using WordPress.
Both platforms are packaged with countless templates to pick from, and third parties have developed a wide variety of templates – and that list continues to grow.
Other widely-used blog software includes Xanga, Drupal (major learning curve), Joomla, and several more.
No charge blog hosting can be found at wordpress.com, Blogger, Myspace, TypePad, and many more.
In the final analysis, it truly is based on the amount of control you desire to have over the look and functionality your site, as well as your tech-savviness. For those familiar with HTML, and willing to learn the relatively simple PHP, WordPress is a good bet. For those simply wishing to begin a blog, or those on a budget, opt for Google.
