HOW TO INCREASE THE VALUE OF YOUR DOMAIN NAME(s)?

A- One of the most important metrics in measuring a domain name value is the number of search results it generates when looked up via google search. This gives a potential buyer of your domain name an idea of how popular your domain name is or was, how popular (hot) a word or words contained in your domain name are and how many search engine referral hits it receives.

Other popular metrics are character length (the shorter the better), if it's a .com, residual hits per month, number and quality of words within the name. Remember your domain is a piece of online 'real estate'. It's tough to find a short .com with a valuable word or phrase in it (unless you are willing to pay big bucks for it). But the one factor you have some control over is the number of visitors to your domain/website and number of hits it receives in a web search.

1. The first thing to do is find a host that allows multiple domains on one web hosting account. This will allow you to utilize 1 web hosting account to host multiple websites for each domain. The purpose of building websites for each domain name is build up organic traffic growth and again increase the number of visitors to your online real estate. By using one web hosting account (which we will discuss next) for all the domains, you only pay one low monthly fee of a few bucks a month. Moreover, the money you can earn via google adsense ads for each of the sites will earn you money on the side and build equity value in your domain(s) at the same time!

There are several webhosts that allow multiple domains/websites on one hosting account.

The best one out there is startlogic hosting. Hosted by StartLogic - Startlogic offers over 3,000 Gigabytes of web space and allows up to 10 domain names in 1 account. The cost is only about $5 for the hosting, and about $6 to $7 dollars for each domain per year. They offer the cheapest price on both hosting and domains and at the same time allow up to 3000 Gigs of bandwidth (That's 3 Terabytes!) usage and 300 GB's of web space for your content. That is enough for tens of millions of hits and millions of webpages for your websites.

The way to do this is sign up for 1 prologic hosting account, then You simply create a sub-folder under the root directory for your main control panel. Their control panel is simple to use and requires very little knowledge of computers. So you simply create the sub-folder under your main hosting account (eg- like "flowers" or "sports" or "lyrics" etc..). After creating the subfolder, you email the "additional services department" through their contact form and request that they point your additional domain to the folder you just created.

Very simple, straightforward. You then create or upload your index file(html) in the new subfolder and voila! Your new website is ready to go. You can then build up this website by creating more pages and more subfolders in the new folder you just created. Whether you want 100 or 10,000 pages of content, startlogic offers 300 Gigs of space which is enough to make millions of standard web pages.

*Remember to add google adsense ads to your web pages! This way you earn money from the ads while building equity in your domain name as well!!

Repeat the above steps for up to 10 domains on the one hosting account! For 5.95/month, that is less than 60 cents for each website hosted per month!

If you choose not to go with startlogic, another webhost provider you can do this with is Yahoo! Small Business ( Compare Web Hosting Packages from Yahoo! ) -- you can host multiple websites for free by doing the following:

1. Setup your web hosting account + select and register your domains...

2. Create a sub-domain (on your main hosting account) for each of your domains...

3. Go to the "Domain Forward" section for Each of your domain names and forward them to the sub-domains you just created on your main hosting account. Each of your sub-domains will be where you host the files for all of your websites. Make sure to select "Mask Forward" option so that your domain will appear as it's own website rather than a sub-domain on your main account.

and that's about it, you add an index.htm file (which is where people will go when they type your domain name into their browser), add some content and build out your site with more pages. With the Yahoo Hosting account, you can create about 100-500 subdomains on 1 hosting account (depending on the plan you choose). It is free to create sub-domains on both Yahoo! and Startlogic.

-> See below on how to add some content to your site and promote it for free!

CREATING CONTENT FOR YOUR SITE:

You can create any kind of content you wish! Even if you need fast ideas for quick content, look to any .gov site (relating to your domain name) and wikipedia.org. Remember to respect copyrights when looking for info. Most of the content on wikipedia and .gov sites are free to use on your website as long as you list the source/ reference link back to wikipedia. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Text_of_the_GNU_Free_Documentation_License  for more info on how to properly cite the wiki content.

One fast way to get your site noticed + indexed in search engines for free is through del.icio.us . Del.icio.us is a way to tag and spread your content to other users on the net. It's free and can only help improve the number of visitors to your site.

The best way to create some quick content is through blogging. Write a few articles relating to your domain name (eg-if your domain has the word cars in it, make a photo gallery of cool cars or write some of your own content about cars) and before you know it hits to your site should increase if it gets indexed quickly. The aforementioned can be done through blogger.com, instead of using a subdomain on blogger, you provide your own domain to them.

Another method you can use is through videos from youtube and other video sites and imbed them into your web pages (with descriptions if possible). Almost all the good video sites provide you with loads of video content. More importantly, under each video at youtube or veoh, you will find a bar labeled "embed code". You can find videos relating to your domain and simply copy the code in the embed bar and simply paste it into your html pages of your domain.

Another popular concept is to make your domain names index (homepage) a sort of portal that visitors can make their homepage. See www.egrab.com for an example of this. Add a google search bar, keep it clean and add some favorites and it's likely that you can get some visitors to use your site as their homepage. Remember, the Internet is growing quickly.. Every day, 25,000 people find the Internet for the first time in their lives! There's plenty of opportunity to attract new homepage/information seekers and at the same time really create loads of value for your domain(s).
 

Find out more about the > google adsense < program.

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*Compare the Best Web Hosts on the net Startlogic is #1 on the list..(note: only Startlogic & Yahoo were tested for hosting free multiple websites on one web-hosting account). All 4 of the hosts at the link provide a robust domain search tool.