Domain Transfer
On this article I will explain how to transfer your existing domain to a new registrar. Every domain registrar has their own way of doing things differently, but I will explain the main process on this article.
What is a Domain Transfer ?
A domain transfer is when you transfer your existing domain name to a new registrar.
Why should I transfer my Domain ?
There might be many reasons for this cause. Most popular one might be the price of the domain name and what the registrar offers you. For example if you pay $10 for a domain name in a registrar, and get basic features, and if you pay $7 at another company and get the same features then you might think of transfering your domain name. Sometimes the customer care and the user interfrence have affect aswell.
How to transfer a domain name to another register
FIrst, you need to have an account at the new registrar your planning to transfer your existing domain to. Then you need to find the Authorization code (Auth Code) of the domain name your transfering.
When you get this code, go to your new registrar and submit atransfer inquiry, you need your Auth code for this inquiry. When you submit this inquiry, your new registrar will send an email to your existing registrar informing it about the transfer, you must aprrove the transfer on this email to contuinue.
After this your domain should be able to transfer to your new registrar without any problems. It might take couple days for you to recieve the approval email.
What is a SiteMap ?
On this article I will explain what a Sitemap is and what is it used for. You can guess that a sitemap is a Map of your Site of course, and that definition is from me to explain in the simplest way. According to Wikipedia, a sitemap is defined as:
The Sitemaps protocol allows a webmaster to inform search engines about URLs on a website that are available for crawling.
Like the definition above, a sitemap informs the search engines about the available urls that can be crawled on your website. Some websites need sitemaps because their website might not be liked by the Google Bots or the Bots might have trouble indexing your website. But this is not the case all the time.
A sitemap makes your website extremely easy to be accessible by search engines. It is usually an XML file.
If you have a flash website, your content is not going to be indexed by the search engines because they can’t see the links. You can add a sitemap linking to those links and tell the Search Engines that you have those urls on your website so they can come and index them. If your entire content is in flash, then this is not a good option for you, but you can create extra html files to be seen by the search engines.
You can create a sitemap very easily online or with an program that you would download it to your personal computer.
If you are using a ready to go system, check to see if they already have an module for it. For example the Wordpress ready to go system has many plug-ins created by different programmers to generate a sitemap automatically.
Add a PayPal Donation button to your web page
On this article I will explain how to add a PayPal donation button to your website. First thing is frist, login to your PayPal account and follow the below steps.
From your Paypal account top navigation, click Merchant Services, then a list will appear, from the list click on Donations.
Now you will setup your Donation settings. These are very unique easy steps to follow. After these steps click on Create Button Now.
And there you go. You will have a Html code on the next page, copy the code and paste it into your Html source. The code will appear like the below example:
How to create custom Name Servers
Creating custom name srvers are very simple, I will go through basic steps explaining how to create custom name servers like ns1.you-domain.com or ns2.your-domain.com
- First you need to login to your domain control panel.
- Second you need the original IP’s of yourcurrent name servers.
- Third You need to update Name Servers.
Login to your domain control panel, go to your DNS Zone, if you do not have one go to DNS, or NS records or something in that nature. You will need to find Create Custom NS link.
Get you original IP’s from your host, for example if your website is hosted on hostgator.com and your 2 DNS adresses are ns345.hostgator.com ns346.hostgator.com ask for their IP’s. Normally your hosting company should give them to you in the first place.
Then go to the domain Control Panel again. Click Create custom Name Server. Name it something you want like ns01.your-domain.com and the pointing field should be your first IP address. do the samething for the second one but name it maybe ns02.your-domain.com and point it to your second IP.
Now is the last step. Go to your DNS zone and update your Name Servers. You point your-domain.com to ns01.yourdomain.com and ns02.yourdomain.com and still have it hosted on another host.
What is a Domain Name (Video)
On this video I have explained what is a Domain name very simply. Just watch the video and have fun.
Statistics Counter
A statistic counter is very usefull for a website in many ways. Not only it counts how many visitors come to your website, it allows you to see where those visitors ocme and how they come so you can improve your website according to your statistics.
Google Analytics
Google analytics is a great tool towards your website statistics. It gives you a great range of statistics. You can check where your visitors come from including continent, country, states, and cities. You can tracke which langugae they speak.
The most important thing about statistics is that you can check what keywords they write to come to your website in search engines. This can give a big advantage, you can improve your website in that area and have more impact over your visitors.
Google analytics has marketing tools. You can combine Analytics with Adwords and get custom reports on your marketing tools.
You can get reports on your internal pages, how much a certain page is being visited and so on. You can see what websties refer to your website and how many visitors come directly.
There is many other statistics websites but they never give a great service like Google Analytics. In Analytics you can even customize your dashboard on how you recieve and want to see your statistics.
Keep in mind that this service is free and has many features, if you already have an Google account you can just add this service to your product list for free. Google accounts are free. Remember that you can turn a statistics counter into money buy improving your website to what the visitors are coming and searching your site for.
How to get more backlinks
As many of us already know, others website linking to your website is so important. You have to recieve a good number of backlinks to rank better in many search engines. Well here comes the tricky question: How do I get backlinks? There is many ways people skip over when it comes to getting more backlinks.
People don’t give importance to getting backlinks from forums. Become a member to a forum, and on your signature part give a link to your website and post couple posts on the forum. Many people don’t care about this thinking that it won’t help them so well. Another mistake people don’t take serious is leaving comments on blog posts. Many blog posts have a url field for you to put your web address, write a simple comments that makes sense and write your url in the url field.
When people exchange links with websites, they make the mistake: 1 link from the home page. Getting a only 1 link from the home page is NOT better than getting 20 links from sub pages.
Writing good content will help you to get more backlinks aswell. Other websites will show your website as a source when they write about the info they took from your website.
These are just a few simple “How to get more backlinks” ideas. There is many other ways but it goes into frushtration.
Misspelled Words & Typos Helping Your Ranking
Have you ever wondered how misspelled words can help your ranking? As we know, English is one of the hardest or the hardest language of the world. Many people can’t get the spelling of most of the words right, the search engines are improving their technology on correcting your typos. Many search engines like Google have “Did you mean ______” to help the visitors find what they are looking for.
Well, many of us have blogs, and many blog systems have “tag” systems. Many websites have this aswell. Think about it, When you write an article, on the tag field write some possible typos people can make.
For example, instead of making your keywords “Misspelled Words” (which is the correct spelling) make some of your keywords “Mispelled Words” that missing “s” can make a little difference.
I do not encourage you to have your website completely misspelled, but you should take notice of that “tag” field with couple possible misspelled words.
How to Choose a Domain Name
Choosing a domain name for your website can be so frustrating sometimes. Your domain name should consider your main idea for the website meaning it should describe your website in some what manner. For example, if you have a website about soccer, don´t name it Hockey. :) I know that example was a little confusing but you should get the main idea.
You can check out my other article How to Choose a Good Domain Name to decide your domain name. If you are making a portal type of a website, let’s say its about hamsters again 
You should choose a domain name like hamster-world.com so it considers anything about hamsters. If you choose a domain name like hamster-types.com you can not post information other than hamster types. Of course you can but it wouldn’t be logical. When a visitor writes a keyword into a keyword and your website shows up, it does not mean that visitor will come to your website, but if you have a good domain name and it makes sense what the visitor is searching for, than you have an advantage compare to other websites.
My other article, Where to Get your Domain Name can be a guide for you to choose a good company to get a domain name.
