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[ravi_9793]

^^I dont think this is the right thread to discuss about Y! domain service...

why!!!

I think kiran has got answer about hosting...from many (ashok, sukhdeep, and me)So, we can discuss about yahoo also.why make special thread for this.

If kiran has any more dout, he can again ask here.

 

[anandk]

njs tells me that u can do all with a blog, that u can do with a website. i dont know. i havent the faintest idea of how to start a blog. i wanted to enjoy the pains of learning so i started a website from scratch.

most imp : decide on a good webhost. dont trust ads. go to someone u know! i had a bad experience there. my 1st host used to fxxxg 'down' my site everytime my bandwidth exceeded, without even informing me ! choto sgstd apna 'tuxfan' to me, and i am at peace now, try him, he is a gentleman. im sure there are other good webhosts too here. 'talk' to someone you 'know' and then decide. again u wanna go for free hosting...or paid ? i went paid. nice reasonable package from tuxfan.

what else ? i knew WHAT design i wanted and what matter to put. i wanted my site to be for the 'end-user windows enthusiast' (like me). so be clear who u r targetting the site at! you want to target India - or the world ? decide on a NICHE, dont just ape ! vishal has targetted his at 'wanna be' win/os hackers, as i c, and yes he can do that, as he has a lot of reg hacks and tweaks up his sleeve !

i retained a student for doing the coding, designed the artwork done to my taste from an artist (they learnt as much from me, as i from them). and then hosted it. decide on a good domain name.

i didnt bother about backlinks or alexa nor seo (just added meta tags and that too wrongly here agn njs corrected me)... nor anything else, just focussed on my content, and i update it almost every other day! honestly havent done proper seo on it yet, maybe some day i'll learn a little about it and fine tune it 'seo' wise. but still gives me a kick when a search engine like Live/- puts me on the 1st page for basic searches like : make vista faster or even windows vista service pack 1. my awstats show a daily hits figure between 16-18000. and i dont thinks thats bad for a site launched on 27th May, 2007. so i always say : CONTENT IS KING !

hits ? write something controversial once in awhile...

my rss : waznt working till about 2-3 weeks back ! agn njs helped me here. i presume they are working now

starting and running a website is work, rest assured. i enjoy it so its not work for me For me its a 'work of art' i did it for myself, not worrying whether anyone would like it, honestly! but thankfully im getting nice hits. my hits from US far outnumber the sum total of hits from all other countries put together.

just thinking aloud and writing on the spur of the moment as u mentioned my name ... hope i dont sound incoherent whew, dont think iv ever written such an impromptu long post... always prefer to write such long ones b4 hand, in a notepad and then copy-paste. btw if u havent vztd my site recently, do check it out and giv sgstn www.winvistaclub.com

have fun !

 

[Ankur Gupta]

Absolutely on the target anandk...
@Kiran
Your search ends at one man..Ashish(Tuxfan)...Such a helpful guy...wont just tell you buy from him till you are convinced about what you are getting and what you actually need...Always there to help even on small problems...
Just consult him and you wont need to look further...

 

[Kiran.dks]

Many Thanks for all your replies guys.
It seems like Yahoo domain is a better option. But is transferring domain to other host a messy process?

Wordpress seems to be the best option for hosting. Going by anand answers, I feel that one needs a programming language for making a website.. Isn't it?

Regarding hosting, I think paid is better option. Free hosting includes ads I guess. I don't want any external ads in my website. I want to include Google Adsense and Adbrite myself.

 

[Pathik]

Nope transferring the domain isnt messy at all if u take tyhe domain from a good reseller wich gives u all the features..
If u plan to mod ur WP urself then u shd know html,css,php,sql basics i think..
also not all free hosts include ads..

 

[ravi_9793]

Nope transferring the domain isnt messy at all if u take tyhe domain from a good reseller wich gives u all the features..

yes , it is very simple process.Ystersday only I transfered one domain name..and it took only 5 min.

but I am not sure abt yahoo domain service.Because if they lock your domain name, than in that case you have to stick with yahoo.

 

[Kiran.dks]

Ya, I know that all free hosting doesn't have ads, but the good ones do have it. Others which don't have ads have lot of constraints like bandwidth...etccc

 

[ravi_9793]

^^^^^^^
110mb.com
It is good with good package.Only restriction is SMTP is off.

If is good idea to start with free hosting..than shift to paid hosting.

Me started same way.

 

[blackpearl]

Anandk is bang on target. Content is the MOST IMPORTANT thing of a website. Looks doesn't matter. This is what I learnt from my 50 days of blogging. No SEO trick can bring traffic to your site as much as good content can. I haven't applied any seo and yet I get decent ranking on google search results. Hell!! I don't even have metatags!!

I get an average of 400 hits/day and 5.8% of my traffic comes from google search while another 7.5% comes directly. Sometimes even routine keywords thrown into google brings up my blog in the first page. Every time a visitor comes from google it gets me thrilled. Here are some actual keywords visitors used and came to my site along with the search result ranking.

"email that will self delete" - my blog on 5th place, page 1
*www.google.com/search?q=email that...n&rls=GGLJ,GGLJ:2006-19,GGLJ:en&start=50&sa=N

"Extract Any Archive " - page 1, 7th place
*www.google.co.in/search?q=Extract ...ient=firefox&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:unofficial

"image sharing" - page 1, 9th place
*www.google.com/search?q=image shar...rosoft:*:IE-Address&rlz=1I7TSHB&start=50&sa=N

"remove author's name from word" - page 1, 3rd place
*www.google.com/search?client=opera...me+from+word&sourceid=opera&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8

Some weird and amazing searches brought visitors to my site too. Like

"dark spots on cd surface" - page 1, 1st place!!
*www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=dark spots on cd surface

"windows registry editor linux" - page 1, 8th place (registry editor for linux??)
*www.google.com/search?q=windows re...g.mozilla:cs-CZ:official&hs=atw&start=20&sa=N

Now this is the ultimate"

"is equal to" - page 1, 5th place
*www.google.com/search?client=opera&rls=en&q=is+equal+to&sourceid=opera&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8

How did this happen? Honestly, I don't know. Just have good contents on your site and leave the rest to google. That's the best SEO advice I can give you.

 

[Kiran.dks]

yes , it is very simple process.Ystersday only I transfered one domain name..and it took only 5 min.

but I am not sure abt yahoo domain service.Because if they lock your domain name, than in that case you have to stick with yahoo.

They lock domain names from transferring?

 

[ravi_9793]

They lock domain names from transferring?

I don't have any idea about yahoo domain service.This can be conformed from any existing yahoo domain customer.

If they can see any option to lock and unlock domain name in yahoo domain control panel....than it depend on customer to lock and unlock the domain name.

But if it is not available, or disable than you cant do anything.

 

[amanjagga]

Auction...............................
I have more cheap offers

Domain registration Rs 320-/for .com
For Hosting see my thread for various

*www.thinkdigit.com/forum/showthread.php?t=66557

YOu can also visit www.hhostingg.com

Better than anyone else

 

[Choto Cheeta]

@Ravi

For information... few Facts...

Domain Booking with Yahoo is Instant... to Issue whats so Ever... there is no Hidden Cost... it is exact USD 1.99 ...

Next year Yahoo will autometically charge the CC for USD 9.95...

Yahoo Bundles advance DNS Controls which is Rs. 50/- optional with DirectI Resellers...

Yahoo Takes 5 days if some one wants to transfer domain from Yahoo to any other domain registrar....

@Kiran

When u go for the site... all things are changeable and Corretable Like Domain Registrar or Hosting or sutff... those Can be think of Later on... where to go what to do...

But I would say right now Concentrate on one Factor which is un-changable... which is the name of the domain... !!!!

 

[ravi_9793]

@Ravi

For information... few Facts...

Domain Booking with Yahoo is Instant... to Issue whats so Ever... there is no Hidden Cost... it is exact USD 1.99 ...

thanks for updating me.Actually I dont have any personal experience with yahoo domain registration.......I was told this by one of online friend

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Yahoo Bundles advance DNS Controls which is Rs. 50/- optional with DirectI Resellers...

But with direct I, who is who privacy is free. And I think 95% people dont use DNS service..but wish to have who is who privacy.

I dont know But I have heard that yahoo charge extra for who is who privacy

Thanks @choto ..Actually I was little confused of yahoo service.

I will also suggest @kiran
start searching your .com name.

 

[Sukhdeep Singh]

Cheeta is always fast than me to answer questions. Change name to SUPER FAST CHeeta bro

Let me make a conclusion on this more appropraitely titled "Yahoo Domains" thread LOL

1. Yahoo Domain registration is Instant
2. They charge 2$ for First year
3. You can transfer the Domain and they cannot lock your domain...they have some ICANN Standards to follow
4. They charge 1$ for Whois Protection
5. DNS management comes Free.
6. They resell for MelbourneIT

And Kiran, Good luck for your site bro Anything else do post

 

[piyush gupta]

@kiran

Ya choto is right even I recently registered my domain on yahoo(will launch my site soon... these days me super busy in office)

And its exactly 1.99 USD and need not to worry about changing host or domain transfer

Just think about ur .com name

 

[ravi_9793]

sukhdeep post clears everything.

And yeah @choto cheeta ..U sud be renamed as SUPERFAST cheeta..

 

[piyush gupta]

^^Ask raboo to rename him

 

[Choto Cheeta]

He He...

thnx for the Comments guys...

But with direct I, who is who privacy is free. And I think 95% people dont use DNS service..but wish to have who is who privacy.

Agree... when you have everyDNS.net who needs Paid Service but yeah Who IS privacy is one good option tooo....

anyway lets all agree one one front...

@Kiran

Bro dont get confuse in this mess what we created... just now start thinking for a Good .com domain name... finding one Good .com is really important... Ask Piyush... its so hard that u would rip your hair off

 

[Kiran.dks]

Thanks Choto Cheeta and Sukhdeep! That was a relieving anwer. I was in a dilemma regarding Yahoo services. Now it's clear.

But I still have one BIG question! I dono any web programming languages. I do have a blog by which I know how to post a article....
I heard that there are manu user friendly GUI based utilities for posting in website. Could you ellaborate on it...

I also tried out Wordpress free blog. I am conversant with it. Is it gonna be the same method if I use download wordpress and use for my website? Hope I am clear in expressing things to you...

If this question is cleared, I am on the way to look for a .com name for my website!