Recently while revisiting some of my older posts in my home business blog to do some tests on my Google Adsense placements, I came across my post titled: “If I Could Start My Blog All Over….” where I asked 4 of my blogging friends to give their thoughts on how different their blogs might be if they were starting all over again.

Well all of them said they would still have their blogs but with big differences in how they were to be built and promoted impacting domains, backlinks, blog marketing, blog theme among others. These are valid suggestions or improvements on their blogs which now begs the question : “How important do you value your blog?”.  Would you have the courage or audacity to give up your blog now? Or would you have not started with a blog at all if you had to start your Internet Home Business all over again?

Well my good friend Tom Lindstrom from The Home Business Archive says “Marketing without a website can be done by building a list of subscribers and broadcasting messages to that list.” All that is needed, he says, is a monthly investment for a reliable autoresponder which costs about $20. That is relatively low maintenance although this expense could be about twice you would have paid hostgator every month to maintain your hosting account.  But not having to update your blog frequently should make up more than the 10 bucks you got to dish out.

Going without a blog or a website is a serious decision to make and presumably you know what you’re doing if you’re seriously contemplating just that. Starting an autoresponder is not the only serious work you have to immerse yourself with. In Tom’s post, he advocates having a “system” to follow before you can start to run your home business. His system focuses on :

• establishing yourself as an expert on whatever affiliate products you intend to market. My thoughts on this: Well some statistics I’ve come across put the affiliate marketing industry failure rate as 95% so obviously you have to strive to be in the 5% category of successful affiliate marketers.
• using article marketing and promote extensively your affiliate products using both your article “resource box” and your autoresponder. Well that is something new for the average blogger and it’s for better usage than most of us could ever imagined.

My Final Thoughts

Personally, I would prefer having a blog and website than without one. The look and feel of a blog has changed over the years and somehow I get the feeling that people are more comfortable “talking” to someone on his blog than through his autoresponder. Nevertheless I know that the autoresponder plays a significant role in most successful marketers’ rise to fame and fortune.

A blog plays a big part in introducing who you are as an Internet Marketer through this communication channel. I have also yet to read many success stories of marketers who became exceedingly successful without a website or a blog. But of course it could be this ignorant me or the lazy part of me preferring not the road less traveled.

Over to you….

How important do you value your blog? Will you give it up now or would you have not used a blog for your home business from the start? I like to hear your thoughts.

Do read the full post by Tom Lindstrom on “Marketing Without A Website” to give you that insightful read in his blog

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December month seems to be pretty quiet because of the Christmas and New Year holidays. I guess people didn’t have much time to be online and that’s understandable. Noticeably my adsense profit fell from $104 (last month) to $77 because of this and also the dreaded Google Sandbox. Oh well I just have to work harder and set up more Micro Niche Adsense Websites.

Income

• Blogging Services – $128.00
• Micro Niche Adsense Course-XFactor – $92.40
• Google Adsense - $77.00
• Angela Edward’s Backlink Building Program – $72.15
• Micro Niche Finder – $37.43 (Clickbank)
• Host4Profit/Hostgator (Reseller) - $60.00
• Amazon Affiliate ($6.74)
• Squidoo ($1.13)

Total income earned during December ‘09: $474.85. Some observations and actions to take in Jan:

• 2 newly created Micro Niche Adsense Mini Websites making my total adsense sites to 8. This month I failed to cross over the $100 adsense earnings like in November mainly because of the holidays and that 3 of my new sites went into the Google Sandbox. But I’m still pleased my Xfactor’s adsense sites have contributed 60% of the $77.00 Adsense income. The rest came from this blog and my homepage. Looking at percentage and not the dollars does put things into perspective as they are now the main contributor for my adsense earnings. It does give me more incentive to create more niche sites.
• Again Angela Edward’s Backlink Program still delivers in terms of getting some passive income as backlink building is something you cannot stop even with 2 holidays. Most of the subscribers keep the subscription mainly because this program is helping them. It looks like I should focus a little more time to get more subscribers and grow this income a bit.

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Two years ago when I decided to start an Internet Home Business after attending Ewen Chia’s ‘How To Make Money Online Opportunities’ or something that sounds close, I had no idea where to begin. Clueless!

Then I began to look at some emails that never seemed to stop coming from a certain guy named Benson Wong. At that moment I gave in to my gut feel that Plug-in Profit Site (PIPS) was what I should join. After all it seemed to be on every email that he’s been sending to me and I found out Ewen Chia was a member of PIPS too. It was much later that I learned about the power of autoresponders. All I thought of then was this guy probably had a middle name and it must have been called ‘Persistent’.

Sure PIPS was a good starting point for newbies like me then and it also gave me my first website and a guide to follow and the accompanying ‘30 days to success’ training guide was for lack of a better word ‘useful’. But if there was just one thing that was missing it has got to be having my own ‘mentor’. The mentor-protege relationship is an important concept and practiced by even offline companies. Tapping on and passing the wisdom and experience of the mentor is something not to be taken lightly. It can get you the desired results in developing good marketing and leadership skills - if you follow the footsteps of the mentor.

Well here are 5 top Internet Marketers who are experts in affiliate marketing willing to mentor you:

The Costs To Join Affiliate Power Group:

For FREE:

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If you have purchased my Angela’s Backlink Building Program, you will be thrilled to know there are quite a few of these backlinks that you can find such as ‘Traffic Tip #1: Get 3 Backlinks on High PR Websites’ and Traffic Tip #11:-Get 2 New Backlinks on High PR Website. Get all 30 Traffic Tips in this free ebook.

Here are a few more traffic tips found in this ebook:

Traffic Tip #2 – Use Twitter to Get More Traffic

Traffic Tip #14 – Participate in Yahoo Answers & get Exposure for your Website

Traffic Tip #18 – A Simple Way to Build Longtail Keywords

Traffic Tip #20 – Get Traffic from Link Referral

Get the full details of all 30 traffic tips from the free ebook using the link on this post. Enjoy!

For just $1:

You get to check out the Affiliate Powergroup for $1 that gives you 10 days access to the restricted member area.  Below is a screenshot of the APG member area to give you an idea of what you can expect:

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Yeah it’s about that time of the month again to write about my blog income and stats so here it is again. I’m not sure if I will continue doing this for long though. I may just stopped for a while and do it again when there are more things to update. Anyway, here it is:

Income

• Blogging Services – $128
• Micro Niche Adsense Course-XFactor – $246.40
• Google Adsense - $104.32
• Angela Edward’s Backlink Building Program – $78.75
• Micro Niche Finder – $43.59 (Clickbank)
• Host4Profit (Reseller) - $10

Total income earned during November ‘09: $609.06 The good income was possible mainly due to:

• more sales coming from XFactor’s Micro Niche Adsense Course (8 sales this month compared to 3 last month).
• 2 newly created Micro Niche Adsense Mini Websites making my total adsense sites to 6. They contributed earnings of $47.13 which made up 45% of November’s total adsense earnings of $104.32. It’s also the first time I crossed the $100 Adsense* threshold within one month so I’ll be getting my check early for this month instead of the usual bi-monthly frequency.
• Again Angela Edward’s Backlink Program still never fails as it continues to give me passive income from my subscribers. No promotion done for this month so I’m happy with the earnings.

* My next post is devoted to this little milestone I just crossed so be sure to read it or better still, just subscribe to this blog so you won’t miss it.

Traffic

Stats:

• 232 RSS Readers
• Technorati Rank: 70,228
• Technorati Auth: 108
• Alexa: 80,287
• Inbound links: 10,741

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The FTC (Federal Trade Commission) a US federal government independent agency has recently made changes to the policies governing the Use of Endorsements and Testimonials in Advertising. This change is going to be effective Dec 1, 2009, so are you all geared up for this change and decided what are some of the blogging actions you will be taking?

I figured we have to understand just what this means to us bloggers and what actions we should take. I don’t speak for the rest of the blogging fraternity but personally I don’t like to be associated with FTC, Law, fines (yes $11,000) and most of all we certainly don’t want FTC to be behind our backs, when we’ve got enough of our business to handle.

So what does FTC New Guidelines say:

You can read the FTC document here but I thought I summarize what I think it means in a nutshell:

FTC requires and expects that bloggers who make an endorsement and receive either cash or payment in kind to disclose the material connections they share with the seller of the product or service.

What bloggers should be aware of

1. This means if you have accepted a sponsored post and get paid for it to do a favorable review, you will be subject to disclosure, not something you would normally do in the past. Also getting paid for it is not necessarily for cash but other free stuff that may benefit the blogger, his blog or his online business.

2. There is no real law binding this new guideline affecting bloggers which is a good thing. In the event that FTC does find any of your posts may have violated this new revised guideline, it will not fine you let alone $11,000 as previously thought so. Instead it then owns the burden of proving your guilt - of violating the FTC Act. But I don’t think you want it to come to this far, this possibility, right?

3. The original $11,000 fine for non-compliance that we have been hearing is not true as confirmed by FTC. In the worst case scenario, when a non-compliance is discovered, FTC will issue a warning to the blogger. However if your product is proved to have serious defects, it may be a different story to tell. I guess this means bloggers now have to be more careful with what products to promote or which merchants he partners with. You could say promoting freely in Internet has taken a whole new meaning now.

So how should you disclose

Unfortunately there is no clear definition provided by FTC how you should go about in your disclosure. I guess this means that each time you used a testimonial or other endorsement on your blog, you will have to reveal just what the average results actually are. In short, disclose and be compliant with FTC.

But it may be difficult to disclose what are the average results obtained for your product even if you wanted to. Well come Dec 1 don’t be surprised to see many websites or blog posts with such disclaimers like “the average person made 1 cent” or other similar ridiculous ones. It’s pathetic what this may be leading to but my bet is as good as anyone’s. Wanna bet?

Affiliate Links-Start to disclose

I know many bloggers don’t like to reveal which links are affiliate links on their website or blog post. Well the new FTC rule doesn’t give you a choice as it requires that you do so now from Dec 1. But you could see the positive side of things and use such disclosures to your benefit. If you truly believe in the product and the value it brings to people, putting a disclosure somehow gives your recommendation even more weight. You are seen to be both honest and truthful. Then again it depends on how your customers or prospects see you and if they trust you. So I guess building trust in them now has an added value.

In Conclusion

I really think the new FTC guidelines that are officially enforceable in 10 days time is not such a big thing as it sounded when it first got mentioned a couple of months ago. We ought to support it’s worthy cause which probably includes protecting the average consumer against fraudulent or unfair business practices. This change probably was meant to target the real advertisers, we bloggers just happen to get caught in the line of fire.

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New FTC Guidelines for Internet Marketers

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Yes call me silly, call me crazy! You’re about to find out how you’re gonna get Free Advertising Ads on this Blog. Sometimes I don’t think straight when it gets near to one of my favorite season holidays of the world - Christmas.  As my way of ending the year with a big bang and ushering the new year, here goes - I will put up your banner ad for Free on this blog for ONE month of advertising but you just need to fulfill one simple action which you will truly benefit too. Really I’ve never seen another blog giving out such a too good to be true deal ever.

Here’s the deal…

1. Just subscribe to Angela Edward’s Backlink Building Program for at least ONE month for only $5.00 and you get 30 high PR backlinks (PR6-9) plus another 30 backlinks (prior month) so altogether 60 high PR links.  You may continue to subscribe monthly from the second month onwards or simply cancel your subscription with no further costs incurred. The choice is yours. Find out how the Angela’s Backlinks have been helping countless of people rank high in the search engines from my recent blog post: Taking Backlink Building To A Higher Level

2. You must use my link found on No. 1. to subscribe. It also applies to new subscription only so if you have previously subscribed through a link found on this blog from another post of mine or through another blog, it will also not be accepted.

3. Send me an email using my contact form here to inform me you have subscribed with the following info: Subject: Free Advertising Ads on Blog with Angela’s Backlink Program Subscription. At the same time provide me your 125X125 banner details so that I can quickly put up your banner ad on this blog for FREE (worth $12 per month). Legit sites or blogs or affiliates accepted but it will be no-follow as in all my banner ads.

4. Once you have subscribed through this link, I will await Angela’s auto email confirmation. Once received I will begin to upload your banner on my blog.

5. If you have questions on this free advertising ad or need further clarification please feel free to ask by putting your comments below. But I’m accepting 10 max ads only on a first come first served basis and this special offer will expire on Dec 31, 2009.

It’s my way of saying thanks to everyone who has supported this blog and hope to see you get some free advertising on this blog real soon.

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So thanks for visiting and supporting this blog of mine. For those of you who are new to my home business blog, as a small gesture of my appreciation, the Top Commentator for each month will be recognized and rewarded with one of the sponsor prizes. Since last month I’ve made a slight tweak in terms of who gets which award provided I received at least 2 other sponsors with a total of 4 prizes. I’ll let you pick your own award and the top commentator gets to choose this followed by the others.

My sincere thanks and appreciation to my sponsors for making this top commentator contest a  little more interesting.

July’s Sponsors

1.Home Business Blog (Me) offers a free 125X125 Banner and text link ad (2 prizes, 1 mth)

2. Lee Kahoong of Make Money Online offers a free 125X125 Banner (1 mth)

3. Ben Pei from BenPei.com offers a free banner design, any size.

4. Toan from http://chotoan.com offers a free 125X125 Banner (1 mth).

You Can Be A Sponsor Here

Would you like to be my sponsor? I am looking for a few more sponsors to this Top Commentator Award. Do you like to sponsor paypal cash, banner ads, text link ads, ebooks, blog reviews or anything else? This will not only give our readers more reasons to give comments on this blog but give you good exposure to your blog. You’ll also get backlinks with your chosen anchor text. Your links will always be on this post as well as on the post announcing the Top Commentator Award. Well you know what to do. Just leave a comment if you are interested to be one.

August Sponsors

Sponsors needed!! Please donate generously. Thanks!
1. Home Business Blog (Me) offers a free 125X125 Banner and text link ad (2 prizes, 1 mth)

2. Toan from http://chotoan.com offers a free 125X125 Banner (1 mth).
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This Top Commentator for the month of July goes to …(drumroll) Lee Kahoong.Congratulations Lee and thanks for your great support and contribution. It’s people like you that makes the difference in our blogs.

The following persons will receive the sponsors’ awards:

• Nicolas Prudhon(22)
• Legit Business Opportunities(19)
• Home-Work-Newbie(12)
• Jewelry Making Supplies(10)

Please comment to advise your preferred choice of prizes. If there is a clash of prizes, the one with the higher number of comments gets his preferred choice.

Now what do the rest of the Commentators get as a reward? You’ll get link love from yours truly of course as a gesture of my appreciation to you for supporting and contributing your comments on this home business blog. Thanks again!

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If you’ve read my recent post on “How To Start Making Money With Adsense” you may have seen a banner I displayed called “Adsense Treasure“.  Well I just started a little experiment to monetize my Adsense Treasure website with five Wordpress Blogs.

The reason why I’m focusing on adsense is that I found it a little intriguing how one can learn how to make money from adsense in more ways than you can imagine. My adsense account is very new and my first full month adsense earnings amount to only $20. I know it’s not much to shout about but that kinda makes me even more determined to focus more effort on adsense. That gave birth to My Adsense Treasure Experiment.

How I found Adsense Treasure

Like you I received tons of junk emails often with the subject like “Make $40,000 a month on adsense” and I’ll quickly delete them without even reading. But one mail I found in my spam folder somehow caught my attention. It talked about this guy called Abid showing off all the money he has made from adsense - his car, his home, etc - but with his face blurred out (for obvious reason) and he promises to give you this same system that makes him $40,000 a month.

Abid sells this system for only $20…. I thought, “What the heck?” and I purchased it just to see what’s this “adsense system” all about.

In a nutshell, it’s a search portal. Adsense Treasure is a simple set up.

It contains just a few sections (Main search homepage, pages on car tips, computer tips, finance tips, shopping tips, travel tips) and it comes with 1600 articles. Sounds terrific? Not quite.

Now the articles are about 4 years old and to me not so well written. I did a quick search in Google and found over 25,000 copies of one of the finance articles. So I made a no brainer decision not to use all these articles. I’ll probably be one among the thousands of similar websites and duplicate content to faceoff good old Mr. G.

That’s not all, all these thousands of pages in Adsense Treasure are in html. It would be a nightmare to convert them to .php. I’m not too technically inclined but even if so, wouldn’t even think of going near there.

The Transformation Begins….

1. I bought a new domain for this “adsense treasure” website

2. I kept the static homepage, redesigned it a little but created 5 sub-domains (it’s free!, just go to the control panel to do this). Remember, Google gives sub-domains the same consideration as a base domain for an authority on  a topic rather than just a directory. For example name.domain.net has better authority than www.domain/name

3. In all my 5 wordpress blogs, I kept to the same blog theme. I selected one of those monetize for adsense themes (http://www.doshdosh.com/16-adsense-optimized-wordpress-themes-to-maximize-your-contextual-ad-earnings/)

4. I signed up with BlogProfitz. They are only taking in 1000 members and it costs about $19 a month and here is what it does - you give it your Wordpress log in and it will post 1-5 times a day per category you choose either products, articles or RSS feeds. Your blogs’ content grows steadily and it looks natural with a balance of both your affiliate products and relevant articles. The content is new and also spun to be unique to your website. Hence the reason only 1000 members.

Nearly every post on my 5 wordpress blogs links to an affiliate program so all the blogs are all geared up for monetization. I had originally set out to create just a mini site, but it is possibly turning into something better. Blogprofitz allows me to join affiliate programs like Commission Junction, Clickbank, Amazon and sign-up only once. I just create “rules” in Blogprofitz to bring “Content Club” posts, affiliate products I’ve chosen to land on my 5 blogs. All specifically to the blog categories I previously set up. I’ve not come across any site that offers something so easy to do to achieve so much than this.

5. I put a signature line on all my articles in these blogs. It helps to add backlinks especially when they get scraped by people ( and they will on the RSS feeds as people are grabbing niche contents everywhere). Your site will also be seen as the authority site not theirs.

6. I opened a new Twitter account and put a feed through twitterfeed.com (it’s free). When my posts get published automatically by Blogprofitz, they go to all my 5 twitter feeds I had created.  I am getting about 15 new followers daily because there are many people in these same niches. I like to think all this helps to give my main website more authority.

7. I created a site map using a WP plugin ( link below) and posted it in my Google Webmaster account to get the site indexed. All the plugins with their links are outlined below.

The Maintenance of the Adsense Treasure Experiment Blogs

My main purpose of setting this Adsense Treasure website is to experiment creating a “set it and forget it” site. I think in any website, the most time is usually spent in trying to keep your site or blog updated regularly. If you take away this task, there isn’t much maintenance is there? Everday I just login to make sure all the new posts come in and get published on my blogs and into the specific post categories I had selected. You could also go to Google Trends to find out what people are searching for and create new categories and affiliate links and bring in new posts from Blogprofitz. It can’t get any simpler than this.

The cost to set it up

A copy of Abid’s Adsense Treasure (one time Cost - $20)
Membership at BlogProfitz ($19 per month)
Wordpress (free)
Twitter (free)
Twitterfeed.com (free)
Wordpress Plugins Used

Add Sig - you should put a signature on all of your posts so that when people scrape your site for content (and they will) your signature and backlink will identify and give your site authority and not where it’s posted.

Google Site Map open a Google Webmaster account and create your sitemap in there! This way you can see which of your pages on your site have been indexed and if there any any errors or other issues -this helps create a high quality page for Google and other search engines so that you eventually get good organic search engine traffic quickly.

Sociable Use this puts links to social sites on all your posts and help make it easy for people to share information from your site.

Affiliate Programs Used

Some affiliate programs used in BlogProfitz include the following:

Clickbank
Linkshare
NCSReporting
Amazon
Clickbooth
Commission Junction
WidgetBucks

For obvious reasons, I don’t have the blog URL listed here but if you’d like to see the set up - just send me an email or use the contact form on this blog and I’d be happy to share the link with you.

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Yes, it’s time again to announce my Top Commentator for June 2009. But before this I like to reflect on the support I have had all the time since this blog first started. It’s hard to believe we are now into the second half of the year. Looks like time goes by faster when we are all having fun visiting other blogs and learning from each other.

Thanks for visiting and supporting this blog of mine. For those of you who are new to my work at home blog, as a small gesture of my appreciation, the Top Commentator for each month will be recognized and rewarded with one of the sponsor prizes. I’m making a little tweak in terms of who gets which award provided I received at least 2 other sponsors with a total of 4 prizes. I’ll let you pick your own award and the top commentator gets to choose this followed by the others.

My sincere thanks and appreciation to the sponsors for adding some spice into the flavor of this fun Top Commentator contest.

June’s Sponsors

1.Work At Home Blog (Me) offers a free 125X125 Banner and text link ad (both 1 mth)

2. Ben Pei from BenPei.com offers a free banner design, any size.

3. Toan from http://chotoan.com offers a free 125X125 Banner (1 mth).

You Can Be A Sponsor Here

I am looking for more sponsors to add some excitement to this Top Commentator Award. I’m now seeking out sponsors for July month’s TC Award. Do you like to sponsor paypal cash, banner ads, text link ads, ebooks, blog reviews just to name a few. This will not only give our readers more reasons to give comments on this blog but give sponsors good exposure to your blog. You’ll also get backlinks with your chosen anchor text. Your links will always be on this post as well as on the post announcing the Top Commentator Award. I hope more of my friends or readers would be a sponsor here. Just leave a comment if you are interested to be one. I will be really grateful!

July Sponsors

Lee Kahoong of Make Money Online offers a free 125X125 Banner (1 mth)
Ben Pei from BenPei.com offers a free banner design, any size.
3. Toan from http://chotoan.com offers a free 125X125 Banner (1 mth).
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This Top Commentator for the month of June goes to …(drumroll) Alan Mater. I can see Alan coming to my blog almost daily giving his support and sharing his vast experience both as a blogger and Internet Marketer. In fact the last two months he missed out getting the top commentator award by just a whisker. I just realized he has broken tradition here by being the only top commenter who did not write a guest post here (got the hint Alan ). So Alan thanks for sharing your knowledge, wisdom and supporting this humble blog of mine and helping other newbies who visit here too. Congratulations on your well deserved award.

The following persons will receive the sponsors’ awards:

Legit Business Opportunities - a free banner design, any size from Ben Pei
Make Money Online - please comment and advise your choice of award
Nicolas Prudhon - please comment and advise your choice
Lax transportation

Now what do the rest of the Commentators get as a reward? You’ll get link love from yours truly of course as a gesture of my appreciation to you for supporting and contributing your comments on this home business blog.

Top Commentators-Jun 2009

• Alan Mater (31)
• Make Money Online (30)
• Nicolas Prudhon (30)
• Lax transportation (27)
• Vitamins (25)
• internet marketing reviews (24)
• Jewelry Making Supplies (23)
• Make Money Blogging (20)
• Xbox 360 cheats (9)
• Home-Work-Newbie (8)

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All my websites and blogs including this Home Business Blog are NOW hosted at HostGator.

I have to say in our Internet Marketing journey, we sometimes have to make many tough decisions. While some of them were good, and you pride yourself for having good foresight, there could be others that sometimes come back to haunt you. The thing is there is never a perfect business, a perfect marketing plan or a perfect solution to our problems.  We sometimes deal with the problem when it comes or we take action when we can’t let it go on the way it did. Like my good old web hosting

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Why Did I Change My Web Hosting

The cost is one BIG factor…. I was paying $15 each month to host my home page and another $5 for each new domain I included. That is a hefty $30 per month expenses for almost 2 years although additional domains were only added recently. Since I switched to Hostgator, that’s a good 200% savings I’ve enjoyed as I now pay $9.95 with unlimited domains. Now I don’t have to worry about incurring additional costs each time I think about purchasing a new domain.  Not that I go crazy about adding new domains, but it’s nice to be able to start a new website or a blog when there is good reason to do it. Like working on a profitable niche website.

The Trend Towards Niche Products

Of late everyone I speak to or whose blog I’ve visited seems to be focusing on a niche marketing strategy or in the process of creating a niche website. I have to admit I myself have joined in the bandwagon just to see if there is light at the end of the tunnel. Yep and Hostgator helps to make it a little easier to do this than before.

A New Web Host Offers New Tools

One major reason that convinced me to switch to a new host provider was the fact that my old host (Host4Profit) does not provide C-Panel capability. I remember once having to ask a friend to help me install a new blog and it took him 20 minutes to complete the process. Yeah and all the time laughing at that old dinosaur and exclaiming “this is so 90’s”.  In Hostgator I’ve twice set up my WP Blogs in 4 minutes using Fantastico. Glad I don’t have to rely on anyone to set up my own blogs. Whew!

Why I’ve No Regrets Changing Web Host

It’s just been one month after changing to my new web host (I haven’t even been billed yet as the first month is a mere 1 cent charge with the coupon, but so far I’ve never felt happier with their support and service. Absolutely impeccable! I like it that each time I send in a request, it provides an automatic acknowledgment and from my experience someone actually attends to me and provides a solution within half an hour, yes even in the wee hours. I actually started promoting it before even before using it - not quite what I usually do whenever I recommend something to someone. So I guess it now seems practicing what I preach all over again.

Some things you should do before you finally pull the plug

Don’t be too quick to cancel your old web host just because you’ve found your new web host provider. Remember to take care of these things first:

• transfer all your domains to the new web host. Hostgator gives a free transfer to one selected primary domain.
• after all domains and files successfully transferred, change the DNS (domain name servers) to the new web host provider and check your websites to make sure everything looks OK. That’s how I found out some missing images on my blog and Hostgator checked and fixed it.
• When everything seems good, do a one last check. Check your IP address to confirm that your sites are loading from the new web host servers. It’s a little technical here, Hostgator or your new host provider will guide you.

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