Small Business Websites

Many webmasters rent space on a server in order to provide hosting to their customers for a fee. This way, they have more control over the technical aspects of the server, can load certain software easily and keep your site running optimally. While this sounds like a good idea, I do NOT recommend [...]

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‘Hosting’ is a service provided by a company in which they store your website’s files on their server. A ’server’ is really just a computer that stores information and makes it available over the internet. Without hosting, your website cannot be viewed by anyone. Your webmaster will upload or send your [...]

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While Domain Nameservers (DNS) and IP addresses might sound overwhelming, they’re really not. Before you can type in www.mysite.com and have it actually go to your site, your nameservers and/or an IP address must be set up. It’s like giving a friend directions to your house. The nameservers and IP addresses are [...]

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Some companies have been promoting private registration when registering your domain name. There are three levels of registration and anything above regular (or basic) will cost you extra each year. You may find this extra cost entirely worth it, depending upon your needs. To understand how each level is different, you need [...]

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Yours, yours, always yours, without question. You own your business, you should also own your domain name. You don’t want your house under someone else’s name. If you have a partnership or LLC, make sure the domain is registered under the company name. If you end up parting ways, the [...]

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There are literally hundreds of companies through which you can register a domain name. Some are more well-known than others. If you’re going to host your website with a certain company and they also offer domain registration, this can simplify things for you by keeping them all in one place.
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It’s said that registering your domain name for 5-10 years is the best option.
There are three reasons why this is true:
1) Google takes your site more seriously if you’re registered for longer lengths of time and will give you a higher search engine ranking than someone registered for only one year.
2) Inflation. [...]

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As you’ve no doubt seen, domain names come in all kinds of endings, called domain name extensions. The only domain extensions I use and most highly recommend are .com and .net. Read more about each below:
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To have a website, you need a domain name. A domain name is www.yoursite.com - literally the address people type in to visit your site. A domain name should include keywords for your business. As an example, www.JDandCompany.com isn’t useful as it doesn’t say anything about what they do. A [...]

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