Yes, a – name – can make a big difference. Old fashion but truth!

Today, short and easy to remember unregistered domain names are difficult to allocate; even finding 3 – 4 letters domain names is like finding needles in the sea. But the good news is long domain names are by no mean less valuable or hard to remember. For example, I don’t think you will forget a domain name such as “GiveMeMoney.Com” or “CreditCard.Com”. How about search engines? Well, try typing in “Credit Card” on Google and you will find ”CreditCard.Com” and “CreditCardGuide.Com”on the first page. With that said, long meaningful domain names may even have SEO – Search Engine Optimization and/or SEF – Search Engine Friendly advantage over the short domain names.

95% of the times, it is just one click away!

OK, you may say what about people just don’t like to type in long domain names/URL? Let me ask you – when was the last time you have to type in a domain name/URL? Most people searching for something relevant at Google or Yahoo, would just click on the relevant results where they are linking to. The same goes for people hanging out at social networking sites. I think you would also agree that if you have your domain name/URL as your default email footer, launching your site will be just one click away from your recipients. Well, don’t shy away from finding good and meaningful domain names that can directly identify your business or occupation; it also increase your site’s search engine visibility as well.

Subscribe today to get our latest update:

I happened to come across a forum named WARROR FORUM. It looks interesting so I hung out there for a week. I see some love it and some hate it, but I can fairly say that it is up to an individual what he/she makes out of it. There are real people making real money there! Check it out for yourself.

“Google announced recently that site speed is now a signal in its search ranking algorithms. Impacted sites will likely notice a gradual decline in rankings and organic search-referred traffic and sales. This is yet another reason to prioritize technical upgrades that could improve SEO as well as user experience.”

Jill Kocher, Senior Manager of SEO Services, Covario

Running a single ecommerce site takes skill and hard work, but entrepreneur Brad Likens runs 24 ecommerce sites. Likens is co-owner of Best Service Stores, and the company has grown to over $20 million in annual sales in just four years. Best Service Stores does all of this from its home base in Lenexa, Kan., and Likens joined us recently to talk about it. Read the Article…

The Internet is not going away anytime soon. Get started and position yourself today!

Facebook is making changes it hopes will please advertisers and boost ad revenue, but some watchers are worried consumers won’t like the changes. First up — the social-media site is doing away with the “become a fan” option. Instead, users will have the option of clicking “like” when they see a particular brand message that appeals to them. MediaPost Communications/The Social Graf blog (3/30)

SmartSpace is the fast, easy way to turn your domain into a Web site featuring all your favorite content, including photos, videos and blogs. PLUS with Social Page you can even display the latest content from your Twitter® account, Facebook® profile, Flickr® album, YouTube® channel and Digg™ account.

And now with NEW MySmartSpace, you get a personal control panel that brings together everything you do online, no matter where you are! Fill it with the news and info you need to run your day, and make links to your favorite Web sites available from anywhere.

Shoes of Prey reported record traffic after video blogger Blair Flower, 16, posted a YouTube video about her experience with the site, which allows guests to design and buy their own shoes. The video asked viewers to create their own signature footwear at the site, then post their creations as a comment to video to win free shoes. The Business Insider (3/29)

Entrepreneur Quentin Griffiths is a veteran of online retail, having started celebrity fashion store ASOS.com in 2000 and launched members-only luxury site achica.com last month. In this article, Griffiths shares the lessons he has learned along the way. Evening Standard (London) (3/30)

EBay is launching a feature that is modeled after one-time sample sales that have proved popular for sites such as Rue La La. At eBay’s Fashion Vault, buyers will find limited-time discounts of up to 50% on designer fashions. The feature, which launches today with fashions from French Connection Group, marks a shift in the online auction site’s business model. The Wall Street Journal (3/29)

A sub-domain is any name you choose usually as a prefix of a domain name. For example: sub-domain.MainDomain.Com, where sub-domain is placed before the first dot of a web address/URL. Another example: MyStore.MainDomain.Com, where MyStore is a sub-domain. Some of the major drawbacks to have your website running under a sub-domain are – you do not have access to all the hosting features; and when you transfer your hosting service to a new one, you will not be able to use the same web address/URL, where the main domain name does not belong to you. Worse, all the traffic/followers and search engine placements you might have built up will also be gone.  As opposed to your own domain name, which is unique and belongs to you regardless where your hosting service may be. Visitors/traffic and search engine placements will always be following you (the same scenario as your telephone number).

Although any website may run under a sub-domain, but for less than US $10.00 per domain name registration, we highly suggest that you reserve your own unique identity for your business. You will also get Free Extras with Every Domain Name.

Perhaps the simplest way to explain affiliate marketing is that it is a way of making money online whereby you as a publisher are rewarded for helping a business by promoting their product, service or site.

There are a number of forms of these types of promotions but in most cases they involve you as a publisher earning a commission when someone follows a link on your blog to another site where they then buy something.

Other variations on this are where you earn an amount for referring a visitor who takes some kind of action – for example when they sign up for something and give an email address, where they complete a survey, where they leave a name and address etc.

Commissions are often a percentage of a sale but can also be a fixed amount per conversion.

Conversions are generally tracked when the publisher (you) uses a link with a code only being used by you embedded into it that enables the advertiser to track where conversions come from (usually by cookies). Other times an advertiser might give a publisher a ‘coupon code’ for their readers to use that helps to track conversions.

• Read the entire article at PROBLOGGER
• There’s also a good article on affiliate marketing at Wikipedia

Get out latest blog update: