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Domain Names

The main purpose of a domain name is to provide symbolic representations, i.e., recognizable names, to mostly numerically addressed Internet resources. This abstraction allows any resource (e.g., website) to be moved to a different physical location in the address topology of the network, globally or locally in an intranet, in effect changing the IP address. This translation from domain names to IP addresses (and vice versa) is accomplished with the global facilities of Domain Name System (DNS).

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Google today announced a joint partnership with multi-billionaire Richard Branson. This joint venture will take Google and hundreds of selected applicants on a new adventure to be “the first permanent human colony on Mars”. Watch the video below to find out how to enter:

Following this short video, Virgle applicants need to pass a 15-question multiple choice personality test.

If you do well on the test, you’ll be presented with a link to submit your application video. Good luck!

Because I apparently wrote 2007, not 2008 on the last post.  All fixed now.

January has been a great month for me online, all things considered. I’m glad to see that this blog is on an upward trajectory but I would like for February to be an even better month. January was basically the launching point for this blog; not many people visited the site before this month and in January I made 3 guest posts for Tyler Cruz, two for JohnCow.com, and one for Israel at FatManUnleashed.com. Guest posting put me in touch with a very wide audience and it gave me a chance to sound off some of my ideas on more successful bloggers. January put me on the map, so to speak; RSS readership tripled and visitors were coming in regularly.

Before I tell you how much I made this month, let me first give you a bit of background. Last year I managed to earn approximately $400 total online by promoting a health-related affiliate product. That website is still ranking reasonably well on Google, has great potential to rank in the top 10, but has not been converting any sales in the last 3 months as I have not had any time to work on it. Reworking that site will be priority number one for me in February as that site brings in commissions ranging from $20 to over $100 when sales are made. I believe that this product is capable of helping make even more money this year and I’m looking forward to working with a friend and talented writer to help turn that site from a dud to a stud.

This website is continuing to grow; comparatively speaking this site is still very small. Averaging only 50 or so visits per day and 34 RSS readers, I would like to double or triple those numbers in February and I’m cooking up some strategies and more guest posts to help me achieve that goal.

This is how things turned out in January:

In January, I earned $212 online. This is a combined income consisting of a paid review and private ad sales on this website and my recently built “made for eBay” sites. The eBay websites can be optimized further by applying a few more SEO techniques and I think that the numbers in February will be even better. In addition, I am planning another 3 or 4 “made for eBay” sites in February so that alone should help bump up my monthly income.

As you can see, I also had some expenses. The advertisement expenses were to promote the site in addition to my search engine marketing scheme that I’m working on. The search marketing campaign is still on going and I’m tweaking it with my friend and business partner so that we can figure out what works and what doesn’t really work. So far we’re down a few bucks but we’re on the rebound. In addition, I purchased the phpBay Pro API that lets me get eBay auctions on hand-made sites, not just Wordpress sites. The API is pretty good, but after working with both I prefer the flexibility and options of the Wordpress plugin. It’s definitely worth my while and as you can see I’ve already made my money back on that investment.

So, this is where we stand. January has been a decent month with $212 revenue. I expect that February will be an even stronger month and look forward to reporting what happens in the month to come!

Hi everybody!

As you can probably tell, my new Wordpress theme is up and live!  What’d you think?  If you’re reading this through the RSS feed, come to the site and see for yourself!

So, how did I come up with this design?  Firstly, I think that blues and whites are a great color scheme for a website.  My old black and red was nice, but I feel that a “kinder, gentler” look and feel would provide my visitors with a better reading experience.  The light color scheme is less aggressive and easier on the eyes.

The top section allows me to easily update the users with important news and events, promote certain products or maybe even sell advertising spots in the future.

I changed the “tag line” of the site from “making money online made easy” to “webtrepreneurship explored”.  This new tagline better embodies the site as I am trying out new programs and strategies, rather than claiming that making money online is easy.

Inspiration

So, where did I get the inspiration for the site?  It all started in December of last year when I saw the Google Zeitgeist for 2007.  I thought that the design was super clean and easy on the eyes so the color scheme is very similar to that one.

The sidebar on the left was very appealing to me, but it’s really not appropriate for blogs.  Thusly, I examined the Zeitgeist site and made a mockup for my site.  First I did it all in CSS and HTML, nothing fancy.  It was just a test to see how it would look.

The end result of that test was this:

This design is the basis of the new design, and I wanted to try out 2 sidebars.  After testing it for a bit I realized that the content area ended up being too small and made my page really lengthy, so I nixed one sidebar.  The end result is this new theme.  I hope you like it!

If you have any comments, feel free to share them with me.