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A plethora of websites exists to register a domain name. Google ‘register domain names’ and have a fun-filled time comparing prices. Though price is definitely a consideration when choosing a domain name registrar, it is also important to find a registrar who offers private domain name registration.

Registering a domain name requires that the name, address, email address and telephone number of the owner be provided. For an individual this will be their home address information. A company will provide their main business address. Once this information is provided, it is accessible by anyone doing a WHOIS search.

PROTECT YOURSELF!

Register privately. Private registration usually costs another $8 to $9 dollars on top of the cost of a regular registration. A normal registration at some registrars can cost $15-$20. However, finding a registrar where the regular fee is less then $8 is relatively simple. Adding a private registration will make the total cost back in the $15-$16 range. You might as well get the most bang for your buck if you are going to shell out $15.

Once registered privately, all personal information is hidden. A WHOIS search will reveal the name and address of the third party company that is holding the private registration.

Private registration may not be as big a concern for companies. However, it can be very useful to individuals who desire to keep their personal and private information (address and telephone number) exactly that, personal and private.

Is it worth it to register privately? The answer to that question depends on how much you value your own privacy. For some, registering privately is no big deal. For others, who already have had problems with hackers, spammers and the like, a private domain registration offers them additional security. At the very least, it is helpful to know that this option does exist. Not all domain registrars offer this service, but it is growing in popularity.

P.F. Flyer develops Recommended Web Tools, a resource for those just beginning to develop their own websites. Learn more about private domain registration.

Driving Dealings to Your Website and to Your Motel is 2 Faces of the Same Coin

Driving traffic to your web site or to your motel demands great expertise and draws of optimization both for your website and for your motel. The optimisation for your site will be via a established SEO Supporter and the optimisation for your bed and breakfast is by and large finished by the bed and breakfast itself, a good example of a Purple Cow in hotels is the Fox Hotel in Copenhagen, which had a total make over by artists and was the home of the launch of the recent VW Fox in Denmark.

The starting affair to do is to get a great address, for your site this implies finding a good PHP ISP and a good domain, for your hotel, this implies holding a outstanding address in the city where your bed and breakfast is situated, desirable in the very center of town.

Holding a great address for your bed and breakfast gets lots of visitors just by itself. For your internet site this is not so easy, you demand featured rankings in search engines and to find these you will require to do search engine optimization. A properly optimized website will land you scores of visitants to your website, visitants who are potential clients at your hotel.

SEO in the traveling diligence is really tough and you will demand the greatest SEO Party to do the preparation and effectuation of all chores needed in the process. You must also be mindful that SEO takes time, so patience is a merit.

It seems everyone is jumping into the “traffic domain name” game – either purchasing them for their own use or purchasing traffic from others who own these domains. For those that don’t know, a traffic domain is one that has either expired and still receiving traffic, or one that is being typed into the browser url location (type-in traffic) by users looking for a particular website. These are hot little properties but often abused as some register typos of an existing popular domain – such as Google for example. Yes, Virginia, there is a lot of traffic in those typos.

I own a number of expired & type-in traffic domains and have overall had good results. The worst one gets about 10-15 visitors a day but manages to earn anywhere from $5-$20 in revenue through a pay-per-lead program I use. Combined, all my traffic domains pump out a nice chunk of change without me even having to host them, look at them or even think about them.

On the other side of expired domain & type-in traffic is services which allow you to purchase traffic from domain names which they control and manage. Now you would think this sounds pretty good after what I reported about my own traffic domains, but the sad truth is that the majority of these services are complete scams.

Oh yes, they’ll deliver the “targeted” 5,000 or 10,000 “hits” you purchased, but the reality is that the actual traffic from their domains either doesn’t exist at all (generated by software to create an illusion of unique visitors) or comes from sources like auto-surf sites. And it’s not like you can really monitor & evaluate this traffic to know if it’s real or not, and you certainly have no way of knowing if it’s targeted or just junk hits. You’re basically putting all your trust in the site offering the service and since none offer any guarantee that the traffic will bring you sales, they’re off the hook.

Look at it this way – let’s say a service is offering 100,000 premium targeted visitors for the very low price of just $49.95. Think about it. If you had 100,000 targeted real visitors at your disposable, would you sell them off for essentially pocket change? Of course not. If you were selling a product for $29.95 and only 1% of those 100,000 visitors made a purchase – then that would be 1000 sales totalling $29,950. Can you really believe that they would let that amount of money slip through their fingers just so that they can do you a favour?

Do yourself a favour – If you’re thinking of purchasing traffic from one of these services, keep your money to invest in more reliable and proven options or learn about finding and registering expired domains (an article on this topic coming soon) and register them for yourself.