Friday, June 18, 2010

Top 10 things a Free Site SHOULD HAVE . How to get a Free Website.

I finally got time to write again.

It's really hard to write at the same time to increase your productivity. If you read my first blog, I just started trying a new way to earn ( Online Marketing ). It has been more than a week since I placed my first entry.

Where am I now on the road in using the Authority Job Killer ?

Well, as I have stated in the past blog, I needed to get a website. I've scoured the internet for free sites. I made a list of the things I wanted.

Here's the list of things I believe are "MUST HAVE" for a free site.
1. Of course it has to be FREE.
2. It must have ample space to store the files I needed.
3. It has to have ample bandwith ( just in case I get a lot of hits ).
4. It must have some support.
5. They must allow scripts to be run.
6. It must have a good rating in terms of uptime and not downtime.
7. I must be able to use ftp for easy access. ( The trend now is using cPanel).
8. If possible, no ADS
9. Ability to place your own ADS
10. Site Security

I've gone online to look for the 10 things a free site should have. I was hoping to get all of the 10 I've placed or at least close to 10. My passing score would be a 7-8 out of the 10. I used google and found a website which listed free sites. I joined the top 3 to see which one would be best for my needs. After signing-up and trying to make sense of what I needed to do, I finally settled with "x10hosting.com". It answered most, if not all of my top 10 list. The other sites I signed-up with gave me problems on my first day!

Ok. Now I have a website. What do I do ?

Before I answer that question, I found something really nice on the internet. For a lot of people it's old news. But, for a newbie like me, It's like discovering the wheel.

What is this new invention for me ? (Drum roll please).
URL Rewriting aka URL Redirecting aka URL Forwarding. I got this from http://www.dot.tk

This means that my regular free website http://www.bignamewebsite/subdirectory/public/how-long-your-url-will-be/onlinemarketing101 will be converted to http://onlinemarketing101.tk

That renaming/redirecting thing was just remarkable for me.
Going back to the original topic. After getting my free website, I needed to place my webpages online. I still did not know what to place ?

The only thing that I had was an idea that I wanted to start online marketing. I remembered that when I bought authority job killer, I had other emails from the developer that included bonuses for site set-up. I tried finding it in my hard disk and I found my answer. I already had reseller rights to one of the products another person was selling. Yahoo!!!
I changed some things in the ready to use web pages and I just uploaded the files to my website. I also used my paypal account to create an area to accept payment for my site. Finally, I had my first website up and running.

I still haven't gotten around in figuring out autoresponders. Hopefully by my next blog entry I have researched on that topic and other worthwhile things for online marketing.

by Mat Alcantara

PS.
I already have a twitter account and I already submitted my blogs as articles.

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