I was browsing on the net once and came across a really well designed website, it was a personal homepage but i liked the way it was done. i saw the domain name and it was on one of the free hosting servers, with a long URL and had a banner on the top of the page provided by the hosting company. It just made me think.

Hosting is dirt cheap, you can host a website right from 2 dollars a week (www.oxynic.com) and you can register a domain name for as less than $8.95 a year. You dont have to be smart enough to workout you can have a website for the cost of a burger a month.

I always fail to understand people who spend a lot of their time and make beautiful website, and end up hosting on a free server with long names and lot of banners.
[sigh]

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Contents

Domain Name Registration

• Things to consider when registering a domain
• Choosing a domain name
• What if your domain name is not available?

Blog Hosting

• Things to consider when choosing a web host
• What do I get when I host with someone
• How much does hosting cost

Building your Blog

• How do I get Started?
• Blog Software
• Freelance Web Designer

Make Money with your Blog

• E-commerce
• Affiliates Programs
• Paid Ads
• AdSense

Marketing your Blog

• What is Page Ranking
• Getting Traffic to your Website
• Search Engines
• Directories - Get Listed on DMOZ, Yahoo and More
• Link Exchanges - Add your URL to increase your links popularity

Search Engine Optimization

• External Links
• Content
• Don’t have Similar Looking Websites
• Inbound Links
• Make your links work
• Sitemap
• “Keywords”, “Description” and “Page Title”