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The About page explains the purpose of this blog.

First thing I decided to do is setup a blog and here’s one I made earlier. It’s virgin territory right now, including the terribly bland default WordPress theme. I’ll do something about that later but for now at least I’m up and running.

I used namecheap.com (aff. link) to register the domain, I’d heard GoDaddy is a very bad choice for Internet marketers, which is fortunate because in the past they would have been my first choice. Apparently they are a bit trigger happy on spam complaints even when those complaints are totally unjustified. I was also told it is nearly impossible to transfer your domain away from them once they have it in their clutches.

Anyway, namecheap.com (aff. link) seems to be perfectly adequate and the domains are cheap enough. Just go to their site, enter the domain name you want, if the domain is available add it to the shopping cart, create a new account and pay using your credit card or Paypal. Super simple.

Get a .com if you can or (if .com is not available) a .net, .org or .us/ .co.uk in that order and try to include your primary keyword or key phrase in the domain as this can give your SEO (search engine optimisation) ranking a boost, so I’m told.

For example, if you are selling fishing rods it would be ideal to get the domain name fishingrods.com, which is almost certainly already taken but you get the point. A rule I’ve broken with this web site, if you notice, but I won’t be relying too heavily on SEO to promote the site. I’ll be trying different techniques which I’ll describe in later posts.

I also joined namecheap’s affiliate program with a few mouse clicks, no fuss at all, and I have used these links on this page – just so you know. Any link followed by (aff. link) is an affiliate link which means I get a commission from the seller if you use my link to purchase a product or service. This commission is paid by the seller not you. Well after all, I am trying to become an Internet Marketer, so I won’t be missing any opportunities if I can help it. I also cloaked these links, a process I’ll explain in a later post for those who don’t already know why this is necessary or how to go about it.

I’m a newbie marketer but I do have a strong background in I.T. and I’ll be putting it to use wherever possible and explaining what I’m up to as I go.

So that’s the domain registration sorted out. Next time I’ll talk about hosting and how I created this blog and how it’s possible to do it with virtually no specialised knowledge, provided you choose the right host.