Making money online is a step by step process. You need the right tools and mindset to achieve success. There are so many tools you can use, but we will restrict on the basic must needed ones here. As you might be a newbie, I do not want you to have surprises.

There are free sites available like blogger, wordpress etc. I don’t suggest you to take the free route first. There are two reasons for this. one – Free is free, will it be free for ever nobody knows. Second – If you use a free site it does not tend to be professional and your expansion plans will hurt you. Having your domain does not cost you hundreds of dollars.

I will tell where to take the domains for the cheaper prices and hostings. When it comes to your domain and hosting you should have complete control. If it develop significantly you have control over it and expansion is at your hands.

So you need a domain name (eg- Yahoo.com) and a hosting account to host your site. How much this cost you for a year? Did you guess? It cost only $68 per year!!! yes it is only $5.50 per month. Too cheap for a professional look of your site.

Buy your Domain Name: A domain is a website address which gives you the identity. You can have any domain name (as long as it is available) which suits your subject. The most generic domain is dot com. People tends to remember more dot com than others. dot net run close second. If your interest is general nature and if you want to write wide variety of topics choose your domain name general in nature. No specific product or description.(For example Info4u or your name / surname etc)

Hosting: You should have a hosting account to host your domain. Hosting is the server space you  acquired by paying a fixed fee for a month. On payment of fee you are allocation a portion of space in the server. Single server will be shared for several accounts. To begin with it is enough to have a shared server space. You need a good amount of space and bandwidth and cheaper price with good support.

1and1: For domain and hosting needs I strongly recommend 1and1 account. I use for domain registration and my hostings. The domain name is priced at $6-$7 per annum and you also have private registration (private registration is where your name is withheld when you search on whois.com) This is a big advantage and you get this for free, normally everyone charge $10 p.a for private registration alone. I have not found a cheaper place than this.

They also offer a cheaper hosting package around $5 per month which more than enough for the beginners. The navigation and operation of the account is very customer friendly and you will become familiar in three or four days.

In the next post we will see the site design.

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