Did you pay too much for your domain name?
If you’re looking for the A-list Money Making gurus, they’re over at JohnChow.com and ShoeMoney.com. This is just a collection of notes for me, so I can trace my steps next time.
(You know when it took you a while to find something good online, and you want to remember the trick for next time, but because you use multiple computers, you can’t just bookmark the site…)
Ok. We prefer WordPress and Bluehost over Blogger and GoDaddy domains. But, we can appreciate the fact that not everyone has a hundred bucks to spend on web hosting.
So, we thought we’d have a second go at trying to make money using free blogger accounts.
Step 1. We bought 5 .info domain names from GoDaddy for $5. We could have gotten free privacy registration for all 5 domains, but we messed up and only got it for one.
Step 2. We followed blogger’s instructions on how to point our GoDaddy domain names to our free blogger accounts. That got our www.discount-domain-names.info website to work, but not discount-domain-names.info.
To get our domain name to point to our free Blogger account without the www. part, we had to read Compender’s post about Setting up Blogger for Custom Domains on GoDaddy.
(In a nutshell, you have to 1) set up a CNAME referral for the alias www under GoDaddy’s Total DNS control panel to the host ghs.google.com and you have to 2) set up a CNAME referral for the alias yourdomainname.com pointing to the host ghs.google.com. No one else mentioned the second part. Compender is brilliant.)
Step 4. Get rid of the Blogger navigation bar at the top.
Blogger Templates shows you how to get rid of the Blogger search bar at the top. Just add #navbar-iframe {display: none !important;} at the top of your template and you’re set. (Read the complete instructions here)
Bottom Line: On a side note, we’re not posting as often on this site as we were. Has it affected our ratings? Our Alexa rank has improved a little from 490,191 to 262,757, we’ve been detected by the people at Compete, and apparently our rank is now 468,755, and we still have around 33 readers in our feed count. Interesting.
Question: Do you prefer Blogger, Wordpress, or some other platform to power your blog?
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May 22nd, 2008 at 6:59 pm
For a personal non money making blog, I don’t think it really matters. if it’s a business blog, you really must have your own domain and paid hosting.
Yes, you can now do that with blogger, but I still feel WP is the one…..far to much flexibility and too many options with it to pass up
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May 22nd, 2008 at 7:06 pm
I just realized something. What does this have to do with sponsored posts?
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May 23rd, 2008 at 3:18 am
Hey good luck with this.
You will have to wait for a month andhope for pagerank I guess?
If I can find a way to hack wordpress to be good for seo then I may start trying this and creating some heavy adsense sites.
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August 25th, 2008 at 2:39 am
nice site. good luck with your money making endeavors.
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