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When you are looking for website hosting, you often consider domain names last. Your website domain name is perhaps on of the most important aspects of your entire website. You could have the flashiest, most professional design on the entire internet, however, without the right domain name all of that will be pointless.
Your domain name is your website’s calling card. It is the first thing seen when a person visits your site, it can even be a deciding factor as to rather or not the person will even visit. That is right; a person will decide rather to visit your website or not, based on the website address (domain name).
When you go to obtain website hosting, you will need to choose a domain name for your website. This can be done through your host, which is likely to offer you a discount on the domain, such as a percentage off of the price or even a free domain when you choose them for your website hosting needs. The most ideal domain would be your business name. However, for many reasons that might not be a possibility.
One reason might be that the domain is already taken, you might choices with different extensions such as .net, .us, .org, or other such extensions, but you need to remember that people usually remember .com, so you should strive for that. Another reason might be the length of your business name, such as Joe’s Bar, Grill, and Dance club. Now, you can have a lengthy domain if you really want it like “joesbargrilldanceclub”, but look at that, would you remember it?
The key point in a domain is to make it easy to remember and catchy. Think about your business, consider the business name and what you offer. You want the name of your website to stay in their thoughts and easy to remember. With the Joe’s Bar, Grill, and Dance Club, you might consider “joes”, “jbgd”, or something to that effect.
When you do choose a few names, look at each one and determine rather you, yourself, would be able to remember it. Would that name stick in your mind? Would it tell you exactly what the business has to offer?
OK, well lets start right at the beginning with the first word of the title – turnkey. What is a turnkey website? This simply means that you get a website provided for you by a company which is ready to go. You just let yourself in to the admin panel, make any customization changes that you would like to make such as adding your own logo if you have one, writing a bit of text yourself so that there is some unique content, adding your site’s name that you have chosen, and setting any prices that there are if that is relevant, and then that is it. You do not need to do any real web design work, you do not need to do any programming or anything like that, because all of the functionality of the website (and often a large part of the content) has been provided for you. Basically you are getting a ‘business in a box’ that is ready to be published online and to start making you a profit as soon as you start promoting it and getting visitors to your new site.
There are two main types of turnkey website. The most common type comes to you in the form of a script that you buy. So you get yourself a domain name and a web hosting account, and then you install the script that you have bought on their, and you have yourself a website. These are usually designed to make you money through AdSense advertising, common affiliate programs such as amazon or eBay, or often they may just provide you a website aimed at getting traffic and leave the monetization down to you. The second type is one provided to you buy a company who has something to sell, and through which you can then resell their product – with them charging you a wholesale price so that you can then add your own markup and charge a retail price to your own customers. Some of these will charge you a monthly fee for membership of their program, and some others are totally free.
Reseller web hosting means that you have this kind of wholesaler and retailer relationship with a web hosting provider. Most of the time you have to pay up front to open an account, but you can also get a free turnkey hosting reseller website – with free hosting for your website as well so all you need to buy is a domain name which costs less than $10 per year. This can be a great way to get into business for a very low cost indeed and start making money.