25 years after the launch of .COM, there are more than 90 million domain names registered in the .COM extension. The .com domain space is crowded and choosing a recognizable, short domain name can be very difficult. For example, how do you think the name Yipit was born? Jim Moran, founder of the online e-coupon aggregator Yipit, said “In choosing a company name, we ran a search for 5-letter domain names ending in “it” and chose Yipit, because it was the only one that sounded like a verb.”

Finally a new domain name competitor, fit for companies, corporations and all other forms of commerce, the extension “.CO,” has entered the market. CO Internet S.A.S. launched this week on Tuesday, July 20th, 2010 in a “landrush event.”

“The launch of the .CO domain represents the next phase in the growth and development of the Internet,” said Juan Diego Calle, CEO of .CO Internet. “The .CO domain will create new opportunities in global commerce, content development, social media and other forms of interactivity, which will enrich the overall Internet experience for everyone.”

In launching the .CO domain, .CO Internet S.A.S. gave first priority registration rights to trademark holders — including well known brands like Amazon, American Express, Apple, IBM, Coca-Cola, CNN, MTV, Nike, Nestle, Ford, Nokia, Panasonic, Yahoo, Gucci, etc. The company reported that Overstock paid $350,000 for O.CO. “It’s… well worth the investment because it reinforces among consumers that ‘O’ is synonymous with ‘Overstock,’” says Overstock.com Chairman and CEO Patrick Byrne. Twitter bought up ‘t.co’ and plans to use the site as a service platform to safeguard users from viruses and enrich the developer ecosystem. See a current list of the other .CO early adopters here at www.Opportunity.co.

By the end of the “sunrise phase” for big brands, .CO Internet S.A.S. had already registered about 11,000 domain names. Since opening their “landrush phase” this week, start-ups, entrepreneurs, small to large sized businesses will now have equal access to register .CO domain names. However, .CO Internet has withheld approximately 2,000 premium generic domains, e.g. car.co, adoption.com, insure.co, from this week’s landrush, that they will auction off in the next year to help promote and maintain the .CO domain. .CO Internet sells domain names through a global network of “Registrars” who distribute domain names to consumers. To buy a .CO domain name, visit registrars like GoDaddy, Register.com, Melbourne IT and Network Solutions. Prices start at $20 and vary from registrar to registrar just as they do with other domain name extensions.

“When a good domain name extension like .CO comes to market, you see how strong the Internet really is and how powerful its growth is going to be for years to come,” said Go Daddy CEO and Founder Bob Parsons. “Let’s face it, domain names are 21st century real estate.” Expect .CO rivals over the next few years as we’re likely to see more and more dot “who’s,” this’s” and dot “that’s” popping up.

While many webmasters are still seeking a way to get a quality backlink and get listed in a low quality directory, many savvy SEO experts and web designers already created their very own PiePage. Just imagine if someone told you — you could have your own fully customized page, where you can have full control over the link and the look of the page, which will lead to your website, from a popular search engine site — the Aglepie search engine.

Main advantage?
I guess the biggest and the undeniable advantage is that you control the way people find you on the Internet. You basically “own” the page where you are listed, so you can add, remove and modify content at any time (who else will give you that much control?). Unlike other big and well known SE’s, which literally give you no control over your listing in their index, and the way your website appears in search results, Aglepie comes along with a simple philosophy: “give more control to website owners and you’ll get a search engine that is more alive”. And this is exactly what Aglepie managed to put together, a vivid SE. You can add videos, tweets, graphics, and text, customizing the page anyhow you want it to be.

Moreover, imagine your website is badly indexed in other SE’s, so when people are looking you up, Aglepie (as being a very well indexed site) will show up first, and that page will lead to your site… are you following? Because that is a huge plus if you have a hard time getting listed or indexed.

Great, but how much does it cost us?
That’s the best part, as Aglepie search engine is a FREE service that will list anyone, including myself and YOU! There is a limited number of PiePages you can create within your account, and each account is associated with your website (that is the default setting), however, as obvious as it may sound, you can purchase additional “pies”, buy links inside other pages and create PieAds. You can also advertise on the front page for maximum exposure, so if you have a paypal — the options are unlimited.

The bottom line is, you may ask if it’s worth the hassle. In my opinion — definitely.  From my experience, such services never remain free forever, and I am ready to bet that with time, when Aglepie will grow really huge, listing will come for a fee, and at that point, you will regret not getting there earlier. After all, if creating an account and adding your website is free, why not grab this opportunity, since you will have full control over the page and can make changes any time you want. Check them out and get listed while we are still talking about freebies!

Every webmaster at some point finds himself in need of a web host. A reliable place where you can store all your data, websites, databases and not only it will be accessibly around the clock, it also won’t crash when the number of daily visitors increase.

With over a million of  web hosting companies around the world, it’s indeed very hard to make up your mind… let’s face it — every company even with a small budget can launch an advertising campaign, and almost every company will promise to offer you all you can only dream of, for a tiny monthly fee, yet needless to add, most companies fail to deliver. So how do you chose a company then, if you need unlimited web hosting?

First of all, do a very good and comprehensive web hosting comparison. See what every company has to offer, then think about what YOU need.  Would you feel more confident purchasing a host that guarantees money back? Do you prefer to host on 100% Dell Servers? Do you want to have Premium Website Builder that will allow you to instantly put your website online? Most likely you will need, also, Advanced Security with suPHP, if you want to sleep well at night. Now, if you make a table (or refer to the one previously mentioned), you will see that all the high-end features are included in webhostinghub.com classic web hosting package, but many users consider the price (6,95 USD / month) a bit too high. While I’d not mention again that having a top quality, green powered website with toll free phone 24/7 should obviously cost more than $1, in cooperation with Web Hosting Hub our readers will benefit from a special price, for a limited time — only $4,95! This is a time limited offer and we haven’t decided yet when it will end, so as long as you see the discounted price on their front page — you are eligible to sign up and get the lowest price on the market!

Why Web Hosting Hub is better?

First of all, it includes all the features you’ll need to get your small business online in less than 10 minutes. You can also easily move from your current host to Web Hosting Hub’s Dell servers without a minute of downtime! Technical support by phone, money back guaranteed, free domain, e-commerce tools, custom error pages and free Backup Wizard are just a few of the web hosting features that come packed with your order. Check them out, as in my opinion you won’t get a better deal for this money!

As many f you have noticed this morning, WordPress 3.0 has been finally and officially released for public download. The first thing I did — backed up my current database and started with the upgrade, which took quite fast.
What do I see so far?

Slight changes in the design of the dashboard interface, these are not drastic enough changes to make a whole new version of WordPress, yet annoying enough because things are not “like they used to be” anymore.

Important Highlights, other than that?

• New default theme “Twenty Ten” takes full advantage of the current features of WordPress.
• New custom menu management feature, allows creation of custom menus combining posts, pages, categories, tags, and links for use in theme menus or widgets.
• Custom header and background APIs.
• Bulk updating of themes with an automatic maintenance mode during the process.
• Support for shortlinks.
• Improved Custom post types and custom taxonomies including hierarchical (category-style) support. (Try the Custom Post Type UI or GD Custom Posts And Taxonomies Tools plugins to see the possibilities.)
• A lighter admin color scheme to increase accessibility and put the focus more squarely on your content.

For Designers, (other than suddenly becoming incompatible with your theme )

• Allow themes to style the visual editor with editor-style.css file.
• Shortlinks enabled, but still requires a plugin or theme support to fully realize this feature.

I guess that would be it from my fleeting overview of the new version. You might find the following posts useful, from the bloggshere:

1. The Essential Guide to WordPress 3.0 Custom Taxonomies
2. WordPress 3.0 is now Available!
3. WordPress 3.0 Released

Currently, authority, or as it is called — the trustworthy domain, rather strongly influenced by the ratio of search engines to the site as a whole. What formulates this “trust” then, in terms of search engine’s algorithm? Each search engine has a number of criteria that define a trustworthy site, and each search engine gives different weight to these key points in their criteria, but, in general, all the search engines including Google, are set approximately the same.

One of the important criteria for assessing the site, is the story of the domain. We talk about “what sites were located on this domain before?”, how long they have existed if it was one site during the entire period from the beginning, has it ever violated the SE’s rules and so on.

Another important factor is how often people are requesting to find this domain in major SE’s. Let’s not forget also about the role of quality links from other trusted resources. Obviously, if the site has a back link from a trusted site, this site will be more attractive than the site which has no such links. Similarly, relevant and outgoing links from this site, build important trust resources that are referenced on this site domain, but this factor is less important than the first and second.

In general, if you just want to look in the eyes of search engines, do not neglect these rules, work on the site, observing all the rules that search engines show as the criteria that determine the quality of the site. The credibility is earned over time and the development of the site.

Hence it’s important to do your homework, if you purchase a “second hand” domain even with PageRank — make sure it wasn’t used for illegal activities, and were not previously blacklisted. Keep an eye on the outgoing links of your website (if they are ‘do follow’) — doing someone a favor or selling a link for a few dollars can cost you in your position in Google, think about that!

Most of today’s WordPress themes are considered premium, regardless being free or so-to-speak “paid” themes. 2 years ago, we all could only dream about having a wordpress theme for our blog with Ajax and JavaScript features, where featured posts slide, portfolio items fade in and out, and, of course — the comments are posted without refreshing the page. All these things were sought after and cost a lot of money, requiring plenty of custom development. Could we guess back then that cu3er will be offered on free wordpress themes? Well, today I made a selection of best wordpress theme that make the neatest yet most powerful use of the javascript integration… enjoy!

Creating a membership site can be a great way to have a business based upon topics that you love and love to teach to other people. Membership sites can be extremely lucrative and, if structured correctly, easy to run especially if you tie it together with a content management system like WordPress.

Many people think of WordPress as just a blogging platform but with the thousands of developers that work on it, WordPress can be so much more. One of newer applications of WordPress is to use it as a membership site. There are a number of new companies creating WordPress membership site plugins but they are not made equal. When deciding whether one of the available options is right for you, be sure to filter your choices using the criteria below:

1. Membership Levels & Types – Having the ability to create multiple levels of membership gives you the flexibility to have special promotions or have higher membership levels where you give people access to more in-depth information if the pay more. Also having the ability to have levels that are free, subscription based, and one-time payment options is crucial.

2. RSS Feed Encryption – You want to make sure that any content you want to designate for members only doesn’t end up broadcast through the RSS feed. If it isn’t encrypted for members only, anyone can subscribe to your feed and get some or all of your content without paying for it!

3. Content Teasers – This allows you to have a portion of content available for casual visitors of your site. For instance, you can set the first paragraph of a post to be free for all to see. For someone to read more they would have to click on a link that says ‘more’ or ‘continue reading’, etc. Once they click on that, the visitor would get a message saying that they have to subscribe to get the rest of the information.

4. Sequential Delivery - If you have a membership where you are training people or just want to make sure that people get access to certain content on a monthly basis, you need sequential delivery. If you don’t have this, someone could have access to all of you content from day one. What will keep them as a member if your membership has a monthly fee?

5. Payment Gateways - Some plugins work only with Paypal, which is a major limitation. You want to have the ability to work with virtually any merchant processor you want.

6. Training & Support – Having a strong customer service function is important for any business. If you don’t notice an easy way to get in contact with the developer of the plugin then you should be concerned! Also, there should be training manuals or videos that teach you how to use the plugin.

7. Guarantee - Does the developer back their work? At minimum there should be a 30 money back guarantee with no strange and complex rules to get a refund. Beware if you have to jump through a bunch of hoops to get your money back if you aren’t satisfied with their WordPress membership plugin.

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These are the basic criteria and serve as a guide to help you determine what WordPress membership site plugin is right for your business.

I must admit, without Shoemoney, I’d not be where I am today, and wouldn’t posses what i posses today. I see a lot of people signed up for ShoeMoney system since my last post and it’s great, because now we will have more wealthy people living a worry free life on our planet!

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Let’s face it — in the end of the day, many of us prefer to deal with Google Adsense even though the earnings are low. Why? Because making someone click, is a lot easier to convenience someone to buy. No need to build trust, no need to establish readership, no mailing lists, no refunds and reversed commissions. Leading someone to buy a product they didn’t intend to, is an art, and many webmasters eventually give up and switch to Pay-Per-Click model, that pays just pennies.

What if I tell you, that you can make money from delivering leads only?

First of all, this is extremely easy because you don’t have to persuade your reader into spending their cash, on the contrary — they will get something totally free, so telling them “go here and get a free copy of X” will never be a problem, in fact, what can be easier? Second advantage is the high payouts. We are used to hear that leads pay somewhere around half a dollar, which make them slightly more profitable than PPC, but still far away from being remotely “profitable”. With RevResponse it works differently, you are getting paid between $1.50 to $20, for a LEAD (in this case — a freebie: free magazine subscription, white papers, software trials, podcasts and a lot more). You can monetize practically everything — your website, your newsletter,  3rd party newsletter, your weekly facebook page update, titter, rss feed, banners, whatever!

Key Advantages:

• Payments are made via PayPal or checks
• You can use them together with Adsense or any other Affiliate / PPC network
• Monthly payments with only $50 minimum threshold.
• Accepting publishers from all over the world
• Huge database of free products to promote

Earning EVEN more…
RevResponse also pays for referrals. All you need to do is find more webmasters and marketers who are eager to earn money without diving deep into all the marketing strategies. Introduce them to RevResponse and You will be paid 20% of the earnings that your referral partners generate for the first 6 months of their partnership.

How much you can make?

Up until this point, we only covered the theory, you will make X, promoting Y. Now let’s see how will it really work on practice. I introduce one of my friends to RevResponse about half a year ago, and contact him recently asking how is it going. He never got to promote the products themselves, but he spread the word using his referral link and collected massive $2400 in the past six months. Extra $400 every month without doing absolutely anything is an offer no one will reject. His case study was even featured on RevResponse’s blog, which I am sure you will see once you sign up. If, however, you also start promoting the products themselves, and even if we assume that you get the LOWEST payout of 1,5$ per lead, let’s do the math: If your blog generates about 1000 visitors daily, and we all know that freebies tend to have a very convention rate of at least 20% (most of the time — even higher), you get around $300 every day. And what if you own a popular blog, and your conversion is higher and… you promote products that are paying $20 per lead? yes, you guessed right, you can earn thousands of dollars, just like the professional affiliates, without all the hassle of generating sales.

Most effective promotional method that works for me personally..

In my experience, since the offers are all free, you can easily present them as “bonuses” for your readers, which will not only boost your income, but also increase the opt-in rate for your mailing list, if you have one. His is my “freebies store“, which i will use here for a reference. Since I own plenty of blogs in various niches, let’s take just one example. In my blog dedicated to diet and weight loss, I have a big opt-in box for our newsletters, where I tell people that if they subscribe, they will also get over 20 FREE magazines dedicated to health and nutrition. Of course I won’t give them all away directly, but offer one free product per week — this keeps the subscribers opted-in, and commissions flowing in steadily.

The great thing is — you can replicate my method and start earning instantly, no matter what niche are you working with and what’s your promotional method! Generate “featured product ad”, widgets, text ads and anything else in between, as this network allows you maximum flexibility.

Since our website is dedicated to web development, you as a reader can also grab a copy of Oracle magazine, Build your own WordPress site, or The Mac Manual.

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Newest theme from the very talented Nick Roach, MyProduct has been released. MyProduct is a great theme for businesses looking to promote their products and services online. The design has a smooth and corporate feel, and the theme’s page-based design makes for a powerful and versitile template. Help bring your business to the next level today by establishing a professional online presence. For a closer look check out the Live Demo, and for more information swing by the Features Page.

MyProduct Features

1. Five Unique Colorschemes - The design comes in five different color variations, including Blue, Green, Purple and Grey. I have also removed the clouds from the alternate colorschemes, creating more “refined” styles for those not interested in such a flashy/graphical header.

2. Easily Configurable Page-based Homepage – The homepage has several page-based modules that can be used. The main header, body tabs and the four services blocks are all easily managed via the ePanel Theme Options page.

3. Featured Photo Rotation – The homepage comes with a featured photo rotator that can be used to showcase your product or service. This section is also managed via ePanel.

4. Testimonials Widget – A testimonials widget has been added to the theme. You can input several testimonials, one of which is randomly displayed each time a new page is loaded. This way your visitors are getting new testimonials continuously as they browse your website.