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HOW TO BUILD AN ECOMMERCE WEB SITE – WITHOUT WRITING A LINE OF CODE A 3 Part Series Exclusively for Members of the Web Sellers’ Circle If you’ve sold on eBay or Bonanzle, Amazon or Etsy for any time, you’ve probably wondered if you couldn’t make more money by also selling on your own web [...]

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No matter how fast you run or how hard you work, when you run into a wall, you are stymied. Sometimes you can only peer over the wall, wondering why everyone else seems to be getting ahead. Sometimes you just bang your head into the wall until you give up. The wrong tools turn a [...]

Tags: bluehost, fanastico, simple scripts, wordpress

On Monday, we will be drawing the name of the winner of the How to Make Money Online With Free Web Sites Giveaway contest. The contest is open to any member of the Web Sellers Circle – even the $1.00 Trial Members. You can find full details and rules here: Register To Win In a [...]

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Bluehost.com has a limited time offer that is an amazing bargain for anyone who wants to start or move a blog, web site, forum, or Google AdSense page(s) – or any combination of all of the above. Bluehost’s normal price for unlimited domain with unlimited bandwidth is $7.95 per month. The sale price is $4.95 [...]

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Recurring monthly income is the Holy Grail of internet sellers. Everyone wants a predictable revenue stream that grows over time and appreciates in value but does not require an endless investment of time and talent. Membership sites are the #1 solution for a growing segment of web site owners – including Ghost Leg Media. Ghost [...]

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You’ll eventually find it necessary to move or rename a web page. However, old, out-of-date URLs will remain in your readers’ bookmarks and favorites, in other web sites’ links, in email sig files – in all sorts of places you cannot control. When a customer who hasn’t visited your site in many months uses an [...]

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Moving a web site, especially a well established web site with lots of links and good SEO, from one hosting company to another,  can be tedious and time-consuming but it does not have to be difficult or nerve-wracking Some tasks are probably already part of your everyday maintenance. If you regularly police bad links and [...]

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HOW TO BUILD A WEB SITE FOR YOUR BUSINESS – PART 4 Web domain registrars are in a low-price competition with each other. The basic service they offer – registering your domain name – is not the sort of thing that builds high margin, repeat traffic. So, to keep the cost of domain registration low [...]

Tags: blue host, godaddy, registrar, web host

Many business owners begin blogging by opening an account at WordPress.com. While there are advantages to using WordPress.com as a hosting service, they don’t compare to the benefits of hosting your own blog on your own site. Worry about complicated installation instructions and bewildering Linux commands stops many people from taking advantage of Open Source software [...]

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How To Build A Web Site For Your Business – Part 3 The average low cost web site is hosted on a Linux server. Whether you personally use – or even know the first thing about – Linux is unimportant. Choosing a Linux plan like BlueHost’s is a good idea. Linux is a very stable [...]

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How To Build A Web Site For Your Business – Part 2 Not too long ago, when web storage space was still measured in MB instead of GB, each web site required its own web hosting plan. The plan might have cost anywhere from free to pretty darned expensive. But, whatever you paid, One Domain [...]

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Before we go any farther, let’s get a few definitions out of the way. Domain Name The Domain Name, as you probably know, is the name of your web site. For instance, Ghost Leg Media’s domain is ghostleg.com. URL URL stands for Universal Resource Locator. Just as your street, city, and state address on an [...]

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