Creative Ways to Save on Domain Names and Hosting Plans
Many business owners choose a domain name which suits their area of business and therefore are ready to pay a premium to buy the domain name with the keywords required by them.
But, if an individual wants to enter into a particular market and promote various products of that market it becomes quite expensive for him to purchase a new domain name every time he thinks of promoting a product.
First let us discuss about the hosting plans as they play a very important role is minimizing your cost in the long run.
The hosting companies give a variety of plans to suit the needs of people from all walks of life.
A big organization may require a dedicated server on which it can host its website.
But for individuals a shared plan is more than enough as the servers give 99.
9% uptime for almost all the plans.
Another important aspect to take care of during purchasing a hosting plan is to go for unlimited add-on domains, sub-domain, emails, ftp and sql databases.
When you compare the prices between a limited and unlimited hosting plan there may be considerable increase.
But in the long run the unlimited plan will be more valuable to you than the price paid.
Secondly, the domain names can be chosen creatively and used for various diverse markets.
It seems almost impossible as to how a single domain name accomplish the needs of diverse markets.
Let us consider an example here - If your domain name is www[dot]yourdomainname[dot]com, you can only relate it to a particular market.
But if you take a generic or more general term as your domain name you can make use of it for various products and services related to that market.
Say for example - if you are into weight-loss market and want a domain name as weightloss[dot]com that will be very specific but if you choose healthyyou[dot]com you can use it for a wide variety of markets like men's health, women's health, children's health etc.
You can again sub-categories them and relate them to various products.
Every hosting provider gives you an option of creating sub-domains for the main domain which has been hosted.
For ex- if your main domain is weightloss[dot]com then you can add sub-domains like exercises[dot]weightloss[dot]com, guides[dot]weightloss[dot]com, stats[dot]weightloss[dot]com, blog[dot]weightloss[dot]com etc.
Your hosting provider will look at your sub-domains as just a folder in your main domain and will not charge you any extra fees but you can create an entirely different look and feel for all these sub-domains.
You can send the visitors to these sub-domains and focus on micro aspects of the market.
Another way of making a clever purchase of generic domain names is by looking for keywords like com-articles[dot]info.
This domain name will make more sense to you when you add your unlimited sub-domains to it.
You pay only for a single domain name but you are actually showing up unlimited domain names to your visitors.
Say for example - you have a domain like the one above, you add a sub-domain to that, say, weightloss.
Now, your website url will look like www[dot]weightloss[dot]com-articles[dot]info.
Any normal internet user will perceive the website url as www[dot]weightloss[dot]com and the further part of the domain name as a webpage on www[dot]weightloss[dot]com.
The possibilities of adding diverse sub-domains to this generic domain name are endless.
Creativity is the limit.
By following the above mentioned techniques anyone can enter into diverse markets with diverse products and reach thousands of potential buyers.
All of this can be done by only paying for a single domain name and a hosting account with unlimited sub-domain features.