Archive for December, 2006

I was thinking to start web hosting business since last one year, but was always busy in something or other. Actually other than my own sites, I was managing sites of some of my friends and relatives also, and was buying and renewing their web space and domains. Also many of my friends used to come to me for purchasing domain and web hosting.

Although I already have a VPS, but I was not selling the hosting from that because, I was not intersted in any interference in my VPS, and I was using it to host only my sites. Also my VPS contain directadmin as control panel, whereas many people specially newbie prefer cpanel hosting.

So I purchased a cpanel reseller plan for hosting, and also a domain reseller plan to sell domains at very competitive rate. One of the thing which I kept in mind that I did not purchase reseller plan which allow overselling, because overselling server do not perform well.

Overselling plan are those in which host sell outrageous space in the hope that user will not use this much space, and resell again that space. Generally overselling server start selling space with minimum 100MB or 200MB space, and provide many gb bandwidth, to lure new customer. In reality many website hardly need 20 to 30MB web space and less than 500MB bandwidth.

I am also planning to start some more services along with hosting and domain selling through my new venture.

The website through which I am starting web hosting business is eWebGuru.com. Presently I am giving inroductory offer in my webspace, although if someone need extra discount just drop an email to me. More details about rates can be found at eWebGuru.com.

The rate with which I am providing domain is also very competitve just Rs. 349/- for a .com or a .net domain. Domain can be registered at domains.ewebguru.com.

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With search engine emerging as most successful business in internet and all top tier and second tier search engines are doing million (or billion) dollar business per year. Many search engines are poped up in India in last one or two year. In last 2-3 months I came to know about 4 new Indian search engines.

1. Guruji.com
2. Byindia.com
3. Raftaar.com
4. search.t6labs.com

Out of above, Guruji looks most promising to me. Although its interface is same as that of google. But results are fast. Guruji.com’s USP is india’s related content, they claim that their proprietary algorithm automatically identifies India related content on the web. Presently they display organic results only, but I think they have a plan to introduce their PPC program sooner or later. Recently one of the representative commented on technospot blog that We DO NOT (today or ever) rank the results based on money paid by the websites. Our sole criterion in presenting the results is RELEVANCE and relevance alone. Although other search engines also display result on relevance but they simulataneously show sponsored result also.

ByIndia.com is another promising search engine, recently Web2 Corp acquired it. Byindia.com appear to moe more like a social network site then search engine as it provides many other services for connecting users like blog, classifieds, video, auctions etc.

Raftaar.com is hindi search engine I tried it once, it was really fun to type in hindi, its functioning look great but, I did not find it much useful because there are not many sites in hindi. Hope with the increase of internet penetration in india raftaar.com utilities will also increase.

search.t6labs.com search engine is still in development stage. The developer of this search engine claims that they have developed an Internet search technology that can recognise the personality of a user and automatically align the results according to his or her interest.

Let’s see how these search engine perform, in coming year. Will they be able to reduce the addiction of google from Indian internet users.

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Ok, I have been tagged, so now I have to tag five blogger to conitnue this game.

If you do not understand, let me clarify, the tag game is going on in blogsphere and many bloggers are playing this game. The rule of the game is simple. If you are tagged, you have to write 5 things about yourself and tag 5 other bloggers. So I have been tagged by sourcer now Its my turn to tell something about me and tag 5 other person. What I have to told, I ahve already written it in my about page. But let’s try what other 5 thing I can tell.

Ok, I am going to tell 5 ways to earn money online, which I use or planning to use:

1. Through Ad network like adsense or adbrite [Everyone know it]
2. Through affiliate network like cj.com or shareasale.com [By promoting the products/services of other merchants]
3. Through Membership site [Create a site and sell membership on monthly or quaterly basis, provide services to your members]
4. Selling Ebook [Ebook is the hottest thing which people buy in internet, write an ebook on your favorite topic and try to sell it. Remember writing ebook is not a difficult task, it is selling which is hard]
5. Freelancing/Consulting [If you are good in any field like programming, designing etc you can sell your services and can earn good money through it].

Now the last part, I am tagging following bloggers.
Angad | Arpit | Atul | Mr. Cool | Cypher

More and more webmasters know about search engine optimization today. People now believe in the power of effective internet marketing. Once earlier it was all about adsense marketing. But today you can resort to various seo solutions suiting your site. You can have pay per click advertising. Or you can go for email marketing. Methods like link exchange are considered outdated now.

Technorati Tags: Tag Game, Earn money, Affiliate programs, freelancing, ad network

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If I look at affiliate marketing in India, I don’t think there is much to cheers. Many affiliate marketers of India are earning major chunk of their earnings by promoting products of US websites. There are some matrimonial an travel websites in India, running affiliate programs but they are more interested in brand promotion instead of getting sale through affiliate programs, what they want is affiliate put their big banner on their site to promote their brand.

In US, affiliate marketing plays an important role in Internet marketing, almost all merchants give importance to affiliate marketing and affiliates brings a major chunk of sales to merchant.

One of the major reason hindrance for affiliate marketing in India is there is no major affiliate network, with expertise in affiliate marketing. All major sites are running their own affiliate program. As an affiliate I always prefer affiliate program run by third party. Because it give more security to affiliates towards payment and tracking of sales.

With increasing internet literacy and peoples awareness towards e-commerce, let us see how affiliate marketing goes in India in coming years.

This post is part of ProBlogger’s group-writing project on reviews and predictions.

It is not mandatory that a popular isp should be used for domain registration. You can use domain buy service from any service provider whose policies please you. Ideally the site should be able to work with affiliate resources. The presence of an affiliate program is necessary in order to use more business. One such program is internet2 affiliates. These programs can even work on broadband so that your site does not get too heavy to upload.

Technorati Tags: Affiliate Marketing, India, Internet Marketing, Affiliate programs

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First of all I would like to thank everyone who participated in this contest. Although prize money was not big but still they took the time to participate. For those who are new to my blog, I started a contest on Nov. 17. The contest was simple, participant had to add my blog to their technorati favorite.

Total 18 people participated in the contest. To remain fair with everyone while making draw, I excluded those who added my blog in their favorite as a part of favorite exchange deal.

Since I told in begining if there will be more than 10 participant, I will add more prize, so I decided to add 3 consolation prizes. These prize are premium link for one month in my blog. All other participants has got a link in my blogroll for minimum 3 months. You can see above in head part the link of three consolation prize winner.

The result of the draw are: -

First Prize of Rs. 500/-

• Sunny Cool

Consolation Prize (Premium link)

• Shivaranjan Bhoopathy
• CypherHackz
• Rohit Arondekar

Once again I thank all for participating in the contest. Soon I am going to start another contest. Hope next time more people will participate.

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Today I received my first cheque from adbrite. For those who do not know about Adbrite. Adbrite is marketplace for digital advertising or in short it is an adnetwork similar to google adsense or yahoo publisher network. But it give more flexibility to advertiser to choose ad space from different sites and more freedom to publisher to choose which ad one want to display in his/her site also publisher can fix the price of their adspace.

I am using adbrite since last eight months. I am not using it it many pages, only two ad unit in single page of two different site. I have got only advertiser who is displaying ad in one of my site, in other site I get network ad or alternate ad (My own ad, for each I earn nothing).

Since adbrite does not have sufficient inventory for indian traffic, and the site where I am using adbrite ad receive only Indian traffic, thats why I reach minimum payment level of $25 after eight months.

I pay more attention to CPA (Cost per action) ad because real money lies there. Recently in one of my site which has only affiliate ads and site is still not complete and receiving almost negligible traffic, generated one sale and give me the commission of $15. I have not yet started promoting that site and planning some idea on how to promote that. That site which still in nascent stage, hardly 2 month old and only 2, 3 visitor per day give me $15, I think If it reached to 100 visitor per day can generate substantial money. One of my plan for this site is to promote through adbrite, as promoting through adbrite will be much cheaper than adwords, but I have to check the quality of traffic which adbrite will send, will it be equal to adwords if not better.

Anyway cheque from another network, means earning from internet is not something scam or fraud as many people believe.

Technorati Tags: Adbrite, Adsense, YPN, adnetwork, earn money, CPA

ashok

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