I think having a 15 post requirement to post a link is
too much to ask. If that can be lowered down to 3, quite a lot
of people would be happy. About the YouTube thing, I read that
in one of the posts in this thread.
For all the other readers:
Setting up a website doesn't have to be hard.
For a simple start, you can buy a domain and bind it
to your online blog, say at wordpress.com or blogger.com.
A domain is like a "name" for your Website for people
to be able to remember it. People find it hard to remember
numbers, so domain names were invented. A domain name server
keeps record of mappings like these:
Code:
w w w . g o o g l e . c o m => XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX, YYY.YYY.YYY.YYY, ...
w w w . y a h o o . c o m => AAA.AAA.AAA.AAA, GGG.GGG.GGG.GGG, ...
Where A, X, Y, and G are digits and AAA.AAA.AAA.AAA is an IP
address. So when you type google's domain in the address bar
of your browser, it is "converted" by the DNS server to the IP address that corresponds
to it, and your browser sends requests for web pages to a server
running on the computer that has that IP address. I hope that
was easy enough to understand.
Buying domains is pretty easy as well (remove the spaces):
Code:
w w w . g o o g l e . c o m / a
gets you a domain of your choice with all Google applications
enabled for your domain as well for 10 USD. This means you
get to own "name@example.com" in addition to owning
"example.com".
There are cheaper offers for buying domains as well but
those may not come with built in email, documents, sites, etc.
Finding a good domain name is very tough. Almost every good
name has been parked by some dimwit for absolutely no purpose!
Don't believe me? Search on the above link for yourself. You'll realize
you're just one little fish in the water.
If you're more enterprising and want something developed on your
Website, you can either do it yourself using CMS (content management
system) software like Drupal, Joomla, Ellington, etc. (ask your techie
friend to help set that up for you) or build your website by outsourcing
development to a bunch of developers. Obviously, you'd have to pay
these people to make your Website. But the rewards are much greater.
I don't want to come out sounding trying to net fish with this, but
me and a few other consultants do develop Websites as a profession.
You can hire consultants to get your custom Website developed as well.
Don't bother with the SEO "experts" though. Search engines are always trying
to circumvent them and have been winning.
The best way to get good rankings is to write
good content and make a Website that real people find useful,
just like this forum. If your domain is simply parked, you're simply
annoying people and wasting your own money.
Hope that helps.
Cheers,
Yesudeep.