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Although it took me about 4 ‘takes’ to get the video the way I wanted it, to get it from my flip cam to the blog was a matter of doing a quick edit of the start and finish of the video in camtasia, taking the one file from there and uploading it to my dashboard and then ONE click to generate the code, clicked in the box to copy the code and then paste it here…
I hope you enjoyed the last post and have been practicing your cPanel skills.
Today I am going to go over the basics of pointing your domain to your webhost, which is necessary for your domain to be visible on the web.
If you spend any time on the Internet sending e-mail or browsing the Web, then you use domain name servers without even realizing it. Domain name servers, or DNS, are an incredibly important but completely hidden part of the Internet, and they are fascinating. The DNS system forms one of the largest and most active distributed databases on the planet. Without DNS, the Internet would shut down very quickly.
When you use the Internet or send an e-mail message, you use a domain name to do it. For example, the URL “http://www.ron-barrett.com” contains the domain name ron-barrett.com. So does the e-mail address “ron @ ron-barrett.com.”
Human-readable names like “ron-barrett.com” are easy for people to remember, but they don’t do machines any good. All of the machines use names called IP addresses to refer to one another and domains use DNS servers.
Here are the steps in order to point your domain to your web host.
Step 1) Log into your domain registrar.
Step 2) Select the domain you want to point to your web host.
Step 3) Look for a setting called “Nameserver” or “DNS Settings”. The following are nameservers for Dreamhost.com
Step 4) Enter in your two DNS addresses in the appropriate fields. If you don’t know your DNS addresses, contact your webhost. They should have provided this information when you registered.
Step 5) Save changes.
The DNS, or Domain Name System is a huge database that stores all information communications that exist on the Internet. In fact, it is the largest database in the world. One person browsing the web can complete hundreds of DNS entries per day, depending on how many times they click on something or how much information they transmit online. The DNS server is huge, and each DNS entry relates to an individual domain name, which is why domain name registration is so important.
Each computer or device that is connected to the internet has an identifying IP address. The IP address is important since this is how the DNS recognizes which location is collecting or transmitting information across the World Wide Web.
When someone types the full URL (http://www.blahblah. com) or web address (www.whatever. com) into the address bar of their browser, the domain name and host name is converted to an IP address, so that the browser knows to direct the user to that web page. The browser actually has a virtual conversation of sorts with the domain name’s server. On some computer and Internet systems, the DNS is transmitted to the machine’s memory once you connect to your Internet Service Provider (or ISP). Some machines are actually hard wired to read the DNS and know how to talk to the domain server via the operating system. What basically happens is that the browser contacts the server and asks it to convert the domain into an IP address. Once this happens, the browser converts it over to the website, allowing the user to see it on their PC.
Some servers search for an IP address by looking for the root name server. These root servers know about the IP address already, and know what servers it handles under the top level, or main domains. Once that happens the server asks the root director for the website. It is essential that you’ve already created a master domain, had it registered, and created the root directory so that the domain name knows to go directly to your web host’s server. Registering and creating a domain name is essential to ensuring that the host communication is performed properly.
Each web hosting server can have several physical PCs or computers that each have their own IP address, and this can make up the entire server infrastructure. There can be nicknames, or aliases for the hosts which all point to the actual, physical machine. There can also be a nickname or alias for different websites that point to the master domain. This can go on and on, depending on the root directory and how many name servers there are. In effect, they can all point back to the main domain name in some way or another. It’s important to remember that the DNS can handle millions of transactions every minute of every day. Knowing how the DNS operates is helpful when learning how to make sure your domain name points back to the host or server.
Be sure your website has a good root directory that knows where its origins are. This means that any information using the DNS will ultimately point the user or person visiting the website right back to the web host. In return, you are able to better track where your visitors are coming from, what they are looking at, and how information is being transmitted from your website to the web hosting server and then back again. The DNS is the world’s largest database and is constantly changing, but with a good root directory or name server, all URL hits will bring everything back to the origin of the site, which is the host.
I have one more post coming up and that will do it for the Webhosting for Newbies series.
Today is the start of one of my favorite sporting events of the year, The Masters. This is the golf tournament that is held at Augusta National Golf Course in Augusta, Georgia and is invitation only. Pretty much, you don’t just say, ‘I am going to play in the Masters this year’, or next. You have to earn your way in by winning and be extended an invitation to play in the tournament.
Yes, I am rooting for Tiger Woods to win it, but not just because he is by far the best golfer in the world right now. You see, I have been a golf fan since way back when…I grew up rooting for the likes of the Golden Bear, The Merry Mex, Arnie, and Tom Watson. I am rooting for Tiger because he has brought the game back and made it more popular than it has ever been before.
The Masters is very similar to one of my favorite things in the Information Marketing world; Giveaway Events. You see, you don’t just ‘join’ one, you have to be extended an invitation to participate in one, or several.
How do you get extended an invitation? To begin with, you need to be on someones mailing list. You can do that by signing up for somebody’s newsletter, and if that person is one who participates in these events, you will receive an email from them to become a member of whatever giveaway they are promoting.
Here is a list of the giveaways currently going on:
Once you join that giveaway, you become a subscriber of someone elses mailing list. Now, once you have joined the event, you have the option to upgrade. What the upgrade does in most of these giveaway events, is it gives you the ability to download any gifts you want without having to subscribe to someone elses list. If you don’t upgrade, each gift that you want to download, you will have to subscribe to another list. Now, you do have the ability to unsubscribe from these lists if you want, especially if the person you downloaded from doesn’t provide you with any valuable content (that’s what I, at the very least attempt to do with my subscribers), which a majority of them don’t.
I can’t remember the first giveaway event I got into, I just remember that I thought it was very cool that there are people out there (I almost said marketers), that were willing to give you something for free in exchange for your email address. Of course, that was almost two years ago, and I have learned a ton since then.
One of the things that I have learned, was that in order to successfully be a contributor to these events (and there are a lot of them), you need to have an eproduct that is attractive to the visitors of these events. Once you have found an ebook like this, you can get your autoresponder set up to gather the email addresses of the people who download your product. It’s at this point that you have the capabilty to start sending them valuable content that relates to the product that they have gotten from you.
What that means, is that if they have downloaded a book on dog training, you don’t want to all of a sudden start sending them offers for the best way to take care of your lawn. That makes sense doesn’t it?
Now, go back and read the title of this post. You’re probably asking yourself ‘how’ you go about ‘mastering’ the art of participating in giveaway events. Let me tell you this, most people who are invited to join these giveaway events and want to contribute to grow their own mailing lists, don’t get this part.
The Easy Giveaway Plan will show you how to master this process, and once you have, you can start increasing the number of people on your mailing list and lining your bank accounts with cash.
So, go pick up a couple of products from any one of the giveaways listed above and then pick up The Easy Giveaway Plan and be well on your way to building your list and becoming independently wealthy.
