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I know it’s about time to start up a new website. I keep getting a lot of ideas for a new site, but I just haven’t had the push through, yet. It’s going to be a tech site. While I feel a strong push to start one up, I also know there are a lot of great sites out there already. I think this is making my quandry that much more difficult to deal with.

Should I go with a tech site or try my hand at another type of site?

You already know that Network Solutions is a popular place to register domain names. You also may know that they are the original domain registrar. What you may not know is that they are a full service web services company. They not only offer domain registration, but they also offer domain hosting as well.

Web hosting services are an essential building block of any web based business. You need a domain and web hosting in order to make your business on the net and Network Solutions offers both.

You already know how reliable they are for domain registrations. They carry over this same reliability to their web hosting. You know that they will be there to host your sites tomorrow, next month and next year. That’s unlike some web hosts I have used that are here today and gone tomorrow.

Their services in their web hosting packages are awesome. They’ve got a 30 day money back guarantee, they have plenty of disk space and data transfer, and they’ve got some marketing tools. Actually there marketing tools really set them apart. I think they are awesome.

I guess one of the more important factors to consider when looking at hosting is the price. When I took a look at their Web hosting services, I was impressed. Decent hosting doesn’t come cheap, but they had packages from less than $10 a month. In my opinion, that’s a great buy.

It’s not surprising that you can “Do More With Network Solutions® Web Hosting!”

No other rank is talked about more than Page Rank. Everything from advertising rates to web site bragging rights are based on a site’s page rank. It’s not surprising that many people value a website solely based on its page rank.

Page Rank is that ubiquitous ranking that Google gives to every web page in their index. It’s not based on the popularity of a page or even the quality of a page. No, it’s based on the number and quality of links pointing to the page. More than that, the actual page rank of a page is never divulged. Instead a toolbar Page Rank is published for each page every 3 to 4 months. Instead of being a completely algorithmic way of ranking sites, Google tweaks the results to fit their own business needs, opinions and prejudices. As a pure ranking system, it is dubious at best.

Research has shown time and time again that toolbar Page Rank has nothing to do with rankings in the search engine results page and nothing to with search engine traffic. With or without a toolbar page rank, you will pass link quality onto other sites and help other sites rank well in the search engine results.

Don’t get me wrong, I think there is some value to Page Rank. You can get better offers when someone wishes to have a link from your page to their page. Advertisers that misconstrue Page Rank with popularity will also pay more for an ad based on your site’s Page Rank.

If you notice, one of the only values of page rank is that having page rank will give you more advertising opportunities. It’s simple really, advertisers consider a link to a site with a higher page rank to be more valuable.

But herein lies the big problem. If you sell a link that is more valuable because of your page rank, Google will take away your page rank. In other words, if you sell a link without a nofollow tag on your site, Google will strip away your page rank. Let’s put it in a little different terms. If you sell your page rank, ie the only way to access the value of having page rank, Google will take it away.

I had an epiphany about 8 months ago. I realized that Page Rank has no value unless it is being used and once you start using it, it will go away. I decided that I could make a choice. I could let Page Rank sit on the shelf giving me no value or I could use it now and access the value in it. I chose to access it now and I have never regretted it. The traffic on my sites have increased and I had immediate access to the Page Rank value I had built up.

Wow, Vista Print is at it again. I just love the products that they offer! I just found out they are offering custom t-shirts that are perfect for just about any use. Imagine being able to print up custom t-shirts for your small business or just printing up some t-shirts that you’ve designed yourself. Yep, you can do it.

I am always amazed at opportunities that come out on the net to make some more money. Imagine making up a cool design for a custom t-shirt and then having some printed off. You could take them to a flea market and make some serious extra spending money, and be a fashion designer to boot. Everyone is looking for something unique, and you could satisfy that emerging niche market.

I know this little business idea is churning around in my head as I write this post. I see how it would be so cool to market my own custom designed shirts at a flea market. I just have to come up with a great logo or design to upload to the Vista Print site and they will do the rest.

Best of all, Vista Print is offering a special coupon on custom t-shirt orders. They are giving an awesome 25% off on custom t-shirts when you use the coupon code “TShirts25″ upon placing your order. Yep, 25% off is a nice discount and a great way to increase the profitability of a new venture.

I have been hearing a lot of good things about some PayPal alternatives lately. It seems like the PayPal monopoly may be beginning to crack which could be a very good things for those of us who earn our incomes online.

For example, Alert Pay is getting some good reviews on the various web master forums. They charge less than Paypal and are quickly matching the services available with Paypal. Another example is Payoneer. Their services continue to increase and pretty soon you’ll be able to use it to get your ACH transfers. It will open huge doors for those of us making money online.

I have just started using Entre Card. I really didn’t understand it before and didn’t really take the time to see what it is. Now I know exactly what it is. It’s a great way to generate traffic for your site as well as get more advertising opportunities for your site. It can actually improve the monetization and traffic of your website.

I think it’s a great little widget to have on your website and it presents a unique opportunity to get free advertising and traffic for your blog. If you have got a blog, I suggest that you check it out today.