I Need Inexpensive Web Hosting Providers

Thanks for visiting The Traffic Blogger today. I'm assuming you came here because you need help with your website and don't want to pay too much to get started. Well then, I have a pretty amazing choice for you! Here are the two cheapest domain and website hosting providers on the web today.

Picking a Web Hosting Company:

Blue Host

 

Host Gator

 

Which Inexpensive Hosting Company is the Better Choice?

So what's the difference between these two products? Hostgator is better if you only want one website, but Bluehost is great for cheaply expanding to additional sites. When I started blogging, I used Hostgator because it was the cheapest deal on the market. But I quickly realized that I wanted to create product websites, forums, and other tools for my audience on completely different domains. Bluehost is now my preferred web hosting company because of how easy it is to add new domains to your account. Only you know what's best for you, but luckily the price is not exactly astronomically different (Just $3)!

I find both to be an amazingly cheap way to get your website or blog started. If you need help setting up your site, I would be happy to show you how, FOR FREE. That's right, if you purchase either of these hosting providers today, then I will walk you through the setup process via email or skype. I can also send you links to helpful videos and/or tutorials if you'd rather go it alone.

Here's my email if you need anything: chris AT thetrafficblogger DOT com

(My email is broken up to prevent spam from web robots. You would replace the AT with @ and the DOT with . to successfully email me.)

You can also find all the information you need to kick butt with your website in my site guide. For example, if you want to start building a list or sell something on your website, I definitely have tutorials and blog articles galore waiting for you. Maybe you just want lots of traffic... well it isn't called "The Traffic Blogger" for nothing, haha.

Welcome to The Traffic Blogger!

Free Aweber How To Tutorial

Download this Aweber tutorial pdf, print it out, and use it to create your own email marketing series. The file will show you how to join Aweber, create forms, deliver emails to your readers, and much more. It is straight forward with easy to follow pictures and walk-throughs. You literally can have Aweber set up and running on your site in the next hour or two.

Here's the link for this free tutorial that will show you how to use and implement Aweber successfully:

Aweber Crash Course

Creating a Membership Forum to Make Money

Obviously, if you didn't figure it out by now, I am no longer going to write consistently for this blog. I will, however, drift in and out of writing in order to give you my latest discoveries and success stories. Right now my focus is on Membership Forum communities and how much money they've made (and not made) for me.

How Much Money Can You Make?

I have two such sites running right now, Diablo 3 and Guild Wars 2. They provide a secret place, protected by a paywall, where members can see my best ideas and discuss them amongst themselves. Members also feel safer about sharing openly their own strategies and answering each others' questions. Overall, there is great value in having a membership program.

These programs bring in approximately $1000 per month each. They cost less than a typical guide because they require that members continue to pay in order to view new content. The flip side of this is that I have to spend a lot more time creating the content that keeps people coming back for more.

Think about this for a moment. The average buyer will spend $37 on one of my internet how-to guides to playing video games. A forum member for either of these sites pays around $5 per month. So in order to get to the $37 mark, they need to stick around for 8 months. Most do not, so I'm actually losing money from this strategy! However, the forum provides much more value than a typical guide, so some members will stick around for years, bringing in new clients and promoting on their own.

How to Deliver Great Content and Make More Money

So I'm still on the fence as to how to keep the forums earning a decent amount of money (compared to guide selling) while also bringing the best content to the buyers. I've come up with a better solution that will hopefully achieve both goals: Only allow buyers to purchase yearly forum access. That way I can charge that $37+ for a year of access, the members get their growing forum, and if someone really likes it then they will buy the next year.

I am moving towards this option, and I will see how it goes.

If you want to learn more about creating forums for your websites, you can take my video course on blogging that includes a section for this topic.

Excited for New Adventures in Blogging

I'm very excited for a new blog that my friend and I are developing. It's going to be a site about curbing boredom in the work place. We have a lot of work to do but I am still very excited at the prospect of working with someone instead of just on my own, in terms of building the blog, marketing, etc.

Both of my gaming sites have seen nice increases in traffic due to game developers improving their games dramatically. Or at least news of changes that will hopefully do just that. Both sites increased traffic by around 25% in the past month compared to last month. Considering the fact that Christmas is usually one of the busiest times for my blogs, this was a really big deal.

How are your blogs doing? Do you have any new years resolutions to improve your websites?

Why People Suck

Seriously, people just suck. They are in front of me in the doctor's office, in traffic, and while waiting on hold with my internet provider. People are obnoxious, ignorant, and down right deplorable. But worst of all, people are lazy, get rich quick seeking, know it alls. The things that people believe just suck.

Here are the top ten things people believe that I just can't stand.

1. History began at their birth. Therefore they don't have much to learn from their elders. Maybe a little, but not enough.

2. There is a utopian "job" which they can obtain once they learn the "secret" to success. This is so ridiculous yet probably the number one reason people seek to make money online.

3. "Work" is up there with other four letter words in their vocabulary. Believe it or not, work is what we human beings were designed for. We will all do it, even if we're financially secure.

4. They think that their opinion matters. Numbers matter. Proven facts matter. Opinions do not. Unless it's an opinion poll. But even then we're focusing on numbers and not the opinions themselves.

5. They are entitled to have the best this world has to offer. Sorry but life is unfair and in its unfairness great people emerge victorious, even in the face of great unfairness. Actually, "unfair" economies where rich and poor incomes have large disparities tend to be far more successful. Could this be due to a simultaneous existence of opportunities for poor people to improve their situation and move up the economic ladder? Entitled people do not understand this, nor will they ever.

6. Even if something works well, people will abandon it in favor of the next fad. This drives me nuts. For example, why would you ever give up a $300 per month system in favor of one that just promises you $500? You should continue to develop and improve upon the $300 one or else you are giving up on all the time you spent to get to that point!

7. Long term goals are supposedly dreams. Dreams are not goals, but people believe them to be. I set real, rational 10 year goals. Then I break up those goals into plans that can be achieved on a yearly basis. Goals have plans attached to them, dreams have nothing but hopes and desires.

8. People believe that the pursuit of knowledge is a waste of time. I can tell in 5 minutes if a person has read more than 50 books in their life time. A person's vocabulary will vastly improve with just one book per month, let alone one per week or every few days. But most people now a days learn from tv and youtube, which is usually beneath a 5th grade reading level. It is rare to meet someone who reads more than just their primary area of focus. Expanding your sources of information and interests is what learning is all about, and it enables you to apply lessons learned from two completely unrelated fields. This is how unforeseen inovations occur.

9. Applying stereotypes to whole groups of people. Groups of people are always complex. Especially ethnic groups, which always have wide varieties of backgrounds and religions, even if they look alike. But the term "group of people", as I call it, also applies to clubs, sports fans, members of a city, bloggers, etc. The moment you start lumping everyone from a group together is the moment you embrace ignorance.

10. Successful people are happy and complacent. No, the vast majority of successful people I know treat being the best like a drug. They are never satisfied with their performance and always seek to learn something new. In reality, it's the people who say successful people are complacent who are the real complacent ones! They have accepted their current status in life and feel little motivation to do more.


What can I say, I'm just not a people person! Are you?