| 16 December |
Internet Marketing Geniuses Aren’t Born, They’re Created |
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I’ve been online since January 1996, coming up on 12 years now, and I’ve had my own PC since 1986, so I’ve been into computers a long time, actually since 1974 when I first used them at work. They were huge old hulking things then, and if you didn’t code things properly nothing worked. Ahh… Pre-windows. Yes. I knew DOS, too.
This is not about showing you that mine is bigger. It’s just to say that some things I take completely for granted and sometimes talk in ways that everyone should understand. (I think.) But now and then, questions arise from the people on my list or from members in Blogging4Boomers and I slap myself. Doh! Of course, it’s not something everyone knows and I should never take such things for granted.
For example, I do a lot with The List Building Club and over there we’ve taught people how to buy a domain, secure hosting, install a blog and so on. Recently, they learned how to buy another domain and to add it onto their existing hosting account. Simple.
Or is it?
When you add on a domain, it automatically becomes a subdomain of the domain you originally opened your hosting account with. So, for example, this blog is a subdomain of easyseotricks.com, and when I added the domain for this blog on, it spit back the address as ovblogger.easyseotricks.com.
What happens when I type OVBlogger.com into the address bar?
This blog comes up. The subdomain created is nothing to even think about, unless you want to use that subdomain as your web address and who wants to do that? Short & sweet is the ticket.
I had a question about that this week from a very dear man and member of my site, and it occurred to me that when I started Internet marketing 4 years ago and started setting up my own websites and such, that stumped me, too.
Here’s the deal… It’s just a way for your hosting company to keep your account organized. Everything goes under your main domain, but you can still get to the new site by typing the add-on domain name into the address bar.
Seems simple and if you’re stumped about this now, just think… In 2011, you won’t be, either! 
It’s all about experience, which brings me back to my opening paragraph. It’s not that I’m a genius, because I’m not. It’s because I’ve been working with this stuff so long that I just know how to do a lot. Don’t ever, ever, ever be discouraged. What may seem like rocket science to you now will be stuff that you don’t give a second thought to in the future. You just need some experience. Keep at it.
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