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You may not know this, but every time you register a new domain, you don’t necessarily need to buy hosting services to go with it. What registrars don’t tell you is that if you have plenty of space available on your original hosting account, then your other domains can share it.

You might want to launch five mini sites with information products – each with their own domain name. Although web hosting is relatively inexpensive in most cases, it adds up and multiple accounts are often unnecessary.

For instance, if you register a domain name at Godaddy and buy web hosting services for it, you don’t have to buy hosting the second, third, fourth, etc. times you register a domain. The only time you need to pay for more hosting is if you exceed your allotted bandwidth (caused by an excess of traffic) or storage space (the amount of data stored in your account).

Check to see how much bandwidth and space is available in your original hosting account. If you’re running out of either, check to see if your hosting company offers upgrades or add-ons to your account. That’s usually less expensive than a second hosting account.

If there’s room to spare, then you might want to use a parked domain, subdomain, or add-on domain. A subdomain is part of a larger domain, delineated by a dot, such asnewsletter.yourdomain.com, or a forward slash, such as yourdomain.com/newsletter. In this example, “newsletter” is the sub-domain, where yourdomain.com is the primary domain.

If your online empire has a steady growth, then you may want to employ  subdomains to separate the elements of your product line. Let’s say you own www.WebDesign.com. A sub-domain of that primary domain name might be www.Hosting.WebDesign.com or www.Graphics.WebDesign.com. You’re just dividing the primary domain name up into different categories.

You can also create it this way: www.WebDesign.com/Hosting – it doesn’t matter if the sub-directory comes before or after the primary domain name. You’ve probably seen this all the time and didn’t think anything of it. Yahoo uses it for separating their categories, like music.yahoo.com or news.yahoo.com.

You may have a primary domain with subdirectories to house your online courses, newsletters, and articles. You could register a domain for the newsletter and park it so that it points to the directory within your site. For example, if you owned the domain mynetbusiness.com and you bought mynetnewsletters.com, you could park the mynetnewsletters.com domain and point it to the sub-domain of ,newsletters.mynetbusiness.com.When someone visits mynetnewsletters.com they are immediately taken to newsletters.mynetbusiness.com.

That way, your newsletter gets branded with its own domain name, but it still shares hosting with the original site. Many affiliate marketers use this strategy to cloak their hyperlinks to other affiliate websites to avoid having their commissions stolen. Some consumers are turned off buying from affiliates, so sending them to a unique domain is helpful so they don’t bypass your link.

For example, using the domains above, if you are promoting a company’s web hosting as an affiliate, you might set up a sub-domain on your site of hosting.mynetbusiness.com and have it point to your affiliate URL with the hosting company.

A parked domain means that you buy all the versions of your most popular domains to keep others from stealing traffic that’s rightfully yours. For instance, let’s say you go to GoDaddy.com and register Site123.com.

You also register Site123.net, Site123.biz, and Site123.org so that nobody else can buy these domains and capitalize on a consumer’s error in typing the wrong domain extension. You don’t need to actually put a website on those extra  domains. Just “park” them on your existing hosting account and just have them redirect (or “point”) to your primary site at the dot com address.

An add-on domain is a new domain name that you set up to point to a sub-directory of your primary domain. If you own www.MySite123.com and you also own www.My-Site123.com, then you can make the second one an addon to your original domain.

When a web user types in the My- Site.com address, they’ll be redirected without them knowing it, to a web folder on MySite.com, but their browser won’t display the new address. When you set up an add-on domain, you get the advantage of a cgi-bin and the statistics you need to evaluate traffic to that domain.

Always remember to ask your current host if any of these options are available to help you reduce the cost of doing business online. Some companies will charge a one-time fee to set up your addon domains. Some charge nothing, and others charge a monthly fee. Steer clear of those charging you on an on-going basis when you could get a better deal elsewhere.

Just remember that once you have a hosting account, you can maximize its use before you either upgrade to a larger server with more bandwidth or buy another hosting account. Don’t get sucked into the notion that for every domain you register, separate hosting is a requirement.

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