In the past few years, blogging has become a legitimate and even respected medium to reach the public. While you may use your email newsletters to talk about the products or services your company offers, blog posts can serve a variety of other important functions. Blogging is often more story-based in its content. So, by maintaining a professional and accurate blog about your company, you can become a trusted expert in your field, and help your customers and other industry professional put a face to your business.

Blogs also create a platform for you to engage in an open forum directly with your customers. This is definitely a valuable way of obtaining feedback about your business. A major upside to blogging is that it can dramatically improve your search engine rankings. The more blog posts you write and the more your customers comment on your posts, the more opportunities there are for search engines to pick up your content. So, what are you waiting for? Ensure you update your business blog regularly.

Aside from generating new sales leads, blogging also offers the following potential benefits.

1. A blog creates a platform for you to engage with both existing and potential customers in a direct, informal, no-pressure way. You can use blog to communicate the strengths of your product or service, the expertise of your top executives and the breadth of your company’s experience in ways that traditional marketing and advertising won’t allow. This can inspire customer loyalty.
2. Blog is collaborative nature. As such, it can can help you gain insight into customers’ needs and interests. This information can be used to develop new products or services or fine-tune existing ones.
3. A blog can make your company appear more “alive” and approachable. A website promoting your products or services is an essential marketing tool. But a blog, in effect, gives your company a personal voice, which also can help boost customer loyalty.

Blogs cost little, if any, money. Some public blogging sites are free; others charge only nominal fees. However, you need to have a private domain name registered for your business blog as you will be interacting with your customers (both existing and potentials).

Blogs are often extremely easy to set up and update, with virtually no training required. If you already have a domain name and hosting account, you can create a sub domain and start from there. However, you can register a new domain and hosting account at Nairahost. If you need any help in setting up your business blog, you can drop us a mail and we would take it further from there.

The improvements in 2.5 are numerous, and almost entirely a result of your feedback: multi-file uploading, one-click plugin upgrades, built-in galleries, customizable dashboard, salted passwords and cookie encryption, media library, a WYSIWYG that doesn’t mess with your code, concurrent post editing protection, full-screen writing, and search that covers posts and pages. Read More

All Nairahost customers are encouraged to update their wordpress or request for a free update through our support channels.

1) I created 5 pages of content (Home, FAQ, About Us, etc.).

2) I put them in a simple template with site-wide links. I also linked to it from one of my other sites (it’s very relevant so it makes sense).

3) I added tagged the site on only 2 social bookmarking sites.

4) Commented in 1 forum, put the URL in one directory (niche specific), and submitted it to Digg.

5) Installed Google Analytics

6) Created a sitemap, pinged Google, and put the sitemap in my Robots.txt. Logged into Google Webmaster Central and submitted my sitemap there.

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This is a great contribution.

I am pretty sure that more of this relative question would be asked in the future, even after this post. To begin with, free domain names, are not free, they come with conditions or “strings”. No Registry gets domains for free, For example, a .com domain name, costs the Registrar $6.00 approx 750Naira per year (one .com domain name for one year).

Nairahost even though it uses dedicated servers, resells domain names through a registry. Nairahost, obtains the domains from the registrar at a far more higher price, because the registrars have to make profit from their products. Nairahost is considering becoming a registrar in the future. So perhaps then, it could further reduce its domain costs overhead.

Some Registrars sell directly to the public (GoDaddy, Network Solutions, Register.com, etc.) and some sell through resellers such as ISPs and web hosts (Tucows, eNom, etc.). Registrars provide WHOIS services for their domains, handle abuse reports, and provide the management tools to their customers.

People should not accept any offers for free domain names because they are usually tied to a package which you must be paying for otherwise you would lose the domain name, because that would entail breaching the contract, you agreed to, when you received the free domain name.

It is advisable to pay for a domain name, even if it is just N1.00 than to get a free one. When you pay as little as N1.00 there is a monetary commitment between you and the provider, so the provider cannot withdraw or seize the domain name, should you decide to move away from the provider for whatever reasons, you might have.

Furthermore, paying as low as N1.00 for a domain name should not be done, as services provided under such low cost, are very questionable and often are pre-packaged with hidden contractual agreements that would cost you your domain name, when you breach it.

Some registrars ensure that you can only renew with them at a higher price, some only enable the ability to transfer the domain after a 2 year contract, and others have even more ridiculous terms. So its very imperative, that the customer reads the providers term of service before he or she signs up for a free domain name.

Why does Nairahost charge for Domain names?

We are a reseller of Directi for domain names. Directi provides support to us and we provide this support to our customers. We have software infrastructure invested in integrating our system with Directi.

Since this infrastructure cost us money, we need to price our domains, so that we can make money on them while balancing this with choosing a price for our customers vs what our customers can afford to pay for it while maximizing our market share.

For our domain names, we have a reasonable profit margin enough to offset our infrastructural cost and product cost.

This covers our administrative overhead for processing domain name orders, providing and updating a Knowledge base of frequently asked questions, providing a domain management interface, and providing support for the domain name our customers register through us.

With a decent profit margin, we are enable to give our customers the support they require and able to sustain our business.

We realize that this isn’t what every customer wants and that we lose customers because we do not give or offer free domain names with our products and services.

Nevertheless, we have many happy domain name customers that know they can rely on our reliability and sustainability, while rendering the top notch support for the services we provide them.

Domain Names are a critical part of most of our customers businesses and we are here to provide the services and support necessary at a price that we hope is reasonable, yet allows us to do this with a small profit that pays for our bills.

In his post, he asserts that Google has the ultimate model, which I agree too.

“Web hosting” as a keyword on Google gets searched 2 million times a month.

The top spot right now goes for about $15 per click.

Let’s say the average hoster converts 10% of those clicks to customers (a pretty aggressive assumption).

That means for every $10/month hosting account converted, Google is getting $150 ($15 per click x 10 clicks needed for a sale).

Without any marginal cost (ok, serving that search page probably costs .00001 cents or something tiny) that is almost ALL profit.

Now, let’s compare that to the hoster: let’s assume a 30% profit margin for a 30 month life (which is high in both profit and customer life). That is only $90 of profits ($10/month * .30 margin *30 months) over the life of the customer.

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We don’t currently advertise on Google Adwords, but nevertheless this is an intriguing fact.

1. MSWDA as a Service

2. MSWDA runned on a dedicated ip

3. Hosting accounts access to MSWDA using an A entry

This is what we did after installing MSWDA using the msi setup file.

1. We did not enable the IIS Service it came with as we wanted it to run under our ISS Server

2. We added a website and added all the Internet User permissions. This we did by pointing the Website to the Web Folder and leaving the Header variables Empty.

3. We modified the web.config file with the following while leaving the

The rest of the modifications are a simply straightforward and default.

The winners of the February free hosting are:
1. Olubisi Akintunde
2. Ikenna Okonkwo

Congratulation. You would be contacted personally both via email. We do hope you would enjoy your time with Nairahost Nigeria.

As we all congratulate the winners of this month, we would like to remind others that we still have ten more positions available. As the months unfold, your chance of winning increases. So, if you did not win this month, you have the chance to win in the coming months.

Thank you all once again for joining our monthly free hosting competition.

Nigerians have been great customers, and hence we have decided to return back the favor, by introducing a Domain and Hosting Lottery. Every month we have decided to give out one free hosting and domain account for a year . This means we are giving out 12 free accounts and 12 free domain names yearly. Considering we did not give out on January, we have two slots for February. This means 2 people from Nigeria would win 1 hosting account and 1 domain name for 1 year.

The 1 free domain can be (.com,.net and .org) and a you also get a 500MB web hosting account !!

You can view winners at the end of each month HERE

You can sign up for a chance to win HERE

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Things to know

* The monthly winner is chosen by random using a computer algorithm
* Only one entry per person is allowed
* Multiple entries would lead to termination of service or disqualification upon detection
* The winning hosting package and domain account would be valid for one year
* There is no need to re-enter the contest, as your entry is valid for 12 months
* The domain and web hosting account belongs to you
* You would get full access to the account
* The hosting package and domain registration you win would expire after one year of activation
* You can choose to downgrade the package after the 1 year duration or contract
* You can choose to renew your hosting or transfer your domain after the duration or the contract
*You must abide by our terms of service
* You would get a full web hosting and domain registration support just like any of our paid customers