28
Oct
2009
Website Marketing: What You Need To Understand Before Beginning (Part 1)
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Part 1 of 4. Ten years ago, it cost thousands of dollars per year to host a Website. Now, hosting a Website costs just a few dollars per month. Today, businesses of any size can benefit from the growing spectrum of opportunities online.
Before getting started, we first must define what we mean by website marketing. Put simply, whereas traditional marketing methodologies harness the power of newspapers, radio and other forms of media, website marketing sells goods and services by utilizing the unique opportunities presented by websites, email and search engines.
According to Wikipedia, here are the definitions of phrases that you need to know about when studying Website marketing:
The world wide web is a global interlinked network of hypertext documents. Navigable via browser, users can view a vast array of text and multimedia content in an interconnected manner.
This content is served up by web servers, computer programs responsible for delivering the requested data to browsers via the HyperText Transfer Protocol (HTTP).
Each web server is reachable via an IP address, a globally unique series of numbers that locates it on the internet. For instance, google.com is located at the address 63.146.123.0. Comparing this to a business with a physical location, if your IP is a difficult-to-remember street address, then the associated domain name is a more memorable business name.
A server can host one or numerous Websites which “are a collection of related Webpages, images, videos or other digital assets that are addressed with a common domain name or IP address.” In fact, it’s very common for hosting companies to have dozens or even hundreds of Websites on a server. This is one reason that the prices in Web hosting have fallen.
A domain name is translated into the IP address by the “global DNS” or “domain name system”. The Domain Name System (DNS) is a naming system for computers, services, or any resource connected to the Internet or a private network. It associates various information with domain names assigned to each of the participants. Most importantly, it translates domain names meaningful to humans into the numerical identifiers associated with networking equipment for the purpose of locating and addressing these devices worldwide.
If this all sounds too technical, here is an analogy that might clear things up. Be sure to check out Parts 1-2 and 4.
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