I finally have a Pagerank. Not here, obviously, but on Nearly-Dr Ferox.

It took a while, and I made a few mistakes along the way, but it’s there now and hopefully it will grow with time.

My first mistake was not having a google sitemap to make it easy for the crawlers to index my blog. The second mistake was having paperpost. But I have learnt from such things and now have my reward.

After reading lots of different things I finally bought two domains with GoDaddy and hosted them at Hostgator.

I chose to do this because of a special offer for Bloggeries forum members, where I can get $25 back after two months if I sign up to both places using the forum owner’s affiliate ID.

Googling for coupon codes from each company means that $25 will cover my first two months hosting, plus the cost of registering my domain names for a year.

I’ll show you my domain names when they’re ready to be unveiled to the public. But for now, they’re serisouly under development and I’m on a steep learnign curve figuring out how to work them.

For a while now I have been contemplating making websites to sell at a profit on sites like digitalpoint. I have two really good ideas that I’m confident I could create and establish, but I don’t have a clue where to actually purchase domain names or hosting, or how much I need or anything like that.

 I’m also not sure how much I should be looking at investing initially, or what sort of returns I could expect. It’s so much easier starting with free blogs, it really is.

 I will keep a record of my progress here, and maybe even show you teh sites as they get going.