Website Marketing: What You Might Want To Understand Before Starting (Part 1)

by Ed Brancheau | 28th October 2009

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Part 1 of 4. The cost of hosting websites has fallen dramatically over the past ten years. What once went for thousands now only costs a few dollars per month, bringing the vast array of online opportunities easily into the price range of almost every business.

Before going further, we need to define terms. First, Website marketing deals with Webpages and Websites, email, search engines and the Internet as the foundation of the World Wide Web. Businesses can sell services and goods via Website marketing by using these methods.

According to Wikipedia, here are the definitions of phrases that you need to know about when studying Website marketing:

World Wide Web: A system of interlinked hypertext documents accessed via the Internet. With a Web browser, one can view Webpages that contain text, images, videos, and multimedia and navigate between them using hyperlinks.

Web Server: A computer program that's responsible for accepting HTTP requests from clients (user agents such as Web browsers), and serving them HTTP responses along with optional data, which usually are Webpages such as HTML documents and linked objects (images, etc.).

Web servers are located at IP addresses, globally unique groupings of numbers. For instance, the web server for google.com is located at 63.146.123.0. If the IP is your business's difficult-to-remember physical address, its name is the more memorable detail which is seen more often.

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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