If you are new to domain names and dont how mapping takes place between the domain and the webhost where you are hosting your website here is some information about that and also resources where you can try your hands on setting up a domain for free!.

Basics :

DNS (Domain Name Server) allow the users to use readable domain names instead of ip address to visit any website. eg : www.cool-blogger.com instead of typing 66.249.91.121 .
It will contain all the information on where a particular domain points.

CNAME or canonical name allow the users to have many aliases for a given address.
Eg : blog.example.com as an alias of www.blogservice.com which may belong to someone else.
Blogger.com allows their users to use this feature for pointing their domain to the blog they have hosted.

Have a try :

If you have never tried using a custom domain names and dont feel comfortable in spending money on your first domain name without having any knowledge of the domain settings panel and the respective settings you can Register a free co.cc domain which will also provide u settings panel where you can add DNS server address and cname,mx,A records etc.

Once u register a domain there, register for a free webhosting service like 100webspace . In the control panel u may have the option for adding domain names to your account. Add the registered co.cc domain name there. You may find the DNS server addresses there, copy the dns addresses and add them into the co.cc settings panel under DNS option. Go to your webhost, using the filemanager enter the folder with name of the domain. create a test index.html file with some content. It may take upto 48 hours for all the changes to take place so u wont find your domain ready as soon as these settings are complete. After some period of time you will see your test page up, which means the domain is working properly. Once you are familiar with all settings you will find it easy managing your bought domains.

When buying new domains, i prefer godaddy because the domains are cheap, they provides you an email with your domain and excellent services.

When i was new in the world of internet, i tried my hands on free website/wapsite/webspace providers. Ofcourse i used to do it for pleasure and getting even a single visitor was a big thing for me. I used to read articles by fellow wap/webmasters where they unleashed the secrets of getting huge amount of visitors. To the top of the list was "Adding site to google/search engines" and it holds true even now. Later i heared about the "blog" trend which was going on web. I got a free webspace and hosted a wordpress blog there. I tried couple of times adding my blog to google and other search engines but couldnt find even a clue about my site in those search engines. I gave up and started adding my blog to directories and some of them accepted my site. I even added my blog to some of the social bookmarking sites and blog communities. About a week later what do i see? my blog is indexed by google and other search engines. I was surprised, when i manually tried adding my blog to search engines it was not included even after a month but when i added it to directories, social bookmarking sites and blog communities, asap they include it !.
Surely there was some mechanism after this.

2 months before i tried to experiment a little bit on this. I created two blogs at blogspot.com, both were on different niche and i wrote 5 articles each for both. One was kept dormant but the other was added to social bookmarking site and blog communities. After that i added both the blogs to google. After a week the 2nd blog was included in search engines but the 1st one showed no sign.
What does this mean?
The search engines cosider how well exposed you site is on the web.
If your site link is present on some other websites, search engine may index your website when it comes accross your link on those sites.

So if you site/blog is new follow these steps to get your blog quickly indexed in search engines :
1)Make your site ready to be published.
2)Add it to social bookmarking sites, blog communities and directories.
3)Now add you site to major search engines or use ping tools.

Is your account terminated for invalid click activity in an ad network?
There will be large number of people who may have gone through this and the few ones who are innocent will be the most frustrated !. Suddenly you get a mail one morning from advertising network saying your account has been terminated. You wish to contact them but there is no way you can contact them. Even if you find one there is no reply ! If you belong to the category other than those belonging to innocents group, seriously there is nothing to discuss for you. I have seen many people seeking for advice for how they can get an unban pass from the ad network and if its not possible which are the alternatives.
Ive no plans of talking about the alternatives, so what do i want to discuss in this post? If you would ask me for alternatives i would say "google dude!", you will find a big list there thats because clever people have already written on that ;).
The base question of my discussion is "Is the method employed for account termination correct?". Basically account termination occurs when many or continuous click arrive from same ip address or a same cookie user. In many cases it would be true that in the urge of increasing their account balance the account holders themselves must have made those clicks, but what if someone else have done it. Then you may fall in the innocent category. Dont you think if your rival knows about this scheme he will surely try to destroy this income source?. what then, will your appeal for unban be accepted? No for sure, unless you have a reputed site.
I think the basis on which the accounts are terminated should be changed. If multiple clicks from same ips are encountered, the clicks shouldnt be counted so the advertisers dont have to pay for those. Im writing on this issue because i dont want to see my account getting terminated this way, when there are so many predators moving around me :P .
Surely there is no loss in this scheme right?
What do you think about this matter ?

A good blog design is one of the important aspects that bind your visitors to your blog. Users prefer to surf a good design blog for a longer time than one with dull appearence or too reflective design. It can automatically create interest in your visitors to read your blog post. Visitors are the one which make your blog run so its neccessary that you keep them happy when they are at your place :).
You can design your own template too, and ofcourse you will be admired for that. I tried to design my own but it went in vain lol :P. Still im working on it so that one day i may come up with one.

Ive come accross many beautiful templates while surfing, wish i could have all of them installed. There are lots of beautiful templates for wordpress blogs available at their official site Wordpress themes
For blogger, there are typical themes available at their official site, so most of the bloggers prefer using external templates. You get thousands of results when you search for blogger templates. Im using theme designed by Jacky Supit a cool theme designer !

I have heared that some themes give problem relating SEO, that they conflict search engines due to stuff like css. I dont know much about this, but will write about this if i find anything.

Im creating this new section "Help" where in i will try to solve your difficulties you have entered in the comments and also difficulties i have faced. So feel free to drop a comment. Lets start my own barrier that i faced while bringing up this site.
I had registerd a domain name (www.cool-blogger.com) with godaddy.com . After all settings i found that when i typed www.cool-blogger.com i reached my home page but when i did not use www (just cool-blogger.com) i found myself reaching the default page of godaddy.com. After thorough search i found a trick to tackle this problem. It was using domain forwarding . It was just like using url redirectors, which was absurd. After a deep search in google a finally got a solution. Im not sure how and what are the settings with other domain name providers but here i will demonstrate the settings for godaddy and a blogger blog :

After you have logged in your account and selected the neccessary domain name to edit its settings, you will come accross a window like one below.
Go to "Total dns and mx records".



If its you first time you will need to create a new cname record by clicking on "Add a new cname record" or edit the record if record with host www is already present there by clicking the pencil logo on extreme right. A new dialogue box will open where you need to enter "www" in "Enter an alias name" and "ghs.google.com" in "Points to host name" (incase of blogger) . Say ok and save the settings.





Now create a new cname record using same step as above and enter your domain name (eg.cool-blogger.com , the one you want to use without www) in "Enter an alias name" and "ghs.google.com" in "Points to domain name". Say ok and save your record. This is it and you are done!.



Note : It may take upto 24 hrs for these changes to take place so be patient.

Still if this does not help you may use domain forwarding. Click on the link under "Forwarding" on main page.


You will reach a new page where in you need to enter the url where it should redirect. Enter the desired url(eg.m0neytech.blogspot.com) in "Forward to" block and select "301 moved permanently" option. Again this may take upto 24 hrs.



I am currently using a blogger blog so i could point my domain directly by adding a CNAME record. But i think if you are hosting on some other server you will need to add their nameservers to your domain settings. Then using a addon domain option on your hosting server you can point it to whatever directory you want.
htaccess is the main file that needs to be edited inorder to resolve www and non-www issue.