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You can profit from a domain in many different ways. You can promote it yourself through advertising and search engine optimization, buy and flip domains to make some quick cash, sell domains in packages that contain other items related to your niche, etc. With so many options available, why should you park a domain?

Actually, all of these methods are effective in making money, the difference between them lies in the amount of effort that is required by the owner of the domain. Developing website is a time consuming job if you’re doing it yourself. In order to get traffic you have to continuously promote your website. There are so many ways in which you can promote your website and there is a temptation to utilize as many methods as possible. You can write blog posts about your product on your blog to update people, create Youtube videos that explain the working of a product or give information about a service that you offer, write article that contain keywords and provide backlinks to your website in them, etc. While these methods can bring traffic to your website, it may not be possible to utilize all of them if you have a short amount of time to give to your online business.

Another method that people use for making money with domains is flipping them without doing much website development. This method is for people who want to Read the rest of this entry »

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If you are looking to build a website, then choosing the ‘correct’ domain name is where you start your online business venture from. By selecting a domain name that targets the specific keywords for your website you can bring a lot of targeted traffic to your website.

Choose a domain name that is exactly what your prospects are looking for. By including the keywords in your domain name that are targeted towards the customer, and including them in your website content and messages you can attract a lot of people to your website.

In order to find out what the customers desire you can get help from different software that monitor and record the exact terms what people type into the search engines when looking for something. “Adwords Keyword Tool” is one such tool that will help you understand how to market your product. You can simply type in the words that relate to your product or service and the keyword tool will generate a list of words along with the number of times they have been searched.

Keyword targeted domain names have great potential to bring in visitors. But the key factor is that how well you have researched your target market and how well you are attending to the needs of your customers. After you have put together a system of marketing Read the rest of this entry »

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With so many people looking towards that internet marketplace to help them make some cash there are no shortages of money making opportunities. A lot of people are finding out that one of the better ways to make money online is to actually own a domain. The domain you own can be used in many different ways to make a profit. You could sell it to other people for a profit by auctioning it, keep it for a while and market it, then sell it for a larger profit, or just keep benefiting from the traffic that you are getting on your website.

Cashparking a website is a method or earning money from a domain, in which promoting your website to get traffic is optional. You also don’t have to auction sites in order to make a profit. Cashparking involves buying a domain name and allowing a parking service company to display advertisements on your website that are related to the keywords present in your website content. The keywords that you use will help in bringing traffic to your website. When the visitor will click on the ads you will earn money.

Cashparking is a good choice for many people because of the following reasons. Read the rest of this entry »

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Even though Augustine provides reasons to support his statements in Confessions, some of his reasons or statements are still subject to critic. From here on, I will state possible objections by the critics and defend with my own reasons to support Augustine and strengthen his arguments. First of all, Augustine’s statement that time seems to move toward the non-existence (past) gives opening for critics to object by reasoning that in all cases, time only flows from the past into the future; coffee and milk will mix spontaneously after pouring the milk in (future) but will never un-mix after pouring milk in (past). The critic’s reason seems to be reasonable only on the ground that the critic already knows that milk and coffee will mix. What about to the majority with no knowledge of it? In my opinion, to such people, time flows from the future into the non-existence past; they can predict at a certain moment (present) that milk and coffee will mix (future) by basing on their previous experience that X and Y does mix recently (present of future things), at the instant they pour the milk into coffee they will see that it mixes (present of present things), and in the end they knew that milk and coffee did mix (past) and next time, will remember at an instant like they remembered that X and Y did mix before (present of past things). Therefore, I believe “time exists … in the sense that it tends toward non-existence”.

Second, a critic can argue that time exists not at the present instant with no duration but instead that it does have measurable duration, can provide examples of how a person can tell how long it takes for an object to move from point A to B, who can run faster or how a watch can tell the duration, and can argue how all the measurements can be done not through the mind but experimentally, externally from the mind. The critic needs to keep in mind that these are two different “times” she is referring to. Augustine is referring to time from larger creation view point in the sense that in eternity, there is only present, but in this world there seems to be past, present and future, which conveys that the bodies are created with time and moving in time. However the critic is referring to the different notion of time or fractional instant of the creation timeline. Nonetheless, if we are to accept that past and future have no existence or that time doesn’t have real existence in them, at any instant present, there will be no duration; for instance when trying to measure how fast a person is running at the present, she will see that it is immeasurable. And if we are to judge who runs faster, in order for us to remember the “time” taken for both runners, we may have to simultaneously recall form memory of their times and in this case, present is working with the past through memory, using the distention of the soul, the mind. In these cases, either the critic’s counter arguments are irrelevant to Augustine’s main concept of time or the arguments which are meant to contradict his concepts are instead being supportive. Read the rest of this entry »

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Even though the three types of times do not have a real existence, people still talk about and measure time. Since a person cannot measure something that does not exist, in order for him to be measuring time, it must exist for him in a sense. Augustine concluded that the existence of time in the humans can be achieved through existing in the present and by experiencing memories (past) and predictions (future) (Book XI: 20). Instead of stating there are three times in past, present, and future perspectives which are proven to have no real existence, Augustine now reasons that time can be in some sort of existence as such: “a present of past things, a present of present things, and a present of future things”. This is what he means; if a person remembers how things those were in the past were like when they were at the present, it is through his memories at the present time, and if a person predicts how things will exist in the future, it is through the notion of present happenings and making extrapolation at this present time. Augustine now holds the idea that time can be measured only when it is in the passing processes through the present moment since it cannot be measured before passing, for they will be nothing and cannot be measured after it has passed, for there will no longer be anything existing to be measured. However, Augustine does not know how we can actually measure this instant of the present although it appears to be measurable to people because the present, as stated previously, does not have actual duration or extension. He disagrees with other philosophers or astrologers’ way of measuring time through the movement of the heavenly bodies because he believes that bodies are just moving in time and not time itself (Book XI: 24); even if the sun did stop as told in the bible, the hours that make up one day will still pass and therefore, time cannot be measured through movement of bodies.

The idea Augustine holds, in addition to the statement that time has existence only in a sense of present instant with no duration, is that time is a extension of the soul into the temporal world (Book XI: 26). Augustine knows that this would mean the soul is falling away from what is previously believed to be close to the goodness as in God, but this is the only possible way so far to measure time. When people measure time, they measure as if time is the property of the soul in that people are measuring things in their own memories at the present moment; since the past does not actually exist and the only way to measure time then is to measure it while it is passing at the “present of past things” state, people consider things from the past as though happening in the present only through memories. Since memories cannot be perceived by bodily aspects but only through the mind or the soul, time is an extension of the soul in a sense for Augustine.

In summary, Augustine states that time, past, present, and future do not have real existence because the present instant has no duration, that the reason why people still speak of time as measurable is when it is in passing process to reach to the non-existing past through the present, that time, as widely used by most, can only exist in the present through memories and predictions, and that time is in some way an extension of the soul.

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Literatures Cited
Saint Augustine. Confessions.1961. Penguin Group, Book XI.

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