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 make profit from the domain name alone. It can be used to make quick profits, but you shouldn’t accept to make a fortune by selling a domain 24 hours after purchasing it. You can earn profits by continuing to buy and sell domains.

Selling a package is also something that domain owners do. You can combine your domain with other items and make more money from the package than what you would make from the domain name sold alone. For example, you can sell a domain name in combination with a related software and e-book.

The advantage that you get with domain parking is that you don’t have to spend time on developing your website and you can sell it when you think that it has enough traffic to make you a profit. With domain parking you can earn money when someone clicks on the advertisements that are shown on your website that you have parked with a parking service company. The money that you make is shared between you and the company. Domain parking is a good option for people who are interested in running an online business but don’t have the time to pay attention to it. It is the type of business solution that can make you money even when you are sleeping.

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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 you can use your domain name to design specific ad campaigns targeted to specific markets even if you are selling multiple products and services.

Some people also use their domain names like headers on classified ads. If you decide to have such a name then you divide it into several different parts. It should interest people with a little information that solves a specific problem, provides a benefit, or makes them curious. Your domain name should have as many of these “headline characteristics” as possible. Make the domain name catchy and collected.

Choosing a domain name that brings traffic requires a bit of research and brainstorming. If you carefully choose the key words that you will use in your domain name and website, not only will you do better on your search engine rankings, you will also attract a lot more people in your advertising campaigns.

- Kaung | KMKBlog.com

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.

It is a Simple method: There are no long term marketing efforts involved in parking your website. All you require is a basic knowledge of keywords and search engine optimization that will help you choose a domain name and add keywords to your website. When you are done with setting up your domain and website, you can relax and see the system work.

Not a Time consuming Method: You may not have the time or don’t want to spend it on marketing your website and researching different techniques of bringing traffic to your website. With this method you can leave it to the parking service and continue to do other things that are a part of your daily routine.

Increase in Website Value: There are lots of factors that determine the value of a website including domain name, earnings, traffic, etc. However, the number of people visiting your website is the number 1 contributing factor in the price estimation of a website. A domain owner with high traffic can demand a lot more money from the buyer. With this method of advertising you will be bringing targeted traffic to your website, thus increasing its value.

Cashparking your website is a simple method of using the power of search engine optimization and advertising to make a profit from your domain. Although the profit you make from your website will be shared with parking company, you can still benefit from this easy method of “domaining” online.

- Kaung | KMKBlog.com

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.

I would provide a model based on God’s omniscience to support Augustine in that his notion of timeless God is consistent with the Bible and that instead of contradicting God’s omniscience, it is even strengthening the Biblical statements of Him. According to the confessions and how Augustine comes about to study the nature of time in detail in his Confessions, there are critics who counter argue him by asking that if there is no time before the creation by God, what He’s doing before all these creations. It appears to me that they are arguing that before creation, God has no will to do so and that there has to be a moment when He decides to initialize the creation. In order to do so, there has to be a new will being created and entering God and if He is truly eternal, this new will cannot enter Him or His old will to do nothing (no creation) cannot be changed. This is as if questioning the eternality of God.

Furthermore, in my opinion, the critics seem to also doubt the omniscient nature of God because they are stating that nothing could exist before creation and that only if something gets created, it may enter into God and change Him. Let’s look at such statement from the perspective of knowledge. If we were to reason like the critics, before the creation, there was nothing, not even knowledge, and if there was no knowledge, God did not possess knowledge before its creation and thus He does not know everything or possess omniscience as told in the Bible. If knowledge was later created, then for God to be considered omniscient, He has to be willing to change from “know nothing” to “know all”. These statements are contradicting both God’s eternality and omniscience. However, Augustine’s notion of timeless God helps solve this contradictory problem; “in eternity nothing moves into the past: all is present”. God exists outside of the time so there is only present (no past or future) in eternity and the present consists of the ability to perceive all at once and that everything He knows already exists, which is consistent with God’s omniscience nature. Since the creation of time and the bodies are also a timeless act, through God, all creations happen in an instant without any moments to be labeled as past or future upon God’s creation. The critics may counter argue by using creationism chapter of Genesis by saying that above statement cannot be right because God did not just create all in an instant but took six days of creations and by saying that my reasons to support Augustine have fallacy.

Their counter argument can be replied in two ways. First I could object their counter argument and restate Augustine where he said that Biblical passages should not be taken literally but instead only spiritually, which means that the critics are interpreting the Bible with the wrong reason. On the other hand, I could instead agree with their statement about the creation in six days while also restating Augustine’s statement on Biblical interpretation. For a timeless God of eternity, everything exist at present and in this case everything is still created at an instant even though it may seem days according to the uncertain accounts of “someone” but no one can know for sure the duration of the creation because as said before, the creation is a timeless act and Biblical duration cannot be taken literally. That is why I state that Augustine’s notion and understanding of the nature of time and eternity is no where in contradiction but even supports the Biblical nature of God.

In Summary, Augustine argues that there is no time before creation and that eternity consists only of the present. He also states that God of eternity exist outside of time and that all creations are made in an instant by a timeless act. He provides reasons to support that even though time has no real existence, it can have its existence through the presence and incorporation of memories and predictions and that one reason people can measure time is due to distention of the soul; through the memory, introduced by the mind, which is also the soul. Although Augustine’s arguments are subject to critics, they are not weakened by the critics’ objections because either the critics’ views are weak, irrelevant or are supporting Augustine in a sense. Furthermore, Augustine’s notion of nature of time is consistent with Biblical aspect of God, His actions and events in nature.

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

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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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According to Augustine, God creates the heavenly and earthly bodies with time t and not in time, that there cannot be time before that time t. Since there is no time before time t, Augustine argues in defense against the critics that one cannot ask what God was doing “then” “before” all the creations because then and before both refer to having a time before the creation (Book XI: 10,11). Augustine also advises to take creationism in Genesis spiritually instead of taking it literally in a sense that God did not create things like a craftsman would have because there are no being or intermediate ingredients or substances to be used in creation of the universe and the world (Book XI: 5). From this and since God of Eternity is the Beginning and the End in Himself where there is none before and after, Augustine concludes that creation of time by a timeless God should then be a timeless act. However, Augustine does not understand why God creates the world, which is still in time and is changing in time and why he or others think they know what time is but fail to answer its nature. These lead to his inquiry of the nature of time itself.

First Augustine argues that time does not have real existence in his discussion regarding the three types of time; past, present, and future (Book XI: 15). He noted that time depends on the becoming (future), being (present) and passing away (past). Here, Augustine is already expressing his notion of time that time tends to move toward non-existence by arriving from the future, remaining for a moment and passing through the present, and going away into the past. He initially focuses on the real existence of time in past and future. He believes that since nothing that does not yet or no longer exists can be described as long or short time in a present tense, the correct way to describe the past and future in the sense of long time ago or ahead and short time ago and ahead is not to use present term but the past and futuristic terms “was” and “will be” (Eg. It was a long time ago). However, even then he states that it would be foolish to say that the past was long or short because once anything enters the state of the past, it becomes a non-being and non-existence, and if it no longer exists, then it no longer is what it was; in this case, no longer a long or short time. Similarly, it would not be right to state that the future will be a long or a short time because the future is not yet here and is still a non-existence, so there is no way of considering what anything that has yet to arrive really is. He concludes from these that past and future times do not really exist. Later, Augustine focuses on the real existence of time in present. He divides the present into present century, year, month, day, etc and finds out that even present time is hard to observe. He gets to this statement after expressing his examples: in the present century, only the present year is present in existence and the other years are either in the past or the future; in that present year, only the present month is in existence, only the present day exists in that present month, only the present hour exists in that present day, and so on. The only moment when it is possible to observe and call it present is at an instant, but since that instant cannot be broken down into smaller periods, it does not have a duration or length and thus it cannot really be called time. From this Augustine concludes that present time also does not have real existence.

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

Copyrighted By:  Kaung Ko | KMKBlog.com

Here are some pros and cons of both blogging platforms and hosted blogs.

Blogging Platforms

Pros:

Most popular hosted platforms like Wordpress and Blogger are free of cost. You can setup a blog in no time since everything is already done for you. Hosted blogs are easier to maintain and posting content on them is a simple process. You don’t have to worry about updates as they are done automatically. Another advantage is that you get ranked easily because your blog is on a domain that ranks well already.

Cons:

If you like to customize your blog then you may get frustrated with hosted platform. Of course, customizing options vary depending on the platform you choose .For example, Blogger.com has no categories option, Wordpress.com does not allow you to add advertisement to your template.

With hosted blogs, you do not own the URL; this may not be a problem for some but in the opinion of some professional bloggers it’s better to have your own URL because it looks more professional. Another problem with hosted blog platforms is that your blog may end up looking like others because the default templates get used over and over by new bloggers. You must also have knowledge of CSS and HTML to make changes. Changing domain name can also be a problem because you have to redirect traffic to the new domain and get ranked in search engine results from scratch.

Own Hosted Blog

Pros:
With your own hosted blog you have control on all aspects of the blog. You can design it to your liking; you can also use different plug-ins developed by users.
You also get you own URL which can be a big advantage because they look more professional and are more marketable.

Cons:

If you don’t have the necessary skills then the setup process can be difficult. You are required to arrange hosting, set up databases and then download the platform onto you own computer and then upload it via ftp onto your web hosting server. You can learn this from a tutorial, but there is also an alternate option which involves finding a web host that will install your blog platform for you. Some platforms like Wordpress give advice on how to do this by recommending platforms.

The blog platform itself is free, but you have to pay a yearly fee for your domain name and also a registration fee. The hosting fee is also paid on a yearly basis. New versions come out with time and you may find the updating process a bit complicated if you don’t know abut it. Similar to blog platforms, hosting systems have their problems and you should choose a good one if you want your own hosted blog.

If your aim is to develop a blog that can be used for a business or corporate purposes then a standalone blog will serve you better in the long run. You can hire someone to design it for you or learn the process yourself. If your purpose is to have a casual blog then the free option will work just fine.

- Kaung | KMKBlog.com