How to move your existing HTML site to a drupal friendly hosting company

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you know intuitively because you’ve been learning about search engine optimization for the last year or two that having a static front page or Dreamweaver web site is not enough anymore to climb to the top 10 results in the search engines such as: Google, Yahoo, MSN, an up-and-coming competitor of Google called Cuil.Com. In fact, in the search engines strategy workshop held last fall, all the search engine experts talked about were: Word Press, Drupal, Joolma. You know that if the search engine experts who gets paid thousands and thousands of dollars by their clients to help them rank in the top 10 results in Google is saying to their clients who think everyone who attended the conference that you need to build a Web 2.0 friendly web site, you know this is the the whole truth and nothing but the truth. My blog, Drupal Girl Gem is entirely focused on educating you that drupal is a very powerful search engine friendly content management system that you should seriously consider working with.

The bottom line of what I’m pretty well saying in this blog entry on moving your static site to a drupal hosting company is I will be quite frank and bold in saying that if you are building a brand new site or if you have an existing site and they are not run on: Word press, drupal, joolma, movable type, you may want to think hard on what platform you’re going to choose. I’m sure you’ve heard of the definition for insanity. If you do the same thing over and over again and are not getting any different on your results then fantasizing that what you’re doing over and over again will give you a different result is called insanity. What I’m really saying is that if you were running a front page or Dreamweaver web site and you have no blog capability or letting visitors subscribe to our RSS feed, you are not bookmarking you don’t let visitors bookmark your blog entries or photos or videos or audio recordings that you have on your web site then thinking that you will get in the top 10 in the search engines is a bleak reality. As I said on my free drupal webinar I challenge my viewers to go to the search engines and type in a keyword that there thinking of building a niche market around and looking at the web sites that are ranked very highly. I guarantee you that quite a few top ranking web sites is either a Word press, drupal, joolma or movable type.

You know how in the new year people always make these kind of new years resolutions such as losing weight, quitting smoking, get out of debt, find a new soulmate if you have recently divorced, go husky dog racing in Alaska. If you are not currently generating an extra $500-$5000 a month and have spent five to 20 hours a week the last 52 weeks in 2008 ranking your affiliate marketing web site and have earned ZERO income from your affiliate marketing business, I strongly think that your new years resolution for 2009 can be migrating your static front page or Dreamweaver web site from your existing hosting company to running a drupal driven web site. Below will be a very easy to follow step-by-step plan on how to do this. I am sorry if I am coming across in a very direct and perhaps not diplomatic in the way I’m communicating to you.

However, I have a friend who has spent over $5,800 on purchasing e-books, videos, screen casts on how to do search engine optimization. This person has earned ZERO dollars from his efforts. He came to me in desperation asked me what he needs to do because his wife is close to kicking him out of the House and he will be facing homelessness. I simply asked him to take my intense three-day drupal for nontechies training. This was three months ago, and I’m proud to say he’s earning $200-$500 a month with his drupal driven affiliate marketing multimedia rich web site. By the way he had a static Dreamweaver 100 page web site which took him hours and hours and hours to update. If he needed to change any particular affiliate marketing banner, he had to spend three to five hours doing it because he had to go to every single page individually to delete that particular banner code. Can you imagine if you have a web site where you have 10 to 20 different merchants on IT, what if the merchants moved to a different network from commission Junction to share sale? How many hours of wasted energy would you spend not building new content on your web site rather spending three to five hours just remove an update one banner code? This is especially hard for people like my friend because he was not in the financial position to outsourced E. elance for this incredibly labor-intensive task.

how to migrate to a new drupal hosting provider

If you have an existing HTML based web site, it is very easy to move to a drupal friendly hosting provider. You can easily do this yourself or hire someone at rent a coder or Elance. Here are the steps below:

• sign-up for a well trusted and reputable drupal friendly hosting provider and create a brand new hosting account. Print out the welcome letter with your username and password to get in their control panel. In fact I would highly recommend using a drupal from the hosting company with 24 x 7 toll free technical support where you can call in and have someone hold your hand through the entire process.
  
• next, download your entire web site and all its server files onto your desktop Macintosh or Windows operating system.
  
• login to your new drupal friendly control panel or use any FTP manager such as cute FTP or their existing file manager and upload all of your web site files from your desktop in the exact directory structure to the brand new hosting company. Again if you subscribe to my Easy Drupal Tutorials For Non Techies membership, I will share with you the top three Drupal friendly hosting providers where of their incredibly friendly technical support will walk you through this entire process for free.
  
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  now you’re going to have to go to you or hosting registrar. This could be go Daddy, register.com and point the name servers that you will be given in the welcome letter by the drupal hosting provider to the new hosting company. They say it will take you 24 to 72 hours for your existing site to migrate over to a new hosting provider.
  
• you also have the option of keeping your existing domain name registrar and simply asked them to update the domain name server [DNS] records to point to the new DNS of the new drupal hosting provider. Or you can transfer the domain from your old domain name registrar over to your new hosting company
  
• do this right away after you’ve uploaded your server files onto the new drupal hosting company
  

replace a negative mental attitude or a lethargic mental attitude with a positive attitude. By following the next easy steps

Start your drupal name for nontechies today - click here

Stay with it,

Bounce back and start over again after having failed and not succeed in ranking your affiliate marketing web site .

Forgive yourself and send love and compassion to yourself and say to yourself every day I can do it. How to make it happen?