Hosting Multiple Mini Sites With URL Framing, you’re not limited to redirecting through to the main domain name, but you can also redirect to subfolders of a domain name or a specific webpage and this is where things

get interesting for those of you in the process of setting up multiple mini sites.
Below is a complete description of how you can host multiple websites with multiple domain names for a fraction of the cost as I mentioned in the introduction of this e-book. This solution utilizes only one low cost shared hosting account, Mini Sit Manager and your free Enom Reseller account.

Step 1. Buy your First Domain Name
If you don’t have a domain name yet, buy one. You can take the free offer from one of the hosts but remember the pitfalls mentioned earlier when it comes to having control of your name in the future.

Step 2. Sign up with a Hosting Company
Find a hosting company that you’re happy with, either from the recommended list at http://hagency.com or do your own research utilizing the information above. Ensure the account has plenty of disk space and bandwidth allocation. The more the better for this job!
Step 3. Set up your DNS for your First Hosted Domain Name Ignore this if you purchased your domain name from your hosting company and move on to

Step 4, otherwise please continue.
When you signed up with a Hosting Company, you will receive a “Welcome” email from them containing the details of your hosting account. Always read this email carefully, it will contain information about your mail servers and your all important DNS information and Name Servers. Take the Name Server information you are given, log in to your Domain Name Registrar Account and edit your name servers. Replace the existing Name Servers (which will be your registrars Name Servers) with the ones provided from your hosting company. There should be at least 2 of them.

For Enom Reseller Account Users:

1. Login to your Enom account, from the menu choose “Domains” >> “My Domains” and click on your domain name from the list.
2. Under the main “DNS Server” heading click “Change”.
3. On the next page check the box next to “User” and click “Save Changes”
4. Enter the Name Servers Provided by your Host and click “Save Changes”

Once you’ve completed this step it will take 24 to 48 hours for your hosting account to become live and operational. You can check if your account is live by opening up a web browser and going to your domain name. If you see the hosting companies default page, then you’re live. If you see your Domain Name Registrars page or a search page, then DNS has not finished propagating yet.

Step 4. Buy your Other Domain Names
While DNS is updating for your main domain name, purchase any names you want for your websites through your Enom Reseller Account. Obviously you can add to these as you go, but if you have some ideas for the content of your first sites or the products you want to promote, then go ahead and buy the names.

Step 5. Build your Mini Sites
Install Mini site Manager (http://minisitemanager.com) on your web hosting server. Mini Site Manager is a php based system you install on your web server that allows you to easily create unlimited multi-page mini sites with no html coding experience at all. It even sets up your description and keyword Meta tags for search engines, and all the pages generated have Search Engine Friendly URLs for crawlers to index your content easily.

Each mini site is created with its own unique URL. It’s a very easy system to use and nowhere near as complicated as the website creator systems many companies offer. A full installation service is available.

Once installed, create your mini sites and make note of the URLs for each site.

For example: http://yourfirstdomain.com/Car-Site/1/1.htm These URLs are automatically generated by Mini Site Manager.

Step 6. Configure your new domain names for URL Framing
Now your mini sites have been created and you have the URL for each site, you can set up the URL Framing. For example: if you purchased a domain name yourcarwebsite.com then you would forward it to http://yourfirstdomain.com/Car-Site/1/1.htm which holds your car mini site.

For Enom Reseller Account Users:

1. 1. Login to your Enom account, from the menu choose “Domains” >> “My Domains” and click on the domain name you want to redirect from the list.
2. 2. Under the “DNS Setting (Zone File)” section click “Configure”
3. 3. On the next page change box 1 “www” to record type “URL Frame” and in the address box add your destination URL. Note: Mini Site Manager Users, click the URL Icon and copy the full URL provided.
4. 4. Change box 2 “@(none)” to record type “URL Frame” and in the address box add your destination URL i.e. http://yourfirstdomain.com/Car-Site/1/1.htm
5. 5. Click “Save Changes” At this point you can also set up your email forwards to redirect email from your new domain name to your day to day email account, or to a new account you created with your new hosting company.

For Enom Reseller Account Users:

1. 1. Login to your Enom account, from the menu choose “Domains” >> “My Domains” and click on the domain name you want to redirect from the list.
2. Under the “Email Settings” section click “Change”
3. On the next page check the box next to “Email Forwarding” and click “Save Changes.
4. Add your various email addresses for the domain and in the “Forward To” box add the mailbox you’d like the messages forwarded to.
5. Click “Save Changes” You’re done! You now have hosting and email for multiple unique URLs on one hosting account!!

For any additional domain names you purchase, simply add a new mini site using Mini Site Manager and set up the URL Frame in Enom to redirect to it.

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