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2011-07-20T12:39:00.001-07:00

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iPage Web Host - special offer of $2.95/m Friday, Saturday and Sunday

2011-07-11T23:00:00.000-07:00

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Web Hosting Sales and Promos Roundup - July 8, 2011

2011-07-09T08:44:00.001-07:00

By Nicole Henderson,July 08, 2011

Netcetera is offering a Harrods gift card with each dedicated server purchase

(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Web hosting promotions out of the UK were plentiful in the week ending July 8, 2011. Managed hosting provider Netcetera launched a giveaway of Harrods gift cards, Web host Strato is offering its site builder for free for five months, Canadian Web hosting is offering 20 percent off shared hosting, PAC Web Hosting is offering 25 percent off all new hosting packages and web host Infrenion Networks is offering a 30 percent discount on its Wordpress hosting plans.

Web Host Netcetera Offers Harrods Gift Cards

Managed hosting provider Netcetera (http://www.netcetera.co.uk/) has launched a promotion where it is giving away an $80 Harrods Gift Card with the purchase of any dedicated server. Netcetera says these gift cards can be used in-store or at Harrods online store (http://www.harrods.com/). Netcetera recently launched a new range of dedicated servers: Dell R210 servers with Intel Quad-Core Xeon Processors with up to 16GB of RAM 2 x hard drives in RAID 1 configuration. Netcetera also recently launched a managed Windows cloud server.

Web Host Strato Offers Five Months of Site Builder for Free

Web hosting provider Strato (http://www.strato-hosting.co.uk/) is celebrating five years of business in the UK by offering its site builder WebStarter free of charge for five months. According to Strato, WebStarter is designed for individuals, clubs and business startups who want to build their first website. No technical skills are required to use the site builder and users can choose their domain. The offer is part of a year-long contract where customers pay about $6.25 per month after the initial five-month period. Users have unlimited traffic, 25 email accounts, 20 web pages and free support. The offer expires on July 31, 2011.

Canadian Web Hosting Offers 20 Percent Discount on Shared Hosting

Web host Canadian Web Hosting (http://www.canadianwebhosting.com%29/ is offering 20 percent off its shared hosting. The company says its shared web hosting is easy to install and includes a one click application setup. To access the discount, enter the coupon code HOSTING20 at checkout.

Web Host PAC Web Hosting Offers 25 Percent Off Summer Special

Uk web host PAC Web Hosting (http://www.pacwebhosting.com/) is offering 25 percent off all new hosting packages through the summer. The shared hosting packages also include a free domain name. PAC Web Hosting says hourly backups are also free and come standard on all packages. The hosting backend is managed by cPanel. To take advantage of the discount, enter the coupon code summer2011 at checkout.

Web Host Infrenion Networks Offers Wordpress Hosting Discount

Web hosting provider Infrenion Networks (http://www.infrenion.com/) is offering 30 percent off its WordPress hosting plan with the coupon code 30OFF. The plan includes 10GB of disk space and 220 GB of bandwidth, according to the company. All of its WordPress hosting plans comes with free domain names, a free dedicated IP and a free SSL certificate. The company says benefits of this plan include hosting multiple domains on one account, creating unlimit

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FatCow Web Host - special offer of $3.67/m Friday, Saturday and Sunday

2011-07-09T08:44:00.000-07:00

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FatCow Web Hosting has a special offer of $3.67 / month ( normally $4.67/m)
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2011-07-09T08:30:00.000-07:00

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2011-07-04T08:10:00.000-07:00

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Existing clients CAN take advantage of this offer. They will be required to add a new/additional hosting account and keep both the non-discounted plan (current/old plan) + this new, discounted plan active for the length of the term selected on the new plan in order to continue to receive the discounted rate.

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Web Hosting Sales and Promos Roundup - June 24, 2011

2011-06-25T08:57:00.000-07:00

By Nicole Henderson,June 24, 2011

A screenshot from Exabytes website shows the business hosting discounts

(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- In the week ending June 24, 2011, there were several discounts on .COM domains.
Web host Go Daddy is offering discounts on its .NET and .COM domains and web hosting provider 1&1 has slashed the prices on its .COM and .CO domains.
Microsoft hosting provider DiscountASP.Net has extended its team foundation server hosting offer, IX Web hosting discounts pro hosting plan and Web hosting provider Exabytes has discounted its business Web hosting plans by 40 percent.

Web Host Go Daddy Offers Discounted .NET and .COM Domains

Web hosting provider and domain name registrar Go Daddy (http://www.godaddy.com/) is offering five dollars off its .NET domains. Regularly $14.99 per year, with the discount a .NET domain is $9.99 per year. Go Daddy is also offering discounts on its .COM domains. Customers can get up to three .COM domains for $5.99 each per year. After that, .COMs are $7.49 per year.

Web Host 1&1 Discounts .COM and .CO Domains by 50 Percent

Web hosting provider 1&1 (http://www.1and1.com/) is offering its .COM and .CO domains for half off the first year. .COM domains are $4.99 per year, down from $8.99 and .CO domains are $14.99 per year, down from $29.99. Both domains include the ICANN fee.

Web Host DiscountASP.Net Extends Team Foundation Server Hosting Promotion

Microsoft hosting provider DiscountASP.net (http://www.discountasp.net/) has extended its 30-day promotion for hosted Team Foundation Server Basic for up to five users. The promotion is valid until December 31, 2011. TFS is a SaaS solution for source control and issue/bug tracking that integrates with Microsoft Visual Studio 2010, according to a press release.

Web Host IX Web Hosting Discounts Pro Hosting Plan

Web host IX Web Hosting (http://www.discountasp.net/) is offering its unlimited pro hosting plan for $7.95 per month. This limited time offer comes with unlimited disk space, bandwidth, data transfer and hosted domains and subdomains. It also includes one free domain registration and 15 free dedicated IP addresses.

Web Host Exabytes Offers 40 Percent Off Business Web Hosting Plan

Web host Exabytes (http://www.exa-bytes.com/) is offering 40 percent off its business web hosting plans including EBiz Plus, EBiz Gold and EBiz Gold Unlimited. The plans range from $2.79 to $5.19 per month and include free setup. To access the discount use the coupon code BHost40.

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Survey Examines Social Site Use

2011-06-23T08:00:00.000-07:00

June 17th, 2011 By: THN News

(The Hosting News) – A new survey released by the Pew Research Center shows some interesting results about users of online social site networking sites.

To get their results, Pew surveyed over 2,000 adult participants.
Overall, Pew found that 32% of social site users are between the ages of 23 and 35, 16% are between 18 and 22, 26% are between 36 and 39, while 6% are users 65 and up.

As for as the social sites used, 92% of users have a Facebook, 29% have MySpace, 18% have a LinkedIn, while 13% use Twitter.

Since Facebook accounted for such a high percentage, the survey’s results on Facebook were particularly interesting.

Participants were asked whether they felt that most people could be trusted. Pew found that regular Facebook users are 43% more trusting than non-users.

They survey also showed Facebook users have closer relationships, are more social than others, and are more politically engaged. Also, the average Facebook user has 229 friends.

Some had previously contended that the use of online social networking had the opposite effect of making people less social in real life.

As far as how Facebook users were connected, the poll found 22% were acquaintances from high school, 12% family members, 10% coworkers, and 9% went to college together.
For the entire results by Pew, please visit: http://pewresearch.org/pubs/2025/social-impact-social-networking-sites-technology-facebook-twitter-linkedin-myspace

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Internet Slang – Just For Fun

2011-06-22T08:30:00.000-07:00

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Every industry has its own set of jargons and acronyms that they frequently use.
If you are new to internet surfing you will have a hard time knowing what they mean or you will waste your time researching for their meaning.
The way to start a conversation in the right footing is if you understand each other quite well and for the people conversing, knowing what the other person is talking about.
The use of slangs and jargons on the internet can result in confusion even if at times it can be funny.
It is easier to explain one if there are two people exchanging ideas, but when a group does the exchange of ideas it becomes another story.
If several people could not agree because of a misunderstanding, what happens next is something that you do not wish to happen since it can lead to a disaster of small proportions.

For example, you start a website specifically targeted for cooks.
You need to familiarize yourself with terms used for cooking.
It will be hard to handle a group of cooking enthusiasts that are mad at you because of some misunderstandings about the words that you.

Jargons/Slangs Commonly Used For Websites
•           Domain Name. A site that contains your domain name (for example thehostingnews.com).

•           Web Host. Somebody you pay to make the publishing of your website on the internet possible so that people can feel your internet presence. Where your actual files live on the Internet

•           Usability. How visitors can easily use your site.

•           HTML. This is a programming that is written in code which is used to display the content of your website. Stands for Hyper Text Markup Language.

•           CMS. Content Management System. For people who are not familiar with the technical site of updating web pages and those that do not have the knowledge about how HTML works, they can use CMS. Generally no scripting knowledge is needed to utilize a CMS.

•           Link. Your connection from one web page to the other. Short for a hyperlink.

•           Outbound and Inbound link. The reciprocal links posted on your website by other website owners leading to their own website. An outbound link goes to a page located outside your site. Inbound link is a website linking to your site.

•           Flash. Usually made in graphics form, is an animation technology that creates attractive yet useless graphics. It requires an updated flash player to view Flash sites.

•           Landing page. The first thing that your online visitor sees when he visits the ads on your web site

•           Cloaking. A form of deception since what you place in a search engine is not the content that is seen when people visit your site.

•           Cloud computing. A network of computers which analyses where CPU and RAM are available. This assures the person that the resources found in his computer are fully utilized.

Jargons Use For Search Engine Marketing

•           SEM (Search Engine Marketing). The normal practice of the use of search engines to bring visitors to your site.

•           Local Search. Web search made if you are looking for a business within a specific city..

•           SEO (Search Engine Optimization). How you make your website found when you make use of search engines such as Google, Bing and Yahoo.

•           Black Hat SEO. A set of techniques that are against the major search engine guidelines found on the net. These techniques can get your site banned or deindexed from the search engines if found out about.

•           White Hat SEO. Ethical ways of getting your site to rank higher in search engines. Follows the guidelines of the search engines.

•           SERP (Search Engine Results Pages). A set of websites that turn up because of a query search that you have made.

•           Keywords. These are set of words and phrases that people use to look at the search engines for things that they need.

Jargons That Are Used For Blogging

•           Blog. An online diary that is in the form of a journal. People commonly contribute to blogs where people gather to share ideas. Originally known as a web log.

•           Blogger. The author of the blog. Could be several bloggers on one blog.

•           RSS Feeds. A regularly published news feed. People can subscribe to these via an RSS reader.

Jargons Used for Social Media
•           Influencer. Somebody who has the ability to persuade others.

•           Social Bookmarking. Saving your web content using a web based service so that you can share it with others.

•           Tags. Similar to Keywords, something which can help people look for something easily.

•           Tweets. A person’s update using the social network Twitter.

•           Retweet. To post someone else’s tweet on your Twitter profile.

•           Likes. Used by Facebook to “like” a particular website.

Jargon Used for Measurement

•           Hit. A file request from a web server.

•           Bounce Rate. The number of individuals who visited your site and leave without going to any of your web pages. For instance, just clicking on your website and then closing out would be a “bounce”. Often referred as useless traffic.

Some Common Abbreviations Use When Conversing On the Internet
•           LMAO. Laughing My Ass off.

•           LOL. Laughing Out Loud (or laugh out loud).

•           ASL. Age, Sex and Location.

•           BRB. Be Right Back.

•           IIRC. If I Recall or If I Remember.

Finally, let’s face it all internet marketers, business owners of websites not knowing the use of slang and jargon words and phrases can cost them a lot of money or huge misconceptions. Knowing what words can easily be understood by your online audience can separate you from being one step away from what you wish to have, a successful online business and a stable internet future for your product and the services that you offer.

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The Hosting Benefits of Webmail

2011-06-21T08:30:00.000-07:00

June 16th, 2011 By: THN News
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For both hosts and website administrators, having an efficient way to communicate with others concerning all things related to their sites is important. This stands true whether it concerns potential business partners, clients, those bringing technical issues to attention, or people just commenting on your business or hosted sites.

Third party webmail services have the benefit of not requiring you to have to save all the information to your hard drive, thus saving you disk space. Being able to efficiently communicate using a simplified user interface is a must for anyone involved with hosting services. It’ll save you time and precious resources.

Unlike Email, Webmail services can also be accessed from anywhere a web browser and the Internet are available.

Besides being offered by themselves, many different hosting providers offer several types of webmail capabilities for their customers through their hosting packages.

Having a good webmail service that fits your specific needs helps any host or webmaster properly moderate his or her business or hosted sites. It’s also important to note that most of these third party clients now have easy to use mobile apps, whether they’re for Android or iOS.

Here, we examine some of the benefits and differences of 3 common third party webmail providers including Squirrel Mail, RoundCube, and Horde.

Squirrel Mail Cost: Free

First we have Squirrel Mail. It’s free and supports the majority of platforms. It’s a common webmail service that’s been around since 1999. Using HTML4, this Open Source service is compatible with the majority of web browsers.

Using plugins can help you customize your webmail service to fit your specific needs. Squirrel Mail features over 200.

Some of the useful plugins offered by Squirrel Mail are as follows: Bug Report, Reply Buttons, Secure Login, Server Settings, Download All. You can view an entire list at Squirrel Mails official site.

Also, some interesting facts about Squirrel Mail: It’s used by the Prime Minister’s office in India (India’s government cited it as more secure than Outlook). It was also featured in the movie The Social Network as being used by Mark Zuckerberg and Sean Parker.

RoundCube Cost: Free

Next we have RoundCube. Being PHP, it supports databases such as MYSQL, Postgre, and SQLite.
RoudCube is offered by top hosting companies including HostGator, Media Temple, DreamHost, and a lot of others.

Specifically designed for servers such as Apache and Lighttpd, RoundCube is available in 67 languages. It’s also capable of connecting to IMAPv4 servers.

A great feature of RoundCube is its drag and drop management of messages. In the future, RoundCube plans to make its address book based on VCard.

Like Squirrel Mail, Roundcube also features many plugins. Such examples include: Autologin, Import Messages, Captcha, Drag and Upload, Taskbar.

An interesting note, RoundCube is used as an email service at universities including Harvard and UC Berkeley.

Horde Cost: Free

Lastly we have Horde. Horde’s email service is based within Horde’s larger application framework.
It’s PHP-based as well and includes support for cPanel. It includes standard webmail features such as address book, calendar, and notes. It also features a newsreader and filter.

With the service, Horde offers an efficient mail filtering frontend known as Ingo, saving users from having to deal with unwanted messages.

Other benefits of Horde include: Quota Supports, shared IMAP folders, ZIP file compatibility, and keyboard navigation.

No matter what third party webmail service you choose to use, such services can save you time and resources, helping you command your business in a fast and efficient way.

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The dos and don'ts of domain registration

2011-06-20T08:47:00.000-07:00

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The dos and don'ts of domain registration

1) Never get your domain registration from your web host. Even if it's free.

you get into a dispute with your web host and they also administer your domain registration, the web host will in all likelihood lock you out from your domains until the dispute is settled. If you have a separate registrar for your domain registrations and you get into a dispute with your web host, you can simply sign up with another web host and point your domains to their new home with little downtime. It's insurance. Well worth the couple of extra bucks a year.

2) Renew your domains before they expire.

The recommended policy is to renew your domains one month before they expire. Then, if there are any problems to iron out, you have the time to get them fixed without having to be pressurized by looming renewal and redemption dates, unresponsive registrars, etc.

3) Do your research. Read the registrar's ToS before signing up.

All registrars are not made equal. Before deciding on a registrar, you should do your research on each prospective registrar by reading forums like this one at WHT, googling for "registrars-name complaints," and by reading (and understanding) the registrar's ToS. Try them out with one domain to get the feel of how you like the control panel, checkout, etc.

4) Never do a chargeback with domains in your account.

All registrars consider a chargeback to be fraud and will suspend your entire account until it's settled. So, in the event you desire to do a chargeback, transfer all your domains out to another registrar before initiating the chargeback.

5) Don't use emails for support. Always use the registrar's ticketing system.

Emails are an unreliable form of communication with your registrar. They are easy to ignore or to get lost. Some registrars hardly ever respond to emails. Look for the registrar's ticketing system and use that instead as a direct means of communicating with your registrar. It's usually found somewhere in their help system. Expect turnaround time to be 24-48 hours and longer over a weekend or holiday. Be polite and as clear and concise as possible.

6) Be wary of deeply discounted domain registrations. There's always a catch.

It costs registrars $7.06 for .com domain registrations. Anything under $7.06 has a high risk factor. That's a whopping $0.50 for their overhead, administration, and profit.
In the words of one wise old bard, "There is no best registrar, only the best registrar for you".

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Web Hosting Sales and Promos Roundup - June 17, 2011

2011-06-18T07:40:00.000-07:00

By Nicole Henderson,June 17, 2011A screenshot of Blacknight's Father's Day .me domain promotion

(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- With Father's Day around the corner, Web hosting providers are offering an unconventional gift for dad including domain registrar Blacknight discounting .me domains. Colocation firm SunGard Availability Services is waiving the installation fee for new colocation cabinets for a limited time, web hosting provider 123-reg is offering a limited time discount on its .gb.net domains, web host Namesco has discounted hosting packages by 33 percent and VPS host Memset is offering free trials for aimed at Slicehost customers.

Registrar and Hosting Provider Blacknight Offers Discounted .me Domains

Domain registrar Blacknight (http://www.blacknight.com/) is offering .me domains for about $7. To access to discount, use the coupon code whosyourdaddy at checkout. Register a .me domain at http://dadsname.me.

Colocation Firm SunGard Launches Colocation Waive and Save Program

Colocation provider SunGard Availability Services (http://www.sungardas.com/) has launched its Colocation Waive and Save promotion. The promotion waives the one-time installation fee for new colocation cabinets as well as the installation fee on the AB power supply circuit into the cabinet. The offer expires on June 30, 2011.

Web Hosting Provider 123-reg Offers Discounted .gb.net Domains

Web host and domain registrar 123-reg (http://www.123-reg.co.uk/) is offering discounted .gb.net domains in anticipation of Wimbledon 2011. There are 1,000 .gb.net domains up for grabs for $1.60 each.

Web Host Namesco Offers 33 Percent Discount Off Hosting Packages

Web hosting provider Namesco (http://www.123-reg.co.uk/) is offering 33 percent off its shared hosting packages. The packages include free .UK domain names, free email accounts, free set-up, 160 plus one-click installs, Windows or Linux hosting and a 99.9 percent uptime guarantee. Customers can choose between a starter, professional, premium or platinum package.

Web Host Memset Offers Free Trials to Slicehost Customers

UK hosting provider Memset (http://www.memset.com/) is offering free trial accounts and two months free hosting to Slicehost customers. Rackspace announced last month that it is folding its Slicehost customers into the Rackspace cloud within the next year. Memset says it is like Slicehost in that it is a small organization.

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The Top Ten Worst Internet Disasters

2011-06-17T08:10:00.000-07:00

June 16th, 2011 By: THN News

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The Internet is filled with different kinds of disasters, but when it comes to unfortunate events that have an effect on users, there are several top ten worst Internet disasters. One of them is hacking; recently Sony was affected by hacking which compromised the personal information of its PlayStation online gamers.
Over seventy-seven million of its users are wondering on the exact effect of having their personal data exposed to hackers. Hackers are composed of a diverse group of people who can cause billions of dollars in damages to any program or website that they hack into.

In connection with hacking problems, here are the top ten worst virus attacks of all times that have placed internet security in question and have placed a doubt in the minds of millions of users on how safe the internet is. Somebody needs to create a patch to remedy these:

Top Ten Worst Internet Virus from the oldest to the most recent ones:

•           Morris: The first Internet worm was created by Robert T. Morris. He said his goal was to gauge the size of the Internet; instead he caused an estimated damage between $10 million to $100 million.

•           Melissa: Named after the creator’s favorite lap dancer, it forced major companies such as Microsoft to shut down their email gateways due to the large volume of traffic that this virus generated.

•           VBS/ Loveletter: This virus originated from the Philippines and managed to spread worldwide in a single day to infect computer email address by sending large numbers of messages. It has caused an estimated $5.5 billion in damage as both corporate and government email systems, causing them to shut down to eradicate the virus.

•           Code Red started running in the Microsoft IIS Web Server: Defaced websites through its text “HELLO”. It has caused an estimated of $2.6 billion and has not stopped its major disruption in connectivity up to this point time.

•           Nimda: This caused more than $635 million in damage since it had a more damaging effect than Code Red.

•           SQL Slammer; It made the distribution of duplicates of itself in the world causing the denials of service and the slowing down of the entire Internet.

•           MS Blaster: This virus spread through Windows operating systems, specifically targeting the Windows update services.

•           MyDoom: This virus quickly spread by purportedly sending an email message with an attachment that when opened will send email copies of the virus to those who are listed in the victim’s address book.

•           Sasser: This virus affected transatlantic flights.

•           Witty; The first worm to attack network protected software, IBM specifically. The main effect is that it has proven that a worm can affect a population of machines and networks who think that they are properly secured.

Some people believe that the worst bugs are those who can cause fatalities. Coming up with a list of bugs that have wreaked havoc is not that hard, but it is hard to note the severity of their effect. One has to choose between what can be worse between breaches in internet security, because of a computer worm which can cause the Internet to shut down for a few days or a typo that can trigger the crash of the phone system of a country. The choice is for each person to make since each one knows which is most important for him or her, like making a phone call or accessing email.

Since most of those who use the internet are members of several websites, we will now talk about the worst password practices. This is the reason why hackers can sometimes hack your online bank accounts and other personal data. Experts suggest that users adopt passwords with eight characters mixing them with upper and lower case letters, numbers and symbols. The key is a password that is simple yet easily remembered by the user (but cannot be easily figured out by the hacker).

The Top Ten Commonly Used Passwords:
•           A simple stream of numbers 123456
•           Second is 12345

•           Third is 123456789
•           Password
•           Iloveyou
•           Princess
•           Rockyou

•           1234567
•           12345678
•           abc123

Remember not to use your name in your password as this easily cracked by hackers. It is good to mix up a word with numbers and even make them case sensitive. Finally, technology should not be totally blamed for all of the mishaps on the Internet. The Internet can either be your friend or your foe depending on how you choose to use it. For those who make an honest to goodness living on the Internet, being the victim of such disasters can affect their source of livelihood and the future of their family who depend on them as well. We need to learn how to guard ourselves from such unavoidable occurrences. One never knows what exactly runs in the mind of those who attempt at making mischief for people and corporations. They alone can answer the root of their personal reasons.

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Domain name appraisals

2011-06-14T08:45:00.000-07:00

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Domain name appraisals

A domain name is worth what someone will pay for it. A domain that looks valuable on paper is worth what it appears to be worth only if someone is willing to pay that amount for it. On the other hand, a domain that doesn't look valuable at all may be valuable to someone who is willing to pay a lot for that domain. The value of a domain is what it's worth to someone else, and that value is often dependent on the revenue that the domain can help generate.
While no one can assign an exact value to a domain until someone has paid for it, the following criteria are commonly used to determine a domain's general worth. Having a combination of positive factors usually increases a domain's value.

1 Domain length
2 Memorability
3 TLD
4 Domain age
5 Domain keywords
6 Hyphens and numbers
7 Domain history
8 Backlinks
9 Brandability

Domain length

Shorter is better, and shorter domains almost certainly cost more than longer domains. Short domains are easier to type, remember, and fit on business cards and other promotional materials.

Memorability

Short or longer domains have increased value if they're easy to remember. One-word domains, for example, can be very valuable. A domain that can be easily pronounced is easier to remember than one that can't be easily pronounced, so being pronounceable is a related factor.

TLD

A dot com (.com) TLD or extension is generally considered to be the most valuable extension. If your domain is a dot net (.net) extension, for example, you risk losing traffic to the dot com extension variation of that domain if it points to a different website.
Domains with country-specific domain extensions are valuable for websites catering to traffic from the specific country. Because they're country-specific, however, their value is generally limited to what they're worth within that country.

Domain age

Search engines tend to give more weight to older domains, and people who know how to check when a domain was registered often consider a website more credible if it's been in existence for a few years. For this reason, some domain buyers look for already-registered domains that can be purchased and transferred to them.

Domain keywords

While one-word domains are extremely popular, domains with two words, possibly even three words, can still be valuable if those words together have commercial value. Keywords relevant to an emerging product or trend give the domain increased value.

Hyphens and numbers

Hyphens in domains reduce their value. The hyphen is often forgotten and people go to the non-hyphenated version of the domain instead. Also, anyone can take a two-word domain, insert a hyphen between the words, and register it as a new domain. That doesn't make it a valuable domain.
Domains with numbers are generally less valuable too. As above, anyone can take an existing domain, add a number or two to it, and register it as a new domain. It can look like a cheaper version of the original domain. Also, when hearing a domain with a number in it, listeners don't know whether to write the domain as a number (e.g. "2") or as a word ("two" or "to"). In cases where the numbers add meaning to the domain, such as a relevant year, they're less likely to detract from the domain's value.

Domain history

Was the domain previously used for a popular, reputable site? The domain value goes up. Was it used for a site with questionable content, or was it used to send spam? The value goes considerably down.

Backlinks

Quality backlinks that are relevant to what the new domain owner wants the site to be about add value. If the backlinks aren't relevant to the intended purpose of the site, or if they're of poor quality, they don't add value to a domain.

Brandability

Can a domain name be a marketable name for a company or product? If so, its potential value increases.

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Keyword terminology

2011-06-13T08:30:00.000-07:00

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This page lists and defines terms used when discussing keywords for search engine optimization (SEO). For a definition of keywords and how to research and choose keywords, see Keywords.

1 Keyword competition
2 Keyword density
3 Keyword frequency
4 Keyword matching
5 Keyword phrase
6 Keyword popularity
7 Keyword prominence
8 Keyword proximity
9 Keyword research
10 Keyword-rich pages
11 Keyword stuffing

Keyword competition

Keyword competition is the number of web pages that are optimized for or that appear in search results for a particular keyword. For example, "web host" has about 9,950,000 results in Google with quotation marks and about 28,100,000 results without quotation marks. The keyword competition is very high for this keyword. More specific keywords have less competition. Example: "Australia ecommerce web host" has only one result with quotation marks and about 272,000 results without them.

Keyword density

Keyword density refers to how often a keyword is used relative to the rest of the text on the page. A 500-word page with a keyword used five times, for example, will have a higher keyword density than a 1200-word page with a keyword used 10 times. Keyword density is often expressed as the ratio of the keyword to the total number of words on the page.
A higher keyword density is not always better. Search engines may label a page with a very high keyword density as having keyword stuffing instead.

Keyword frequency

Keyword frequency is similar to keyword density except that it refers to the frequency (number of times) that a keyword is used on this page. For example, the word keyword is used very frequently on this page (but because of the word's keyword popularity, this page is not likely to appear early in search results for just the word keyword).
Keyword frequency is one of the factors that search engines use to determine a page's relevancy for that keyword. Be careful to avoid keyword stuffing, however.

Keyword matching

Keyword matching is how keywords that advertisers bid on interact with search queries. There are four types of keyword matching:

Broad match: your ad can appear with search results for one or more words in the query as well as for singular/plural forms, synonyms, other relevant variations, and for the words in a different order. For example, if you bid on a broad match for domain names, your ad could appear with search result for domain names, domain name, name domain, and domain, among other variations. A broad match is the default option.
Phrase match: your ad can appear with search results for your term in quotation marks. For example, "domain names" could appear with domain names and .in domain names but not for domain name or domain .in names.
Exact match: your ad can appear only with results for the exact keyword or keyword phrase that you indicate with brackets around it. Example: [domain names] could appear only with results for domain names, not for any of the other examples listed in this section.
Negative keyword: your ad will not appear with search results that include terms you list as negative keywords. If you specify that your ad is to appear with search results for domain names except for search results that include the search term free, free is your negative keyword.

Keyword phrase

A keyword phrase (also called key phrase) is a phrase of two or more keywords that's used for search engine optimization. For example, a page at a web hosting website might be optimized for the keyword phrase small business web host or dedicated game servers, as well as for other keyword phrases.
Keyword phrases are often just called keywords along with their single-word counterparts.

Keyword popularity

Keyword popularity refers to how many web pages have the keyword. For example, a Google search for "web hosting" (with the quotation marks) produces "about 131,000,000" results. Web hosting is a very popular keyword.

Keyword prominence

Keyword prominence is the prominence of keywords on a page. Keywords are more prominent in these locations:

The title element
The <h1> and other heading tags
Near the top of the page
Near the start of sentences
In alt tags

Search engines give more weight to keywords when they're more prominent on a page. For SEO, use keywords not only in the above locations but (where applicable) close to the start of those locations as well. For example, "Free domain name with your web hosting account" is a better heading for SEO than "Your web hosting account comes with a free domain name" (when optimizing for free domain name).

Keyword proximity

Keyword proximity refers to how close two keywords are to each other on a web page. Search engines give weight to the closeness of keywords. The keyword phrase dedicated hosting server, for example, is given much more weight as a keyword phrase than the three words would have if they were separated by other words.

Keyword research

Keyword research is the process of researching keywords that will bring targeted traffic to each page at your site. See How to research keywords.

Keyword-rich pages

Keyword-rich pages have a high keyword density and have good keyword prominence. In other words, their content is full of keywords in key places.

Keyword stuffing

Keyword stuffing is overusing a keyword to increase the keyword density for that keyword on its page. Example: "Our cheap dedicated servers are the best. We specialize in cheap dedicated servers. We've been providing cheap dedicated servers since we went into business to provide cheap dedicated servers two years ago. To read more about cheap dedicated servers, click on the cheap dedicated servers link." Repeating the same keyword out of context is also keyword stuffing.
Keyword stuffing can (but shouldn't) be done in these places:

On the page where visitors read it (as in the above example), including in the heading tags
As hidden text by making it the same color as the page background
In the page meta tags
In the page alt tags
In the page title element

Keyword stuffing is a type of black hat SEO, which means that search engines may penalize a website if the search engine bots detect the technique being used.

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Web Hosting Sales and Promos Roundup - June 10, 2011

2011-06-10T18:05:00.001-07:00

By Justin Lee,June 10, 2011
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(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- In the week ending June 10, 2011, Web hosting providers and domain registrars launched a series of new discounts on dedicated hosting, cloud servers, and domains. Web hosting provider Codero is offering 50 percent off all its dedicated servers, hosting provider AIT is offering discounts on all its dedicated hosting plans, cloud hosting provider Webair is offering a second month free on all its cloud servers, and domain registrar NicLine is offering reduced prices for .MOBI and .NET domain regsitrations.

Codero Offers 50 Percent Off Dedicated Servers

Web hosting provider Codero is offering lower pricing on its dedicated hosting server deals line-up. While inventory lasts, Codero's dedicated server deals start at $70 a month and include 3 servers under $100 per month. The company is also offering 12TB of bandwidth free on all servers, including the dedicated hosting server deals, for a limited time.

AIT Offers New Discounted Dedicated Hosting Plans

Web hosting provider AIT (http://www.ait.com/) is also offering discounts on its newly launched dedicated hosting packages. The Professional Plan starts at $99.95 per month and includes 250GB disk space and 4GB RAM, the Starter Plan starts at $59.95 and includes 150GB disk space and 2GB RAM, and the eCommerce Hosting Plan starts at $99.95 per month and includes the Starter Plan, a free shopping cart and SSL certificate.

Webair Offers Second Month Free on All Cloud Servers

Cloud hosting provider Webair (http://www.webair.com/) is offering a second month free for all new cloud server orders. The company offers six different managed dedicated cloud server solutions starting at $129 per month. All cloud server plans include free setup.

NicLine Reduces Prices on .MOBI and .NET Domains

Domain registrar NicLine (http://www.nicline.com/) is offering resellers a discount on .MOBI and .NET extensions. From now until June 30th, the company is offering discounted renewal and transfer registration for .MOBI and .NET for $10 and $7 respectively, for any reseller level.

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2011-06-09T08:45:00.000-07:00

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Linking strategies

Website linking strategies are methods used to get or attempt to get people to link to your site. This page details terminology used when discussing linking strategies. Note that not all linking strategies are equal.

1 Link bait
2 Link building
3 Link farms
4 Reciprocal linking
5 Three-way linking

Link bait

Link bait is a term for web pages usually created with the hope or expectation that a lot of people will find them interesting enough to link to them of their own accord. Viral marketing helps people find link bait. Quality content that's unique, freebies of any sort, and entertaining pages are examples of (sometimes unintended) link bait.

Link building

Link building is the process of acquiring backlinks to a website, both one-way links and reciprocal links. Quality backlinks help increase a site's PageRank and help it do well in search engine results, so link building is a major part of SEO.
See Types of links in addition to the linking strategies detailed in this section.

Link farms

A link farm is a website whose sole or main purpose is to provide links to other websites for SEO. Link farms are considered bad neighborhoods in SEO. When search engine bots identify sites as link farms, they may blacklist them.

Reciprocal linking

Reciprocal links (also called link exchanges and link swaps) are links from Website A to Website B and from Website B to Website A. The links may be to the page that has the reciprocal link, or they may be to a different page at the other site. Reciprocal links are less valuable for SEO as search engines give less weight to reciprocal links than to one-way links. Reciprocal links still have some SEO value, though, as long as they aren't the only type of backlinks to a site. They're also useful in bringing human traffic to a website.
When arranging reciprocal links with other webmasters, be sure to discuss which page the links will appear on at each site. For example, a link from a home page with only a few links is not equal to a deep link on a page with dozens of other links. Neither is a link from a PR6 page equal to a link from a PR3 page. Also look for link partners with relevant sites. Reciprocal links have little or no value for either SEO or human traffic if the sites don't have related content.

Three-way linking

Three-way linking is like reciprocal linking but between three websites instead of two. Website A links to Website B, Website B links to Website C, and Website C links to Website A. The purpose of three-way linking is to avoid the appearance of reciprocal links so that search engines will assign the links the link popularity of one-way links.
Since three-way linking is a form of deception to artificially boost link popularity, some people see it as black hat SEO. It's unknown whether search engines can detect three-way linking, but if they can't now, they will probably be able to in the future.

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Website backlinks

2011-06-06T20:24:00.000-07:00

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Website backlinks

1 What are website backlinks?
2 Why backlinks are important
- 2.1 Backlinks and SEO
- 2.2 Backlinks and being found
- 2.3 Backlinks and the competition
- 2.4 Backlinks and domain name value
3 How to check backlinks
- 3.1 Google
- 3.2 Yahoo
- 3.3 MSN
4 How to build backlinks

What are website backlinks?

Website backlinks are links to a web page from other web pages. Backlinks are also called inbound links or incoming links.

Why backlinks are important

Backlinks and SEO

When search engines calculate the value of a web page when displaying search results, the quantity and quality of backlinks to that page are a major factor. This is especially true of Google. Quantity is good. Quality with quantity is even better:

Backlinks carry more weight when the page they're on is relevant to the page they're linking to. If the anchor text in the backlink has keywords that you're optimizing the web page for, the backlinks are even more useful.
The higher the PageRank (PR) on the page with the backlink, the more value the backlink has.
With quality backlinks, a web page may gain a higher PR and have a better SERP (search engine results page) position.

When doing search engine optimization (SEO) for a website, an often ongoing task is to work on building more inbound links, or backlinks.

Backlinks and being found

Backlinks as part of SEO help people find your website by improving its position in search results, but backlinks are also useful in themselves. If websites with related content link to your website, people who are interested in your content are going to find it more easily by following those backlinks.

Backlinks and the competition

One way to look for sites to try to get backlinks from is to find out what the competition's backlinks are. If those backlinks are relevant to your website too, you have a list of websites to try to get backlinks from for your site.
If the goal is to have more backlinks than the competition does, check the backlinks for a number of competitors and work through the lists.

Backlinks and domain name value

If you're selling a domain name (with or without a website), it has more value if it has quality backlinks. The more quality backlinks, the better.

How to check backlinks

Some search engines have methods to check backlinks. In the instructions below, replace "example.com" with the domain that you're checking for backlinks.
Note that the search results below are rarely complete. Searching for backlinks with a few of these methods generally helps locate more backlinks.

Google

In the search engine: enter link:www.example.com (for the site) or link:www.example.com/page.html (for a specific page). (This method isn't known to be very reliable.)
Using Webmaster Tools (you need an account, and this works only for sites you have verified with Google):
- Log in
- Click on a domain you have verified
- Go to Links
- Go to Pages with external links
- Click on the hyperlinked number in the "External links" column

Yahoo

The following are the same way to check backlinks via Yahoo, just different ways of accessing it. It offers options to show pages from all subdomains or only the domain entered.

In the search engine: enter link:http://www.example.com (for the site) or link:http://www.example.com/page.html (for a specific page).
Go directly to Yahoo Site Explorer, enter the URL in the search box, and click on "Explore."

Variations:

Use "site" instead of "link" in the above examples.
Omit the "www" to view backlinks that don't include "www."

MSN

MSN has discontinued reporting backlinks.

How to build backlinks

Provide quality content that other webmasters will want to link to.
Get listed in relevant directories.
Ask webmasters of websites with related but non-competing content if they would link to your site. Suggest specific pages to link to.
Suggest reciprocal links (link exchanges) with related but non-competing websites.
Find out what backlinks your competition has and work on getting those backlinks too.
Optimize your site for social media sites to attract social media backlinks.

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Web Hosting Sales and Promos Roundup - June 3, 2011

2011-06-04T07:40:00.000-07:00

By Nicole Henderson, June 03, 2011

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(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Despite being a short week because of the Memorial Day holiday, Web hosting providers offered no shortage of sales and promotions including two iPad 2 giveaways. Domain registrar Daily.co.uk launched a draw for an iPad 2 for new domain registrations, Web host AIS Network launched an iPad 2 giveaway, Web host Host Color announced a variety of coupon codes for savings from 12 to 25 percent, CoolHandle Hosting is offering 20 percent off shared hosting and Web host Exabytes Network discounted its .in domains to celebrate its 10th anniversary.

Web Hosting Provider Daily.co.uk Launches iPad 2 Draw

Web host and domain registrar Daily.co.uk (http://www.daily.co.uk/) has launched a draw to win an Apple iPad 2. Customers who purchase a .com, .net, .org, .info or .biz domain are automatically entered into the giveaway. The competition will run until June 30, 2011, and the winner will be notified by July 30, 2011.

Web Host AIS Network Introduces iPad 2 Giveaway

SharePoint hosting provider AIS Network (http://www.aisn.net/) will give a free Apple iPad 2 to customers who successfully refer a qualifying hosting client to AISN. AISN planned its promotion to coincide with SPTechCon 2011 (http://www.sptechcon.com/), the independent SharePoint conference for IT professionals, business managers, analysts and developers held in Boston. To qualify, the customer must sign up for a minimum service level of $500 per month for a minimum contract of 12 months.

Web Host Host Color Offers Discounts from 12 to 25 Percent

Web hosting provider Host Color (http://www.hostcolor.com/) has released the coupon code SUMMERTIME to save 25 percent off the price of its shared hosting plans. The coupon applies to blog hosting, CMS hosting, social web, e-commerce hosting and multi-domain hosting. using the code, its blog hosting plan becomes $2.99 a month, for example. Host Color is also offering 20 percent off its virtual private server hosting with the coupon code HCVPS. A third coupon code, MYSERVER, enables customers to take advantage of a 12 percent instant rebate on dedicated hosting plans. For a limited time, Host Color says the coupon code can be applied to its unmetered server plans.

Web Host CoolHandle Hosting Offers Discounted Shared Hosting

Web hosting provider CoolHandle (http://www.coolhandle.com/) is offering 20 percent off all shared hosting accounts. The company's shared hosting plans include unlimited bandwidth, unlimited space, free domain transfer, one-click CloudFlare CDN installer and free domain privacy for $3.96 per month.

Web Host Exabytes Celebrates 10th Anniversary with Various Discounts

Web hosting provider Exabytes Network (http://www.exabytes.com/) has discounted its .in domains to celebrate its 10th anniversary. Starting at 9 a.m. EST on June 7, 2011, the first ten .in domains will be sold for $0.99. The 11th to the 20th domains will be sold at $1.99 each, and the prices move up by $1 for every subsequent domains sold. The promotion ends on June 30, or when a total of 50 domains are sold. After the 50th domain is sold, the price is $5.99. All prices are for one year. To take advantage of the promotion, use the coupon code HottestIN2011. Exabytes servers are hosted at Handy Networks data center in Denver, Colorado.

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2011-06-02T08:45:00.000-07:00

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PageRank

PageRank (commonly called "PR") is a system that Google uses to rank web pages.

1 How PageRank is determined
2 How to view PageRank
3 How Google uses PageRank
4 How webmasters use PageRank
- 4.1 Advertising and PR
- 4.2 SEO and PR
5 External pages about PageRank

5.1 Google pages about PR
5.2 PageRank Tools

How PageRank is determined

Google assigns each page a numerical value from 0 to 10 based on numerous factors, most of which are not publicized. What is known is that the number, quality, and relevance of links to a page are used to determine PR. All pages at a site don't necessarily have the same PR.
It typically takes weeks or even months for new pages or sites to have a PR. PR can be lost temporarily if the URL for a page or the domain for a site changes. During this time, the PR will appear as 0.
PR is assigned to the URL for the page. This can present a problem when more than one URL leads to the same page, such as with or without www.
It's believed (although Google hasn't confirmed this) that PR is based on a logarithmic scale. This theory explains why a jump from PR3 to PR4, for example, is much easier to achieve than jump from PR5 to PR6.

How to view PageRank

PR is shown for the page displayed in the Google Toolbar. Free PageRank checkers are also available.
However, the PR that's displayed for a page probably isn't the most current PR. Google updates PR every few weeks, but the updates probably don't appear for each page right away.

How Google uses PageRank

Other factors being equal, pages with a higher PR appear higher in search results. However, PR isn't the only factor in SERP. Google also analyzes page content to produce relevant results.

How webmasters use PageRank

The purpose of a website may determine the importance of PR.

Advertising and PR

Websites offering directory or other advertising services often indicate their PR in their advertising offers. A higher PR helps advertisers sell advertising spots. It can also help them find partners for reciprocal links.

SEO and PR

Having inbound links from high-PR sites may help with SERP, but as webmasters will point out, PR is not the only factor in website ranking. Pages with a lower PR but higher keyword density and better keyword placement, among other factors, may appear higher in search results. Also, a page that is optimized for a less popular keyword phrase may appear higher in search results than a page with a higher PR that only mentions the keyword phrase.
If the goal is to get traffic, PR is just one factor in reaching that goal.

External pages about PageRank

Google pages about PR

PageRank Tools

[ http://toolbar.google.com/ ] - Google Toolbar
[ http://livepr.raketforskning.com/firefox-extension.html ] - PageRank Firefox Extension

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A Glossary of Secure Certificates

2011-05-31T08:47:00.000-07:00

May 24th, 2011 By: THN News

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You might be wondering about some common terms that you often hear on the internet, all of which will be explained in this article. SSL stands for Secure Sockets Layer, which is often used for transmitting credit card, tax, banking or personal information to any business server in any part of the globe.

Some common examples of the practical use of an SSL would be when you want to purchase a laptop fromAmazon.com, when you file your taxes online or use your money from your bank accounts to pay for bills.

SSL uses port 443 to connect your computer to a secure server in the internet. SSL can be used to encrypt the secured data transmitted between a browser and a web server or vice versa.

Browsers indicate the SSL secured session by changing the HTTP to HTTPS and are usually displayed by a small padlock.
SSH stands for Secure Shell and it commonly uses port 22 to connect your own computer to another computer on the internet.

These are used by network administrators to manage their business servers. Some examples would be an email administrator who reboots the company email server from the comforts of his/her own home.

Both of SSL and SSH are protected from regular hackers by the use of a sophisticated encryption technology except for some cases.

SSL and SSH locks out the connection by scrambling the transmitted data so that it appears meaningless to any eavesdropper who may care to tap in. For those who are transmitting any financial information or internal business documentation, these two are a must to be used.

Here Are More Secure Certificate Terms:

•           Certificate of Authority (CA): CA is a trusted 3^rd party that issues digital certificates for the purpose of doing online business. The CA assures that the business is a legitimate one so people who transact online can exchange their personal information without the fear that their personal records will be handed over to someone else.

•           Certificate Authority Site Seal: This is either a logo or banner that will tell your online visitors that your website has an SSL certificate. These are important for Network Solutions SSL review.
•           Chain Certificates: This is the certificate that the CA used to sign a request that was signed by another CA.

•           Certification Practice Statement (CPS): CPS is a document published by the CA which outlines the practices and policies used by the organization in issuing, managing and revoking digital certificates.

•           Certification Revocation List (CRL): CRL is a digitally signed data file containing details of each digital certificate that has not been revoked. This can be downloaded and installed into the browser that the user will use, ensuring that the browser will not trust a revoked digital certificate.

•           Certificate Signing Request (CSR): This is needed when you apply for your SSL certificate. When you apply for an SSL certificate you need to create a CSR on your web server. You need to give the details of your site and organization to the web server so that it can be output into a CSR file.
•           Domain SSL Certificate: These are digital SSL certificates where the ownership of the domain is verified. This is considered to be the lowest level of SSL certification.

•           Extended Validation Certificate (EV): This is issued according to a specific set of identity verification criteria. The criteria mentioned here are verified by the requesting entity’s identity by the certificate authority (CA) before a certificate will be issued.

•           Private SSL: This is a SSL certificate that is issued exclusively for your website.

•           Public Key Infrastructure Certificate (PKI): PKI combines a digital signature with a public key to identify someone. It is simply a certificate that allows computer users to show that they do own the public keys they claim to. A digital signature is needed for the PKI certificate before this is issued for any particular person or company.
The signature can be made by an authority figure who assigns the certificate and the person whose identity is being confirmed.
PKI certificates are used to authenticate cryptographic public keys.
This certificate allows other people to verify that they are indeed communicating with the right person who is using the right public key.

•           Server Gate Cryptography: This provides for additional bits more than the standard 40 bit encryption required. Having more of this means a longer key is used, which results to the prevention of a 3^rd party from breaking through.

•           Shared SSL: This is an SSL certificate for you and other people hosted on the same server.

For those who might have been confused before about certain secure certificates, terms or jargons that may be used, by this time they are hopefully enlightened about all of these things. Such knowledge is essential, especially for those involved in online business. While there are still many terms that you need to familiarize yourself with, we have essentially covered most of what you need to know about secure certificates.

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Keywords

2011-05-30T08:45:00.000-07:00

Keywords

Keywords, or search terms, are words and phrases that people type in search engines when searching for information, products, or services online. Webmasters need to know how keywords work and which keywords people use to find websites like theirs. Optimizing websites for specific keywords is called SEO, or search engine optimization.

1 Short tail and long tail keywords
2 How to research keywords
- 2.1 Free keyword research tools
- 2.2 Commercial keyword research tools

Short tail and long tail keywords

For example, someone looking for a web host might type in web host. When they see that the keyword has over a billion results, they may refine their search to ecommerce web host or dedicated server web hosting, for example. To narrow their search more, they might search for keyword phrases such as web hosting ecommerce merchant account or business hosting maryland site web hosting dedicated server.
The short keyword phrases are called short tail keywords. They're more common search terms, so they're more expensive keywords to use in PPC (pay-per-click) advertising.
The longer search terms are called long tail keywords. They're searched for less often, so they cost less with PPC advertising. But because the people using those keywords are more specific about what they want, they're more likely to become customers.

How to research keywords

Both free and commercial keyword research tools can be used to find out what search terms people are using and how frequently those search terms are used. Commercial keyword research tools provide more details.

Free keyword research tools

Commercial keyword research tools

Numerous commercial keyword research tools are available on the market.

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White hat, black hat, and gray hat SEO

2011-05-27T08:45:00.000-07:00

White hat, black hat, and gray hat SEO

Various techniques are used for search engine optimization, or SEO. One way to group these techniques is with hat terminology: white hat SEO, black hat SEO, and gray hat SEO. White hat SEO is considered ethical SEO, while black hat SEO is considered unethical SEO. Gray hat SEO walks the line between the white and black hats of search engine optimization.

1 White hat SEO
2 Examples of white hat SEO techniques
- 2.1 Content
- 2.2 Coding
- 2.3 Linking
3 Black hat SEO
4 Examples of black hat SEO techniques
- 4.1 Content
- 4.2 Deceptive content
- 4.3 Linking
5 Gray hat SEO
6 Examples of gray hat SEO techniques

6.1 Content
6.2 Links

White hat SEO

White hat SEO is ethical SEO. It's SEO techniques that search engines accept. White hat SEO techniques are beneficial for site visitors as well as for search engines. The goal of white hat SEO is to improve search engine result positions via methods that won't cause search engines to penalize the site.
Successful white hat SEO is slower than black hat SEO and is an ongoing process.

Examples of white hat SEO techniques

Content

Researching relevant keywords, both short ail and long tail keywords
Including keywords naturally in page titles, headings, link anchor text, other page content, and alt tags
Studying analytics reports and fine-tuning the content to further optimize it for targeted keywords and to help direct traffic to relevant pages
Adding fresh content regularly

Coding

Using correct HTML markup (for example, heading tags) so that search engines can identify headings and other types of content correctly
Making sure that all the code is valid (or at least won't stop search engine bots)
Creating site maps so that every page is linked to and search engine bots can crawl every page
Using CSS to separate content from markup and thus increase keyword density by having less markup to crawl

Linking

Creating quality content that other people will want to link to
Asking to have directories and other relevant websites link to the site
Optimizing pages for social media in the hopes of attracting social media links
Arranging for link exchanges with relevant sites (considered by some to be gray hat SEO)

Black hat SEO

Black hat SEO is the use of techniques that are unacceptable to search engines to boost a page's position in search results. These techniques are intended to trick search engines into giving pages higher positions in search results, and they have no benefit to site visitors. The goal is to improve search engine result positions no matter what it takes to do it.
Black hat SEO techniques are used for two reasons:

They work — until search engines find out about them and they don't work.
Some people don't understand that black hat SEO techniques can get their sites penalized by or banned from search engines.

Even if search engines can't detect the black hat SEO techniques, competitors of sites that employ black hat SEO techniques can spot them and do report them to search engines.

Examples of black hat SEO techniques

Content

Keyword stuffing
- Overusing keywords in comment tags, alt tags, and meta tags
- Placing keywords in hidden text (hidden from people, that is) by making their font color the same color as the page background
- Overusing keywords in visible text, to the point where their repetition is apparent to readers

Deceptive content

Doorway or gateway pages: pages that are stuffed with keywords but that only search engines see because people are redirected to the page with the real content
Cloaking: displaying different content to search engines than to people by identifying visitors via IP or via other methods

Linking

Link farms: pages with unrelated links solely for the purpose of creating more links to target pages
Spamming forums, blogs, and other social media sites with links (search engines might not penalize sites for this, but it's considered unethical)

Gray hat SEO

Gray hat SEO is SEO techniques that take more risks than white hat SEO techniques but aren't likely to get your site banned from search engines (although a search engine penality could result). They're questionable SEO techniques but not in the same category as black hat SEO techniques. However, what's considered gray hat SEO today might be black hat SEO next year.

Examples of gray hat SEO techniques

Content

Having a keyword density that's high enough to sound unnatural but not at the level of black hat keyword stuffing
Publishing duplicate content at different sites

SEO

2011-05-26T08:45:00.001-07:00

SEO

SEO, or search engine optimization, is the practice of optimizing web pages for search engines so that the pages will place high in search results for target keywords.

1 Overview of SEO
2 SEO terminology
3 On-page SEO: optimizing your web pages
4 Off-page SEO: inbound links
5 SEO and statistics monitoring
6 Other SEO tips

Overview of SEO

The goal of SEO is increased web traffic. These are the main areas of SEO:

On-page optimization
Off-page optimization
Statistics monitoring and more of the above

SEO terminology

Black hat SEO: SEO techniques that may work well at first but may get your site banned from search engines. Black hat SEO techniques are done for bots only, provide no benefit to site visitors, and often hinder their experience. Examples:
- Doorway pages: Also called gateway pages, portal pages, bridge pages, and a few other names. They're pages created just to do well for a particular keyword or keywords, and they have a "Click here" link or automatic redirect that takes visitors to the page with the real content.
- Keyword stuffing: Using lists of keywords or greatly overusing keywords instead of using them naturally in context.
Bot: In the context of SEO, bots are search engine robots, also called spiders, that crawl websites to index their content.
Keywords: Words and phrases that people use to search for information online.
Keyword density: The ratio of keywords on a page to other words.
Meta tags: Information that goes in the page header section that's for bots only, for example: <meta name="description" content="Page description here.">
Organic search results: Search engine search results, in contrast to paid advertising that appears next to search results.
PageRank: A rank that Google assigns to web pages. Also called PR.
Reciprocal links: Links between two sites. Site A links to Site B, and Site B links to Site A.
Satelite: The website that is created only for posting ads and different kinds of links. Such a site is often a part of a link farm.
SERP: Search engine results page.
Snippet: The compressed information on the site page presented by search system in delivery page.
Spider: see Bot.
White hat SEO: SEO techniques that are acceptable. It's the opposite of black hat SEO. This page discusses white hat SEO.

On-page SEO: optimizing your web pages

For on-page SEO, it helps to know basic HTML. Optimal keyword placement depends on knowing where within the HTML to place keywords.
To optimize each web page for search engines, follow these steps:

Give each page a specific topic. If you want to optimize a page for "dedicated server web host," give that topic its own page, and give the other services or products you offer their own pages too. Each page can then have a higher keyword density for the topic.
Research and choose keywords to use for each page.
Use keywords in page names, for example: example.com/green_widgets.html and example.com/widgets/green_widgets.html.
Use those keywords in context in the following places:
- The page title
- The heading tags, especially <h1> and <h2> tags
- The page content, especially higher on the page and in bulleted lists
- Anchor text, for example: "We explain how to assemble widgets on our green widgets page.” (Underlined text would be hyperlinked.)
Use keywords (but avoid keyword stuffing) in these places:
- Alt text for images
- Image file names
- The meta description tag
- The meta keyword tag

Good SEO works for site visitors as well as for search engines. If the keywords sound forced into place, you're trying too hard. The text should read naturally, and the keywords should help site visitors find the content they want on the page.

Off-page SEO: inbound links

Bots view links from other sites as "votes" for your web pages. The higher the PR and the more relevant the page is, the more the vote counts.
Reciprocal links still count, but they're less valuable than one-way links.
For this part of SEO, you need to work on getting inbound links from quality sites:

Relevant directories
Related web sites
Social media sites

The number one tip to acquiring inbound links to create content that other people will want to link to. From there, it's a matter of them finding it and you helping them find it. Some ways to get inbound links:

Request links from webmasters of related sites (after showing them why your content is valuable to their audience)
Suggest reciprocal links
Get your site listed in free and paid directories
Publish press releases with a link to your site at sites that accept press releases
Write informative articles with a link to your site at article sites
Take part in forum discussions where your signature appears with your post (and be sure to actually contribute when you post or you'll earn your company a bad reputation)

SEO and statistics monitoring

Your website traffic statistics tell what keywords are bringing site visitors and what other pages they're coming from. You can use this information to continually optimize your site for search engines and provide your audience with the information they're looking for.
Your site stats can also tell you if all the pages at your site are getting traffic. If no one is visiting a particular page, find out why. Are bots indexing that page? If some pages are viewed but aren't getting the traffic you'd like, work on optimizing those pages more, and link to them more from other pages.
SEO isn't a one-time job. Your competitors are working to get ahead of you in search engine results, and you need to keep working on SEO just to hold your position.

Other SEO tips

Use CSS with external style sheets. Bots will be able to find your content more easily.
Study what your competition is doing and use some of their ideas.
Update your content when you can.
Keep adding new content. Bots like fresh food.

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Web Hosting Sales and Promos Roundup - May 20, 2011

2011-05-25T08:53:00.000-07:00

By Nicole Henderson, May 20, 2011

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(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- In the week ending May 20, 2011, there were discounts as deep as 90 percent off. Hosting Controller is offering a discount of up to 90 percent off its control panel software licenses, A2 Hosting is offering 40 percent off dedicated hosting, Demowolf has renewed its Partnership Promotion for half off hosting tutorials, inmotion Hosting is offering discounted business class web hosting and Just Host is offering half off its professional web hosting plans.

Hosting Controller Offers Control Panel Software Discounts

Hosting software developer Hosting Controller (www.hostingcontroller.com) has removed the cap of 1000 licenses until May 31, 2011, offering discounts of up to 90 percent. With this promotion web hosts can purchase Hosting Controller Automation Control Panel license for $99 instead of $500 and can purchase Click & Install Apps for $19 instead of $199. Hosts can also buy its automated backup and recovery for $19 instead of $199 and VPS hosting provisioning for $19 per server instead of $690. This promotion is for web hosts looking to build or expand on Windows and Linux servers in a cluster environment.

DemoWolf Renews Partnership Promotion

Hosting tutorial developer DemoWolf (www.demowolf.com) is offering a 50 percent off the pre-payment for its partners. By pre-paying the partner balance, DemoWolf partners can access tutorials for clients and pay with the partner balance. To access the discount go to the DemoWolf website and enter the coupon code PARTN50 at checkout.

A2 Hosting Offers 40 Percent Off Dedicated Hosting

Web host A2 Hosting (www.a2hosting.com) is offering its dedicated hosting plans for 40 percent off the first billing cycle. To access the discount, use the coupon code GODEDICATED. The offer expires May 25, 2011.

Inmotion Hosting Offers Discounted Business Web Hosting

Web host Inmotion Hosting (www.inmotionhosting.com) is offering $1 off per month on its business class web hosting plans. The plans start at $5.95 per month for small business starter. Its power plan is $7.95 per month and its pro version is $13.95 per month.

Just Host Offers 50 Percent Off Professional Web Hosting

Web host Just Host (www.justhost.com) is offering half off its professional web hosting for $3.95 a month. The plan includes unlimited GB of space, transfer and unlimited domain hosting. The plan also includes unlimited email accounts and MySQL databases.

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Domain length

TLD

Domain age

Domain keywords

Hyphens and numbers

Domain history

Backlinks

Brandability

Keyword terminology

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Keyword competition

Keyword density

Keyword frequency

Keyword matching

Keyword phrase

Keyword popularity

Keyword prominence

Keyword proximity

Keyword research

Keyword-rich pages

Keyword stuffing

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Link bait

Link building

Link farms

Reciprocal linking

Three-way linking

Website backlinks

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What are website backlinks?

Why backlinks are important

Backlinks and SEO

Backlinks and being found

Backlinks and the competition

Backlinks and domain name value

How to check backlinks

Google

Yahoo

MSN

How to build backlinks

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PageRank

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PageRank

Contents

How PageRank is determined

How to view PageRank

How Google uses PageRank

How webmasters use PageRank

Advertising and PR

SEO and PR

External pages about PageRank

Google pages about PR

PageRank Tools

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