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Earn Cash on Web Hosting Referrals

May/14 in Beginner Help, Web Hosting Tutorials

How to Make Money with Affiliate Hosting!

There are hundreds of web hosting providers out there that provide affiliate programs for you to join.  The questions now are, what is an affiliate program? Why would I want to join one? What can I do to make my affiliate links more successful?  Well, I hope to bring you up to speed as I discuss the benefits of affiliate programs for your average webmaster.

The simplest way to define an affiliate program is to say that you get paid for bringing a web host more customers.  For example, say your friend needs web hosting space and asks you for a suggestion.  You, in turn, give them your affiliate program link to click through.  When they sign up, you get the credit for bringing them in, and the web host gets a new customer.  It is a winning situation for everybody involved.

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Comparing the Best Free Forum Scripts

Apr/02 in Beginner Help

Best Free Message Board Scripts

Forums are a great way to give a community a way to communicate with each other Online.  However, there are a lot of forum scripts out there that each have their own personality.  So which should you choose when you are starting up your own set of message boards?

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4 Ways to Branch Out Your Web Site

Mar/12 in Beginner Help, Web Hosting Tutorials

Web Site Content Ideas

With any web site or online business, it is important to change things up a ‘bit every so often.  You don’t want to be seen as becoming stale, or yesterday’s news, so bringing new web site concepts or ideas could be the perfect diversification tool you need to keep people interested in what you do and what you have to offer. There is not a web site out there today that could not be helped by adding one of these four web site service ideas.

Here are four different ways you can branch your web site out:

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Unlimited Hosting, Fact or Myth?

Feb/26 in Beginner Help, Web Hosting Tutorials

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When you walk into an all you can eat buffet, nobody expects you to eat all the food in the restaurant.  You might fill up your plate three or four times, but you can not eat everything in sight.  The same could be said for unlimited services you might see when it comes to web hosting.

What Does Unlimited Really Mean in Web Hosting?

While they say you have unlimited disk space and unlimited bandwidth – the average web site out there will never reach the real limits of the account.  If you are running a web site for your local football team, your not going to get a world wide audience, people digging your web site, and surges of other traffic sources at you fingertips.  You’ll serve your local niche.

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6 Different Content Writing Ideas

Feb/07 in Beginner Help, Web Hosting Tutorials

Insperational Ideas for Site Content

Inspiration for a web site’s content is often hard to find.  So when I find myself in trouble, I turn towards my own list of six different content writing ideas that should help inspire you to get that new page up and running.

I would suggest you bookmark this list of content ideas, and save them for a rainy non-creative day.

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How to Write a Better Title Tag

Feb/03 in Beginner Help, Web Hosting Tutorials

Better Title Tag Examples

The title tag might be a feature many people overlook, but it is just as important as having a nice looking web site layout.  Some might even say it is the most important thing, because it is often the first thing a web site visitors sees.  Today I’ll be telling you what the title tag is and what you can do to make yours better.

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Best Audio Hosting Solution for Podcasts

Jan/12 in Beginner Help, Web Hosting Tutorials

Audio Hosting for Podcasts

When it comes to web hosting for podcasts, a lot of this specialized hosting field has yet to be figured out.  Sure, you have your specialized plugins, content management systems made for podcasting, and a better understanding of it around the world.  When push comes to shove though, which is better, hosting everything from one place, or splitting your web hosting up between a shared host and a specialized audio hosting service?

That is just about the question Charley posed to me the other day:

In your opinion, is it preferable to have your blog and podcast mp3s hosted on the same server, or would it be better to keep the audio files with one host, and the web site files with another host?

For many years, I did this very podcast in a two host setup.

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How Anybody Can Install WordPress

Dec/30 in All Posts, Beginner Help, Web Hosting Tutorials

As you can tell, if you have been to any of my web sites, I really enjoy WordPress a lot as a way to self-publish my content Online.  WordPress is often known for it’s simple installation process too.

However, many people might still be confused on how to get started with WordPress, so I thought it would be a good idea to go through the steps with you, to make you feel more at home with the process.

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How to Track Podcast Download Numbers

Dec/09 in All Posts, Beginner Help, Web Hosting Tutorials

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Is there a way to have decent statistics for how many times a podcast has been downloaded?  That is the question the guys at Watir Podcast had for me.  Since I to do a podcast for the masses, this is an issue that has bugged me for some time too.

The problem isn’t with having a script, plugin or service count the downloads because everything tries to do that.  The problem is that nothing counts all the downloads.  For example, if you push your podcast through FeedBurner, it will tell you how many people downloaded a podcast from the RSS feed, but no where else.  Same could be said for some podcasting plugins out there for WordPress and other publishing platforms, but in reverse.  They tell you how many people downloaded the podcast from the web site, but not those who got it by other means.

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Fixing Files and Folders After a Site Hack

Nov/12 in All Posts, Beginner Help, Web Hosting Tutorials

Help Finding Alien Code, Files and Folders When somebody embeds an nasty iframe, uploads a virus or compromises your web site’s security in any other form or fashion, they do not want to be caught.  So like the classic detective, you have to get out your magnifying glass and get ready to hunt for code, files and folders that do not belong on your web hosting account.

Find Files and Folders that Do Not Belong

Remember that old childhood game of figuring out, which one of these does not belong with the others?

Search through your web site files and folders to make sure that you don’t have anything that is strange or alien in there.  Look for files that are not apart of scripts you have installed, or that may have odd names.  Your web host will be able to tell you what files are safe to delete and which files are an important part of your web hosting account.

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