Web Hosting Sales and Promos Roundup - June 24, 2011

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

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

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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

 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

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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

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

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

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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.

Contents 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

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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.

Contents 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

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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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.

Contents 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

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Website backlinks

Contents 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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