Posted in DIY, Web Hosting on Oct 28th, 2007 No Comments »
HostGator has a nice write up here on how to smoothly transfer your site from one host to another. I recently had to do that but unfortunately didn’t follow their exact guidelines so I paid the price of 7 days of downtime !!!
HostGator haven’t stressed a few things worth mentioning:
It may take the […]
Posted in Web Hosting on Oct 24th, 2007 1 Comment »
Any one who wants to put up a web site of any size, and have at least some control over it, has to buy a web hosting account. There’s a huge number of companies offering this service with about ten of them being the most leading and prominent in the biz.
So when you want to […]
Posted in DIY, Tools on Oct 18th, 2007 No Comments »
After installing Wordpress, with or without fantastico, go through this checklist.
This is relevant to wordpress-2.3 and maybe to future versions.
Reset password for admin.
Choose theme - note that each time you change the theme, you’ll need to redo the mods for Feedburner stats.
Upload theme heading picture.
Put your personal favicon.ico in the blog root dir. This may […]
Posted in SEO on Oct 12th, 2007 No Comments »
GoDaddy.com, the famous domain registrar, automatically parks on domains that are transferred to its care. I assume the same thing happens when you buy a new domain name without hosting it in their data center.
This actually sucks from two reasons:
Domain parking can actually hurt your domain cause it actually turns it into an MFA. And […]
Posted in Analytics, SEM, Tools on Oct 12th, 2007 No Comments »
Hitwise has a blog where they reveal search analytics as is acquired by their probes sitting in US ISPs.
For a long time now they claim that “myspace” is the number one general (”All Category”?) search term, by far. Infact Hitwise claim that myspace related searches take over 1.5% of all the searches in the […]
Posted in Analytics, Reviews, SEM, SEO, Tools on Oct 10th, 2007 2 Comments »
I always thought there was only this one Overture Keyword Selector Tool. Apparantly there’s a hole bunch of them, each giving different results, supposedly each from its local market. Also and even more important is that they show different months of 2007, not just from january 2007 like the main US tool does (fr shows […]
Posted in SEO on Oct 10th, 2007 No Comments »
Here’s a super short guide to SEO, compiled from several guides I found out there. A lot of critical stuff are not mentioned in them (unintentionally for sure :)) - I’ll put my personal additional methods in a future post.
SEO = Search Engine Optimization = pushing your web pages up in the search engine […]
Posted in Affiliate Marketing on Oct 9th, 2007 1 Comment »
It’s actually like smoke and fire - you can’t have one without the other.
I’ve been reading lately quite a lot about affiliate marketing, and now and then I would stumble on a blog post wondering why Affiliate Marketing has a bad name to it. Some attribute this to only a small tiny of AMs […]
Posted in Affiliate Marketing, Code on Oct 2nd, 2007 No Comments »
I recently had to implement an advanced aff link here. I know some other people are looking for how to do this so I hope this can help.
The aforementioned site allows people to get suggestions for domain names based on keywords they type in or just get random weird names for inspiration. Once […]