Web Hosting and More

Happy Easter Monday! Today is still a national religious holiday in Germany because it is Easter Monday. And yes, the sun just shine outside at 2:20 PM Berlin time. I hope that we will be having a good weather in the next days. What am I doing here now? Actually I will be blogging about web hosting. Are you new in the blogosphere and still don't have any idea where to find a cheap but reliable web hosting site? There are suggestions that I want to reveal to you. These are some tips on web hosting which you might find important especially if you are new to the blogging world.

First thing you need to do is search on the net about web hosting reviews. You can find a lot of articles and tips where to find the best web hosting site. You can also visit hostmonster review. I also read at Already Hosting that a lot of site owners who had been using hostmonter rated this web hosting site from 4 to 5 out of 5 points. Most of the commenters were impressed how hostmonster offers reliable, dependable and cheap web hosting services. They will also provide you with instructions and video tutorials on how to sign-up for a web hosting at hostmonster. You can also avail of their promotional pricing for as low as $3.95 a month. I guess it is time for you to do the rest and visit alreadyhosting.com for your web hosting needs. Have a great week to all!

How To Add Friends Links or Blogroll in Blogger

Good evening guys! I am sharing tonight some blogger tutorials. I am not really an expert to this topic but I am just imparting what I had learned as I go through blogging. I guess this is a good thing to share to fellow bloggers who are new in the blogosphere especially if they use blogger platform. This is all about adding links of your friends to your blog.This is also called blogroll. Some bloggers name it as they want like "must visit site", fave blogs, bloglinks, cool sites, great blogs, friends links, etcetera.

It is very easy to add sites or blogs of your friends. There are a lot of ways to do it in blogger. Simply follow this step below;

1. Go to blogger dashboard
2. Click lay-out
3. Click add a gadget
4. Now it's time for you to choose which gadget you want to add your friend's blog. By adding a gadget like "Blog List and "Link List".
Be sure to input the correct website URL.
If you already have an idea about HTML codes, you can also add links by using it. You can also visit blogger tutorials for more information.

That's all for tonight. happy blogging!

Getting The Most Of Web Hosting

How many web hosting sites are proliferating in the world wide web nowadays? How many web hosting sites had proven their best and are known to be trustworthy in terms of security, customer service and the like? I already met a lot of different web hosting sites in the internet. I know there are ones that are really good base on the different reviews that I also read on the net. What is really the benefit of getting a trustworthy web hosting sites. I can't answer your question regarding this but I can recommend a site called Isoft Host who can answer your questions and queries regarding web hosting sites.

What I love most as I visited Isoft Host are the tips which they share about web hosting. I believed these tips are very important especially to small business owners and entrepreneurs who want to have more success in their businesses. One of the most important thing that I also learned about Isoft Host is getting a web hosting site that is 100% up all the time. I agree of what they mention about this because getting a website that is always down is not really good at all. I even have some problems about this last month wherein I can't view my sites. Is it because the servers in which my sites are hosted are having down time during those times? I guess this is not good. If you want to get the most of web hosting, I suggest to small business owners and entrepreneurs to visit Isoft Host for more relevant tips and information about web hosting. Good luck!

What is a Web Page and a Home Page

Sometimes, I am just confuse what is really the difference between homepage and webpage. I guess they are almost similar but have each own meaning. To find an answer to my question, I consulted again my doctor professor in the internet, Wikipedia. See I simply browse and found the answer right in the click of my mouse. This is only for General information! keep reading below;

WHAT IS A WEBPAGE

"A web page or webpage is a document or resource of information that is suitable for the World Wide Web and can be accessed through a web browser and displayed on a computer screen.

This information is usually in HTML or XHTML format, and may provide navigation to other web pages via hypertext links.

Web pages may be retrieved from a local computer or from a remote web server. The web server may restrict access only to a private network, e.g. a corporate intranet, or it may publish pages on the World Wide Web. Web pages are requested and served from web servers using Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP).

Web pages may consist of files of static text stored within the web server's file system (static web pages), or the web server may construct the (X)HTML for each web page when it is requested by a browser (dynamic web pages). Client-side scripting can make web pages more responsive to user input once in the client browser.

WHAT IS A HOMEPAGE

"The homepage (often written as home page) is the URL or local file that automatically loads when a web browser starts or when the browser's "home" button is pressed. You can turn this feature off and on, as well as specify a URL for the page to be loaded.

The term is also used to refer to the front page, webserver directory index, or main web page of a website of a group, company, organization, or individual. In some countries, such as Germany, Japan, and South Korea, and formerly in the US, the term "homepage" commonly refers to a complete website (of a company or other organization) rather than to a single web page. By the late 1990s this usage had died out in the US, replaced by the more comprehensive term "web site".

In the same category of homepage are now websites that attempt to be a start page (more accurately a personal web portal). A start page is a website or page meant to organize links or information for the user when a web browser starts. Start pages generally consist of information like news, weather, games, and other web widgets and web gadgets. Start pages also aggregate information like RSS feeds or collect and manage web page links. Examples of Start pages include iGoogle, NetVibes, Sthrt, and Pageflakes.
More infos here

Webhosting is Getting Great!

If there are Glitter geeks, computer geeks and all the geeks in the world, there is also a so-called Webhosting Geeks now. For some this name might be very new but for many I believed this name is already prevalent. I have been browsing for a web hosting site that offer the cheapest price. I know there are a lot before that I already found in the net but the price was quite expensive. It is expensive for me because I am just a stay at home working wife. At least I enjoy doing it and I never get bored even I just stay at home. Besides I never find a dull moment even I am just at home. I have a lot of things to do.

Back to the main topic guys! I just read about a web hosting review at Webhosting Geeks. Not only that there are also guidelines and instruction if ever you want to create web hosting. You might realize the importance of web hosting once you are planning to do business online or simply making your personal page. Getting the best web hosting service is also a must especially if you want to engage online business. There are a lot of sites that offer these services but you must be very critical and careful which one really offer a one-package deal. If you are searching one now, try to visit Web Hosting Geeks, I am quite sure, you will find what you are looking for. Web hosting is truly getting great now! Have a great one to all!

How to Enable Comment in Blogger

I am back guys! I feel very sleepy now. Before I bid goodbye in the blogoshere, let me share first this post on how to enable comment in blogger. I always wanted to leave some comments everytime I visit a blog. When comment is disabled in a blog, I let the owner know if it is really disabled or just forgot to enable it. I already encountered some bloggers who forgot to enable it and for those who don't have any idea on how to enable it especially in blogger, here is just a quick tip. I am not really an expert in blogging but I know a little and I wish to share it now..below is the comment of a blogger friend in one of my sites. Hey Prince, hope I give you a little tip on how to enable a comment in blogger. His comments are below;

5 Mar 09, 19:33 prince: hi rub.. i think ur in tension..it is not the fact that i don need ur cooment..actually i don kno to enable it.. heeee...i hav already done wats neede..still its not comin. anyway hav my smile 4 2day 1 Mar 09, 13:55 prince: hi ruby..u said u wanna comment..fel free...just enabled 4 u.. :) :)

This is the instruction;

1.) Go to your dashboard
2.) Go to Setting as seen below

3.) From here you can see the comment moderation. It is up to you now what do you want with your comment whether you want to moderate it or not. You can also show the word verification to verify if the one who comment is a human or not ...
4.) There are also a lot of things there to do about your comment like;
- Who can comment in your blog
-Comment Form Placement
-Comment Default for Post
-Comment Time stamp...etc..etc..

lastly you can also visit blogger tips or FAQ for more infos..

Hope I give you a bit info on how to enable comment in blogger!! Have fun blogging!! time for signing out!!Enjoy your Sunday!

Webmaster Guidelines

I just read this very interesting and useful article in Google and decided to post in my page and want to share it to everyone esp. to All bloggers.. please read!! very important!!

Webmaster Guidelines

Following these guidelines will help Google find, index, and rank your site. Even if you choose not to implement any of these suggestions, we strongly encourage you to pay very close attention to the "Quality Guidelines," which outline some of the illicit practices that may lead to a site being removed entirely from the Google index or otherwise penalized. If a site has been penalized, it may no longer show up in results on Google.com or on any of Google's partner sites.

• Design, content, and technical guidelines
• Quality guidelines

When your site is ready:

• Have other relevant sites link to yours.
• Submit it to Google at http://www.google.com/addurl.html.
• Submit a Sitemap as part of our Google Webmaster Tools. Google uses your Sitemap to learn about the structure of your site and to increase our coverage of your webpages.
• Make sure all the sites that should know about your pages are aware your site is online.
• Submit your site to relevant directories such as the Open Directory Project and Yahoo!, as well as to other industry-specific expert sites.

Design and content guidelines

• Make a site with a clear hierarchy and text links. Every page should be reachable from at least one static text link.
• Offer a site map to your users with links that point to the important parts of your site. If the site map is larger than 100 or so links, you may want to break the site map into separate pages.
• Create a useful, information-rich site, and write pages that clearly and accurately describe your content.
• Think about the words users would type to find your pages, and make sure that your site actually includes those words within it.
• Try to use text instead of images to display important names, content, or links. The Google crawler doesn't recognize text contained in images.
• Make sure that your TITLE tags and ALT attributes are descriptive and accurate.
• Check for broken links and correct HTML.
• If you decide to use dynamic pages (i.e., the URL contains a "?" character), be aware that not every search engine spider crawls dynamic pages as well as static pages. It helps to keep the parameters short and the number of them few.
• Keep the links on a given page to a reasonable number (fewer than 100).

Technical guidelines

• Use a text browser such as Lynx to examine your site, because most search engine spiders see your site much as Lynx would. If fancy features such as JavaScript, cookies, session IDs, frames, DHTML, or Flash keep you from seeing all of your site in a text browser, then search engine spiders may have trouble crawling your site.
• Allow search bots to crawl your sites without session IDs or arguments that track their path through the site. These techniques are useful for tracking individual user behavior, but the access pattern of bots is entirely different. Using these techniques may result in incomplete indexing of your site, as bots may not be able to eliminate URLs that look different but actually point to the same page.
• Make sure your web server supports the If-Modified-Since HTTP header. This feature allows your web server to tell Google whether your content has changed since we last crawled your site. Supporting this feature saves you bandwidth and overhead.
• Make use of the robots.txt file on your web server. This file tells crawlers which directories can or cannot be crawled. Make sure it's current for your site so that you don't accidentally block the Googlebot crawler. Visit http://www.robotstxt.org/wc/faq.html to learn how to instruct robots when they visit your site. You can test your robots.txt file to make sure you're using it correctly with the robots.txt analysis tool available in Google Webmaster Tools.
• If your company buys a content management system, make sure that the system can export your content so that search engine spiders can crawl your site.
• Use robots.txt to prevent crawling of search results pages or other auto-generated pages that don't add much value for users coming from search engines.

Quality guidelines

These quality guidelines cover the most common forms of deceptive or manipulative behavior, but Google may respond negatively to other misleading practices not listed here (e.g. tricking users by registering misspellings of well-known websites). It's not safe to assume that just because a specific deceptive technique isn't included on this page, Google approves of it. Webmasters who spend their energies upholding the spirit of the basic principles will provide a much better user experience and subsequently enjoy better ranking than those who spend their time looking for loopholes they can exploit.

If you believe that another site is abusing Google's quality guidelines, please report that site at https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/spamreport. Google prefers developing scalable and automated solutions to problems, so we attempt to minimize hand-to-hand spam fighting. The spam reports we receive are used to create scalable algorithms that recognize and block future spam attempts.

Quality guidelines - basic principles

• Make pages for users, not for search engines. Don't deceive your users or present different content to search engines than you display to users, which is commonly referred to as "cloaking."
• Avoid tricks intended to improve search engine rankings. A good rule of thumb is whether you'd feel comfortable explaining what you've done to a website that competes with you. Another useful test is to ask, "Does this help my users? Would I do this if search engines didn't exist?"
• Don't participate in link schemes designed to increase your site's ranking or PageRank. In particular, avoid links to web spammers or "bad neighborhoods" on the web, as your own ranking may be affected adversely by those links.
• Don't use unauthorized computer programs to submit pages, check rankings, etc. Such programs consume computing resources and violate our Terms of Service. Google does not recommend the use of products such as WebPosition Gold™ that send automatic or programmatic queries to Google.

Quality guidelines - specific guidelines

• Avoid hidden text or hidden links.
• Don't use cloaking or sneaky redirects.
• Don't send automated queries to Google.
• Don't load pages with irrelevant keywords.
• Don't create multiple pages, subdomains, or domains with substantially duplicate content.
• Don't create pages with malicious behavior, such as phishing or installing viruses, trojans, or other badware.
• Avoid "doorway" pages created just for search engines, or other "cookie cutter" approaches such as affiliate programs with little or no original content.
• If your site participates in an affiliate program, make sure that your site adds value. Provide unique and relevant content that gives users a reason to visit your site first.

If you determine that your site doesn't meet these guidelines, you can modify your site so that it does and then submit your site for reconsideration.

source: Google Webmaster guide