After the LLLL.com buyout and the recent Quad Premium .Net buyout we’re soon to watch another important landmark with the CVCV and the VCVC buyout. (I’ve included Y as a vowel here)

I’ve just finished scanning the VCVC’s and found that only 951 are available atm.

Check them out below.

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Some people aren’t lucky enough with their web host providers. They don’t get the kind of service they need after being lured by too much promises. Fortunately, they’ve already opened their eyes and saw the truth behind all these. So subscribers of “not so good” web hosting providers decide to discontinue their contract with them, aiming to find a better one. If you are one of them, before you think of leaving, might as well read the following steps in ensuring everything is in place.

1. Create your own backup. Before telling your provider that you will switch, make sure that you have backed up all of your things. Before you cancel your subscription, get ready first—take all you need. Copy all your files, images, design templates, scripts, and databases. Keep a list of all your software, configuration settings, security information, drivers, and others. Also, don’t forget your usernames and passwords if you have any. Even if your potential new host may have different settings, it might help.

2. Get a new web hosting provider. Find a new web host. Before you cancel your old one, get a new one first. But before all that, ensure that your host can support whatever media and text files you have with you, along with the software and scripts. Else, your website will not be running properly even though it’s fully up. Also, make a background check on the reputation of your new host. You can ask friends and families, read and participate in online forums, read some testimonials, and gather online reviews.

3. Check the registration of your domain name. Make sure that you are the registered owner because if not, you will have a hard time dealing with your old web hosting provider. The administrator of your old host might not allow you to transfer or you will have to wait until such time that they will permit you. Anyways, there are web hosting companies that help subscribers to transfer from one host and move to theirs. Should worse comes to worst, at least you have something to rely on.

4. Relocate your site. Your new web host will give you a domain temporarily so you can test. You can upload all your files, scripts, and databases into their servers. Update everything—from the links, scripts, and configuration settings—and see to it that they all run perfectly. Make your e-mail system work too in both old and new. While making your tests, post an announcement in your old site that you are moving and provide alternate e-mail so later they will get used to sending mails to your new address.

5. Renew your domain name registration information. Updates and changes will take a number of days or even weeks before they will be published in the Internet. So do re-register the earliest time possible. Moreover, make sure that it’s your name being signed up.

6. Withdraw your old web hosting contract. Usually, stipulated in contracts are agreements that all your site’s contents belong to you. Check out yours if it is written there. However, if it does not bear those words, it means that everything is a property of the web hosting provider. Should this be the scenario, just make a formal letter stating that you will move out. Make it in a polite manner. It might work!

Now, get ready to go!

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They say webmasters receive lots of ambiguous e-mails every day. Some come from people who are asking for more information regarding their website. Sometimes, students ask for information they need for their reports due the next day. There are even nonsense e-mails such as asking for suggestions on what to name their pet!

One of the duties of a skillful webmaster is handling e-mails sent by website visitors.

Webmasters browse through their inbox to check mails from different senders who visits his site. More often, people send e-mails to leave comments or suggestions.

They give critics as to the design and functionalities of your website. Others inquire about the things you sell if you are an online store, prices of services if you offer services to customers, and so on and so forth. Others are just nothing at all.

Webmasters choose what to retain and read and what to delete. The most common e-mail contains these words, “What is your business all about?” “What are you selling or what service are you offering?” But the worst nightmare of webmasters is receiving e-mail that says, “Where did your site go? I can’t access it!” or “Your site is down and is not working!”

Oops! That’s a page error! What could have happened out there?

That is one of the pitfalls of web hosting service providers. Web hosting service providers should guarantee you 100% uptime and reliable service. In fact, this is a very encouraging proposition otherwise, you’ll have no reason for signing up. Moreover, they must have a money-back guarantee should this be not met. Else, you’ll be paying for a mediocre service.

Fortunately, there are a lot of web hosting companies who do just that. They acquire the most sophisticated servers and other networking equipment to ensure that there will be no or perhaps less, downtime as much as possible. They may even have backup configurations for that. For customers, they provide 24-hour support system, be it in terms of phone, e-mail, fax, or chat. Majority will send you up-to-date reports on the status of your account, your stored files, the server, and even the web hosting company as a whole.  

There are also others who do not stick to their words. Worse, they are unscrupulous. Some do things like this. Before you can actually get rebates out of a downtime, you need to report first the incident, stating every valuable information you can probably think of such as the time and date it happened. Web hosting companies will then compare the information you provided to their own actual report. If there’s a match, expect credits. If not, then it’s good as the issue didn’t happen at all.

It pays to be wise, especially when you talk about cyberspace. So don’t forget to read policies. If things go wrong, as they really do sometimes, at least you know your next step.

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What’s the point of having a product if noone knows about you?

Well, that’s exactly the point here… You should care about marketing  and online marketing, you should promote your products, services, websites or whatever the best way you can.

Internet Marketing is becoming one of the best ways to reach your target. Billions of people navigate the web everyday, either for fun or trying to find that particular something they’re looking for for ages.

Did I catch your attention? Do you want to learn more? Then just go ahead and visit Internet Marketing London and you’ll see what I mean.

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After using AdSense for a while you must have begun to ask yourself if there’s anything you could do to improve your AdSense based earnings. But before you go on experimenting with this and that setup you have to realize a couple of things about positioning.

The first thing you should know is that there is no universal position that is guaranteed to improve your earnings. That being said, the part above about experimenting is meant to be taken literally. You have to try as many setups as you can to find the solution with the greatest benefit. Continue Reading »

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