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How to transfer a your domain to another registrar?

Raman — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 04:40:31 +0000

Now this happens many times, especially with the newbie webmasters. They go for the “Hosting + Domain Registration” combo package from a local company at considerably high price for inadequate services. And when they check out the price and services offered by other reputable Hosting companies/ Domain Registrars, they want to change their Host/ Registrar.

Changing host, is comparatively easy..but what can be more difficult is Registrar shifting. So lets start with the Registrar Shifting process.

First of all choose a suitable Domain Registrar, depending upon your needs. You must always check for the promotional offers available with various big Domain Registrars. Keep in mind “Domain Transfer” is not a free process. The registrar will charge some fee, approx. to 1 yr. “.com” registration fee – i.e. $7-8. Many registrars give 1 yr. registration free with transfer.

Now, once you’ve chosen your new registrar, go to your old Registrar’s domain manager and look for the security code. If you have locked the domain, first step will be to unlock it. Once you got the security code. Go to new Registrar, check for “Domain Transfer” option and enter that code.

If you have entered the code correctly, there will be one notification on the email address associated with that domain. When you rceeive that email, you need to do nothing. Just wait for the estimated days, usually upto 7 days, and you can see your domain in new Registrar’s Domain List.

Thats it, you have transferred your domain successfully to your new Registrar.

Tags: domain

Advanced Phoenix SEO and Search Engine Marketing.

Raman — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 04:16:21 +0000

Getting your site rank high in Search Engine results is very critical in today’s competitive days. With high ranking sites you can take your business to new levels or if you are earning from ads on your sites, you can see a visible growth in your earnings.

Now question arises, how to get those high Search Engine Ranking you’ve dreamed of, when you are having very little knowledge of or not having enough time for Search engine Optimization and Search Engine Marketing. The answer is simple, take services of Advanced Phoenix SEO and Arizona SEO companies.

One trusted name in the long list of Phoenix SEO companies is FirstInSearch.com . They provide following services for your website -

Internet Marketing
Internet Reputation Management (IRM)
Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
Pay-Per-Click Advertising (SEM)
Social Media Optimization
Copy-writing Services

This company takes out all the pain in getting a site rank high and give you guaranteed results. It does not offer pre-packaged solutions but gives its customers individualized solutions depending upon your needs. Because of these straight strategies, this company have gained a lot of satisfied clients even in this period of recession.

They provide 24×7 support. If you want to talk with them, they have a toll free number to clear your doubts.

With all these qualities this company is worth a try.

Tags: Search Engines

Add Author’s Gravatars to Posts in Wordpress

Raman — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 04:30:53 +0000

Adding Gravatar to your blog, makes your blog’s comments look more attractive. That’s why it have been incorporated in the Wordpress core.

Now comes the idea of adding your gravatar to your post on Wordpress. This can be pretty useful in blogs with multiple authors, so that readers can quickly identify, who wrote this post.

And adding this feature is real easy. Just add this code in your single.php -

You have to add this, where you want to display the Author’s gravatar. In this code “80″ is the size of the gravatar, you can change it to any value you want.

Pretty simple!! huh

Tags: Wordpress

Choose a right web host with Web Hosting Geeks

Raman — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 13:13:15 +0000

With so many web hosting companies in market, choosing a right web host for any webmaster can be quite difficult. To help with this there are many web hosting review websites in the market providing you with the reviews and ratings for different web hosting companies. But not all these review sites are as reliable as they claim.

Most of the times these review sites are nothing but the mere advertising sites created by that particular host itself. Others may be affiliated to that particular web host. So, they rate their web hosting as the best and way ahead of other competitors. You can imagine what will be standard of any web hosting company resorting to such practice. But there are a few honest and reliable web hosting review sites, which provide you with an honest review for any web hosting company.

The most trustworthy of these web hosting review sites is WebHostingGeeks. The expert team at WebHostingGeeks, provides you with all you need to know about web hosting. They provide you with Web Hosting rating and awards in different categories. They help you choose the best shared server hosting and also the best dedicated server hosting in market. At WebHostingGeeks, they provide a detailed star-rating for various aspects that one shall look for while choosing a web host. They provide you with the most salient features offered exclusively by that web host. In addition to reviews by the WebHostingGeeks team, they also provide user reviews which makes them more unbiased.

They also provide you rating and reviews about the Green Hosting, which rarely seen with other such review sites. With increasing awareness about environment and need to preserve it, many webmasters prefer eco-friendly web hosts, referred to as Green Hosts. If you are the one, who loves nature nature and want to help preserve it, go for Green Hosts.

In addition to these, they also provide very useful articles related to various aspects of web hosting. So, even if you are a complete beginner, you can check out these articles and get a basic idea of what to look for in your web host.

Hence, if you are looking for a good, honest, reliable and useful web hosting review site, there is none better than WebHostingGeeks.

Tags: Hosting

Display Adsense ads to your Search Engine visitors only.

Raman — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 05:18:53 +0000

Now it has been proved that, the clicks we get on oue blogs’ ads are mostly from the people who come from Search Engine and not from our blogs’ regular visitors.

Thus, it will be a better idea to display Adsnse ads to only those coming from Search Engine. This will also prevent your blog from being “Smart Priced”.

For this add this code to your functions.php file -

function scratch99_fromasearchengine(){
$ref = $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'];
$SE = array(’/search?’, ‘images.google.’, ‘web.info.com’, ’search.’, ‘del.icio.us/search’, ’soso.com’, ‘/search/’, ‘.yahoo.’);
foreach ($SE as $source) {
if (strpos($ref,$source)!==false) return true;
}
return false;
}

The $SE array is where you specify search engines. You can easily ad new search engines by adding new elements to the array.

Then, paste the following code anywhere on your template where you want your adsense ads to appear. They’ll be displayed only to visitors comming from search engines results.

if (function_exists(’scratch99_fromasearchengine’)) {
if (scratch99_fromasearchengine()) {
INSERT YOUR CODE HERE
}
}

Tags: Adsense

Latest Free Premium Theme from Woo Themes – Meta-Morphosis

Raman — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 04:41:38 +0000

Meta-Morphosis is a visually-rich personal blog, with a magazine layout approach. Incorporating some nifty javascript font replacement and javascript widget slider in the footer, Meta-Morphosis should meet all of your personal blogging needs. Best of all its FREE!

Theme Features

* Two-column homepage with Featured posts and normal posts
* Sweet jQuery widgetized slider in the footer
* Cufon javascript font-replacement for titles (Delicious font by exljbris)
* As always, Meta-Morphosis is built on our very popular (new) backend, which includes some non-standard, non-average customisation options;
* 8 different colour schemes to choose from…

View Demo
Download

Tags: premium themes

Add Latest Registered Users list in your sidebar.

Raman — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 04:34:38 +0000

If you are getting a lot of user registrations and want to flaunt it, then what else can be the best than show your “Latest User Registeres” list in your sidebar.

What you have to do is just paste the following code to your sidebar -

Latest registered users

$usernames = $wpdb->get_results(”SELECT user_nicename, user_url FROM $wpdb->users ORDER BY ID DESC LIMIT 5“);

foreach ($usernames as $username) {
echo ‘
user_url.’”>’.$username->user_nicename.”
”;
}
?>

This will display a list of latest 5 registered users in your sidebart along with the url.

You can change the number of users in list by simply changing the number 5 (in red) in above code.

Tags: Wordpress

Inserting ads in RSS feeds.

Raman — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 04:20:09 +0000

Inserting Ads in your blog’ RSS feed can be a good idea to boost up your earnings. You may have seen many peoples doing this.

If you publish your feeds with FeedBurner (now acquired by Google) then you can easily show Adsense ads there at by using Adsens for feeds.

And if you want to show other ads in your RSS feeds, then you can do this by modifying the functions.php file (if you dont have one create it).

function insertAds($content) {
$content = $content.’
Keep visiting webmasters-blog.com
’;
return $content;
}
add_filter(’the_excerpt_rss’, ‘insertAds’);
add_filter(’the_content_rss’, ‘insertAds’);
?>

Here, we first create a function called insertAds(), which concatenate a code containing our advertisment to the $content variable, which contains the content of the post.
Then, we use the add_filter() function to overwrite the the_content_rss() function with our insertAds() function. We use another filter to overwrite the_excerpt_rss() function as well.
That’s all, your rss feeds now displays your ads!

Tags: General, Make Money Online

What’s new in Wordpress 2.8?

Raman — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 04:10:58 +0000

The Wordpress Team is continuously striving hard to Wordpress as the best Content Management System and enhance the User experience with Wordpress. Now, Wordpress has released its latest version – 2.8

It has added a bunch of features to this latest 2.8 version of Wordpress.

Some of the Key features include :

Integration of Code Editor in Themes Editor – Now you can edit your Wordpress themes just like Code Editor with all the syntax highlighting and Line Numbers, making theme editing a lot easier.
Themes installation from Admin Dashboard – Now you can install Wordpress themes right from your Dashboard, no need to upload themes using FTP programs. You can even browse themes from your dashboard and install whichever theme you like by just one click.
Support IIS 7.0 URL Rewrite Module - This will enable use of Wordpress’ Pretty URLs on IIS servers.

You check out the complete list of New Features on Wordpress’ site.

Tags: Wordpress