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FAQ about .CO domains

September 27th, 2010

The new .co domains are rapidly becoming popular due to their similarity to the dominant .com TLD. In fact, .CO domains just announced that they have surpasses 500,000 domains!

.CO domains are not new in the slightest sense of the word, because they were first issued in 2001 as the region-specific code for Columbia. However, after realizing the similarities between .co and .com a Columbian University theorized that the domain type could be marketed as an alternative for .com. Nearly a decade later Internet S.A.S has made this hypothesis a realty by offering .co domains to people around the world for nay use, including commercial use. The following questions are amongst the most commonly asked pertaining to .co domains.

How Do I Get a .co Domain?

Currently, .co domains are only allowed to be registered by 10 registrars, however there are dozens of domain sellers that are mediating the sale of .co domains. In other words, almost any popular domain name registrar will have them available. The new .co domains can be acquired in the same exact fashion as a regular domain and there are no prerequisites for purchasing one.

How Much Do .co Domains Cost?

Fortunately, .co domains often only cost slightly more than a regular domain name. Most registrars will offer combo deals in which a discount is offered when more than one .co domain is purchased. It is also possible to receive a free .co domain with some new web hosting plans.

What Are .co Domains Used For?

.CO domains are and can be used for any type of web site online, including but not limited to commercial business sites, personal blogs, pictures sites, movie sites, music sites, forums, online stores, game sites and any other web site model imaginable. Before the domain type was acquired and distributed by Internet S.A.S it was intended to be used by web sites based in Columbia.

How Do Search Engines Treat .co Domains?

Fortunately, Google has recognized the recent explosion in popularity, and as such has recently announced that it will be indexing .co domains in the same manner as .com domains. This means .co domains will have international targeting enabled, allowing people from around the world to find your .co site on the internet. At the moment it is impossible to predict how well the .co sites will perform in the search engine results, but given Google’s friendly response it does look promising.

Can I Transfer a .CO Domain to Another Webmaster?

Yes, .co domains can be transferred in the same manner as any other domain name, which means you can begin buying and selling them as soon you’d like. There are no restrictions on who can register a .co domain, just as there are no restrictions to whom the domains can be transferred.

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How to make free web site based on WordPress with free hosting

April 3rd, 2010

Host-ed.net Team started his own channel in YouTube at September 2009! Till now we have added a lot of new videos about Web Hosting, SEO, SEM, Site Building! Now we have added video about how to make FREE web site with free hosting! Please visit our channel in YouTube and subscribe - http://www.youtube.com/hostednet!

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  1. how to get free subdomain
  2. how to create new FTP account
  3. which system to choose as fully featured CMS - in our case we have chosen WordPress - and we answer why we have chosen it
  4. how to create new database
  5. how to configure and upload WordPress
  6. how to install WordPress

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What are VPS

March 29th, 2010

Virtual Private Servers are also known as Virtual dedicated servers - VPS or VDS.

Virtual Private Servers fills the gap between shared hosting and dedicated servers providing small to medium sized businesses and websites with the reliability and control of dedicated hosting but with a cheaper cost per month.

They display a form of virtualization that split a single physical server into multiple virtual servers. This practice of dividing a single virtual server to make it appear as multiple virtual servers has been commonly observed in mainframe computers.

Virtual Servers - Filling the Gap

In the Internet hosting service industry, VPS hosting fill the gap between shared web hosting service and dedicated hosting service and are fast becoming the foundation of many hosting companies. They allow grass root-level access to individual clients without requiring the actual hassle of physically dedicated servers. They are popularly used by businesses and individuals that need a customized solution that cannot be done in a shared hosting environment.

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SEO Tutorail - Part 4 - Keywords Research

February 25th, 2010

As first step in SEO you need to find the right keywords(also you can check keywords in domain names) to target for your site.

Very important: DO NOT skip this step because the rest of your SEO efforts depend on it.

There are a number of very good free keyword research tools available to help you with this part of your SEO efforts. You can also quickly compare the popularity of up to 5 keywords at once using Google Trends.

Keyword Research is Not Just About Search Volume - It is BASIC STEP IN SEO

Search volume must be weighed carefully against the competitiveness of your keywords - the number of sites already ranking for those terms. The balance between high volume and low competition is the ideal selection.

Keyword research is one of the most fundamental SEO (define) activities, but it’s also one of the least talked about. Yes, personalized search, social media, and SEO for Flash are all very exciting, but without the right keywords, SEO efforts will go astray.

Two helpful and free tools are:

  • Google’s Adwords Keyword Tool provides a long list of related terms and indicates search volume based on a five-point ranking.
  • Yahoo’s Keyword Selection Tool provides actual keyword volume for the most recent month it has data both for the term you type in and for related terms.

    • But you should not rely only on these tools, they don’t provide competitive data - you may have to manually search the engines for each keyword to see how many search results are returned, potentially a time-consuming and tedious task.

    In next article we will show you how to analyze and to choose the right keywords!

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    SEO Tutorial - PART 2

    February 18th, 2010

    Organic SEO is Both an Art and a Science

    Organic SEO of your website for improved search results is an art and at the same time a science.

    • The science part of SEO lies largely in understanding the algorithms, or formulas, used by the search engines to determine where sites rank and making decisions on which keywords - terms or phrases people use to conduct a search - to target.
    • The “art” portion of SEO is how you go about implementing techniques for search engines to find you.

    Unfortunately, search engine algorithms change constantly and the search engines do what they can to keep their algorithms and techniques secret. While understanding the factors that are used for search rankings is akin to cracking a code, there is a wealth of information available on the web - some of it reliable and some of it not-so-reliable. The purpose of this search engine optimization tutorial is to provide you with the important basics of SEO in the form of ten tips you can do yourself.

    One of the basic step in SEO is Keyword research! It  is the process of understanding what search terms or phrases your targeted site visitors might use to find you, and then selecting the right balance between keyword popularity - the number of times the word or phrase is used in a search - and competitiveness - the number of other websites that are trying to rank highly for those keywords, measured by the results returned by the search engine for the keyword phrase used. Finding frequently used keywords that relatively few sites are targeting is the challenge. It is the foundation for all SEO efforts and cannot be overlooked.

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    SEO Tutorial - PART 1

    February 17th, 2010

    This search engine optimization tutorial is designed to give you some basic advices and knowledgebase for improving your rankings in search engines that you may be able to do yourself.
    Search engine optimization (SEO) is the process of taking steps to assure that your site is placed higher in search engine results than your competitors’ websites. Google, MSN and Yahoo have a hold on the vast majority of daily searches performed on the Internet. Indeed most peope use Google as main search engine so most tips and tricks will get from them

    Two Types of Search Engine Results
    There are two basic types of search engine results -

    • organic or natural
    • paid

    Getting listed on the first page of results is pretty much critical and it should be your target because most people who search the Web won’t bother to look any farther than the first page of search engine results to find you.

    You can pay for such high placement through Pay Per Click (PPC) advertising campaigns, such as Google AdWords or Yahoo Sponsored Search or Microsoft’s adCenter. If you outbid your competitors your website can get placed on the first page of search results.

    Organic search results are where your website ranks on its own - without ad payments. Getting your website placed in the top 10 search results for your targeted keywords can result in increased traffic to your website and consequently, increased sales for your home business. Organic search engine optimization, then focuses on improvements in your organic search rankings.

    … to be continued.

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    osCommerce - Your Online Shop E-commerce Solution

    February 16th, 2010

    osCommerceosCommerce is an online shop e-commerce solution under on going development by the open source community. It is easy to install but at the same time is powerfull tool for online business!
    osCommerce combines open source solutions to provide a free and open e-commerce platform, which includes the powerful PHP web scripting language, the stable Apache web server, and the fast MySQL database server. You can order now host-ed.net web hosting solution and will get Zacky Tools which installs for you quickly and easy stable release of osCommerce!

    With no restrictions or special requirements, osCommerce is able to run on any PHP enabled web server, on any environment that PHP and MySQL supports, which includes Linux, Solaris, BSD, Mac OS X, and Microsoft Windows environments.

    osCommerce was started in March 2000 and has since matured to a solution that is currently powering thousands of live shops around the world.

    Today, osCommerce has been taken to the next level, moving towards an e-commerce framework solution that not only remains easy to setup and maintain, but also making it easier for store administrators to present their stores to their customers with their own unique requirements.

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    How to write good content

    February 15th, 2010

    Search engines were built to index copy that is valuable to visitors, but was added by people who maybe don’t know all the ins and outs of building a website the most appropriate way. Some SEOs will tell you that if you don’t have your title tags , keyword tags, or description tags arranged a certain way that your site doesn’t stand a chance of being indexed. Don’t listen to them. While having all your T’s crossed and I’s dotted is the icing on the cake, and can help boost your rankings ever so slightly… most search engines don’t have much of a sweet tooth, and will put comparatively little if any emphasis on the little stuff.

    One of the most impartan thing is to have enough content on a page to build up credibility. Generally, you want to have enough content on a site to entice the search engines to look around and index as much of your site as possible, but you don’t want so much content that people get overwhelmed and jump out before they’ve read what you have to say. The technique will differ from site to site, for example, a site that summarizes the life and works of Shakespeare will obviously have more long paragraphs getting into more detail, than a website that talks about a vacuum.

    Our advice is to have at the very least 300 words of content on your page (even if it is about vacuums) but try not to go over 700 words. If your page or article needs to go more than 700 words, then you might consider splitting the article up between multiple pages(for instance - PART 1, PART 2, etc).

    As a conclusion - use text with 300-700 words(no more) and make it interesting and unique!

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    Link Building - Effective SEO practice

    December 18th, 2009

    Search Engine Optimisation has two distinct area’s the first being On-page optimisation and the second, off-page optimisation.

    On-page optimisation is what you can actually do to your website that will affect your ranking on the search engines. This includes changing your title tags, H1 Tags etc. Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) like anything else adheres to the 80/20 rule, whereby on-page optimisation accounts for 20% of search engine rankings. The other 80% comes from link building, which is by far the hardest part when it comes to SEO. Link building is getting other sites to link back to your own website. Like everything else in the world, links have varying degrees of quality, you get really poor quality links which can actually harm your website or you can get excellent links which will help your rankings tremendously.

    Good LINKS:

    Obviously, the best quality links are the hardest to obtain. One of the best kind of links to get, are links that come from Universities or Government websites. Search Engines love these links and if you do manage to get one your website will almost certainly help get your website on to the first page within a couple of months.

    Bad LINKS:

    The worst types of links are backlinks that come from Porn Sites, Pharma Sites or Gambling Sites.

    Here are ways in which a person can obtain links for their website.

    1) Buy Links – The better the link, the more expensive they are.

    2) Ask For Links – Either via Phone or Email.

    3) Link Exchanges – Swap Links with other webmasters.

    4) Register with Directories – Register your site with a number of directories.

    5) Write Articles – Submit your articles to article directories like Ezine.

    6) Write Press Releases – Submit to sites like PRweb.

    7) Use Viral marketing techniques – Use sites like pay per post (link baiting).

    I would suggest doing all of the above when you first start trying to do SEO on your own site. A good mix of links is always good, try not to buy too many “cheap & cheerful” links as these will not do your site much good.

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    What is SSI?

    November 6th, 2009

    Server Side Includes (SSI) is a simple interpreted server-side scripting language used almost exclusively for the web.

    The most frequent use of SSI is to include the contents of one or more files into a web page on a web server. For example, a web page containing a daily quote could include the quote by placing the following code into the file of the web page:

    <!--#include virtual="../quote.txt" -->

    With one change of the quote.txt file, all pages including the file will display the latest daily quote. The inclusion is not limited to files. In this very example, on a server that can run fortune, the output of it, a randomly selected quote, can also be included.

    Server Side Includes are useful for including a common piece of code throughout a site, such as a page header, a page footer and a navigation menu. Conditional navigation menus can be conditionally included using control directives.

    In order for a web server to recognize an SSI-enabled HTML file and therefore carry out these instructions, either the filename should end with a special extension, by default .shtml, .stm, .shtm, or, if server is configured to allow this, set the execution bit of the file.

    As a simple programming language, SSI support only one type: text. Its control flow is rather simple, choice is supported, but loops are not natively supported and can only be done by recursion using include or using HTTP redirect. The simple design of the language makes it easier to learn and use than most server-side scripting languages, while complicated server-side processing is often done with one of the more feature-rich programming languages.

    Apache and lighttpd are the major two web servers that support this language.

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